Friday, January 26th, 2024 The Politics of Female Beauty in Late Ottoman History

DateTimeLocation
Friday, January 26, 202412:00PM - 2:00PMExternal Event, This was an external online event

Series

Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Description

Beauty was political in the late Ottoman period. This presentation questions how and why beauty shifted from a personal and private aesthetic matter into a public, gendered, scienticized, and medicalized arena equated with civic duty and patriotism in the nineteenth century.


Speakers

Berrak Burçak Della Fave
Speaker
Bilkent University

Milena Methodieva
Chair
Assistant Professor of Ottoman, Turkish, and Balkan History, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations


Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Co-Sponsors

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Department of History

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