“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing” - Malcolm X
My article on the
#Ottoman
postmaster is out
@PastPresentSoc
! Read it for free at the link below (free access until July 2021) For those interested in horses, letters, and fiscal stuffs. Thanks to all who helped and to all my teachers, especially those who have left us 💕🙏
WHAT CURFEW
#UCLA
WHAT CURFEW was there!?!?!?!? WHEN was this announcement made??? Your BruinALERT said "The campus will return to regular operations tomorrow, Monday 5/6, and plans to remain this way through the rest of the week. " can we TRUST
#UCLA
leadership anymore???
We call for the resignation of Chancellor Gene Block. We want the university to stand up for the safety and the rights of the campus community by defending the continuing existence of the encampment. The encampment must be protected and the rights of peaceful protests upheld.
Statement of members of the UCLA Department of History faculty in response to the attack on the encampment on 30 April 2024
We, members of the history department, a number of whom were present during the events of the night of 30 April to 1 May, strongly condemn the mob attack
May 1 2024 7.49PM: 33 names from
#UCLA
History dept. and not counting the many other faculty who are now at the encampment protecting students from the ongoing sweep, many have been involved since day one (I'm thinking of Kelly Lytle-Hernandez and many others.) To be updated.
Some history department faculty who were at the scene reported that police, far from putting a halt to the violence, seemed to be marching alongside the mob. No emergency aid was provided to the students who were bleeding, gassed, or concussed.
The encampment itself had been a model of its kind: it was limited to members of the university community through the checking of IDs to gain access; participants made continual efforts to avoid engagement with hecklers; and it maintained its focus on its own concerns.
making the students vulnerable to attack. Later that night, the campus was invaded by a violent mob of individuals including many not affiliated with the campus community. History faculty who were present reported that many were middle-aged men;
Andrew Shryock
@CSSHJournal
asked me about
#Ottoman
couriers, and I told him about fetuses, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Theda Skocpol protecting mailmen from aggressive birds and
#OMITB
. Lol. Hope we get to meet in person one day, Andrew!
CSSH enjoyed a rich and wide-ranging conversation with
@ottomanchoon
about the writing (and revision) of her 2023 Goody Award-winning article, “The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an
#Ottoman
Shadow Economy.”
#History
#AcademicTwitter
We want to object in the strongest possible terms to this travesty. We are horrified that Chancellor Block abdicated his responsibility to protect and support students. His statements (and those of President Drake) opened the way to these attacks on our community.
/end Signatories are in the screenshot in the first post. Many faculty's names are not on yet simply because they are physically at the encampment. Things are developing very, very quickly.
#ucla
#peacefulprotests
#gaza
This orderly and self-disciplined environment seemed to have the support of the university administration, which initially praised its decorum. This policy on the part of the UC and UCLA administration earned high praise for its restraint and...
Today Tommaso Stefini
@AgaTommaso
(postdoc
@EUI_EU
) gave a talk "Housing the stranger: trade diasporas across the early modern Mediterranean (15th-18th centuries)" at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Here he is on campus where the sakuras are blooming
@jun_naibzade
some shouted white supremacist slurs; and others brandished flags linked to violent, right-wing organizations. The security personnel who had been stationed around the barricade left the scene, abandoning it to attack. The violent mob used toxic spray, fireworks, pieces of
Student journalists and faculty observers outside the encampment were also threatened and assaulted. When police finally arrived many hours later, they watched the attacks, failing to come to the aid of those in the encampment.
The exemplary nature of this encampment made it a target for those who oppose the free exercise of views other than their own. We demand that the Chancellor and the President be held accountable for their actions in sacrificing student safety and liberties to political expediency
#UCLA
Asian American Studies Solidarity Statement "We strongly condemn the attacks on our students, from outside agitators as well as UC-condoned police forces." Proud of my colleagues !!!
UCLA Asian American Studies Solidarity Statement denouncing UC-condoned police violence against students and demanding amnesty, a vote of no confidence, and that UCLA disclose/divest
In a sharp reversal, on 30 April, President Drake issued a statement declaring that the encampment was “unlawful,” and Chancellor Block called it “unauthorized.”Such statements withdrew official protections from these peaceful student activities,
The Ottomanist odyssey continued in Kyoto on 25 March 2023 at Doshisha University. Special thanks to Professor Horii Yutaka for hosting us, Dr Morita Madoka for tirelessly organizing the event since several months prior, and Professor Akiba Jun for moderating
@jun_naibzade
Day 2 of the Pacific Rim Ottomanists' Conference at Tokyo University
@tobunken
23/3/2023: It was raining today but here is a photo of a cherry blossom tree right at the university gate from a few days ago. This is how Spring looks like here.
the barricade, pipes, boards, and bottles to assault the students and faculty inside the encampment. They tore the barricades apart to get at the students inside. During this time, the security personnel and campus police made no effort to stop them.
So proud as a member of the
#UCLA
history department of this statement from the Classics department condemning the recenr violence on campus!!!
@Woolf_Greg
is a member of both depts.
