The Visual Past

with Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen hosted by Chris Gratien and Taylan Güngör Download the episodePodcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud The production of motion pictures began in the 1890s, and before long, films were being screened throughout the world, including in Ottoman cities. How did Ottoman audiences receive the advent of film? What was the role of the state in promoting or limiting the spread of motion pictures? What were the contents of the earliest films shown and produced in the Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen offers an introduction to the emergence of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and discusses the results of her research on the subject at the Ottoman archives in Istanbul. « Click for More »

with Edhem Eldem hosted by Nir Shafir and Emily Neumeier Download the episodePodcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud Photography came to the Ottoman Empire almost immediately after its invention in 1839. Some of the major figures and studios involved in Ottoman photography have been identified, and certain stylistic aspects of images produced in and of the Ottoman Empire such as orientalism are well established. Yet there is comparatively little extant work regarding the reception, impact, and circulation of images during the late Ottoman period. In this episode, Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir sit down with Edhem Eldem to discuss the ways in which restoring contexts of viewing, circulation, and publication of images offers a different story of late Ottoman photography using examples from the Camera Ottomana photography exhibition at Koç RCAC in Istanbul, curated by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, and Bahattin Öztuncay. « Click for More »

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, demonstrates, this self-presentation can take the form of full-fledged marketing campaigns. In this episode, we explore the marketing policies and strategies adopted in Turkey and the broader Middle East during the past two decades and reflect on how they various match, contradict, and intersect with politics in practice. « Click for More »

with Ashley Dimmig hosted by Michael Polczynski For images and info, visit http://www.thewildfield.org/2014/07/chasing-tents-with-ashley-dimmig.html

with Heghnar Watenpaugh hosted by Chris Gratien and Emily Neumeier While architectural historians are often concerned with the design, inception, and construction of buildings and objects, writing the history of architecture also includes the study of renovations, modifications, and changes in use of such spaces embedded in political and social contexts. In this episode, Heghnar Watenpaugh revisits her 2004 monograph entitled The Image of an Ottoman City in a discussion of Ottoman interventions into the historical urban geography of the empire's third largest city, Aleppo, and talks about methods of reconstructing the lived urban environment of a city in Ottoman Syria. Stream via Soundcloud PARTICIPANT BIOS Heghnar Watenpaugh is an Associate Professor of Art History at University of California-Davis. (see academia.edu)Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania researching art and architecture in the Ottoman world. (see academia.edu) CREDITS Episode No. 157 Release Date: 31 May 2014 Location: Beyoğlu, Istanbul  Editing and Production: Chris GratienMusical Excerpts: Sabah Fakhri - Ya Mal ash-ShamImages courtesy of Heghnar Watenpaugh (sources below) This episode is part of our series on Urban Space in the Ottoman World IMAGES Heghnar Watenpaugh during fieldwork at the Dervish Lodge of Shaykh Abu Bakr, 1999G. J. Grelot, Panorama of the city of Aleppo, from Viaggio e giornale per parte dell’Asia di quattro anni incirca fatto da ma Ambrosio Bembo Nobile Veneto (Travels and Journal through Part of Asia during about Four Years Undertaken by Me, Ambrosio Bembo, Venetian Noble). Venice, ca. 1676. from James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Ms. 1676 fBe, fol. 10–11.Aleppo from Southwest, with citadel visible (Source: LOC) Khusruwiyya and Adliyya mosques (Source: Sauvaget, Alep) Great Mosque of Aleppo, collapsed minaret (Source: BBC) PUBLICATIONS OF HEGHNAR WATERNPAUGH Additional papers available for download on academia.edu Monograph The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004), xxii, 278 pp., 57 illus. (Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, 2006) Journal Articles “Architecture without Images,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Roundtable: Studying Visual Culture, edited by Zeynep Çelik, 45:3 (August 2013). 585-588. “The City’s Edge: Rethinking Sources and Methods for the Study of Urban Peripheries,” Annales Islamologiques 46 (2012): 129-144, special issue: “L’exercice du pouvoir à l’âge des sultanats. Production, manifestation, reception,” [Exercising Power in the Age of the Sultanates: Production, Manifestation, Reception], edited by Sylvie Denoix and Irene Bierman. “An Uneasy Historiography: The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former Arab Provinces,” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, vol. 24 (2007), special issue: Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the “Lands of Rum,” ed. Gülru Necipoglu and Sibel Bozdogan. 27-43. “Deviant Dervishes: Space, Gender and the Construction of Antinomian Piety in Ottoman Aleppo,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 37:4 (2005): 535-565. “A French Humanist in the Islamic City: The Chevalier d’Arvieux (1635-1702), Merchant and Consul in Aleppo,” Thresholds: The Critical Journal of Visual Culture 27 (2004): 18-22. Book Chapters “The Cathedral of Ani, Turkey: From Church to Monument,” in Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World, ed. Mohammad Gharipour. Leiden: E. J. Brill, in press. “Art and Architecture,” in Women and Islamic Cultures: Discip

