Back	AT THE OTTOMAN BANK MUSEUM: MODERNISM, CITY, AND EMPIRE Within the framework of a program designed by the Museum to bring Turkish academics working abroad before Istanbul audiences, Prof. Zeynep Çelik will be giving a presentation entitled "Modernism, City and Empire", addressing the process of urban change and the concept of modernism in an Ottoman context. The lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, October 19, at 5:30 p.m. In her lecture, Zeynep Çelik will provide a comparative analysis of the urban changes occurring, in the second half of the 19th century, in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and those taking place in the French colonies in Northern Africa. She will also investigate the transformation and modernization of public spaces in provincial capitals of the Empire such as Damascus, Beirut, Tripoli (Libya), Algiers, and Tunis. Zeynep Celik's research areas center on the history of architecture and urbanism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has also conducted research and published works dealing with the French colonial urban planning of Algiers. Çelik is currently a faculty member of the School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology. For further information on this free lecture offered by the Museum, contact (212) 334 22 70. The Museum offers a robust program of lectures, presented every Wednesday, under the general heading Voyvoda Street Lectures. This season's themes are - music and politics, objects and rituals, economic history, and Istanbul. A continuing series, the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars, are held on the third Saturday of each month.