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Every other Tuesday, 2-4 pm (UK time) on Zoom
and in Lecture Room 1 or 2, Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge (map here)
Seminar #11 Musical Cosmopolitanism
13 May | 2:00-4:00pm
Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
A Circular History of French Operetta in the Ottoman Mediterranean: The Adventures of Seraphin Manasse (1860s-1880s)
Moderator: Nazan Maksudyan
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Seminar #10 Acoustics and Revolution
29 April | 2:00-4:00pm
Jacob Olley (University of Cambridge)
Salih Bey’s Sonometer: Acoustics and Revolution in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Moderator: Onur Engin
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Seminar #9 Sonic Memories
18 March | 2:00-4:00pm
Melissa Bilal (Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA)
Between Erasure and Sonic Recovery: Tracing Koharik Gazarossian’s Life and Music
Moderator: Jacob Olley
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Seminar #8 Body, Sound, and Disability: Deaf Culture and Education in the Ottoman Empire
4 March | 2:00-4:00pm
Nazan Maksudyan (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
Body, Sound, and Disability: Deaf Culture and Education in the Ottoman Empire
Moderator: Kate Fleet
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Seminar #7 Sound Recording in the Early 20th-century Mediterranean
18 February | 2:00-4:00pm
Onur Engin (University of Cambridge)
A Gendered Analysis of Late Ottoman Istanbul’s Discography Catalogues
Diana Abbani (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
Shaping Sounds and Markets: Early Recording Industries in Bilad al-Sham, 1900–1920s
Chris Silver (McGill University)
An Ethereal Trail: Toward a Musical Biography of Salim Halali
Moderator: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
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Seminar #6 Music and National Identity
4 February | 2:00-4:00pm
Cüneyt Ersin Mıhcı (Orient Institut Istanbul)
Forging National Music on Both Sides of the Aegean between 1870–1920
Moderator: Hande Betül Ünal
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Seminar #5 Ottoman Media Histories
21 January | 2:00-4:00pm
Ahmet Ersoy (Boğaziçi University)
The Hamidian Photography Archive (1876-1908): Old New Media and Archival Violence
Moderator: Nazan Maksudyan
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Seminar #4 Early Cinema
26 November | 2:00-4:00pm
Özge Özyılmaz (Istanbul Kent University)
Sounds of Silents: The Auditory History of Early Cinema in Istanbul, 1896–1929
Moderator: Peter McMurray
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Seminar #3 Sonic Mapping
12 November | 2:00-4:00pm
Panagiotis C. Poulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Intercommunal Musical Geographies of Late Ottoman Istanbul: Critical Remarks on Sonic Mapping
Moderator: Jacob Olley
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Seminar #2 Asian Music Histories
29 October 2024 | 2:00-4:00pm (speaker in person)
Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College London)
Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858
Moderator: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
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Seminar #1: Early Modern Auralities
15 October 2024 | 2:00-4:00pm
Nina Macaraig (Independent Researcher)
Istanbul’s Qur’anic Soundscape: The Case-Study of Mimar Sinan’s Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque, 1551
Hasan Baran Fırat (University of Antwerp)
Religious Auralities: Adhan, Naqus and Bells
Tül Demirbaş (Independent Researcher)
Sonic Atmosphere of the Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582
Moderator: Nazan Maksudyan (CMB)
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