The new guest of the “Science, Culture, and Art Conferences” organized by the Turkish Historical Society to reveal Türkiye’s accumulation in the fields of science, culture, and art on the centenary of the Republic, will be Turkish Historical Society Honorary Member and Harvard University Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Cemal Kafadar.
Kafadar’s conference titled “Green Reading: The Place of Reading and the Power of the Book in Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Life” will be held on Friday, March 7 at 15:00 in the conference hall of our institution in the Sıhhiye campus. The event will be open to public participation.
Prof. Dr. Cemal KAFADAR
Prof. Dr. Cemal Kafadar was born in Istanbul in 1954. He completed his secondary education at Istanbul Boys High School and Robert College, and his undergraduate education at Hamilton College in the USA. He completed his MA and PhD in Ottoman history at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Canada. Prof. Kafadar, who served as a faculty member at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University between 1985-89, has been working at Harvard University since 1990.
Kafadar, who works on the social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, history and cinema. In addition to his works such as, İki Cihan Âresinde, Osmanlı Devleti’nin Kuruluşu; Kim Var İmiş Biz Burada Yoğ İken; Dört Osmanlı: Yeniçeri, Tüccar, Derviş ve Hatun ve Kendine Ait Bir Roma: Diyar-ı Rum’da Kültürel Coğrafya ve Kimlik, he has also undertaken the curation of various historical and documentary films. An Honorary Member of the Turkish Historical Society, Prof. Kafadar was awarded the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Award in 2010.
