Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th Floor Room 7200
This event is free and open to the public
Selçuk Esenbel (Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey) will discuss the Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in Istanbul. Yamada’s career exhibits the practice of informal “twilight diplomacy”with Meiji Japan to circumvent the problem of “extraterritoriality” embedded into the great power politics of international law, and a geo-political strategy targeting the Russian and British Empire, intended to challenge the very distinction between reality and representation.
Sponsored by the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies & The Center for East Asian Studies. Cosponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Center, The Harvey Gldberg Center, The Department of History, and the Middle East Studies Program.
