WHAT IS WRONG WITH MUSEUMS IN TURKEY?

Einladung zum Schöne-Vortrag
WHAT IS WRONG WITH
MUSEUMS IN TURKEY?
von Edhem Eldem, Istanbul
Schöne-Vortrag
Montag, 7. November 2016, 19 Uhr c.t.
in Hörsaal A 151, TU Berlin,
Architekturgebäude,
Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin
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Bildnachweis
“Vom Besuch des Generalfeldmarschalls v. Mackensen in Konstantinopel in der letzten Märzwoche:
Der Feldmarschall mit türkischen Würdenträgern
und deutschen und türkischen Offizieren des
Heeres und der Marine”, aus: Illustrierte Zeitung,
Bd. 146, 20. April 1916, Nr. 3799, S. 519.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH MUSEUMS IN TURKEY?
According to the official narrative, the history of Turkish museums goes back to 1846, suggesting
a degree of maturity somewhat comparable to similar Western institutions. While there certainly
is some truth to this argument, a closer and more critical look reveals the existence of a number
of structural weaknesses and biases that still continue to plague Turkish museology. Among these,
self-containment, the need to “respond” to the West, and subservience to ideological and political
goals are the most blatant, which this talk proposes to discuss through a critical reassessment of
Ottoman and Turkish museology.
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Edhem ELDEM is a professor at the Department of History of Bogaziçi
University, Istanbul. He has
also taught at Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, EHESS, ENS, and has been a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His fields of interest include the Levant trade, funerary epigraphy, late-nineteenthcentury Istanbul, the Ottoman Bank, Ottoman first-person narratives, Ottoman photography, and the
history of archaeology in the Ottoman lands.
Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Instituts für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik der Technischen
Universität Berlin und der Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte e.V.

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