Location BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and online
Date and time
Tuesday 22 October 2024
16:00 - 18:00 (London GMT)
19:00 - 21:00 (Ankara UTC+3)
Speakers
Özge Baykan Calafato
University of AmsterdamNancy Micklewright
Smithsonian Institute
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s. Examining the relationship between photography and gender, body, space as well as materiality and language, the book explores how the production and circulation of vernacular photographs contributed to the making of the modern Turkish citizen in the formative years of the Turkish Republic.
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Özge Calafato is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era (2022). Dr Calafato’s research interests lie at the intersection of photography, archives, memory and cultural identity. Between 2014 and 2020 she worked as the Assistant Director for the Akkasah: Center for Photography at the New York University Abu Dhabi.
Nancy Micklewright writes primarily about the history of photography and fashion history in the Ottoman Empire with a focus on gender. Her latest book, Fashion in a Global City: Dress and Photography in late Ottoman Istanbul, will appear in 2025. This year, supported by a Fulbright Senior Research Grant, she is working on a new project, Dressing the Republic: Women and Fashion in 1920s Türkiye. Previously she has received research fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. Through 2019 she was Head of Public and Scholarly Engagement at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, where among other duties she served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Ars Orientalis. She has published widely on aspects of photographic practice in the Ottoman Empire, travel albums, local engagement with photography and related issues. Her edited volume, Mohamed Zakariya, a 21st century Master Calligrapher, was published in 2022 by Fons Vitae.