Cemal Kafadar: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul
February 27, 2012, 4:15 pm, Lane History Corner, Room 307
The Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshop Series
Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University), “How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul”
Cemal Kafadar is Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from the McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies and taught for two years at Princeton University before coming to Harvard. His research focuses on social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era. Among his publications are “The Question of Ottoman Decline” (in Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review, 1999), Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995), and Suleiman the Second and His Time (1993).
This event is co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Department of History, and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
