ANAMED LIBRARY COMMUNITY LECTURES

Koç Üniversitesi Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations - ANAMED)

Tarih : 17-04-2024 18:00 - 17-04-2024 19:00

The Makings of a Missionary Diplomat: The Correspondences of Henry Otis Dwight, 1867-1884

By Brandon Johnson, Groningen University

Date & Time: 17 April, 6.00-7.00p.m

Location: ANAMED Library

Brandon Johnson recently defended his master’s thesis on the history of violence in the late Ottoman Empire and is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at Groningen University.

He published a book in May (2023) with the Isis Press (Istanbul) of the same name as this project. As the title suggests, it is a collection of letters and so represents a deep dive into the archives of the ABCFM including those of the Amerikan Bord Heyeti, kept by ARIT at ANAMED and digitized by Salt Research. Alongside his experience in the ABCFM metadata as an intern at Salt Research, he will present on the value of the missionary sources as repositories of disruptive, micro-historical insight into the late Ottoman Empire.