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Flyer for "The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre" on April 17 from 4-6PM in HSSB 4080

The Pasha’s New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre – Lecture by Prof. Dana Sajdi (Boston College)

HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

This is an exploration of the history booklist found in a recently discovered 'library catalogue' from a college in 18th-century Acre. Endowed by the notorious Ottoman governor of the region Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804), the library seems to have been one of the largest in the Ottoman Levant. In addition to introducing the larger […]

Anthologizing the City of Isfahan: Family Archives and Urban Knowledge, lecture by Professor Kathryn Babayan

HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

Seventeenth century Isfahan witnessed a craze in the composition of a new kind of book, the majmuʿa, or anthology. Curated and written in the domestic sphere of the household, anthologies archive city-writings once in circulation; they illustrate the practices of urban knowledge and their valorization by communities who took possession of them. The imaginations that […]

Amy Stanley, “Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and Their Urban Worlds”

HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

The Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to […]

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