Bogazici University

These records contain information related to the formation of Robert College (Bebek, Turkey). They document the founders' attempts to define the mission of a Christian college within the Ottoman Empire, their efforts to obtain permission to purchase land, and their efforts to gain necessary permits to build upon the site. And the transfer of the schools to Turkish Government .

What is it about the current political conjuncture that makes universities a particularly important target for right wing politics, not only by “Eastern despots,” but also by the supposedly democratic governments of the West? What forms of power and domination intersect in such offensives against universities? What do the protests and their particular forms and language reveal about the current state of universities? What kind of future do academic struggles harbor? This AGAINST THE DAY section centers on the ongoing Boğaziçi protests to explore these and related questions which, in our view, highlight some of the fundamental dimensions of the current moment of neoliberal authoritarian forms of power and the social struggles waged against new regimes of (post)truth, homophobia, nationalist sovereignist body politics, and academic purges and expulsions.

Submitted as the undergraduate final project in Boğaziçi University History Department.

This paper analyzes the impact of photography in the politics and education system of the Late Ottoman Empire based on the creation of photographic education and personnel in military and civil schools.