The Center for Middle Eastern Studies will mark the centenary of Turkey’s entry into the First World War in the Middle East by organizing a small, one-day, round-table to include the military campaigns and associated events in Anatolia and the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire, as well as Egypt: The Middle East at War – 1914-1922: A Round Table, organized by Harvard Department of History Professors Roger Owen and Cemal Kafadar.
This roundtable will concentrate on:
-The military: battles and campaigns (at sea, on land, in the air), intelligence collection, conditions of service, treatment of the injured, conduct towards Prisoners of War;
-The home front in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire: impact, civilian morale, rationing, propaganda, attitude to non-combatants; and,
-Literary reflections on the war via poems, short stories, collections of letters.
Participants include:
M. Talha Cicek, History, İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, Turkey
Cemal Kafadar, History, Harvard University
Hasan Kayalı, History, UC San Diego
Tilman Lüdke, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche, Freiburg, Germany
Roger Owen, History, Harvard University
Elizabeth Thompson, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Contact: Liz Flanagan
LOCATION:CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20150308T130000Z DTEND:20150308T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR