Tarih Semineri: Cengiz Kırlı (Boğaziçi Üniv. Atatürk Enstitüsü)

Sabancı Üniversitesi

Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi

Tarih Konuşmacılar Serisi

19.Yüzyıl Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Kamusal'ın İnşası

Yrd.Doç.Dr.Cengiz Kırlı

(Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü)

Özet

Instead of employing the conventional antagonistic conceptualization of state and society, and understanding public and public opinion as merely sociological referents that emerged despite and against the state, this paper argues that the “public” and “public opinion” were constituted in a series of governmental practices that redefined politics in the second quarter of the nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. This process will be detailed by way of two examples: first, the changing status of public opinion with the establishment of surveillance and second, the symbolic yet consequential meaning of an unprecedented practice in courtly behavior, namely, the Ottoman sultan’s public visibility.

20 Mart 2008

SSBF G043

14:00-15:30