BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Book talk "The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul" PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1567431_0 SUMMARY:Book talk "The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul" DESCRIPTION:Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, The Accidental Palace shows how the site developed from a rural estate of the queen mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz Türker reveals, the development of the site was profoundly connected to Istanbul’s urban history and to changing conceptions of empire, absolutism, diplomacy, reform, and the public. Türker explores these connections, framing Yıldız Palace and its grounds not only as a hermetic expression of imperial identity but also as a product of an increasingly globalized consumer culture, defined by access to a vast number of goods and services across geographical boundaries. LOCATION:CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20240320T203000Z DTEND:20240320T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR