Prize Competition For Research On The History Of Banking And Finance
2008-2009
 Jointly organized by the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre, the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) and the History Foundation of Turkey, this research competition aims to promote academic research on Turkish banking, finance, and economic history, from Ottoman times to the present, and to establish a tradition in this field.
Sponsored by the Ottoman Bank in its inaugural year, support for the competition, now in its fifth year, is provided by Garanti Bank. In addition, Garanti Bank will offer as a special award a research grant for one doctoral thesis written on the history of banking, finance and economy from the Ottoman times to the present.
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New Exhibition at the Ottoman Bank Museum:
Sedad Hakkı Eldem (1908-1988) I Early Years
(April 30 through August 30, 2008)
 Sedad Hakkı Eldem is without doubt the most talked-about name in 20th century Turkish architecture. No other figure has been as influential both as an educator and as a master architect. At the same time, his conspicuous individualism probably made him the most controversial of any architect in this country. From the 1930s until his death in 1988, he aroused envy, admiration and occasional antagonism from every rising generation of architects. Although throughout his life the force of his presence on the architectural scene in Turkey was tremendous, in some ways he remained removed from the realities of the country and an outsider in his profession. In architecture, he would always be the most foreign Turk, or the most Turkish foreigner.
As 2008 marks the centenary of the birth and the 20th anniversary of the death of this complex and controversial figure, the Ottoman Bank Museum honors him with two exhibitions and their accompanying publications. The first exhibition, “Sedad Hakkı Eldem (1908-1988) I Early Years” opens on April 30, 2008, and focuses only on the first 24 years of the famous architect’s life. The second exhibition, “Sedad Hakkı Eldem (1908-1988) II Mature Years” addresses the totality of his architectural works during the period where he assumed his leading role in contemporary Turkish architecture. Through a remarkable abundance of personal materials both visual and written, the first show offers a chronicle of Sedad Hakkı Eldem’s childhood and youth and focuses on his formative years as a young architect before he started his academic career at the Academy of Fine Arts. These early years can also be seen as a phase of cross-cultural or supracultural travel between Turkey, Switzerland, France and Germany, a true adventure during which, he absorbed three languages, quickly becoming fluent in German and French in addition to Turkish. Within this context, resorting to a rich variety of visual materials, the exhibition traces the evolution of the boy, the aspiring adolescent architect, the architecture student and finally the budding architect embarked on a voyage of discovery throughout Europe, which lasted several years. It chronicles the construction of an identity and personality across countries, languages and cultures. At the same time, it highlights the transformation of a young man of an elitist late Ottoman background and reluctant to pin himself down to a single national identity, into an early Republican intellectual and a key exponent of the nationalist discourse in architecture.
The exhibition “Sedad Hakkı Eldem I: Early Years” and its accompanying book are the collaborative effort of three academics: Edhem Eldem, Bülent Tanju and Uğur Tanyeli. Bülent Erkmen designed both the exhibition and its accompanying book.
III. Enlightenment Symposium
The Enlightenment and Citizenship – Modernization, Citizenship and Democratization in Turkey
April 11, 2008 9:00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
April 12, 2008 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
 A continuation of the previous Enlightenment Symposiums, this third symposium will be held April 11 and April 12, 2008, on the topic "The Enlightenment and Citizenship – Modernization, Citizenship and Democratization in Turkey."
Organized by Prof. Fuat Keyman from the Department of International Relations at Koç University, the symposium addresses "the concept of citizenship as legal status, identity and social practice."
The symposium will bring together academics from various universities and offer a critical survey of modernization and democratization history in Turkey. The discussion will center on a conception of "citizenship" that recognizes cultural plurality and differences, creates a common idiom and provides constitutional guarantee of basic rights and liberties.
Please click for the program.
Voyvoda Street Lectures 2007-2008
The Voyvoda Street Lectures, ongoing since 2000, continue this season with a lecture presented every Wednesday of the month, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., on one of 4 main themes: Political Economy, Istanbul, Enlightenment and Objects and Rituals.
Please call (0212) 334 22 70 to make reservations
Please click here for the Voyvoda Street Lectures 2007-2008 program.
The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars 2007-2008
First introduced in 2003-2004, the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars are held every third Saturday of the month. Organized in association with Bogaziçi University, the seminars examine the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the Second Constitution.
To mark the 100th anniversary, in 2008, of the Young Turk Revolution and the 1908 Constitution, the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars are making this their topic of discussion this season. The 1908 Constitution was a turning point in Turkish politics. ‘Political’ life in the current sense of the word began with the 1908 Constitution; politics became public property and, gradually, political parties grew inseparable from political life. Ottoman public opinion is a product of just such a development. However, these decades also determined the fate of the Ottoman Empire. It was during these years that the process of transition from empire to nation-state first burgeoned and a number of social groups living on Ottoman soil entered into a search for identity. In this sense, the second Constitutional period served as a laboratory for Republican Turkey.
Please call (0212) 334 22 70 to make reservations
Please click here for the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars 2007-2008 program. |
