AHRC Award : Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities

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Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: 
Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories

Leeds University and Birkbeck College 

(January 2013 – June 2014) :

I will be the visual advisor for this project working with my colleagues: Dr. Jay Prosser (Main investigator / University of Leeds), Dr. Gabriel Koureas (University of London, Birkbeck) and Dr. Colette Wilson (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London). We have just heard that we been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a Networking Scheme and I will be posting more information on my blog in the near future.

This is brief summary of  the project : 

 'The cities of the Ottoman Empire were multiple, multicultural and are at once heavily memorialised and contemporarily relevant.  Our research on ex-Ottoman cities contributes to the Translating Cultures theme by travelling from the present back to the past cosmopolitan city-worlds of the Empire; by a focus on transcultural memories, which involves comparative analysis of the exchanges between different Ottoman city cultural groups; and by an interdisciplinary methodology.  The cosmopolitan memories of the Ottoman past have much to teach us about our present multicultural cities.'