The History of Ottoman History: A Master Class

Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, Columbia Global Centers | Tunis, and the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies hosted a live online master class on the “History of Ottoman History“ with Professors Zeynep Çelik and A. Tunç Şen, on August 4, 2020. About the Talk This workshop follows up on the seminar taught by Zeynep Çelik and Tunç Şen at Columbia University in fall 2019. The seminar was designed to discuss the formation of the Ottoman-Turkish historiography in the late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. The main goal was to familiarize the students with the foundational works, trends, institutions, and names of the rigorous and essential scholarship in Ottoman-Turkish studies from a multi-disciplinary approach. The online master class will revisit these issues. In addition to the instructors, some of the fall 2019 seminar students will share their perspectives and takeaways with the online master class participants. 00:00 Start 00: