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At the Ottoman Bank Museum
A Migrant-Merchant Family from Mersin: The Mavromatis 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, focuses this month on the making of the Ottoman port-town Mersin through the story of one of its merchant families. Assist. Prof. Meltem Toksöz from the History Department at Boğaziçi University will be joining us on Friday, December 9, at 5:00 p.m. with a presentation in English titled, "A Migrant-Merchant Family from Mersin: The Mavromatis." Meltem Toksöz approaches the history of Mersin, which came into being in the second half of the 19th century as part of an Ottoman regional development, via the narrative of one migrant-merchant family of this southern port of Anatolia.The story of the Mavromatis reveals a multifaceted regional construction through a reconstitution of places, and of the relations between places, on a range of scales - town and hinterland, coast and interior, Adana-Mersin, municipalities and provinces, the state and the world. After receiving a BA in International Relations from the University of Ankara (1987) and an MA in South Asian History from the University of Virginia (1991), Toksöz pursued her graduate work with language studies in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Yale University and, in 2001, obtained her Ph.D. in Ottoman History from Binghamton University (SUNY). Meltem Toksöz was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Fulbright- Hays Fellowship (1994-1995) for her dissertation research in Turkey. She currently teaches in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University. The monthly seminar series, "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. Dr. Dimitrios Stamatopoulos will be our next speaker at the conference scheduled for Friday, February 10, 2006.
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