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The Emasculated Guardians of Power...with Dr. Baki Tezcan, UC Davis

Dr. Baki Tezcan, UC Davis – “The Emasculated Guardians of Power: Black Eunuchs and the Interplay Between Gender and Race at the Ottoman Imperial Court”. Introduction by İpek K. Yosmaoğlu, Keyman Program Director. Moderated by Deniz Duruiz, Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow. In the light of three books that were either written with a view to secure the patronage of the Chief Black Eunuch of the Ottoman court, or to critique him, between the early seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, Dr. Tezcan will discuss Ottoman literary representations of Africans and how these representations intersect with the heavily gendered environment of the court. As part of the Keyman Visiting Speaker Series: ‘Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey’ an interdisciplinary series featuring discussions with Baki Tezcan, UC Davis Ezgi Güner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Ezgi Çakmak, University of Pennsylvania