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Propaganda and Orientalism. The Ottoman Empire, its allies and its enemies in World War I, mirrored in picture postcards [lecture by Johann Strauss]

SYSNO ASEP	0570329
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Title	Propaganda and Orientalism. The Ottoman Empire, its allies and its enemies in World War I, mirrored in picture postcards [lecture by Johann Strauss]
Author(s)	Taglia, Stefano (OU-W)_{SAI, ORCID}
Event date	01.11.2022
VEvent location	Praha
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Event type	EUR
Total number of participants	1
Number of foreign participants	1
Language	eng - English
Keywords	Ottoman Empire ; WWI ; postcards ; memory ; Orientalism ; jihad ; propaganda
OECD category	History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Institutional support	OU-W - RVO:68378009
Annotation	This presentation intends to shed light on a specific aspect of Turco-European relations, the alliance of the Ottoman Empire with Germany, Austria-Hungary and eventually also Bulgaria during World War I. and the way it was reflected on picture postcards. This new medium was to attain a first zenith during World War I when tens of thousands of different postcards were published, and billions were sent by the belligerent nations. There is a great variety of types and uses of these postcards, usually manufactured in Germany or Austria-Hungary, including those distributed in the Soldatenheime in the Ottoman lands. One may view them as a vehicle of propaganda in the first place (with specific features such as the “Holy War” (jihād)). But there also other interesting aspects concerning the iconography or even the script and typograpy. There are fake views of different theatres of war, pictures illustrating the delicate relationship between Turkey and her German allies, as well as specimens of a curious sort of war-time orientalism.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2023

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