Yavuz Sezer Memorial Talks

Four Years in Iran: Myron Bement Smith and the History of Islamic Architecture in Iran
11 December 2025 / 18:30

Department of History cordially invites you to this year's Yavuz Sezer Memorial Talk, titled 'City of Sages: Ottomanizing Early Modern Athens,' to be delivered by Elizabeth Key Fowden on December 12, 2024, at 6 p.m. The event will take place at ANAMED Auditorium. For the talk, simultaneous translation into Turkish will be available.

Department of History cordially invites you to this year's Yavuz Sezer Memorial Talk, titled 'Damascus: A City in Words,' to be delivered by Dana Sajdi on December 5, 2023, at 6 p.m. The event will take place at the Pera Museum Auditorium. For the talk, simultaneous translation into Turkish will be available.

This lecture is devoted to two questions. First, it will analyze how reading was conceived of by literary criticism, sociology of practices, and cultural history. What is at stake here was the conceptualization of the relationship between the text and the reader and the process through which meaning is constructed. Whence the fundamental importance of the notion of the materiality of the text—as wrote D. F.