Fall 2008

SYMPOSIUM
Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism

27-28 November 2008

www.britishorientalism.org

Complementing the The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting exhibition, the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum organized an international symposium entitled Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism. This symposium was held at the Pera Museum Auditorium on November 27-28 and brought together leading scholars and curators from Turkey, the UK, Europe, USA and Australia who are specialists in Ottoman and Orientalist art and culture as well as British and Ottoman history. Six sessions with themes derived from the structure of the exhibition has been chosen as the focus for this two-day event:

1. Portraits and Patronage
2. Travel, Photography and Cultural Exchange
3. Institutions, Collections, Exhibitions
4. Genre - the materiality of culture
5. The Harem - reconsidering the private sphere
6. Landscape and the Politics of Place