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 satirical periodical Akbaba from the 1930s onward in an attempt to understand the politics of representation, and offers some comparisons regarding the role of such prejudices and discourses within contemporary politics in the US and elsewhere. Nicholas Danforth is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the history of modern Turkey (see academia.edu) Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the modern Middle East (see academia.edu) Citation: "Arabs Through Turkish Eyes," Nicholas Danforth and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 136 (26 December 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/arabs-turkish-eyes-politics.html. Trigger Warning: the images below, which are drawn from historical issues of the Turkish satirical magazine Akbaba, contain caricatures and stereotypes that listeners may find unsettling or offensive. Click here to read the Nick's entire article in the Afternoon Map and access all the images for this podcast IMAGES

Nezih Erdoğan  Sinemanın ilk yıllarını, kinetoscope, vitascope ya da cinématographe gibi hareketli görüntü teknolojilerinin tarihi olarak okumak yeterli olabilir mi? Bu podcastta Prof. Nezih Erdoğan ve Serkan Şavk, Osmanlı’daki sinema deneyimini seyir ve hayret gibi kavramlar üzerinden tartışıyorlar. Stream via Soundcloud (preferred / US) Stream via Hipcast (Turkey / Türkiye) Türkiye’de sinemanın ilk yılları ve Yeşilçam sineması üzerine uzmanlaşan Prof. Dr. Nezih Erdoğan, İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi Sinema ve Dijital Medya Bölümü kurucu başkanıdır (Daha fazla bilgi için bkz. kişisel sayfa ve academia.edu) Erken modern Osmanlı toplumunda mekân-birey-iletişim ilişkisi üzerine çalışan Serkan Şavk, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde doktora adayı ve İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi Sinema ve Dijital Medya Bölümü’nde öğretim görevlisidir. (Daha fazla bilgi için bkz. academia.edu) Episode No. 128 Release Date: 3 November 2013 (Türkçe) Location: Izmir, Turkey Editing and Production: Chris Gratien and Serkan Şavk Bibliography courtesy of Nezih Erdoğan Citation: "Hayretle Seyret: Osmanlı'da sinema ve şehir," Nezih Erdoğan, Serkan Şavk, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 128 (November 3, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/11/cinema-ottoman-empire-istanbul.html. SEÇME KAYNAKÇA Sinema - Seyir Belge Arşivi, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA AR-SA /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} -       Savaş Arslan, Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History(Oxford University Press, 2010).-        Edhem Eldem, “Batılılașma, Modernleșme ve Kozmopolitizm: 19. Yüzyıl Sonu ve 20. Yüzyıl Bașında İstanbul”, Osman Hamdi Bey ve Dönemi (İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1993), 12–26.-        Nezih Erdoğan, “The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul: 1896-1928”, Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, der. Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal ve İpek Türeli (Routledge: 2010), 129-143. (Türkçesi: İstanbul Nereye? Küresel Kent, Kültür, Avrupa, İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2011.) -        Burçak Evren, İlk Türk Filmleri (İstanbul: Es Yayınları, 2006). -        Cemal Kafadar, Agâh Özgüç, Giovanni Scognamillo ve Deniz Bayrakdar, “Sinema ve Tarih” (Panel tartışması), Türk Film Araștırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 5, der. Deniz Bayrakdar (İstanbul: Bağlam Yayınları, 2006). -        Kemal H. Karpat, Ottoman Population, 1830-1914: Demographic and Social Characteristics (University of Wisconsin Press: 1985). -        Dilek Kaya Mutlu, “The Russian Monument at Ayastefanos (San Stefano): Between Defeat and Revenge, Remembering and Forgetting”, Middle Eastern Studies 43 (sayı 1), 2007: 75-86. -        Dilek Kaya Mutlu, “Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesi: Kim Yıktı? Kim Çekti? Kim ‘Yazdı’?”, Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 6, der. Deniz Bayrakdar (İstanbul: Bağlam Yayınları, 2007), 17-29.-        "Kamera Öncesi Bir Kamera Gezisi: Cemal Kafadar", Altyazı (sayı 109), 2011: 48-55.     

