Ottomans and their ‘Others’: Uses of soft power

Columbia Global Centers: Voices of Emerging Scholars webinar series

June 16, 2021
6pm Istanbul time, 11am NYC
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A series of webinar workshops organised by Prof Zeynep Çelik and chaired by Merve İspahani, Ph.D., of the Columbia Global Centers in Istanbul. Muhammet Saçmalı presents ‘A Raison d’État of the Ottoman Universal Caliphate: Protecting Shi’ite Safavids’; Nazlı Songülen investigates the transformation of the Istavros-Beylerbeyi shores in early modern Ottoman Istanbul; and Doğa Öztürk examines philanthropy and self-identification in late Ottoman Egypt.