Day 2 of the Pacific Rim Ottomanists' Conference at Tokyo University
@tobunken
23/3/2023: It was raining today but here is a photo of a cherry blossom tree right at the university gate from a few days ago. This is how Spring looks like here.
Day 1 of Pacific Rim Ottomanists' Conference 22/3/2023: Professor Akiba
@jun_naibzade
gave the Opening Speech, welcoming everyone in person and on Zoom
Thank you
@simongandrew
and
@_Khayyat_
but more importantly we are still fighting over here and we (
@uclafa
) just filed a lawsuit against UCLA! Pls spread widely ! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
A few years ago, I came across a dissertation on Proquest about the Ottoman Empire’s postal system, and remember thinking: what a cool topic! I’m excited to see this story soon exist as a book! “The Sublime Post,” by
@ottomanchoon
, will appear with
@yalepress
this fall.
#Ottomans
Day 1 of Pacific Rim Ottomanists' Conference 22/3/2023: Professor Akiba
@jun_naibzade
gave the Opening Speech, welcoming everyone in person and on Zoom
Professor Akiba also shared some interesting info: Japan is home to the third largest community of Ottoman historians in the world after Turkey and the US with 27 tenured scholars in 19 universities (including 2 mamlukists and 2 Iranists who work with
#Ottoman
sources)
I've been having on-again off-again conversations on the history of capitalism in the Middle East with some really great people like
@ottomanchoon
@aaronjakes
, Mike O Sullivan, and Dan Stolz. Now, we're putting on a symposium, with people who know even more about this than we do!
Statement of Members of the Department of History at
#UCLA
in Response to Clearing the Encampment, 2 May 2024" (I forgot the title on the original Tweet-- long day)
(full statement and dept website link in the tweet quoted below)
As a faculty member at UCLA's History department I thank you and your team. I was an undergrad student newspaper reporter too over a decade ago and your work is vital.
My name is Anna Dai-Liu, and I’m a reporter for the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s student newspaper. Never have I been prouder to say that, or more conscious of our responsibility.
Thank you to everyone who’s reached out. As we as a newsroom reflect, I thought I'd write a bit here.
At the
@britishlibrary
I came across this small volume of letters in Ottoman Turkish from an English merchant offering financial services to Ottoman officials. Pleased that this unusual source has its time in the sun in my
@EarlyModHistory
article!
the Jumbotron played on a loop, footage of the 10/7 attacks along w audio clips [of] rape...‘I have to put a trigger warning in my syllabus when I teach Margaret Atwood,or the university will discipline me. But we all have to listen to this for days?’
#UCLA
To the anonymous void of Twitterverse I also just want to say that
@ozgenfelek
has been most supportive during my time at Yale. Apart from being an amazing Ottomanist she also put in much emotional labour+created a community for us. Bir tanesiniz, teksiniz hocam, çok minnettarım.
Spring 2024 – UCLA History Brown Bag, looking forward to participating in this series April 22, talking about China’s Revolutions or should it be revolutions (that is the question), plus meeting people (& eating pizza & seeing some friends)
We had a Zoom sharing session at
@nus_ari
last week on how to conduct a book manuscript workshop and one of the speakers highlighted your video+YouTube channel. It was SUPER helpful, that and all the other vids on publishing etc. Thank you v much for demystifying
#academia
Over the past yr, I’ve shared the admittedly little I know re academia w/ 500,000+ people, including all my cover letters, grants, orals prep, + more w the ~1000 who’ve asked. For nothing. I will continue to, but would also like to meet face 2 face.
What have you been up to?
The second session was called Early Modern Istanbul: From the Palace to the Street.
Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA) (this is me) and Madoka Morita (TUFS) gave the paper ""How to Keep the Horses Happy: Urban Crowding in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul"
We had some photo permissions issues so my earlier thank you post is deleted!! Here is Larry Neal instead who was so cute and his wife who was cuter and so he will be my visual to THANK
@a_capitalism
@flandreaumarc
@BiltoftCN
and
@M_Avaro
♡♡
Asst Prof Chan Cheow Thia
@NUSingapore
has translated
#Singaporean
poet Cai Xin's poem "If on an Island-State, An Old Man", which is about the late J. B. Jeyaretnam, former leader of
@wpsg
, in the latest issue of HK journal Renditions. Read it here:
@_Khayyat_
Thanks sooooo much Tylor!!!!!!! Im so tired i couldnt sleep!!!! N i screwed up the tweet for the second statement cos i was so tiredddd argh cant bekieve i forgor rhe title!!!! N its rhe more egregious one cos literally they shot rubber bullets at students
@Woolf_Greg
Stella Ghervas, Professor and Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History
H. Glenn Penny, Professor and Henry J. Bruman Chair in German History
Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair
Mary Momdjian Continuing lecturer
This was one of the best seminar experiences I’ve ever had!! Thank you so much
@ihr_history
@EcSochist_ihr
and Organizers
@alicoskuntuncer
@judyzara
for making this happen.The questions were great and I’m still sitting here looking at my notes.Will take awhile to decompress n zzz
I’m excited about this one: “The Mystery of the Missing Horses; or, How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy, 1690-1833”. Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA) on Friday 15 October at the IHR
@ottomanchoon
@judyzara
@EcSochist_ihr
My book has a cover! Still working out the kinks the content (and am very nervous to let it become final) but it feels more real now. Many thanks to the team
@UWAPress
for working patiently with me on this project. ()
This has been a very enriching experience. Every paper was extremely rigorous (titiz) and eye-opening for me. For now, I just want to share a very cool "instant" filter coffee solution in our conference coffee break that I hope is adopted by many other conferences.
