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Lale Can

@lalehjoon.bsky.social
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Brooklynite, CUNY professor, trying to balance work on exile with some daily doses of beauty. Author "Spiritual Subjects" (SUP, 2020) rb.gy/8likn

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Currently working on exile to Rhodes and trying to piece the logic and mechanics of this system together, bit by bit. I hope you’ll read this essay on what was imagined vis-a-vis Yemen and why this “distant land” did not become what some hoped would be akin to an “Ottoman Siberia.”
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
These aren’t carnations in the photo…
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It starts w/ a petition from a mother who asked for the pardon of her son, exiled from Shkoder to Diyarbekir, and then follows unrealized plans to distance "these kinds of people" to "distant lands" like Yemen and Trablusgarb -- inspired, in part, by Russian exile to Siberia.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Excited to share my open access article on Ottoman exile in @csshjournal.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Creating an “Ottoman Siberia”: Punitive Mobility and Imperial Governance in the Late Ottoman Empire | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Creating an “Ottoman Siberia”: Punitive Mobility and Imperial Governance in the Late Ottoman Empire
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Excited to be in this queue of articles coming out in CSSH!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Peak DC think tanker tweet on Trump’s threats to commit war crimes and mass atrocities in Iran: “He is speaking to them in their language.” Good to see 19th century imperialism alive and well in DC.
Screenshot of a tweet by DC think tank expert Ellen Wald on Trump's threats to Iran: "Yes, this is bombastic & 'not presidential' but come on, is anything Trump says or writes on social media appropriate? But this isn't meant for anyone except the Iranian regime. He is speaking to them in their language. Markets, take from this what you will."
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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Happy that my review essay on Russian-Ottoman history in the Annales has been published in English - reviewing amazing books by @will-smiley.bsky.social @vhtroyansky.bsky.social and @lalehjoon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Pluralizing Political Modernity: Recent Russian-Ottoman Transimperial Historiography (Review Article) | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core
Pluralizing Political Modernity: Recent Russian-Ottoman Transimperial Historiography (Review Article)
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This looks so interesting! Cannot wait to read!
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I can’t believe I could just walk to the Süleymaniye on bayram and then have this little creature come sit in my arms in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Nice böyle tatlı anlarla dolu bayramlara
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Can we please find a way to write articles so we don’t have to cite everything ever written on the topic, and struggle to find ways to nicely say why they’re wrong.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Canceled all my plans to work on an article and I have one (excellent) introductory paragraph to show for it. Am still doing life wrong.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Levels of ridiculousness I can’t deal with. Now we need people to assign them so AI can make up “book reports” for students who don’t read and professors who don’t grade.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Love to see my book reviewed in the company of great books by Will Smiley and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Thank you, @mcerovic.bsky.social for your engagement and framing in terms of transimperial history.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I struggled to divide student into groups to discuss four themes yesterday. I could not do the math. That’s how tired I am.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This man then got on the subway and made jokes involving knight puns for two stops. As a pun-averse person in academia, I don’t think I deserved any of this.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Teşekkürler! Yaşlandığım için artık “cümlemize” gibi şeyler diyesim geliyor :-)
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Turned a thousand years old today and walked 12k steps after throwing myself a dinner and can definitely say I feel my age.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just googled “how do you know if your headache is an aneurysm.” Current stress level.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ice cream truck? Police helicopter?
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Have been screaming inside all day thinking about the kind of person who goes to talks and steals ideas. Then they write - and because no one writes critical book reviews - they get away with it again and again.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
100% this. I can’t imagine studying languages, doing research, or writing my book without FLAS, Fulbright-Hays, NEH, and the defunct SSRC humanities fellowships. It kills me that grad students and junior scholars don’t have these opportunities.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wondering if I should order a case of Campari — or let tariffs make me into a better Muslim.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Race to the bottom
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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I feel like they should be flanked by horses or the robot dogs (?) they wasted millions of dollars on.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Congratulations!
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
One of the most poignant, beautifully crafted and shot films I have watched this year. mubi.com/en/us/films/...
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Watch Crossing (2024) on MUBI
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul ...
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I was in Seoul in 2016 (?) for an SSRC Inter-Asian connections workshop. Maybe you could look up the program and see if there might be any contacts there who are useful. Cemil Aydin was involved.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I will!
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ayat in Ditmas Park is so good! Take your friends and go have amazing Palestinian food.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I love these early explorations of the mother’s tastes and sensibilities, approached with the enthusiasm of the child.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Never allowed to enjoy a real shawarma!
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is the most confusing thing I have seen on this site so far. I don’t know anymore what is parody but I’m pretty sure calling this shawarma should be illegal. Am I not being nice? Do I need to stop?
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I love when ILL doesn’t allow renewals for a book that not a single other person is likely to use for a decade.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Part of my little apartment garden, trying to give me some motivation on a Monday morning
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Why are there so many weird accounts on here with no names, descriptions, real photos?
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Can’t wait to read. Congrats @zozanpehlivan.bsky.social!
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Amazing! I want to bring my mom, who worked for years in the NYC garment district in a post-ottoman atelier of sorts. The union was kind of shit but she’d probably have been worse off without it.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I dedicated to my cat (and my parents) so I think you should do it.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Have been really down lately but hate-reading something is cheering me up. Sometimes I think you need a nemesis to keep you going.
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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Help me spread the word by reposting, and please let me know if you want to be added / have suggestions.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Sometimes I read about all the archives someone has worked in and the 27 languages involved and I think SPY!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
the use of the history of Japanese internment as a manual rather than as a cautionary tale really sums up where we're at politically
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m listening to a Cesaria Evora station on Spotify. Maybe that could work?
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I love Persian—three glorious years studying it—but I find it hard to get excited about the Safavids.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It is a tremendous podcast. But sometimes I am a little tired of the Ottomans and their empire.
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Was going to make the “neurotic intellectuals and academics starter pack” but would have to include 90% of us that migrated.
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