[MES Forum] FW: IHS 4/14: Yiğit Akin & "The Ottomans in a Revolutionary World, 1917-1923"

[McClimans, Melinda]

Mark your calendars, everyone! Dr. Akin is giving a talk about the Ottomans in a Revolutionary World, 1917-1923” on April 14th What an important time and place to understand better. Details and registration information are below.


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 The Ottomans in a Revolutionary
World, 1917-1923
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Join IHS as they welcome Yiğit Akin<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://osu.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e9698cea1b8e8db8e621e0b9&id=21c2261548&e=70fad900ab__;!!KGKeukY!zSEcoTLdsqHvcQ3GlQzyg6_wiHOmiU5v46b4AW7Spz-dzJvL-qljBLka1O1LUI2-drVWUFOLhDGzFivG_BXmrGXTItJp$> on April 14** at the Mershon Center, Room 1039, for his talk "The Ottomans in a Revolutionary World, 1917-1923.” Coffee will be served at 3:30pm. The event will start at 4:00pm.



The twilight years of the Ottoman Empire between 1917 and 1923 constituted a period of extraordinary political and intellectual ferment. Unlike the other major land empires, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, the Ottoman Empire had not formally collapsed by the end of the Great War. Yet the empire’s future hung precariously in the balance. The gravity of the moment sparked intense debates across the empire’s ethno-religious communities about the meaning of defeat and the possible trajectories ahead. Ottoman intellectuals and political actors grappled with the prospects for renewed co-existence in the aftermath of massive wartime violence against Ottoman non-Muslims, while also debating the empire’s place within an emerging postwar global order. Dr. Akin will examine what may be understood as the most “internationalist moment” in the empire’s long history, discussing how Ottoman actors interpreted, appropriated, and contested the revolutionary transformations reshaping the world between 1917 and 1923.



Yiğit Akin earned his Ph.D. at The Ohio State University in 2011 and is a specialist of the history of the modern Middle East. His research interests include social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey, with a particular focus on the First World War and its aftermath, war and society, nationalism, and social movements. Before joining the faculty at Ohio State, Dr. Akın taught at the College of Charleston and Tulane University where he received the university’s highest teaching award, the Weiss Presidential Award for Undergraduate Teaching.

Dr. Akın is the author of two books. The first, Gürbüz ve Yavuz Evlatlar: Erken Cumhuriyet’te Beden Terbiyesi ve Spor<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://osu.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e9698cea1b8e8db8e621e0b9&id=3637ec2318&e=70fad900ab__;!!KGKeukY!zSEcoTLdsqHvcQ3GlQzyg6_wiHOmiU5v46b4AW7Spz-dzJvL-qljBLka1O1LUI2-drVWUFOLhDGzFivG_BXmrMtNdenv$> (‘Robust and Vigorous Children’: Physical Education and Sports in Early Republican Turkey) (İletişim, 2004), offers a new framework for thinking about the relationship between sports and physical education, governmentality, public health, and nationalism in early republican Turkey. It won the 2005 Distinguished Young Social Scientist Award from the Turkish Social Science Association.

His second book, When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://osu.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e9698cea1b8e8db8e621e0b9&id=41d4afcf9e&e=70fad900ab__;!!KGKeukY!zSEcoTLdsqHvcQ3GlQzyg6_wiHOmiU5v46b4AW7Spz-dzJvL-qljBLka1O1LUI2-drVWUFOLhDGzFivG_BXmrBA-YrYU$> (Stanford, 2018), examines the social and cultural dimensions of Ottoman society’s catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the empire’s civilian population. When the War Came Home was named a 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://osu.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e9698cea1b8e8db8e621e0b9&id=97039fb486&e=70fad900ab__;!!KGKeukY!zSEcoTLdsqHvcQ3GlQzyg6_wiHOmiU5v46b4AW7Spz-dzJvL-qljBLka1O1LUI2-drVWUFOLhDGzFivG_BXmrAF4jtnh$> and won the 2019 Tomlinson Book Prize<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://osu.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e9698cea1b8e8db8e621e0b9&id=4639005fb8&e=70fad900ab__;!!KGKeukY!zSEcoTLdsqHvcQ3GlQzyg6_wiHOmiU5v46b4AW7Spz-dzJvL-qljBLka1O1LUI2-drVWUFOLhDGzFivG_BXmrF4RSSEp$> for the best work of history in English on World War One, awarded by the World War One Historical Association. The Turkish translation of the book was published under the title of Cihan Harbi'nin Cephe Gerisi<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://osu.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e9698cea1b8e8db8e621e0b9&id=3dc4462747&e=70fad900ab__;!!KGKeukY!zSEcoTLdsqHvcQ3GlQzyg6_wiHOmiU5v46b4AW7Spz-dzJvL-qljBLka1O1LUI2-drVWUFOLhDGzFivG_BXmrItUMNlQ$> (İletişim, 2025).

**an earlier email listed the event incorrectly on April 6. This event is taking place April 14, 2026.



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