| Call Number | 10375 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
M 2:10pm-4:00pm 302 Fayerweather |
| Points | 4 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | Instructor |
| Instructors | Tunc Sen Zeynep Celik |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Method of Instruction | In-Person |
| Course Description | Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Turkish and/or French is desirable but not mandatory. Students who cannot read Turkish but are interested in enrolling are still encouraged to contact the course instructors. This seminar aims to open a window onto historiographic traditions from overlooked contexts, with the argument that they broaden the field from much needed empirical and theoretical perspectives, while at the same time offer new venues to trigger critical thinking. Relying on their respective specialties, Professors Çelik and Şen will familiarize the students with the key works, trends, and names of the rigorous and essential scholarship in Ottoman-Turkish historiography that students of Ottoman-Turkish-Middle East history should be familiar with for their research and teaching. This exposure will also serve well history students in other areas in building comparative frameworks. Weekly discussion topics will range from economic and social history to history of science, urban history, and visual and literary culture, altogether coalescing into a multi-dimensional picture. Each week the instructors will present the major scholarly traditions and introduce key historians by intersecting them with the twentieth-century politico-cultural history. These presentations will be followed by the close discussion of assigned readings (mostly in English and to a limited extent in Turkish and French), with references to relevant historiographical traditions effective at the time on a global scale. Along the way, the students will be exposed to the work of legendary historians, among them Halil İnalcık and Ömer Lütfi Barkan, who examined exhaustive periods of Ottoman history, shifting from economic to social and cultural history and triangulating their arguments from different angles. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | History |
| Enrollment | 11 students (15 max) as of 5:06PM Saturday, May 10, 2025 |
| Subject | History |
| Number | GU4121 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Interfaculty |
| Section key | 20233HIST4121W001 |