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 between the center and the provinces was a critical part of fostering the sense of nation devised by elite intellectuals. In Turkey, the ideas of Ziya Gökalp regarding the importance of the Anatolian villager in the development of Turkish national culture are a prominent example of how interwar nationalists saw the peasant as the stuff of the nation. Within this context, various programs designed to link the center and the periphery both economically and culturally emerged, and in this episode, Seçil Yılmaz discusses one such project, which sent professionally-trained Turkish painters into the Anatolian countryside over the period of 1938 to 1943 to create artistic depictions of the Turkish nation. iTunes Seçil Yılmaz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at City University of New York studying disease and medicine in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey (see academia.edu)Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)Sam Dolbee is a PhD candidate in the department of Middle East Studies at New York University Episode No. 114 Release date: 19 July 2013 IMAGES Images of the Yurt Gezileri paintings have been published by the Milli Reasürans Art Gallery in Istanbul in a book entitled Yurt gezileri ve yurt resimleri SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Akgül, Alphan. “Sanatçının Kendiliğinden Felsefesi, Görsel İdeoloji ve Ressamların yurt Gezileri”, Dipnot, no. 1, (Yaz 2003). Dino, Abidin. Kısa Hayat Öyküm, ed.Ferit Edgü. İstanbul : YKY, 1995. Erol, Turan. “Ressamların Yurt Gezileri ve Sonuçları” in Yurt Gezileri ve Yurt Resimleri, İstanbul: Milli Reasürans Sanat Galerisi, 1998. Germener, Sema. “Cumhuriyet Resmi” in Cumhuriyetin Renkleri Biçimleri, İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları,1998. Karaduman, Hüseyin “Eski Eser Yasalarında Özel Müzeler, Koleksiyonculuk, Ticaret ve Müzayedeler, in 4. Müzecilik Semineri : Bildiriler 16 - 18 Eylül 1998. İstanbul : Askeri Müze, 1998. Karaömerlioğlu, Asım M. “Tek Parti Dönemi’nde Halkçılık”, in Modern Türkiye'de Siyasi Düşünce: Kemalizm, Murat Belge (ed.). İstanbul : İletişim Yayınları, 2004. Karaömerlioğlu, Asım M. “Tek Parti Döneminde Halkevleri ve Halkçılık”, Toplum Bilim 88, (Bahar 2001) Koçak, Orhan. “1920’lerden 1970’lere Kültür Politikaları” in Modern Türkiye'de Siyasi Düşünce: Kemalizm Murat Belge (ed.). İstanbul : İletişim Yayınları, 2004. Öndin, Nilüfer. Cumhuriyet’in Kültür Politikası ve Sanat, İnsancıl Yayınları:İstanbul, 2003. Yaman, Zeynep Yasa.  “ Değişen Manzaralar: Kültür ve Modernite”, Sanat Dünyamız, no.89, (Güz 2003). Yurt Gezileri ve Yurt Resimleri, İstanbul: Milli Reasürans Sanat Galerisi, 1998.

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 Gencer explains the ways in which  notions such as childhood were used to construct the image of a renewed Turkish society in the nationalist press during the early years of the Republican period. Yasemin Gencer is a PhD candidate at Indiana University studying Art History. (see academia.edu)Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University. (see academia.edu) Emily Neumeier is a PhD student of Ottoman art history at the University of Pennsylvania (see academia.edu) iTunes Citation: "Child and Nation in Early Republican Turkey," Yasemin Gencer, Chris Gratien, and Emily Neumeier, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 102 (April 19, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/04/childhood-family-press-turkish-nationalism-republic.html. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Chris Gratien and Yasemin Gencer / Kurtuluş, IstanbulGencer, Yasemin, "We Are Family: The Child and Modern Nationhood in Early Turkish Republican Cartoons (1923-28)," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2012 Volume 32, Number 2: 294-309. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London and New York: Verso, 2006.Breuilly, John. Nationalism and the State. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.Brummett, Palmira J. Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Cristi, Marcela. From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection of Culture, Religion and Politics. Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. Çeviker, Turgut. Gelişim Sürecinde Türk Karikatürü-III. Istanbul: Adam (Anadolu) Yayınları, 1991.Göçek, Fatma Müge, ed. Political Cartoons in the Middle East. Princeton: Markus Weiner Publishers, 1998. Karpat, Kemal H. "Historical Continuity and Identity Change or How to be Modern Muslim, Ottoman, and Turk." In Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey, ed. Kemal Karpat, 1–28. Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 2000. Robinson, Kathryn. “Families: Metaphors of Nation (Overview).” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 2, Family, Law, and Politics, ed. Suad Joseph, 154–60. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Sönmez, Cemil. Atatürk’te Çocuk Sevgisi. Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi, 2004. Ünder, Hasan. “Atatürk İmgesinin Siyasal Yaşamdaki Rolü.” In: Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: Kemalizm, vol. 2. Istanbul: İletişim Yayınevi, 2001. IMAGES “The Republic is Walking!” Karagöz (no. 1650, p. 1), 9 January 1924.  “Ottoman Empire vs. Turkish Republic,” Akbaba (no. 199, p. 1), 30 October 1924. “When I Grow Up,” Akbaba (no. 407, p. 4), 28 October 1926.  “Our Father is Coming!” Cumhuriyet (no. 1128, p. 1), 1 July 1927.  “We Are Saved,” Akbaba (no. 614, p. 1), 29 October 1928. “The Republic is Walking!” Karagöz (no. 1650, p. 1), 9 January 1924.Source: Yasemin Gencer “Ottoman Empire vs. Turkish Republic,” Akbaba (no. 199, p. 1), 30 October 1924.Source: Yasemin Gencer “When I Grow Up,” Akbaba (no. 407, p. 4), 28 October 1926.Source: Yasemin Gencer “Our Father is Coming!” Cumhuriyet (no. 1128, p. 1), 1 July 1927.Source: Yasemin Gencer  “We Are Saved,” Akbaba (no. 614, p. 1), 29 October 1928. Source: Yasemin Gencer