A huge thank you to the team at University of Tokyo who did all the organizing work. See you tomorrow for Day 2 of the Pacific Rim Ottomanists' Conference!
Finally, Baki Tezcan (UC Davis), president of OTSA
@AndOttoman
presented "The not-so-well-connected domains of Ottoman knowledge production: Su’udi’s The Book of Felicity and The New Report and their reception”
Then we went for lunch. It was still raining. Lots of umbrellas bobbing around the streets of Hongo area. The group I was with went to an unagi (eel) place. I learned today that eel is yılanbalığı in Turkish. I had my first chawanmushi since coming to Japan.
@guo_xuguang
Adam Silverstein's Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (2007) and Thomas Allsen's ~40 page review essay of it in Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi (2010) are both great for pre-industrial communications infrastructure (look out for the courier pigeons!)
The first session was Law and Justice in the Ottoman Empire.
Tommaso Stefini
@AgaTommaso
(European U Institute) gave the first paper: "Ottoman justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian merchants in Ottoman Courts (16th-18th centuries)"
Adv copy of my article "Birth, life and afterlife of an Indonesian graveyard: Environmental rule and its discontents" is up on Journal of Social History. With many thanks to brilliant collegues
@TapsiMathur
and
@ottomanchoon
for their help :)
(/thread)
PSA: You can "show your palm" (jazzhandfive) to a Samsung phone while taking a selfie to trigger a countdown timer..no need for your thumb/index finger to do gymnastics to take the photo. V helpful after >3 glasses of wine
@M_Avaro
@DrAtiyaHussain
@JohannaGautier1
@flandreaumarc
Prof Kondo Nobuaki also supported this workshop from the start with his grant and made it all possible. It has been a memorable week. Thank you all so much!
@ThiqaProject
Eunjeong Yi (Seoul U) and Madoka Morita (TUFS) gave the final paper of the conference titled "Reconsidering Mahalles of Ottoman Istanbul". Professor Yi gave the first half of the paper that covered the 17th century :
@melis_hafez
@sdfahrenthold
Thanks so much!!!!!!!! Happy to jump on whatsapp ans zoom call too to informally let u know whats been going on n what we re focused on organizjng rjhht now. Its not over!!!!!!! The statement was a short term fast goal, but theres more to be done
A big thank you to the conference organizer Professor Akiba Jun
@jun_naibzade
and to the team at Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo!!!
This is happening tomorrow! Drop by, ask a question, heckle
@aaronjakes
and
@danielalecstolz
, and listen to
@TheNakhoda
make horse jokes. (He’s been practising.) It's totally worth the price of admission (which is nothing)!
I've been having on-again off-again conversations on the history of capitalism in the Middle East with some really great people like
@ottomanchoon
@aaronjakes
, Mike O Sullivan, and Dan Stolz. Now, we're putting on a symposium, with people who know even more about this than we do!
Bollywood star
#IrrfanKhan
, known internationally for his roles in "Life Of Pi" and "Slumdog Millionaire," died Wednesday, his PR firm confirmed. He was 53.
And here he is fielding questions from Kato Shinsaku, with Profs Kondo Nobuaki, Takamatsu Yoichi looking on. Across them are Dr Morita Madoka and Takada Kotaro. On Zoom are other Japanese Ottomanists such as Akiba Jun
@jun_naibzade
Ueno Masayuki and others.
@ChyeLattte
Dearest
@ChyeLattte
, I'm so happy to have made a twitter friend like you as well!
And to the Twitterverse: shuwen has founded + bootstrapped an independent publishing company in Singapore:
@factionpress
. It's no small feat, much respect.
Today we are announcing our $8.5m seed round. It’s only a start, and we couldn’t be more excited by the prospect of changing how go-to-market is done in SaaS.
@tim_loh
@SalihYasun
hi! there are many schools, including
@slmsrrkr
's Cunda program. if $$ is a constraint (as it was for me) simply use published defters tt include original image of archival document & transcription. with pen + paper just transcribe one doc a day, use transcription as answer key
The workshop was “Circles of Trust: Marriage, Village Guarantors, and Private Reading Groups in the Ottoman Empire” (Mar. 25)
The first paper was mine:
Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA): “Trust, Connectivity and Empire: Nested Suretyships in the Ottoman Postal System”
@ibn_shireen
@BelieverBailOut
@masjidalrabia
Hey Shireen! I want to chime in here & say: as somebdy who took grad courses w u & who was w u in Hyderabad for our lovely Mughal Persian workshop I learned a lot from our convos over the years and I look forward to learning more from ur work. HUGS!!