Presentations
Conference presentations and talks
This talk develops mountaineering as a relational experience of body and world, linking physical exposure, duality, and covenantal thought.
This presentation examines Muslim politics beyond state-centered frameworks and reads exit as a form of political agency.
This paper traces translation, mediation, and bureaucratic-intellectual formation from Phanariot dragomans to the Ottoman Translation Office.
This paper presents Mehmed Murad Bey’s intellectual formation as a process of individuation, political socialization, and public self-fashioning.
This presentation examines history education as a site where political subjects imagine their place in the world.
This paper follows Mehmed Murad Bey’s brief leadership in Young Turk politics through the political geography of exile, return, and rivalry.
This presentation explores the media-government-intellectual nexus in late Ottoman Istanbul through networks, agency, and urban political space.
This talk introduces the broader dissertation project through the case of Mizancı Mehmed Murad Bey and the making of Ottoman public intellectual life.
This paper examines Egypt as imagined, narrated, and used by Ottoman intellectual émigrés during the Hamidian period.
This presentation compares Istanbul and Cairo through Ottoman intellectual émigré perspectives on urban modernity and imperial transformation.