The OTSA Co-Op: A Venue for Exploring Ideas on Methodology and Technology in Research and Teaching
After our monthly W’OTSAp meetings and our occasional Turkey Now! series, both of which we started recently and are committed to continue, we are launching an experimental virtual gathering series, The OTSA Co-Op, which we envision as a venue for exploring ideas on methodology and technology in research and teaching on topics that relate to Ottoman and Turkish Studies.
Upcoming Meetings
Past Meetings
Sabiha Sertel’s Struggle for Modern Turkey: Justice, Activism and a Revolutionary Female Journalist
May 13, 2022
Tia O’Brien (Journalist & Editor) and Nur Deriş (Conference Interpreter), who edited the English translation of Sabiha Sertel’s autobiography, are also relatives of Sertel. At the fifth session of the OTSA Co-Op, they will introduce their pioneering relative, the nation’s first professional female journalist, and her autobiography, which chronicles Sertel’s unrelenting push for democracy and social reforms, ending in exile. James Meyer (Montana State University) and James Ryan (New York University) will talk about their experience teaching the book in their classes. Ezgi Başaran (Journalist) will reflect on Sertel’s experiences from the perspective of a contemporary journalist in Turkey. The session will be chaired by Benjamin Fortna (University of Arizona).
A Decade with the Ottoman History Podcast
April 22, 2022
Ottoman History Podcast (OHP) has been carrying Ottoman history to thousands of listeners since March 2011. We all owe the many contributors of OHP a big thank you. At this session of the OTSA Co-Op, featuring over a dozen of OHP’s longtime contributors, we will listen to their stories and celebrate their more than eleven years together.
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Writing A Short History of the Ottoman Empire and Teaching it in the Classroom
February 25, 2022
Renée Worringer (University of Guelph) will share with us the challenges of writing a textbook for the English-speaking classroom while Evren Altınkaş (University of Guelph), Janet Klein (University of Akron), and Mostafa Minawi (Cornell University) will reflect on their experiences teaching her textbook “A Short History of the Ottoman Empire” (University of Toronto Press, 2021) in their classroom last fall.
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Translating the Ottomans: The Ottoman World and Prisoner of the Infidels
November 5, 2021
Helga Anetshofer (University of Chicago) and Hakan Karateke (University of Chicago), the co-editors of The Ottoman World (University of California Press, 2021) and Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota), the editor and the translator of Prisoner of the Infidels (University of California Press, 2021), will talk about translating the Ottomans.
Please note that this session of the OTSA Co-Op will not be recorded and is co-sponsored by the CMES at the University of Chicago.
From Müteferrika to muteferriqa.com: Navigating the digitized Ottoman materials in print
July 9, 2021
In 1726, İbrahim Müteferrika pointed out that printed books contain search tools, such as tables of contents and indices that enable readers to access information directly. Digitization broadens the level of access for readers. However, without a way of searching, digitized materials are akin to modern manuscripts. In this inaugural meeting of the OTSA Co-op: A Venue for Exploring Ideas on Methodology and Technology in Research and Teaching, Ozan Ceyhan, the product manager for Muteferriqa at Miletos, will discuss how Ottoman Turkish texts could be searched digitally.