Murat Germen kent suçlarını kayıt altına alırken ona yer açan müze ve kültür kurumları bu hukuksuz gözaltına sessiz mi kalacak?

Here's a little glimpse into what we read in my Urban History and Development Research Seminar, part of the graduation semester of BA Urban Studies. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Very excited to be listening to our dear Reşat Kasaba in The Hague www.iss.nl/en/events/em... #menasky #history

A new year, and a new volume of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies! The online version is open access: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli... And the print version will soon be available, too.

continuing my annual twitter tradition here: please send me the citation info of books, articles, chapters, theses published/completed in 2024 that can be added to the Istanbul Bibliography of YILLIK: Annual of İstanbul Studies dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

More crowded, diverse, and steadfast than I was expecting, it gave me hope—plus good Dutch practice: Doe het niet!

so much in love with this book cover from 1933

And here's a happy bonus about the article: it's the co-recipient of OTSA's Yavuz Sezer Prize 🤗

These fruits told the story of the Genoese, Italian, Catholic Pera, which were diligently recorded by Launay and other scholars that followed him. While the lived histories of the walls turned to dust. The destruction that created modern Pera also prepared the grounds for its historical scholarship.

Edhem Pasha likened the walls to "meyvesiz fidan" (fruitless trees) in his official decree to dismantle the walls. For Launay, the fruits were the Latin inscriptions on from the walls, which he salvaged and secured under the auspices of first the Pera municipality and then the Imperial Museum.

Among other things, he was the creator of this plan of the medieval walls, which for the first time mapped out the Genoese fortifications in their largest extent. Launay was recording the walls at the same time he was involved in their destruction, under the orders of Ibrahim Edhem Pasha.

A prominent actor in the formation of this discourse was Victor-Marie de Launay, a French-Ottoman intellectual who was very active in the cultural, literary, and political circles in Istanbul, under the patronage of Osman Hamdi and his father, Ibrahim Edhem Pasha.

In it, I trace the history of the demolishing of Galata's (Istanbul) medieval walls in the 1860s, and argue that this contributed to the emergence of an enduring historiographical narrative on the city's heritage--one that privileged its European past at the expense of its Ottoman centuries

since my foray into eggplant history has yet to bring any tangible goods, here is something much more concrete, or rather, stone: my most recent article is published in the 40th anniversary volume of Muqarnas brill.com/view/journal...

Here's my peculiar entry into the world of bsky:

do you know any work on the environmental/cultural/social history of the aubergine? I would also be interested in looking at works on other plants especially in relation to climate history. thank you!

#envhist #envhum