Keynote Lecture & Closing Remarks

Keynote Lecture: Anna L. Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Tsing is a theorist of globalization, environment, and transnational interconnection. Her books include The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton University Press, 2015), Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton University Press, 2005), and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (Princeton University Press, 1994). Her most recent work is a co-edited digital project, Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, which offers an original and playful approach to studying the Anthropocene. Her other co-edited works include Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Words in Motion (Duke University Press, 2009), Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, 2003), Shock and Awe: War on Words (New Pacific Press, 2004), Communities and Conservation (AltaMira Press, 2005), and Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon Press, 1992).

Closing Remarks: Cemal Kafadar

Cemal Kafadar is the Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University’s Department of History. Professor Kafadar is interested in the social and cultural history of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval/early modern era. His books include Kendine Ait Bir Roma: Diyar-ı Rum’da Kültürel Coğrafya ve Kimlik Üzerine (Metis, 2017), Kim Var İmiş Biz Burada Yoğ İken: Dört Osmanlı: Yeniçeri, Tüccar, Derviş ve Hatun (Metis, 2009), Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (UC Press, 1995). His most recent publication is a co-edited multivolume, Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (Brill, 2019), which includes his essay on Bayezid II, Amasya, and the palace library. Another volume he is co-editing on Istanbul’s nature is forthcoming in 2021. He worked closely on the conception and production of two historical documentaries: Inspirations (dir. Nurdan Arca, 2005) on Sheikh Bedreddin, an Ottoman intellectual executed for his ideas ca. 1417; Invisible to the Eye (dir. Zeynep Dadak, 2020) on the mid-17th century account of Istanbul by Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan.