Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
Episode 128
Yonca Köksal on “The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era: Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne” (Routledge). The book compares the empire's m…
4 years, 3 months ago
Giancarlo Casale on Osman of Timişoara, Ottoman captive in 17th century Europe
Episode 127
Giancarlo Casale on “Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in 17th Century Europe” (UC Press). Casale edited and translated the b…
4 years, 3 months ago
Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan
Episode 126
Soner Çağaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, on “A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turk…
4 years, 4 months ago
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
Episode 125
Natalie Rothman on “The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism” (Cornell University Press). The book shows how I…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Episode 124
Ömer Tekdemir on “Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds: Social Embeddedness, Hegemony and Identity” (Routledge). The book is a sweeping ac…
4 years, 5 months ago
Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Episode 123
Nicholas Danforth on “The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The…
4 years, 5 months ago
Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Episode 122
Büke Uras on “The Balyans: Ottoman Architecture and the Balyan Archive” (Korpus). The Balyan family served as Ottoman imperial architects for three g…
4 years, 6 months ago
Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Episode 121
Suna Çağaptay on “The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire: The Religious, Architectural and Social History of Bursa” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book…
4 years, 6 months ago
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Episode 120
Dimitris Kamouzis on “Greeks in Turkey: Elite Nationalism and Minority Politics in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul” (Routledge). The book …
4 years, 6 months ago
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Episode 119
Christine Philliou, associate professor of history at UC Berkeley, on “Turkey: A Past Against History” (University of California Press). The book exa…
4 years, 7 months ago