E156 | The emergence of nationalism in the Balkans entailed a reconfiguration of historical space and time. Nationalist historians struggled in particular in dealing with the imperial heritage of the Ottoman and Byzantine pasts. In this episode, Dimitris

E155 | Osmanlı’da İşçiler (1870-1922) kitabının yazarı, İstanbul Üniversitesi, İktisat Fakültesi öğretim üyesi Kadir Yıldırım’la yaptığımız bu podcastle, geçen hafta Soma’da yitirdiğimiz madencilerimizi ve Çalışma ve Sosyal

This episode offers an interview by Ryan Gingeras with Donald Quartaert in 2008 about his monograph entitled Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire (2006). During his decades of activity as a scholar, Donald Quataert was one of the foremost scholars w

E153 | If geography is the stage for social activity, how do geographical settings impact the form of the human drama? In this episode, we discuss wide expanses such as seas, plains, and deserts along with their adjacent coasts or "littorals" in an attemp

E152 | In daily life, time appears as an unavoidable fact. It marches forward uniformly, and much like money, is a fungible commodity that can be spent, wasted, and saved. However, this view often obscures the fact that our engagement with time is mitigat

E151 | 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 epis

The Wild Field E08 | In the early modern Ottoman/European frontier, rivaling claims to sovereignty were reinforced by empires through systems of personal patronage and coercive power. Local power holders experienced Ottoman suzerainty quite differently in

The Wild Field E07 | Turkic peoples have been living on and around the Crimean Peninsula and the Pontic Steppe (Deşt-i Kıpçak, Dzikie Pole, Loca Deserta) for over a millennium. As the Crimean peninsula changes hands before our eyes once again, we take

tajine E06 | Ayla Amon joins the podcast this week to discuss her work at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) and the Tangier American Legation Museum. As a specialist in art history and preservation, Ayla talks about her

Son haftalarda uluslararası basında sıkça yer bulan konuların başında Kırım gelmektdir. Tarih boyunca Kırım Hanlığı, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ile Lehistan arasındaki ilişkilerde önemli rol oynamıştır. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş, iki devlet ar