K. Mehmet Kentel
@kmkentel.bsky.social
Urban environmental historian, Assistant Professor of History & Urban Studies @Leiden University, editor of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, writes & edits & curates https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/mehmet-kentel#tab-1
For Rio, Tropa de Elite is a nutso film (cannot imagine another country where the most popular film and box office smash features a twenty minute discussion of Foucault) that is worth grappling with. There are many more Rio set films that are amazing but I imagine that will spark good debate.
For Lisbon, the extraordinary films of Pedro Costa are revelatory- the trilogy Ossos, No quarto de Vanda and Juventude em Marcha all explore the city’s Fontainhas neighborhood, a now demolished shanty town that was home to the city’s African origin population, itself a legacy of colonialism.
If you are interested in the global south I really recommend the Calcutta trilogies of Satuajit Ray and/or Mrinal Sen. useful to put them into conversation too since the latter is often a sharp Marxist critique of the liberal humanism of the former.
academic friends and colleagues: I'll teach a new course next semester as part of our Urban Studies programme: Imagining the City, which I want to give it as a survey of urban imaginaries across space and time. Any recommendations re: cultural representations, (re)productions of/in cities? +
I don't want to make civic arguments about history. I don't want to make instrumentalist arguments about history. I want engineers to understand my discipline is rigorous too and if not I want to be able to make fun of them forever because no historian ever built a bridge that broke in the wind.
🥁 @kmkentel.bsky.social and I have a new book coming out very soon! “Istanbul Unbound” will be the inaugural volume in the new series Transregional Middle Easts from @uofupress.bsky.social 🥂 Thanks to support from @fwf-at.bsky.social it will be fully Open Access 🎊 uofupress.com/books/istanb...
Deadline for Yavuz Sezer Memorial Prize for the history of architecture and the urban environment in the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey is extended! New deadline is September 15. www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prize...
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We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize
Prize — ICEHO
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ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social
Gaia Giuliani’s Keynote “Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. For a postcolonial critique of violent bio- and necropolitics” #ESEH2025 Giuliani is not shying away from topics like Palestine and Ukraine. People left the room when she started talking about Palestine and showed this slide
This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace. It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate. They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social · last yr.Yo, historians, what the actual ****? I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good. 🗃️
Note that the “free speech on campus” people like Friedersdorf, Chait, Weiss, still blame this on “the excesses of woke.” Not a one - to my knowledge - has admitted they were actually wrong.
Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
Birer birer eksileceğimizi sandınız ama biz milyon milyon büyüyoruz! Bu kadar kolay mı sanıyorsunuz? Bu şahsi bir mesele diye mi düşünüyorsunuz? Bu büyük bir milletin yürüyüşüdür. Elinizden geleni ardınıza koymayın. Artık korku duvarları yıkıldı.
Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two...
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Artist Murat German has been released from custody after giving his statement to the prosecutor. The arrest warrant for him appears to have been issued due to his support for economic boycotts organized by the political opposition. Source: bsky.app/profile/birg...
Jennifer Hattam@jenhattam.bsky.social · 2y agoArtist Murat German is reportedly at Çağlayan courthouse after being detained upon his return to Turkey and accused of "openly inciting the public to hatred and hostility". His work has often dealt with environmental & urban destruction and he has shared posts about opposition protests & boycotts.
Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı
Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı - Medyascope
Murat Germen, yurtdışından eşiyle birlikte Türkiye'ye dönerken havalimanında gözaltına alındı. Germen, savcılıkta ifade verdikten sonra serbest kaldı.
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Murat Germen kent suçlarını kayıt altına alırken ona yer açan müze ve kültür kurumları bu hukuksuz gözaltına sessiz mi kalacak?
Üniversite öğrencilerinin akademik boykotuna destek verdiği için tutuklanan akademisyen Levent Dölek hakkında tahliye kararı verildi. Günün tek güzel haberi bu.
Alarming new anti-LGBT+ law planned in Turkey. Includes jail for people found guilty of “publicly encouraging, praising or inciting behaviour or attitudes contrary to biological sex... and general morality” President Erdogan today again vowed measures against what he calls "perverted movements"
Fayn@fayn.press · 2y agoKüpe takan erkek, saçını kısa kestiren kadın, el ele tutuşan aynı cinsiyetten iki arkadaş… Türk Ceza Kanunu’nda yapılması planlanan yeni değişikliklerle bunların hepsi suç kapsamına girebilir. Taslak, yalnızca LGBTİ+leri değil, herkesi ilgilendiriyor. Hukukçu Fulya Eroğlu yazdı:
Here's a little glimpse into what we read in my Urban History and Development Research Seminar, part of the graduation semester of BA Urban Studies. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
JOB 🚨 4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History at the Amsterdam School for Historical Studies. The position is part of the “Daily Bread: A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests” project ⤵️ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher in Ottoman History
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History for four years (0.9 FTE). This position is part of the project Daily Br...
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Useful for Canada too, in this absurd moment. Faire du social: invest in universities, community health, research and development, reconciliation, creative arts and journalism. Welcome refugees.
Constance Bantman@constancebantman.bsky.social · 2y agoRencontre totalement fortuite ce matin avec cette brochure de Jean Grave illustrée par Maximilien Luce (1913).
Very excited to be listening to our dear Reşat Kasaba in The Hague www.iss.nl/en/events/em... #menasky #history
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
