Gizem Tongo
I am an Assistant Professor in Art History at Hacettepe University (Ankara). I specialise in the history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. I previously taught at the University of Oxford, Middle East Technical University, and Boğaziçi University. Also, since 2018, I have been giving lectures on Ottoman art and architecture to a general public at the lecture series organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).
I hold a doctorate in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford, St John’s College, where I was a Lord Dulverton Scholar. Upon graduation, I held two postdoctoral positions, first at the University of Oxford (between 2017 and 2018), and later at the British Institute at Ankara (between 2018 and 2020). Before my doctorate, I had completed two MA Degrees, one in History at Boğaziçi University and another in Post-1900 Literatures, Theories and Cultures at the University of Manchester.
My field of expertise is the cultural and art history of the late Ottoman Empire, particularly the First World War (1914-1918) and the Armistice Period (1918-1923). My additional areas of research interest include the themes of art collecting, Orientalism, Turquerie, modernization, museology, gender, anti-militarism, pacifism, and the collective memory of war. I am particularly interested in the relationship between war and culture during conflict and its aftermath. I received awards and grants from, among others, University of Oxford, the Barakat Trust, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (UK), the Orient-Institut Istanbul (Turkey), Hrant Dink Foundation (Turkey), the Historial de la Grande Guerre de Péronne (France), and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal). I have also been involved in curating and writing material for exhibitions, including co-curating an exhibition on a woman artist in 2019 at Salt Galata Istanbul: "Mihri: A Migrant Painter of Modern Times" ("Mihri: Modern Zamanların Göçebe Ressamı") and a recent one at the Istanbul Research Institute titled "Occupied City: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918-23" ("Meşgul Şehir: İşgal İstanbul'unda Siyaset ve Gündelik Hayat, 1918-1923"). Currently, I am writing a monograph provisionally titled War, Art, and the End of the Ottoman Empire.
Address: Hacettepe University,
Department of History of Art,
06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
I hold a doctorate in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford, St John’s College, where I was a Lord Dulverton Scholar. Upon graduation, I held two postdoctoral positions, first at the University of Oxford (between 2017 and 2018), and later at the British Institute at Ankara (between 2018 and 2020). Before my doctorate, I had completed two MA Degrees, one in History at Boğaziçi University and another in Post-1900 Literatures, Theories and Cultures at the University of Manchester.
My field of expertise is the cultural and art history of the late Ottoman Empire, particularly the First World War (1914-1918) and the Armistice Period (1918-1923). My additional areas of research interest include the themes of art collecting, Orientalism, Turquerie, modernization, museology, gender, anti-militarism, pacifism, and the collective memory of war. I am particularly interested in the relationship between war and culture during conflict and its aftermath. I received awards and grants from, among others, University of Oxford, the Barakat Trust, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (UK), the Orient-Institut Istanbul (Turkey), Hrant Dink Foundation (Turkey), the Historial de la Grande Guerre de Péronne (France), and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal). I have also been involved in curating and writing material for exhibitions, including co-curating an exhibition on a woman artist in 2019 at Salt Galata Istanbul: "Mihri: A Migrant Painter of Modern Times" ("Mihri: Modern Zamanların Göçebe Ressamı") and a recent one at the Istanbul Research Institute titled "Occupied City: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918-23" ("Meşgul Şehir: İşgal İstanbul'unda Siyaset ve Gündelik Hayat, 1918-1923"). Currently, I am writing a monograph provisionally titled War, Art, and the End of the Ottoman Empire.
Address: Hacettepe University,
Department of History of Art,
06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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Protocol XIV of the Treaty of Lausanne provided for a six-week period for the evacuation of Allied forces and naval units from Istanbul. The last contingents of Allied troops departed on 2 October 1923 following a short handover ceremony, bringing to an end a de facto occupation of almost five years. Despite its length and the number of people affected, the occupation of Istanbul was for a long time neglected in academic writing, and it is only this year that the first exhibition dedicated to the period was opened.
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Protocol XIV of the Treaty of Lausanne provided for a six-week period for the evacuation of Allied forces and naval units from Istanbul. The last contingents of Allied troops departed on 2 October 1923 following a short handover ceremony, bringing to an end a de facto occupation of almost five years. Despite its length and the number of people affected, the occupation of Istanbul was for a long time neglected in academic writing, and it is only this year that the first exhibition dedicated to the period was opened.
The AGBU Nubar Library, Paris,
are delighted to announce a panel discussion and launch of the Special Art History Edition of Études arméniennes contemporaines
Towards Inclusive Art Histories:
Ottoman Armenian Voices Speak Back
Date: Tuesday 26 April
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue:
Keynes Library
School of Arts
Birkbeck College
43 Gordon Square
London, WC1
This event is supported by
Armenian Institute
Gomidas Institute
Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories AHRC Research Network
Programme of Armenian Studies
Despite a focus on art history in its widest sense, the concerns raised in Issue 6 of Études arméniennes contemporaines offer critical reflections upon the manner in which the heavily politicized seas of the Ottoman historical past are navigated by historians of all stripes. The five revisionist essays published in this volume, and presented by their authors, advocate, collectively and individually, new types of methodologically and empirically sound histories that challenge misconstrued and misrepresented historical pasts, and critique the reductive projections of dominant nationalist/nation-centric or Ottomanist historiographies. Furthermore, they introduce into the debate hitherto silenced voices that have thus far been deliberately excluded from history. Two further presentations offer the personal reflections of two working artists on their own Ottoman historical pasts and presents.
"Occupied City: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918–1923" is curated by Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal and Gizem Tongo, with contributions from an international team of advisors, and designed by PATTU.
Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki yenilgisini takiben, galip İtilaf devletleri İstanbul’u işgal etti. Neredeyse beş yıl süren Britanya, Fransız ve İtalyan askeri idaresi boyunca, İstanbul’un geleceği kesin olmaktan çok uzaktı. Ne Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun savaşını bitiren ateşkes, ne de ateşkesi takip eden antlaşmalar, toplulukları sayısınca hak iddia edilen İstanbul’un egemenliğini garanti altına alabilirdi. Kimin kentte kalacağı ve kenti kimin yöneteceği söylenti ve spekülasyon konularıydı ve bunlar İtilaf devletleri başkanlarının, birbirini izleyen Osmanlı kabinelerinin ve Ankara Hükümeti’nin çelişen beyanlarıyla daha da şiddetleniyordu.
Küratörlüğünü Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal ve Gizem Tongo’nun, tasarımını PATTU'nun yaptığı Meşgul Şehir: İşgal İstanbul’unda Siyaset ve Gündelik Hayat, 1918–1923 sergisine uluslararası bir danışman ekibi katkı verdi.