Zeynep Çelik

Distinguished Professor

School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology and in the Federated History Department, NJIT-Rutgers University

Archaeology, Ethnography, and Everyday Life at the Dig

Centering on the everyday dynamics of archaeological excavation sites, this lecture will examine political, social, cultural, and aesthetic claims to antiquities in the Ottoman Empire during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Zeynep Çelik is Distinguished Professor, Architecture/NJIT and Federated History/NJIT-Rutgers. Her publications include Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 and the co-edited, Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914.  Çelik’s new book, About Antiquities: Ottoman Claims and Cultural Rivalries, will appear this year. She is currently curating an exhibition in Istanbul, titled “Photography and Ottoman Modernity.”

Thursday, February 5th | 12:30 p.m.

Lunch will be provided at 12:15

The Richard Ettinghausen Library

Hagop Kevorkian Center

50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street