History of Modern Turkey Podcast
1) Neo-Ottoman Architecture and the Transnational Mosque
with Kishwar Rizvi hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud As spaces fundamental to Muslim religious and communal life, mosques have historically served as ...Show More
2) Ecevit, Art, and Politics in 1950s Turkey
with Sarah-Neel Smith hosted by Nicholas Danforth Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | Soundcloud Although artistic production occurs in a political context, art and politics are often studied as separ...Show More
3) Cultural Policy and Branding in Turkey
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...Show More
4) Kurdish Alevi Music and Migration
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 geograp...Show More
5) Echoes of the Ottoman Past: Istanbul's Historical Soundscape
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 Ottoma...Show More
6) Arabs Through Turkish Eyes
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 depictio...Show More
7) Turkey and Russia After Empire | Onur İşçi
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...Show More
8) The Kurdish Music Industry: History and Politics
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 i...Show More
9) Painting the Peasant in Modern Turkey
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 sta...Show More
10) Periodizing Modern Turkish History
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 (1...Show More