The Political Ecology of Late Ottoman Kurdistan
with Zozan Pehlivan hosted by Chris Gratien and Ayah Aboelela | What do environmental features like plants, animals, landscapes, and climate...
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Ottoman History Podcast
Interviews with historians about the history of the Ottoman Empire and beyond
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Cümle Fener Burada
Namık Erkal, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş ve Haris Theodorelis-Rigas Sunucu: Can Gümüş | 1719’da Bükreş’te yaşayan bir âlim, İstanbul’daki bir do...
Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
with Elyse Semerdjian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How can feminist approaches to the body and embodiment change the ways we approach the h...
Hebrew Orientalism in Late Ottoman and British Palestine
with Mostafa Hussein hosted by Chris Gratien | Zionism, as a cultural and political movement of Hebrew revival, sought to forge a connection...
Breadwinner Soldiers in the Ottoman Empire
with Kate Dannies hosted by Sam Dolbee and Can Gümüş | For the last century of its history, the Ottoman army fought war after war for the su...
The Jeweled Gun of Sultan Mahmud I
with Ashley Dimmig hosted by Abbey Stockstill and Musa Kazım Azimli | The jewel-encrusted musket of Mahmud I is one of the most popular piec...
WWI and the End of the Ottoman Empire
with Mustafa Aksakal hosted by Chris Gratien and Sıla Önder | The First World War brought an end to six centuries of Ottoman imperial rule a...
Astrologers and Authority in the Ottoman Empire
with A. Tunç Şen hosted by Maryam Patton | What did it mean to know the future in the early modern Ottoman Empire? And who had the authority...
The Ottoman World of Sports
with Murat Yıldız hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the late Ottoman capital, imperial politics became a field of collaboration and competition betw...
All's Fair in Love and War
Lafky entered the United States as a teenager on false pretenses, when her cousin presented her to immigration authorities as his legal wife...
Between Care and Violence: The Dogs of Istanbul
with Mine Yıldırım hosted by Önder Eren Akgül | What does canine life reveal about the human worlds of modern Istanbul? In this special coll...
Film Diplomacy in Turkey-US Relations
with Ayşehan Jülide Etem hosted by Chris Gratien and Sıla Önder | During the Cold War period, Turkish cinema flourished, as American films e...
The Ottoman Genizah
with Jane Hathaway hosted by Maryam Patton | What can a single, discarded scrap of paper reveal about life in Ottoman-era Cairo? In this epi...
Soykırımın Bürokrasisi
Ümit Kurt Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Ümit Kurt’un Aras Yayıncılık’tan çıkan kitabı Kanun ve Nizam Dairesinde: Soykırım Teknokratı Mustaf...
Architecture and Environment in the Medieval Maghreb
with Abbey Stockstill hosted by Chris Gratien | What is Islamic architecture? In this follow-up to our ten-part seires on The Making of the...
Osmanlı ve Türkiye Sanayileşme Tarihi
Görkem Akgöz Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde Dr. Görkem Akgöz’ün 2025 Hagley Prize in Business History ödülünü alan “In the Shadow of War and...
The Turkishness Contract
with Barış Ünlü hosted by Chris Gratien and Kubra Sagir | What does it mean to be Turkish? In this episode, we examine that question with so...
A Confederate General in the Ottoman Capital
with Elizabeth Varon hosted by Chris Gratien | After the US Civil War, some leaders of the defeated Confederacy followed unusual trajectorie...
Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization
with Esmat Elhalaby hosted by Susanna Ferguson | How did Palestine become central to anti-imperial movements and thought in the global south...
Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship
with Sophia Balakian hosted by Brittany White and Chris Gratien | The word "refugee" might conjure images of families devastated by war flee...