Media and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey

Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 1- 5 p.m.
Room 209, Illini Union
1401 W. Green St., Urbana

Print Culture
1:145
Holly Shissler, University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“Ahmet Midhat Efendi and Tercuman-i Hakikat”
1:45-2:30
Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati, Department of History
“Buy-Local Campaigns in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Newspapers and Magazines.”

2:30-2:45 Break

Expressive Culture
2:45-3:30
Sonia Seeman, University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Music
“Sonic Placefulness and Social Spatiality in Recordings of Ottoman Turkey.”
3:30-4:15
Anna Stavrakopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Theatre Studies
“Ottoman Karagoz and Greek Shadow Theater: Communicational Shifts and Variants in a Multi-ethnic and Ethnic Context.”

Sponsored by:
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington, D.C.