A View from the Provinces: Multiethnic Music-making in Late Ottoman Izmir March 10, 2011

Center for Jewish Studies 2010-2011 Colloquium Series. Led by Maureen Jackson.

Maureen Jackson's research focuses on Ottoman and Turkish Jewry, using musical cultures and ethnographic methods to investigate intercommunal relations, social history and imperial to national transformations. She conducted research in the Istanbul Jewish community for my doctoral dissertation and in Izmir for my postdoctoral project, "A View from the Provinces: Multiethnic Music-making in Late Ottoman Izmir."

Maureen Jackson is currently the ACLS New Faculty Fellow (2010-2012) in Middle Eastern Studies at Carleton College. I received my PhD at the University of Washington ("Mixing Musics: The Urban Landscape of Late Ottoman and Turkish Synagogue Music") and in 2009-10 conducted postdoctoral research in Izmir with support from NEH and the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
A light lunch will be served. Free and open to the public.

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