Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Gender And Gaze: Ottoman and Islamicate Inheritance in Orhan Pamuk
How does literary inheritance shape an author’s voice, and whose stories make that voice possible? This talk examines Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and My Name Is Red through their engagement with Ottoman and Islamicate storytelling and visual traditions. The search for artistic identity raises questions about who gets to look and who can shape their own representation. Havlioğlu invites us to reconsider the place of women storytellers within Ottoman and Islamicate literary history and its afterlives in world literature.
Bilimer Turkish Studies Initiative at UVA
Turkish Studies Graduate Fellows Program, Turkish Studies Summer Research Small Grants Program, and Turkish Studies Student Essay Prize
Parda Ensemble: Conference of the Moths
From Film Scholar to Filmmaker
Samhita Sunya, associate professor in UVA's Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, is earning recognition for her award-winning animated short film, Conference of the Moths. Discover how her scholarship, creativity, and passion for storytelling are shaping new directions in film and visual culture.
The Ties That Shape the Middle East and South Asia
We focus on the deep historical ties between the many and varied cultures, religions, literatures, and languages of the Middle East and South Asia
