Activities - At the Ottoman Bank Museum 41st Library Week Events

March 29, 2005 - Prof. Jale Parla
The Turkish Novel and Modernism
Prof. Jale Parla focuses on the westernization of the Turkish novel and investigates topics such as alienation, search for identity, industrialization and urbanization relevant to this process.

Prof. Jale Parla obtained her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the English-German-French Literature Department at Harvard University in 1978. Since 2000, she has been teaching Comparative Literature at Istanbul Bilgi University . Her published works include, "Fathers and Sons," "Mastery, Slavery, Orientalism," and "The Novel from Don Quixote to the Present"

March 31, 2005 - Prof. Günay Kut
Miniature Paintings from the Treasury Section of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library
Prof. Günay Kut takes a look at the manuscripts in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library and presents a slide show of the miniatures in them.

Prof. Kut graduated from the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University in 1961. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1965, with a dissertation on the works of the famous poet of Çagatay Literature, Ali Sir Nevai. She has been teaching at Bogaziçi University since 1990 and has published numerous books and articles both in Turkey and abroad including, Yazma Eserlerinde Vakif Mühürleri, Sehname-i Murad and 13. Yüzyila Ait Bir Yemek Kitabi ("A Cookbook of the 13 th Century").

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