with Nilay Özlü hosted by Chris Gratien During the nineteenth century, the urban space of Istanbul was transformed by actors consciously involved in reshaping the face of Ottoman and high society in this European capital. In this episode, Nilay Özlü explores the culture and architecture of the Pera neighborhood during these formative years through the story of three generations of the Vallaury family, Levantine Istanbulites who rose to prominence in the fields of cuisine, cafe culture, and finally architecture through the figure of Alexander Vallaury. Nilay Özlü is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University focusing on urban and architectural history (see academia.edu)Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. His doctoral research examines the ecological transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey from the mid-19th century onward. (see academia.edu) Episode No. 90 Release Date: 25 January 2013 Location: Cihangir, Istanbul Editing and Production: Chris Gratien Images and bibliography courtesy of Nilay Özlü (see below) This episode is part of our series on Urban Space in the Ottoman World Citation: "Producing Pera: A Levantine Family and the Remaking of Istanbul," Nilay Özlü and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 90 (January 25, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/01/pera-istanbul-architecture.html. Select Bibliography Kayaalp, N. (2008), Pera'nın Yersiz Yurtsuz Kahamanları, Unpuplished Thesis, Istanbul: YTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü. Akın, N. (2002), 19. Yüzyılda Galata ve Pera, Literatür Yayınları. Bozdoğan, S. (2007), "Reading Ottoman Architecture through modernist lenses: Nationalist Historiography and the "New Architecture" in the Early Republic", Muqarnas 24. Çelik, Z., (1993), The Remaking of Istanbul Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Pres, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. Eldem, E. (2006) "Levanten Kelimesi Üzerine", in A. Yumul, ed., Avrupalı mı Levanten mi, Istanbul: Bağlam. Eldem, E., (2000a), Bankalar Caddesi Osmanlı'dan Günümüze Voyvoda Caddesi, Osmanlı Bankası Bankacılık ve Finans Tarihi Arastırma ve Belge Merkezi,  Istanbul. Mardin, Ş., (2007), Türk Modernlesmesi Makaleler 4,  İletisim Yayınları,  Istanbul. Ortaylı, İ., (2002),  İmparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı,  İletisim Yayınları,  Istanbul. Images View of Pera and Galata, c1870-1910, Guillaume Berggren (LOC)Pera (Istiklal) Street, Istanbul (SALT Araştırma)Letter from François Vallauri to Ali Paşa (BOA)Galata Steps, Sébqh & JoaillierPera (Istiklal) and Sahne Streets Intersection, François Vallauri's cafe was on the (left) cornerFormerly Cafe Lebon, operated by François Vallauri's son in law Edward Lebon, interior was designed by Vallauri's son architect Alexander Vallaury. (Photo: Nilay Özlü) Students and Teachers of Ottoman School of Fine Arts, Alexander Vallaury taught architecture there. He is seated in the front and wearing a bowler hat.Ottoman Archaeology Museum, founded by Osman Hamdi Bey and Designed by Alexander Vallaury Sébah & Joaillier (LOC)Plans for the Ottoman Imperial Bank, designed by Alexander Vallaury (SALT Araştırma)View of Galata from the Golden Horn. The Ottoman Imperial Bank looms above. Abdullah Freres c. 1880-1893 (LOC)Ballroom of Pera Palace (Palas) Hotel in Istanbul (Yapı Dergisi)