#  DATE CHANGE: Writing History, Writing Documents: Self-representation of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Historian-cum-Judge 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 23, 2018** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series** presents

   ![Akiba Jun](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/akiba_jun.jpg?itok=FePoqOGq) 

 

 **Jun Akiba**  
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo; Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Harvard University

 *Please note: the date of this talk has been changed to April 23rd.*

 Jun Akiba is Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, and currently a Visiting Scholar at History Department, Harvard University. He specializes in Ottoman history during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a focus on judiciary institution, judicial administration, and education. His current projects include a book on the Ottoman judiciary during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and a study of Ottoman self-narratives and self-representation. His articles on girls schools and female teachers in pre-Tanzimat Istanbul and sharia judges in the *nizamiye* courts are forthcoming. In the seminar, he will discuss the self-representation of the eighteenth-century Ottoman historian-cum-judge Şemdanizade Süleyman Efendi, found in different versions of his chronicle as well as the documents he produced during his judgeship.

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ Turkey ](/research-region/turkey)
- [ 2017-18 ](/academic-year/2017-18)
 
 

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