Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies: Berrak Burçak Della Fave
When and Where
Friday, January 26, 2024 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Speakers
Berrak Burçak Della Fave, Bilkent University
Description
The Politics of Female Beauty in Late Ottoman History
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.
Registration link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArce2trzgqE9Y8jOaiNKgxKkMPgr...
* See the event poster: 
Burcak, SOTS 2024-1-26.pdf