Date: Monday, January 22nd

Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM

Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)

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Book talk by Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (Rutgers University) featuring discussants Mark Mazower (Columbia University) and Zeynep Çelik (Columbia University) and moderated by Tunç A. Şen (Columbia University).

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominent members of the Ottoman imperial polity, Bosnian Muslims became minority subjects of Austria-Hungary, developing a relationship with the new authorities in Vienna while transforming their interactions with Istanbul and the rest of the Muslim world. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular explores the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire during this period—an influence perpetuated by the efforts of the imperial state from afar, and by its former subjects in Bosnia Herzegovina negotiating their new geopolitical reality. Muslims’ endeavors to maintain their prominence and shape their organizations and institutions influenced imperial considerations and policies on occupation, sovereignty, minorities, and migration.