Episode 413
with Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek
hosted by Andreas Guidi
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Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how Kemalism as ...
Episode 411
Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien
Episode Consultant: Devin Naar
Series Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda
Script Editor: Sam Dolbee
with additional contributions by Devi Mays, Claudrena Harold, Victoria Saker Woeste, Sam Negri, and Lo...
Episode 398
with Şevket Pamuk
hosted by Matthew Ghazarian
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What forces have governed Turkey's economic growth over the past two centuries? In this episode we speak with Şevke...
Episode 387
with Nefin Dinç
hosted by Chris Gratien
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Antoine Köpe was never a prominent politician or public figure, but he was witness to extraordinary events. Born in late Ott...
Episode 386
with Suzy Hansen
hosted by Chris Gratien
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Turkey is a country that most Americans know little about, and yet the United States has played an extraordinary role in the ...
Bölüm 376
Rita Ender
Sunucular: Işın Taylan ve Matthew Ghazarian
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Mesleğiniz tarih sayfalarından silinirse ne hissedersiniz? İstanbul'da yüzlerce meslek artık yok ve y...
Episode 358
with Hikmet Kocamaner
hosted by Chris Gratien
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Discourses surrounding the family and morality have played an important role in modern political debates. In this episod...
Episode 342
with Selcen Coşkun
Lorans Tanatar Baruh
and Seda Kula Say
hosted by Nilay Özlü, Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian
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In this episode, we discuss the history of...
Episode 341
with Sara Rahnama
hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz
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In this episode, we explore debates about aesthetics, headwear, and dress in interwar Algeria and Turk...
Episode 337
with Kalliopi Amygdalou
hosted by Michael Talbot
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During the late Ottoman period, the diverse and vibrant Aegean ports of Izmir (Smyrna) and Thessaloniki (Salonica) ex...
Episode 321
with Peter McMurray
hosted by Nir Shafir and Huma Gupta
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What is the aural possibility of Islamic life in European cities today? This special episode begins with a t...
Episode 299
with Angela Andersen
hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza
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In this episode, we approach the religious architecture of the Alevis, to examine how practice shapes a...
Episode 293
with Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal
hosted by Nir Shafir
featuring additional material by Samuel Dolbee
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The Opium Wars and the massive trade in opium between South As...
Episode 290
with Emmanuel Szurek
hosted by Chris Gratien and Aurélie Perrier
featuring Seçil Yılmaz and Nir Shafir
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National language politics and the transformation of ...
with Lerna Ekmekçioğluhosted by Chris Gratien, Nir Shafir, and Eda Çakmakçı
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After facing the destruction of their community during the First World War, former Ottoman Armenians ...
with Kishwar Rizvihosted by Chris Gratien
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As spaces fundamental to Muslim religious and communal life, mosques have historically served as sites of not just architectural but also id...
with Sarah-Neel Smithhosted by Nicholas Danforth
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Although artistic production occurs in a political context, art and politics are often studied as separate fields of historical inquiry. Our guest ...
with Sylvia Wing Önder
hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz
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The subject of health in the modern period is often discussed as a transition from traditional to scientific medicine a...
with Nazan Maksudyan
hosted by Susanna Ferguson
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In the 1920s and 1930s, politicians, intellectuals, and members of the public joined a lively debate about the issue of female suicide in Tur...
with Aslı Iğsız
hosted by Chris Gratien and Nicholas Danforth
Countries, much like companies, must seek to present a certain image to the outside world in order to achieve political and economic goals. As our guest, Aslı Iğsız, demonstrate...
with Ozan Aksoy
hosted by Chris Gratien and Ceren Erdem
The songs and melodies of the Turkey's Alevi communities derive from a long history of song-making in Anatolia that is embedded in local geographies and indelibly tied to notions of worsh...
Istanbul is full of landmarks and objects dating to the Ottoman period that give us a glimpse of the city's material culture. However, the scents and sounds that made up the urban experience of Ottoman Istanbul often elude us. In our inaugural epi...
with Nicholas Danforth
hosted by Chris Gratien
When are policies driven by prejudice, and when do policies give rise to prejudiced representations? In this episode, Nicholas Danforth explores depictions of Middle East politics in the Turkish satiric...
with Nicholas Kontovas
hosted by Chris Gratien and Lydia Harrington
This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history
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The term Lubunca refers to a type of slang...
133. New Friends or Old Foes?
The Russo-Ottoman rivalry was one of the defining dramas of the European political stage for centuries. When both of these empires gave way to new states following the First World War, a new period of Soviet...
with Alev Kuruoğlu
hosted by Chris Gratien
The situation of Kurdish language and culture in Turkey is one that has been very much in flux within an ever-changing political climate. The Kurdish music industry has become increasingly lively ...
with Seçil Yılmaz
hosted by Chris Gratien and Sam Dolbee
During the interwar period, nationalist and socialist movements throughout the world looked to the peasant as both the source and object of state programs wherein establishing a link be...
with Yasemin Gencer
hosted by Chris Gratien and Emily Neumeier
Following the World War I period, the founders of a new Turkish Republic sought to define and legitimize the new order as a break with the Ottoman past. In this episode, Yasemin...
with Nicholas Danforth
One of the central questions in the history of modern Turkey continues be the late-Ottoman legacy and in particular, the experience of World War I and the War of Independence (1914-1923). While some authors choose this period as...
with Chris Gratien
hosted by Nicholas Danforth
For at least two centuries, Western countries have used international criminal, civil, and commercial law as a means of influencing the Ottoman and Turkish governments, leading some to speak of a pheno...