Modernism, City, and Empire

Within the framework of a program designed by the Ottoman Bank Museum to bring Turkish academics working abroad before Istanbul audiences, Prof. Zeynep Çelik will be giving a presentation entitled "Modernism, City and Empire", addressing the process of urban change and the concept of modernism in an Ottoman context. The lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, October 19, at 5:30 p.m.

In her lecture, Zeynep Çelik will provide a comparative analysis of the urban changes occurring in the second half of the 19th century, in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and those taking place in the French colonies in Northern Africa. She will also investigate the transformation and modernization of public spaces in provincial capitals of the Empire such as Damascus, Beirut, Tripoli (Libya), Algiers, and Tunis.

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