SUBJECT into OBJECT
A WORKSHOP ON THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD
Thursday, May 24th 2012,
Cultural Heritage Museum
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
PROGRAM
13:00 – 13:20 Mary Roberts (University of Sydney)
Affiliation, Proliferation, Riposte: Ottoman and Orientalist Photography
13:20 – 13:40 Ahmet Ersoy (Boğaziçi University)
The Empire’s New Clothes: Ethnography, Costume, and the Photographic Image
in the Late Ottoman Empire
13:40 – 14:00 Martina Baleva (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena)
The Empire Strikes Back: Image Battles in the Russo-Ottoman War, 1877-78
14:00 – 14:20 Kate Elizabeth Creasey (Bilgi University)
The Photographic State: The Hamidian Government’s Uses of Photography,
1890-1905
Discussion
15:20 Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:00 Saadet Özen (Boğaziçi University)
“At the spot where it was displayed every year.” The Image of Abdulhamid II
in Public Space
16:00 – 16:20 Ali Behdad (UCLA)
The Tourist, the Collector, and the Curator: The Life and Afterlives of
Ottoman Era Photography
16:20 – 16:40 Christopher Pinney (UC London)
From “Major” to “Minor”: Late Ottoman Albums and the Universal Claims of
Photography
Discussion
Final Comments
