What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?

CMES Seminar Sohbet-i Osmani is pleased to present a graduate student seminar organized by

Afsaneh Najmabadi
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University; and,

Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

Students are asked to read the required readings and spend some time familiarizing themselves with various features of the website: Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran, www.qajarwomen.org. Please come to the workshop with possible research projects that you imagine a multi-genre archive would make possible in your own area of research.

Required Readings:
Michael Amico, “Objects of Attraction at War: A Sword and Two Civil War Soldiers,”  Images for Sword Presentation 
Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Making (Up) an Archive: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?” 

Recommended Readings:
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence, Introduction and Chapter Two
Laura Wexler, Tender Violence, chapter entitled “Seeing Sentiment.”

Please note: this event is open only to Harvard graduate students; please RSVP to Liz Flanagan, elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu

Contact: Liz Flanagan