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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present
Constructing the Past in a Fractured Present: A History of Late Ottoman Historical Writing, 1839-1922
with
Erdem Sönmez
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara
Erdem Sönmez is a historian of the modern Middle East with a particular research focus on the late Ottoman Empire and republican Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in History from Bilkent University in 2018 and currently works as an Assistant Professor of History at the Social Sciences University of Ankara in Turkey. His work has appeared in such journals as the Modern Intellectual History, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Historical Review, and Middle Eastern Studies, among others. Sonmez is also the author of two books in Turkish: one, a biography of the late Ottoman constitutionalist intellectual Ahmed Rıza; and the other, examining the impact of the French historical journal Les Annales on modern Turkish historical writing.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
4:30pm to 6:00pm
CMES, Room 102
38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Link: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/constructing-past-fractured-present-history-late-ottoman-historical-writing-1839-1922
Contact: Liz Flanagan