Cemal Kafadar – Closing Remarks | Istanbul Unbound

Closing Remarks of the Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City conference, April 11, 2021.

Cemal Kafadar is the Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University’s Department of History. Kafadar
is interested in the social and cultural history of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval/early
modern era. His books include Kendine Ait Bir Roma: Diyar-ı Rum’da Kültürel Coğrafya ve Kimlik Üzerine (Metis, 2017),
Kim Var İmiş Biz Burada Yoğ İken: Dört Osmanlı: Yeniçeri, Tüccar, Derviş ve Hatun (Metis, 2009), Between Two Worlds: The
Construction of the Ottoman State (UC Press, 1995). His most recent publication is a co-edited multivolume, Treasures of
Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (Brill, 2019), which includes his essay on Bayezid
II, Amasya, and the palace library. Another volume he is co-editing on Istanbul’s nature is forthcoming in 2021. He
worked closely on the conception and production of two historical documentaries: Inspirations (dir. Nurdan Arca, 2005)
on Sheikh Bedreddin, an Ottoman intellectual executed for his ideas ca. 1417; Invisible to the Eye (dir. Zeynep Dadak,
2020) on the mid-seventeeth century account of Istanbul by Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan.

Istanbul Research Institute and Pera Museum organize Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City, an international, virtual conference that seeks to offer new insights on the complex layers of Istanbul’s urban landscape, to be held on April 8-11, 2021. It brings together innovative studies in the field of environmental history, political ecology, and critical art studies that utilize transdisciplinary methods and transcend predetermined scales and clearly delineated boundaries between the histories and stories of humans, nonhumans, and the built environment. Istanbul Unbound is organized in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Stiftung-Turkey, through partnerships with birbuçuk, IstanbuLab, Occupy Climate Change!, and Istanbul Planning Agency, and endorsed by European Society for Environmental History and the Network for the Study of the Environmental History of Turkey. Istanbul Unbound is also part of American Society for Environmental History's Environmental History Week (#EHW2021).

For the other events as part of the conference as well as to register, please visit https://en.iae.org.tr/content/istanbu....