Presenter:  Ceyda Karamürsel

Subject:  Emancipation in the Name of the Machine Sewing Machines, Women, and Labor in the Late Ottoman Empire

Place:  Sümerbank Building Hall No 106 

Date:  18.04.2019

Time: 15.00

(Dr. Ceyda Karamürsel received her PhD in History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Middle East Center. Her work explores the practice of slavery and the elusive meanings of freedom in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic in the second half of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries and has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, among others. She is currently working on her book manuscript, which continues to explore Ottoman slaves’ and slaveholders’ perceptions of freedom, justice, equality, and in an indirect way, of citizenship.)