KUPress

07/04/2022

New book alert!
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THE SOUND OF BYZANTIUM:
THE BYZANTINE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo160641873.html

23/03/2022

These extraordinary caricatures are published for the first time in their entirety since they were discovered in an antique rug dealer’s shop in Istanbul in 1957.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Y/bo117741629.html

22/02/2022

New book alert!
STOUDIOS MONASTERY IN ISTANBUL
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The chapters of this book complement different aspects of the Monastry of Stoudios based on primary sources. Esra Kudde explores its architectural characteristics and provides detailed documentation; Nicholas Melvani provides a meticulous study of its Byzantine history and evaluates its elements of architectural sculpture; and Tarkan Okçuoğlu narrates the Ottoman history of the complex.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo125961518.html

15/01/2022

New book alert!

"The Georgian Kingdom and Georgian Art"
Ed. Irene Giviashvili and Feyza Akder

This book, fills an important gap in the research surrounding the historical principality of Tao-Klarjeti. Explores the religious and secular buildings, decor programs, facade articulations, stone reliefs of monastic and Cathedral churches, mason builders, and donors of Tao-Klarjeti’s architecture.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo125961496.html

09/01/2022

Drawing from centuries-old court records, "The Other Faces of Empire" traces the lives of “outstage” people in vast empire lands. Each essay in the collection tells the story of an ordinary person navigating the Ottoman Empire.
"The Other Faces of the Empire:
Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy"

Edited by Firat Yasa
Translated by Esra Tasdelen

Will publish in May 2022!

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo125961370.html

19/12/2021

Nicholas V. Artamonoff left behind a photographic puzzle of over one thousand images. He was a student and engineer, who, while studying and living at Robert College in Istanbul, gained an appreciation for the city’s history and culture. With his Rollei camera, he captured Byzantine remains, entering nooks and crannies of fortifications and cisterns.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo117741779.html

08/12/2021

"Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire"

ed. Zeynep Çelik and Edhem Eldem

This volume explores some of the most striking aspects of the close connection between photography and modernity with a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo118683014.html

26/11/2021

SACRED SPACES AND URBAN NETWORKS

ed. Suzan Yalman and A. Hilal Ugurlu

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With its history that goes back millennia, Anatolia is studded with sites from different eras that are deemed “sacred.”

The collected essays in this volume present diachronic and synchronic studies of Anatolian sacred sites from the medieval period onward that situate them within various spatial, urban, and sociocultural dynamics.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo117741552.html

22/11/2021

New book alert!
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"SPATIAL WEBS"
Mapping Anatolian Pasts for Research and the Public

edited by Christopher H. Roosevelt

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo101918705.html

"Spatial Webs" charts the cultural heritage and identity of Anatolia, focusing on projects that incorporate Geographic Information Systems and other analytical tools in spatially significant research into the past.

03/11/2021

In the University of Washington’s 9th Annual Ladino Day celebration, editors of the new book “Sephardic Trajectories” discuss the book project, alongside presentations from three contributors to the volume.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo101918678.html

To commemorate Ladino Day 2021, join us for an interdisciplinary conversation with Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (University of Pennsylvania) and Kerem Tınaz (Koç University), the editors of this book, and with Hannah S. Pressman (Director of Education and Engagement, Jewish Languages Project), Maureen Jackson (Independent Scholar), and Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), three of the contributors, as they discuss important artifacts and their impact on Ottoman and Jewish history.

In the University of Washington’s 9th Annual Ladino Day celebration, editors of the new book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in […]

13/09/2021

“Inspired by Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ (1978), Zeynep Çelik’s ‘Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient’ brings together Ottoman voices from the 1870s to the 1930s that rose against and challenged European Orientalist discourse.”

An anthology that bears witness to the emergence and entrenchment of European Orientalism from the perspective of its subjects....

12/07/2021

KUP books go global!

As part of an agreement made with the University of Chicago Press, which is the largest distributor of academic publishing in the United States, books from Koç University Press (KUP) will reach readers all over the world.

Koç University Press is the first publishing house from Turkey to join this international distribution network, and now the knowledge produced in Turkey will be transferred to universities, libraries, and bookstores around the world. In other words, a whole new door has opened for those who produce knowledge in Turkey.

The first titles available in English and those soon to be published can be accessed via the website of the University of Chicago Press.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/publisher/pu3432596_3432597.html