[LCM Events] EVENT - Luncheon Lecture - This Friday, April 1, 12:00 Noon @ the Fares Center Conference Room

[Zymaris, Christopher Charles]

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Invites you to a Roundtable Discussion
Moderated by Professor Leila Fawaz

 Jane Hathaway
Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University

"Eunuchs in Islamic Civilization"


Friday, April 1, 2011

12:00-2:00 pm

Fares Center Conference Room

(Mugar 129)

Jane Hathaway is Professor of History at Ohio State University and an expert on the Ottoman Empire before 1800, particularly the Ottoman Arab provinces. She is currently a member of the board of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Previously, she was president of the Turkish Studies Association from 2002 to 2004 and a member of the American Historical Association's Professional       Division from 2006 to 2009. Hathaway has published four books: The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlıs (Cambridge University Press, 1997); A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (State University of New York Press, 2003); Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (Oneworld, 2006); and The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800 (Pearson/Longman, 2008), as well as numerous articles on related subjects, on the historiography of the Ottoman Empire, and on the seventeenth-century Ottoman Jewish messianic figure Sabbatai Sevi. Her book A Tale of Two Factions won the 2005 Ohio Academy of History Publication Award while The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule won the Turkish Studies Association's 2008 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize. Hathaway is currently engaged in a book-length study of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch in the Ottoman Empire from the office's inception in 1582 through its   abolition in 1909. Hathaway received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from  Princeton University.


Chris Zymaris
Staff Assistant - Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
160 Packard Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617.627.6560  Fax: 617.627.3461
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