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At the Ottoman Bank Museum
The Conceptualization of Poverty in Ottoman Urban Centers in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries The series of monthly seminars, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean", organized by the Ottoman Bank Museum in collaboration with Alpha Bank and the History Department of Boğaziçi University, continues this month on the topic of poverty in the Ottoman Empire. Prof. Haris Exertzoglou, from the Department of History and Social Anthropology, at the University of the Aegean in Greece, will be joining us with a presentation delivered in English, entitled, "The Conceptualization of Poverty in Ottoman Urban Centers in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries", scheduled for Friday, February 18, at 3:00 p.m. In his lecture, Haris Exertzoglou will discuss how the conceptualization of poverty within the rapidly changing early 19th century Ottoman social environment, shaped both the process of identity formation of the rising middle classes and the centralizing aspirations of the Ottoman bureaucracy. Addressing the topic from a comparative perspective, Prof. Exertzoglou will focus on the Christian Orthodox and Greek-speaking communities in Istanbul and Izmir. After graduating from the Department of Economics at the University of Athens, Prof. Haris Exertzoglou earned his Ph.D. from King's College at the University of London. Since 1989, he has been teaching late Ottoman and modern Balkan history in the Department of History and Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean. His current research examines national ceremonies in modern Greece and the reshaping of Greek national identity. He has written several books and articles on the social and economic life of the Christian Orthodox populations in the Ottoman Empire including, Osmanlı'da Cemiyetler ve Rum Cemaati (The Greek Community and Other Populations of the Ottoman Empire), published by the History Foundation, in 2004. The series of monthly seminars, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean", focuses on the Greek-Orthodox populations of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Seminar speakers provide comprehensive information on the subject and display special awareness of the delicate historical context. Admission to the seminars is free. Arzu Öztürkmen will be our next speaker at the conference scheduled for Friday, March 18, 2005.  |
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