The international launch of the two-volume work titled “The Making of Modern Atlantic Monarchies,” to which Asst. Prof. Uygar Aydemir from Üsküdar University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, contributed as a chapter author, was held. Aydemir, who participated online in the seminar titled “CAMBIOS: Monarchies and Monarchisms in the Atlantic World, 1770 to the Present” held in Madrid, represented Üsküdar University at the seminar.
Hosted in a hybrid format by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), the launch and seminar attracted significant interest from international academic circles.
Asst. Prof. Uygar Aydemir featured in the first volume of the work
In the first volume of the work (The Invention and Establishment of Conservative Monarchism, 1770–1900), published by Bloomsbury Academic, one of the world's leading academic publishers, and edited by Carolina Armenteros, Matthijs Lok, and Iason Zarikos, Asst. Prof. Uygar Aydemir contributed with his chapter titled “Reinstating the Sultan’s Agency amidst an All-Pervading Bureaucracy: Mahmud Nedim Pasha’s Mirror of State”.
A global perspective on Ottoman political thought
Aydemir's article discussed the criticisms of bureaucracy by Mahmud Nedim Pasha, one of the significant figures of 19th-century Ottoman political thought, and his efforts to re-establish the sultan's political authority.
In this context, Aydemir aimed to provide a unique contribution to comparative historiography by evaluating Ottoman monarchical modernization within the context of the Atlantic world.
International Academic Collaboration and Interaction!
Aydemir, who participated online in the seminar titled “CAMBIOS: Monarchies and Monarchisms in the Atlantic World, 1770 to the Present,” represented Üsküdar University at the seminar.
The event, which featured expert academics from prestigious higher education institutions such as Oxford, Geneva, and Clarke Universities as speakers, addressed the global development and transformative effects of conservative monarchism from the 18th century to the present day.