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Webinar with Prof. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular: Muslim Migration and Post-Ottoman Nation Building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCXL6nC9sA In this lecture Prof. Amzi will discuss Muslim migration and its role in nation building at the turn of the twentieth century. Her talk will consider the persistence of popular movements and categories such as minorities as integral to the modern conceptualization of state and nation in southeastern Europe and the Middle East.

Webinar: Dr. Joseph Viscomi, “Decolonising Community. Extraterritoriality, Historical Time, and the Departure of Italians from Egypt.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6fEVmC8ZL8&t=2s This talk aims to rethink political community-formation by considering the role of extraterritoriality in conditioning the national and imperial contexts of Italian residents in Egypt from 1882 to the 1950s. Arguing that ‘community’ has been taken for granted in studies of the modern Mediterranean, Dr. Viscomi will discuss the emergence of a political community … Read More