Publishing Orientalism: a transcultural industry? An event with Professor Mary Roberts, University of Sydney and Senior Global Scholar

Spaces are strictly limited, so booking is essential.

This event will showcase a selection of nineteenth-century illustrated publications across various media and formats that primarily take the Ottoman empire and its territories as subjects of visual spectacle and cultural encounter.

Through examples both deluxe and modest, this event aims to highlight the technological and visual innovations of an international industry that involved multiple commercial and diplomatic perspectives and audiences. The materials for this event are selected according to four broad and often overlapping themes: 'Ottoman Patronage, Orientalism, and the Publishing Industry'; 'Scotland's Orientalisms'; 'Gender, Dress, and Travel'; and 'Panoramas and Other Souvenirs'.

Our aim with this event is to highlight the extraordinary potential of these resources for collaborative research across disciplines with colleagues both locally and internationally.

This Special Collections session is part of a day-long School of Art History workshop. As well as presenters from the School of Art History, Stephanie O'Rourke, Luke Gartlan and Lenia Kouneni, the morning session will feature Mary Roberts of the University of Sydney, who is also a Senior Global Fellow at St Andrews, and PhD candidate from Princeton University, Ariel Kline.

Please visit the separate event listing to book the morning session.

For enquiries, please contact Luke Gartlan at [email protected].

Image credit: Plate detail from Gaspare Fossati, Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as recently restored by order of H. M. the Sultan Abdul-Medjid; from the original drawings by Chevalier Gaspard Fossati; lithographed by Louis Haghe, esq. London: Colnaghi & Co., 1852. Collection of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums (rfx DR724.M4)