Participants Valentina Izmirlieva, Columbia University Hajji Mama Vasilia Madzharova Discovers Tsarigrad (1868) "Turkan Olcay, Istanbul University "Madam Gulnar Olga Lebedeva Enchants the Ottomans (1889) Tanya Chebotarev, Columbia University Libraries "Bridging the Gap Turkish Sculptor Iraida Barry (1930s-1960s)" Reception to follow. The event is organized and sponsored by the Harriman Institute and hosted by the Bakhmeteff Archive. Valentina Izmirlieva is a historian of Balkan and Russian religious cultures. She has taught at Columbia University since 1999 and currently serves as Department Chair. Much of her work addresses cultural exchanges among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the context of multi-ethnic, multi-religious empires and their successor states. She is the author of All the Names of The Lord Lists, Mysticism and Magic and is currently working on a book about the Christian hajjis of the Ottoman Empire. Turkan Olcay is Professor of Russian Literature at Istanbul University, where she has taught since 1994. She specializes in Turkish-Russian cultural and literary relations and nineteenth-century Russian literature. Her publications include a monograph on Turgenev and a book on the Russian Naturalist School. Her work on "Madam Gulnar" was recently featured in an interview with the journal Russkii mir (February 2016). Tanya Chebotarev is the Curator of Columbia Universitys Bakhmeteff Archivethe second largest depository of Russian emigre materials outside Russia. In that capacity, she has curated several exhibitions, including "Russian Imperial Corps of Pages" (2002) and "Sergei Diaghilev and Beyond Les Ballets Russes" (2013). Her own scholarly work has most recently focused on Alexei Remizov and his archival holdings.

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