Symposium : Turkish Studies Symposium : « Media and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey ». Wednesday, January 26th, 2005, 1- 5 p.m. Room 209, Illini Union 1401 W. Green St., Urbana.

Print Culture

1:145

Holly Shissler, University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: "Ahmet Midhat Efendi and Tercuman-i Hakikat"

1:45-2:30 

Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati, Department of History : "Buy-Local Campaigns in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Newspapers and Magazines."

2:30-2:45 : Break

Expressive Culture

2:45-3:30

Sonia Seeman, University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Music "Sonic Placefulness and Social Spatiality in Recordings of Ottoman Turkey."

3:30-4:15

Anna Stavrakopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Theatre Studies "Ottoman Karagoz and Greek Shadow Theater: Communicational Shifts and Variants in a Multi-ethnic and Ethnic Context."

Sponsored by: Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Russian, East

European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute ofTurkish Studies, Washington, D.C.

Kenneth M. Cuno, Director Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

220 International Studies Building

910 South Fifth Street

Champaign, IL 61820

Tel. 217 244-7331

Fax 217 265-6399

Email kmcuno@uiuc.edu ; URL http://www2.uiuc.edu/unit/psames