The Politics of Female Beauty in Late Ottoman History Audiences:
When and Where
Friday, January 26, 2024 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Online
Speakers
Berrak Burcak Della Fave (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Description
Beauty was political in the late Ottoman period. This presentation questions how and why beauty shifted from a personal and private aesthetic matter into a public, gendered, scienticized, and medicalized arena equated with civic duty and patriotism in the nineteenth century.
Sponsors
Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies - Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, CERES, History