141163 VO Ring Lecture on press history: Lecture on selected aspects of modern Turkey (2022W)

The series "The Press in the 19th and 20th centuries: From Central Asia to Anatolia via Crimea and the Caucasus" will be devoted to the press history of Eurasia. Between the 1990s and early 2000s, there was an intense interest in Near Eastern Studies in questions related to the history of the press. The outcomes of this research were discussed in international conferences and resulted in a number of edited volumes. For other regions like Central Asia, however, the history of the press remained understudied in spite of its potential to reveal important insights into local discourses concerning modernization, the colonial encounter or language policy, and their respective understandings. After a long pause, the press of various regions from Central Asia to Anatolia reemerges as an object of scholarly inquiry due to the ongoing efforts in digitizing archival holdings. This lecture series aims at presenting recent scholarship on the press in the Eurasian region, focusing on lesser-known newspapers and journals that were published in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran and Anatolia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.