Nights of Plague: Reading Orhan Pamuk in a Global Pandemic
Explore the work of Turkish author and Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk.
About the Event
Join us for a conversation with Graham School Instructor Esra Tasdelen on the work of Turkish author and Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk. Together, we will explore Pamuk’s most recent novel, Nights of Plague, a work of historical fiction set in the late Ottoman Empire in the midst of an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
Alongside analyzing the historical context and comparing the novel to Pamuk’s earlier works, we will also draw parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic and the realities of life in the twenty-first century. The conversation will preview Tasdelen’s upcoming course at Graham this spring.
Who's Speaking
Esra Tasdelen
Open Enrollment Instructor
A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Esra Tasdelen received her BA degree in Social and Political Sciences at Sabanci University and her MA degree in Middle Eastern Studies in 2005 and her PhD degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2014, both at the University of Chicago. Her teaching focuses on the history, languages, literatures and cinema of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as translation theory.
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