Gamze Ilaslan

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Gamze ?laslan-Ko? completed her BA at Bo?azi?i University in 2013, double majoring in Turkish Language and Literature and History programs with an honor degree. During her bachelor studies, she spent one semester at Freie Universitat Berlin in 2011 through an Erasmus Program. She joined an MA program in Modern Turkish Studies at Bo?azi?i University and completed her MA thesis, titled “Abduction and Elopement in the 19th Century Ottoman Nizamiye Courts”, under the supervision of Prof. Cengiz K?rl?. Additionally, she joined a major research project focusing on “Armenians in the Ottoman Bureaucracy (1839-1909)” supported by T?B?TAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) between 2013 and 2015. In the years between 2015-2019 she studied at ?ehir University as a PhD student and worked as a teaching assistant for the courses “Introduction to Sociology”, “World Civilizations and Global Encounters” and “Exploring Istanbul”.

Currently she studies as a PhD student at Regensburg University (Chair of Early Modern History, Prof. Dr. Harriet Rudolph) and works on the DFG-Project "Entangled Objects? The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Transcultural Processes of Negotiation in the 18th Century", subproject 1: "The Material Culture of Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy in the 18th Century".

Publications (Selected)

• ?laslan Ko?, Gamze. 2025. “Diplomatic Homes Abroad: Exploring Ottoman and Habsburg Relations Through Furniture and Decoration in the Early Modern Period.” In Objects in Conflict, eds. Volker Depkat and Harriet Rudolph. New York: Routledge. (forthcoming)
• ?laslan Ko?, Gamze. 2025. “Bir Mavi Perdelik Zaman: Humurgan, Yasemin Uzun.” Book Review (forthcoming). Ceride Ben-Anlat?lar? Ara?t?rma Dergisi, Vol. 3, No. 2 (December 2025).
• ?laslan Ko?, Gamze. 2024. “An Untold Battle of Music and Banners: Ambassadorial Entrance Ceremonies between the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires.” In Sounds of Power: Sonic Court Rituals In- and Outside Europe in the 15th–18th Centuries, eds. Margret Scharrer and Tül Demirbas, 123–146. G?ttingen: B?hlau Verlag K?ln.
• ?laslan, Gamze. 2019. “Ku?lar Gibi.” In Tarih?ilerden Ba?ka Bir Hikaye, eds. Ebru Aykut Türker, Nur?in ?leri and Fatih Artvinli, 181–200. ?stanbul: Can Yay?nlar?.

Conference Presentations (Selected)

• Politics of Miscommunication in the Encounters of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires in the 18th Century, Middle East Studies Association 58th Annual Meeting, USA, 16.11.2024.
• The Material Culture of Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy in the 18th Century, University of Leipzig, Chair of East and Southeast European History, Germany, 15.12.2023.
• The Politics of Space: Reconstructing the Diplomatic Residences of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires in the 18th Century, Early Modern Studies Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 10.07.2023.
• The Soundscape of Ottoman-Habsburg Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 28.06.2021.
• What Borders Meant in the Ottoman-Habsburg Empires through the 18th Century, International Congress on Ottoman Studies (OSARK), Tirana, Albania, 21.10.2018.
• Towards a Socio-Legal Turn? New Perspectives that the Sociolegal Approach Brings to the Ottoman and Middle Eastern Historiography, Presentation of Shortlisted Candidates, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, USA, 22.02.2018.
• Abduction of Women and Elopement in the 19th Century Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: A Collective Act of Abduction from a Village of Antalya, CIEPO 22 Conference (International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies), Trabzon, Turkey, 20.10.2016.
• The Case of Istanka: Forced Conversion or a Frustrated Love Marriage?, International Congress on Turkish Legal History, Istanbul University, Turkey, 15.05.2016.
• What Offers Court Records?, Department of Archival Studies, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, 12.04.2016.

Research Interests

• Diplomatic history of the early modern period, especially Ottoman–Habsburg relations and the material cultures of intercultural diplomacy.
• Spaces and practices of encounter: architecture, domesticity, and sociability in diplomatic settings.
• Performativity and visual cultures of power: ceremony, media of encounter, and archival practices.

Memberships and Academic Activities

• Since 07.2022 — Member of the Executive Committee, Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS), Türkiye
• Since 2024 — Member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), USA