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Getting Comfortable

Welcome to “Getting Comfortable,” a University of Colorado Colorado Springs student-led podcast dedicated to unpacking the relationship between Islam and the West, where no one is an expert. The intention of the podcast is to lead with curiosity and have a conversation that identifies concepts, analyzes content, and centers different learning approaches pertaining to the relationship between Islam and the West. Special thanks to Dakota Tyukin for creating the intro and outro music, and to Kerry

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Episode 14: Getting Comfortable Takeaways

Getting Comfortable ·

2023/06/02

Join us in our final episode where Amanda talks to each production team about their takeaways from the project and course. Love and Geese!

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00:44:23

Episode 13: Either/Or, Neither/Nor, America/Amreeka

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2023/06/02

Join Amanda and Cat as they discuss the origins of the Arabic word for America, Amreeka. They wrap up the course's content by engaging with Hamid Dabashi's argument on breaking binaries. The episode connects earlier readings and Dabashi's conclusion that there isn't an "East" nor a "West" after all.The works referenced in the episode include Alia Malek's A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives (New York: Free Press, 2009) and

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00:51:22

Episode 12: Hajj Narratives and Early Muslim Voices

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2023/06/02

Join Raisya and Isabella in a discussion about the meaning of the Hajj. They engage with a variety of voices starting off with Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim scholar, who penned an early 19th century memoir. Another voice is that of Malcolm X and his Hajj experience in the 1960s. The episode ends with a discussion of the documentary Sacred Journeys. The works referenced in the episode include Omar Ibn Said's A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said (University of Wisconsin Press,

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00:44:34

Episode 11: Aida, Verdi, and Colonial Legacy

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2023/06/02

Join Amanda and Cat as they explore Giuseppe Verdi's grand 19th century opera, Aida, through the lens of three different analytical texts. Each author examines the opera through a different perspective, from the music and the libretto to the greater context behind the writing of Aida in 1870, which was first performed in 1871 for the opening of the Cairo Opera House. The works referenced in the episode include Edward Said's “The Empire at Work: Verdi’s Aida” in Culture and Imperialism (New

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00:22:15

Episode 10: The Ottoman Mehter, Harem-Escape...

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2023/06/02

Join Matt and Sierra as they provide a brief engagement with the complicated relationship between Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) and the opera’s connection to the Ottoman military marching band mehter. The works referenced in the episode include Eve R. Meyer's “The Image of the Turk in European Performing Arts” in Süleyman the Second and his Time, Halil İnalcık and Cemal Kafadar, eds. (ISIS Press, 1993); Herbert Lindenberger's "On opera and society (assuming a

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00:33:25

Episode 9, Part Two: Ottomancentrism and the Diplomat

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2023/06/02

For the episode, Nico and Isaac have read through the introductory piece of Ottoman historian Daniel Goffman’s The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe in addition to a letter composed by Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman court