curriculum vitae - Boğaziçi University Department of History

CURRICULUM VITAE
Noémi LEVY-AKSU
Boğaziçi University,
Department of History,
34 342 Bebek, Istanbul
TURKEY
(00 90) 212 359 74 43
[email protected]
Current position:
Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University, Department of History.
Education :
PhD : EHESS-Paris, 2010, Histoire et Civilisations. Supervisor : François Georgeon.
Dissertation title: “L’ordre public dans la capitale: Istanbul 1879-1909”
M.A (D.E.A): EHESS-Paris, 2005, History.
Agrégation (French competitive exam for teaching abilities) in History, 2003.
Maîtrise: Paris I University (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Department of History, 2002.
B.A. : Sorbonne University (Paris IV), Department of History, 2001.
Student at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure” (Paris-Ulm), 2000-2005.
Teaching:
-January-February 2014 and January-February 2015: Visiting lecturer at Central European
University (Budapest), Department of History. Course taught: Political order, Territory,
Population: New Frontiers of the State in the late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish
Republic (HIST 5054)
-2010 onwards: Full-time faculty at Boğaziçi University, Department of History.
Courses taught: Latin, France in the long 19th century (HIST 48 P), The
Making of the Modern World (HIST 106), Law Enforcement and Social
Control in European and Ottoman contexts (graduate seminar, HIST 59 Q),
History of Modern Turkey (HIST 322).
-2010-2011:
Part-time instructor at Bilgi University.
Courses taught: European social history; Ottoman Istanbul.
-2005-2006 : Instructor (Allocataire Moniteur Normalien) at Provence University (AixMarseille I), Department of History.
Course taught : 19th century European Social History.
-2003-2005 and 2006-2010: Part-time instructor at Boğaziçi University.
Courses taught: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Latin
Languages :
-French (native)
-English, Turkish (fluent)
-Latin, Ottoman Turkish
-Greek, Italian, Spanish (reading knowledge and oral understanding)
Publications:
Book:
Noémi Lévy-Aksu, Ordre et désordres dans l’Istanbul ottomane (1879-1909), Paris, Karthala,
2013.
Edited Books:
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Noémi Lévy, Alexandre Toumarkine (eds.), Osmanlı’da Asayiş, Suç ve Ceza (18.-20.
yy.), Istanbul, Tarih Vakfı, 2008.
Noémi Lévy, Nadir Özbek, Alexandre Toumarkine (eds.), Asayiş: Osmanlı ve Fransız
Tarihçiliğine Çapraz Bakışlar, Istanbul, Tarih Vakfı, 2010.
Articles:
 “Building Professional and Political Communities: The Value of Honor in the SelfRepresentation of Ottoman Police during the Second Constitutional Period”, EJTS,
vol. 18, 2014, http://ejts.revues.org/4895..
 “Bir Sempozyum Hakkında. Polis Tarihi Aranıyor”, Toplumsal Tarih, no 229, January
2013, pp. 10-12.
 “Salonique et la guerre gréco-turque de 1897, le fragile équilibre d’une ville
ottomane”, Mesogeios, n°34, 2008, pp. 29-47.
 “Modalités et enjeux de la circulation des savoirs policiers: un modèle français pour la
police ottomane?”, Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2008, 19, p. 11-27.
 “Une institution en formation: la police ottomane à l’époque d’Abdülhamid II”, EJTS,
www.ejts.net, December 2008.
 “La police ottomane au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles : les mémoires d’un
commissaire d’Izmir”, RHMC, n° 54-2, 2007, p. 140-160.
Book Chapters:
 “A capital challenge: managing violence and disorders in late Ottoman Istanbul”, in
Rethinking Urban Violence in Middle Eastern Cities: From Empire to Nation States,
Oxford, Berghan, forthcoming.
 “Coopérations et substitutions institutionelles. La police et la justice ottomanes au
tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles” in Marc Aymes, Benjamin Gourisse, Elise
Massicard (ed.) L'art de l'Etat en Turquie. Arrangements de l'action publique de la fin
de l'Empire ottoman à nos jours, Paris, Karthala, 2013, pp. 151-172.
English translation: “Institutional Cooperation and Substitution: the Ottoman Police
and Justice System at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries”, in Marc Aymes et alii
(eds), Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late
Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century, Leiden, Brill, 2014, pp. 146-168.
 Troubles fêtes: les perceptions policières de Pâques et du Ramadan à Istanbul au
tournant des XIXe et XXe siecles in Nathalie Clayer, Erdal Kaynar (ed.), Penser, vivre
et agir dans l'Empire ottoman et en Turquie, Leuven, Peeters, 2013, pp. 321-338.
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 “Ikinci Meşrutiyet Döneminde Polis: Bir Profesyonel Kimliğinin İnşası”, in Muammer
Gül and Mustafa Kandemir (ed.), Tarihte Türk Polis Teşkilatı Sempozyumu, Ankara,
Polis Akademisi Yayınları, pp. 215-234.
 “La reprise en main des institutions : L’exemple de la police ottomane” in François
Georgeon (ed.), L’ivresse de la liberté. La révolution de 1908 dans l’Empire ottoman,
Leuven, Peeters, 2012, pp. 121-136.
 “Coopérer pour mieux contrôler. La police et les acteurs non étatiques de l’ordre à
Istanbul à la fin du XIXe siècle,” in Tassos Anastassiadis, Nathalie Clayer (eds.),
Society, Politics and State Formation in Southeastern Europe during the 19th Century.
Athènes, Alpha Bank Historical Archives, 2011, pp. 255-278.
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“Une institution en formation: la police ottomane à l’époque d’Abdülhamid II”, EJTS,
www.ejts.net, December 2008.
“Savoirs et savoir-faire dans la police ottomane”, in Vincent Milliot (ed.), Ëtre
policier. Métiers de police en Europe (XVIIIe-XXe siècles), Rennes, Presses
Universitaires de Rennes, 2008.
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“19. Yüyılda Osmanlı’da Kamu Düzeni Konusunda Çalışmak », “Bibliyografya
üzerine Bir Değerlendirme”, in Noémi Lévy, Alexandre Toumarkine (eds.)
Osmanlı’da Asayiş, Suç ve Ceza (18.-20. yy.), Istanbul, Tarih Vakfı, 2008, pp. 55-67.
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“Yakından Korunan Düzen : Abdülhamid Devrinden II. Meşrutiyet Dönemine Bekçi
Örneği”, Noémi Lévy, Alexandre Toumarkine (dir.), Osmanlı’da Asayiş, Suç ve Ceza
(18.-20. yy.), Istanbul, Tarih Vakfı, 2008, pp. 135-145.
Exhibition album:
 De Byzance à Istanbul, un port pour deux continents, Paris, RMN, 2009.
Presentations:
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“Beyond Legal Hybridity: The Codification of Örfi İdare during the First
Constitutional Period”, CIEPO, Budapest, October 10, 2014.
“Unexceptional Exceptions: State of Emergency in the Aftermath of the Young Turk
Revolution (1908-1912)”, CEU, Budapest, February 5, 2014.
“Kurumsal İletişim Aracı Olarak Tarih: Polis Araştırmalarına Bir Bakış”, Tarih Vakfı,
Istanbul, April 11, 2013.
“All Honorable Men? The Role of Honor in Personal Narratives of Police Officers
during the Second Constitutional Period”, Honor in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman
World: Controversies,Continuities, and New Directions, CEU, Budapest, March 2123, 2013.
“Freedom versus Security: the Debates on Public Gatherings after the Young Turk
Revolution”, The Aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution¸ workshop organized by
François Georgeon and myself, Boğaziçi University, December 8, 2012.
“Coopérations et substitutions institutionnelles : la police et la justice ottomanes au
tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles”, Ordonner et transiger : modalités de
gouvernement et d'administration en Turquie et dans l'Empire ottoman, du XIXe siècle
à nos jours, concluding conference of the ANR Transtur project, Paris, EHESS, June
25-26, 2012.
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 “Villes ottomanes: un état des lieux de l'historiographie récente”, Paris, Ecole Normale
Supérieure (graduate seminar), April 5, 2012.
 “L’Empire ottoman et les Tanzimat”, Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure (graduate
seminar), February 23, 2012.
 “Criminality and Public Disorders: Some Reflexions on Violence and Its Perception in
Late 19th Century Istanbul”, Rethinking Urban Violence in Middle Eastern Cities”,
workshop organized by Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, December 8 - 10, 2011.
 “Contrôler la capitale: la police et les acteurs non étatiques de l'ordre à Istanbul (fin
XIXe siècle)”, Society and Politics in South-Eastern Europe during the 19th century,
Alpha Bank Historical Archives’ International Conference, Corfu, October 2-3, 2009.
 “La reprise en main des institutions : l'exemple de la police ottomane”, L’ivresse de la
liberté: la révolution de 1908 dans l’Empire ottoman, international conference
organized by EHESS-CNRS, Collège de France, Paris, June 5-7, 2008.
 “Career, community and individual in the Ottoman police: the case of a komiser in
Izmir at the beginning of the 20th century”, Community and Subjectivity in the
Ottoman Society, seminar organized by Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi University,
March 17, 2008.
 “Les historiographies de la police en Turquie”, Asayiş: Fransız ve Türk tarih
yazımlarına çapraz bakışlar, workshop, Boğaziçi University, January 11-12, 2008.
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“La révolution jeune-turque, ruptures et continuités : l’exemple de la police
ottomane”, Journée d’Etudes Turques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, March 23,
2007.
“Savoirs et savoir-faire dans la police ottomane aux tournants des XIXe et XXe
siècles”, Les métiers de police en Europe (XVIII-XXe s.), international conference,
Caen University, March 7-9, 2007.
“D’une capitale à l’autre : un modèle parisien pour la police d’Istanbul ? (fin XIXedébut XXe s.)”, Circulations des savoirs policiers en Europe, workshop, Paris I
University, January 30, 2007.
“La police ottomane au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles : le témoignage d’un
commissaire de police d’Izmir au lendemain de la révolution jeune-turque”, Mémoires
policiers, workshop, Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, April 24-25, 2006.
“L’ordre par la proximité : les bekçi d’Istanbul de l’époque hamidienne à l’époque
jeune turque”, Osmanlı Kentlerinde Asayiş ve Şiddet, 18.-20. yy., conference, Boğaziçi
University, December 3-4, 2005.
“Contrôle social et porosité des institutions. Istanbul à la fin du 19ème siècle”,
Institutions turques, seminar, Paris I University, November 24, 2005.
“La rue sous surveillance : les agents de l’ordre public à Istanbul à l’époque
d’Abdülhamid II”, Journée d’études turques, EHESS-CNRS, Paris, May 20, 2005.
“Un ‘calme parfait’ : la guerre de 1897, temps de crise pour Salonique?”, État et
société à la fin de l’Empire ottoman, seminar organized by François Georgeon,
EHESS, Paris, February 5, 2005.
“Salonique et la guerre gréco-turque de 1897, le fragile équilibre d’une ville
ottomane” Visages de Salonique, conference, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, May
22, 2003.
Memberships:
Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Turkish Studies (www.ejts.org)
Member of the advisory board of the ERC project “Securing Europe, Fighting its Enemies:
The making of a security culture in Europe and beyond, 1815-1914”.
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