Visiting Researcher Seminar:
Professor ELDEM, Edhem
“The early Tanzimat (Reorganization) period in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1856” (1/10・1/17・1/24・1/31)
Speaker
ELDEM, Edhem (Professor, Bogazici University, Turkey)
Language
English
Prospected Audience
Undergraduate, Graduate, Researchers, Faculty members, general audience
Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
Registration
Registration is not required to participate.
Seminar 1: The Tanzimat edict of 1839 and the debate of internal versus external agency
Outline
An analysis of the dynamics that led to the promulgation of the Tanzimat edict, with particular emphasis on different historiographical approaches to the question of the factors – local or foreign, Islamic or Western – behind the process.
Date & Time
January 10, 2024 (Wed.) 17:00 – 18:40
Venue
Building#26 3F Room#301, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Seminar 2: The “Eastern Question” from an Ottoman perspective: dismemberment or survival?
Outline
The Eastern Question is the name that was given to the Great Powers’ visions and policies regarding the Ottoman Empire and its impending doom. While it can be dismissed as a typical Eurocentric concept, the question of how the Ottomans tried to navigate this international environment remains of crucial importance.
Date & Time
January 17, 2024 (Wed.) 17:00 – 18:40
Venue
Building#26 3F Room#301, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Seminar 3: Louis-Gaspard Barrachin, an antihero of Ottoman modernization and regeneration
Outline
The strange and unknown story of a French adventurer who managed to sell his knowledge of the Orient to France, and his Western skills to the Ottomans, to carve for himself a role in the Ottoman
establishment before turning against them in a bid for radical reforms “with, without, or despite the Turks.”
Date & Time
January 24, 2024 (Wed.) 17:00 – 18:40
Venue
Building#26 3F Room#301, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Seminar 4: The Reform edict of 1856 and the (still) burning issue of equality
Outline
An analysis of the process which brought the Tanzimat reforms to their climax with the promulgation of the Reform Edict granting full equality to all subjects of the Sultan and a broader contextualization of the notion of equality in a hierarchical and inegalitarian society whose fundamental principle was – and still is – justice/equity.
Date & Time
January 31, 2024 (Wed.) 17:00 – 18:40
Venue
Building#26 3F Room#301, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
