Chasing the Ottoman Early Modern

The fourth session of “What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?“ (W’OTSAp) on Friday, February 26, 2021, at 12 pm (EST) was devoted to Chasing the Ottoman Early Modern, a special dossier, co-edited by Virginia Aksan (McMaster University), Boğaç Ergene (University of Vermont), and Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Panteion University), and published in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 7/1 (Spring 2020): 7-86. You can read the short articles in this dossier online at In addition to the co-editors who chaired the meeting, the contributors who were present were (in alphabetical order of last names) Palmira Brummett (University of Tennessee), Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota), Beshara Doumani (Brown University), John-Paul Ghobrial (University of Oxford), Joanna Innes (University of Oxford), Güneş Işıksel (Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Dina Khoury (George Washington University), Selim Kuru (University of W