Idil Cetin

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Academic interests

  • Social and Cultural History of the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
  • 19th Century Armenian Political and Cultural Life in the Ottoman Empire
  • History and Theory of Photography
  • Visual Culture and History
  • Archival Studies
  • Historiography of Empires
  • Media Studies
  • History of Science and Technology
  • Material Studies
  • Everyday Life Studies

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellow with the research project “Histories of Reception of Photography in the Ottoman Empire” that runs from 01.09.2022 until 31.08.2024. My research, supervised by Pasi Väliaho from IFIKK, is a media historiographical investigation into how the imperial subjects grasped the photographic medium that emanated from a different epistemological and cultural context, and what kinds of uses and meanings they attributed to it. The research aims at revealing the social, cultural and economic dynamics at play in the reception of the medium at the background of the ongoing Ottoman modernization by differentiating between three imperial groups in terms of their stance towards photography: namely, military officers of imperial higher education institutions, Armenian entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts among the upper-class Muslims.

Background

I obtained my PhD degree in January 2018 at the Political Science Department in Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey, with the dissertation "The Visual Repertoire of Power: Photographs of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Construction of Leader Cult (1912-1950)." Afterwards, I worked as a part-time lecturer at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, for three years and taught several classes on sociological theory, political theory and political history in the Law Faculty and the Political Science and International Relations Department, prior to coming to IFIKK, UiO in September 2022.

Publications

Articles

“The backstages of archives: the reverse of photographs.” Archives and Records. 2021 (published online, pending for print publication)

“Audience as a Temporary Category: The Tenth Anniversary of Republic Day in Turkey.” Participation: International Journal of Audience Research 18:1 (May 2021): 474-499.

“Where is the Archive? The Reality of Conducting Research on Atatürk Photographs” Proceedings of the conference Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences organized by Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florenz.

“Photographs of Ataturk in the Early Republican Press: How his image was used to visualize events?” Middle Eastern Studies Journal 55:5 (2019): 701-732.

“Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Fotoğrafın Bir İktidar Tekniği Olarak Araçsallaştırılmasına Bir Örnek: ‘Uydurma Fotoğraf’ Meselesi.” Kebikeç 42 (December 2016): 115-127.

Essays

“Meşrutiyet, Siyaset ve Medya: Büyük Millet Meclisi Hükümetinin İstanbul’la Temasları, Bilecik Görüşmesi ve Sonrası.” Solfasol: Special Issue on the 100th Anniversary of the First Assembly (April 2010): 21-23

“Milli Mücadele Yıllarında İlk Mustafa Kemal Fotoğrafları.” Toplumsal Tarih (July 2016): 88-91.

Selected Translations

David McNally. Piyasanın Ucubeleri: Zombiler, Vampiler ve Küresel Kapitalizm (Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism). Ankara: Dipnot, 2016.

Geoff Dyer. Yeniden Anımsanan Savaş (The Missing of the Somme). Istanbul: Everest, 2016.

Ioannis Grigoriadis. Yunan ve Türk Milliyetçiliğine Dini Aşılamak: “Kutsal Sentez” (Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A “Sacred Synthesis”). Istanbul: Koç, 2014.

Bryan Turner. Klasik Sosyoloji (Classical Sociology). Istanbul: İletişim, 2014.

Albert Gabriel. Şarki Türkiye’de Arkeolojik Geziler (Voyages Archaeologiques dans la Turquie Orientale). Ankara: Dipnot, 2014.

John P. Thompson. İdeoloji ve Modern Kültür (Ideology and Modern Culture). Ankara: Dipnot, 2013.

Languages

Turkish (native language), Western Armenian, Ottoman Turkish, English, French

 

Tags: Art History, Photography, Material Culture, Visual Culture

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