Speaker: Henry Shapiro, Assistant Professor, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, ARISC Fellow
Date & Time: Monday, August 19, 2024, at 7pm Yerevan, 11:00am US EDT
Zoom: https://bit.ly/3WJtg0l
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Until the seventeenth century, the center of gravity of Armenian intellectual and cultural life had always been Eastern Anatolia or Cilicia. In the seventeenth century, however, a breakdown of security in Ottoman Anatolia led to the mass migration of Armenians towards more secure western parts of the empire, principally the Ottoman capital Istanbul. This talk will consider the rise of Istanbul to become the Armenians’ most important demographic and cultural center through the life and writings of a great seventeenth-century Armenian polymath, Eremia Chelebi.
Henry Shapiro is an assistant professor in the History Department of Ibn Haldun University, in Istanbul, Turkey. Shapiro conducts research based on Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Armenian, and Greek primary sources, and he has written articles in English, Turkish, and Eastern Armenian. His first monograph, The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, was published in 2022.
This fellowship is supported with a grant from the US Department of Education. This event is sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). The lectures are free and open to the public. Learn more at www.arisc.org
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