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And on 31 October, he spoke at the Oxford Literary Festival. On 4 November, he visited the European Parliament Liaison Office in London for a public talk with Jason Goodwin.
New book
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs(Basic Books) was released in October.
Stanford, 2010. His first book is Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), winner, Albert Hourani Prize, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Best Book in Middle East Studies. His book, Honored by the Glory of Islam (2008) won the Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America as the best book in Middle East studies, 2008.
In this episode, which covers his book Sultanic Saviours, he explains how the history of Ottoman Jews became part and parcel of a narrative that contrasted the Ottoman Empire's beneficence and tolerance with the anti-Semitism of other European societies.
Wolfson Prize
Professor Baer's book 'The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs' (Basic Books) was shortlisted for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize.
Jaipur Literature Festival Interview
In conversation with William Dalrymple at the 2022 Jaipur Literature Festival, Professor Baer unraveled Western notions of sexuality, orientalism, genocide, and history itself, through the chronicles of a formidable world of the Ottoman Empire.
Interview at London Jewish Book Week
Watch this new interviewfrom London Jewish Book Week.
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2021
BBC World Service
Catch up with Professor Baer's appearance as one of two panelists on BBC World Service Weekend Programme on 18 December.
He will be speaking again in Romania in September.
Watch the newsclip here
2022
Empires podcast
Professor Baer discussed Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I on the Empires podcast. In November, Professor Baer continued to promote his new book in the UK and the world. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida (Death on theHippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul).
His fifth book is German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). (Turkish translation, IV. Despite his significance, Marcus is relatively unknown. Professor Baer plans to utilise his twelve-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first biography of Marcus, based on his German-language publications, speeches, private correspondence, and personal documents.
2017
Tazeditorial
On 10 June, Professor Baer contributed an editorial article to the Berlin portal Taz on the Turkish President Recep Erdogan's antisemitic patterns of thought.
Professor Baer sheds light into what compels Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey. "’Sinning zwischen beiden Welten’. Der Intellektuelle Hugo Marcus und die Agmadiyya-Bewegung zur Verbreitung des Islam’ (14:2, 2020) is part of the journal’s series on Jews and Muslims in Germany in the interwar period.
But who were its leaders? The event was part of a series of public talks from the Leverhulme-funded project Conspiracy and Democracy. The festival features an array of acclaimed international and national authors and artists in thought provoking panel discussions.
Lecture at the SOAS Middle East Institute
Professor Baer spoke at an online lecture at the SOAS Middle East Institute on his new book "The Ottomans".