The Nature of the Ottoman City
Stefan Peychev In this innovative interdisciplinary work, Stefan Peychev problematizes the dominant narrative of decline and stagnation in Ottoman Sofia. Drawing on a range of sources and perspectives, including environmental and urban history, archaeology and anthropology, he examines the creation and experience of urban space and place. By employing a longue durée framework and considering empire-wide developments, this work...
Nicola Melis e Carlo Sanna – Turkey’s Ottoman Afterlives: Between Nostalgia and Amnesia
Nicola Melis e Carlo Sanna Empires do not vanish; they endure in fractured forms—sedimented in ri tuals, landscapes, institutional languages, and inherited silences. Decisively dissolved in 1924, the Ottoman Empire remains robust across vast post-im perial geographies. Its traces are not confined to archives or ruins but persist in reactivated forms: in the façades of restored mosques, in commemorative calendars, in culinary...
Presentazione volume: The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia
Martedì 10 ottobre, alle 17.30, in aula 0B, si terrà (in presenza e on line) la presentazione del libro dello studioso tedesco Hannes Grandits, The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia. Conflicting Agencies and Imperial Appropriations, Routledge 2022. L’autore dialogherà con Gianfranco Bria (Sapienza) e Antonio D’Alessandri. L’iniziativa, che si svolgerà in lingua inglese, è promossa dal CRIERE, Centro di ricerca...
CfP: The Age of the Komitadji
The Age of the Komitadji: Entangled Histories and Political Sociology of Insurgencies in the Ottoman World (1870s‑1920s) Basel, January 22-24, 2015 Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 30, 2014 Deadline for submitting full papers: October 31, 2014 Description The conference “The Age of the Komitadji: Entangled Histories and Political Sociology of Insurgencies in the Ottoman World (1870s 1920s)” is organized by Middle Eastern...
