Walter Andrews Memorial Lecture: Performance, Subversion and Gender-Bending in Ottoman Poetry

Classic Middle Eastern paining with 5 figures. One sitting and reading a book and reaching to down to another knelling in front of them. A person standing behind them. And two more people sitting in the foreground pouring a drink for the other.

Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

7 p.m.

Free

Kane Hall, Room 225

Didem Havlioglu will discuss Ottoman woman Mihri’s unapologetically marginal voice as a way to understand the physical and discursive contours of the Ottoman intellectual world.