The 'Turkish' Version of the Story of Candace and Alexander: Adaptation, Creativity, and Misogyny

The 'Turkish' Version of the Story of Candace and Alexander: Adaptation, Creativity, and Misogyny - a lecture by Prof Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul).

Edhem ELDEM teaches at the Department of History of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He has also taught at Berkeley, Harvard, EHESS, EPHE, ENS, and Columbia and has held the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman Studies at the Collège de France.

Among his fields of interest are the Levant trade in the eighteenth century, Ottoman funerary epigraphy, the development of an urban bourgeoisie in Istanbul, the history of the Ottoman Bank, the history of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, the history of photography in the Ottoman Empire, late-nineteenth-century Ottoman first-person narratives and biographies, Westernization and the Tanzimat, and Orientalism.

His publications include: French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (1999); A History of the Ottoman Bank (1999); The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul (1999, with D. Goffman and B. Masters); Pride and Privilege. A History of Ottoman Orders, Medals and Decorations (2004); Death in Istanbul. Death and its Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture (2005); Consuming the Orient (2007); Un Ottoman en Orient. Osman Hamdi Bey en Irak (1869-1871) (2010); Le voyage à Nemrud Dağı d’Osman Hamdi Bey et Osgan Efendi (2010); Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (2011, with Z. Bahrani and Z. Çelik); Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914 (2015, with Z. Çelik); L’Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l’Occident (2018); L’Alhambra. À la croisée des histoires (2021); L’Empire ottoman (2022); The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History (2024).

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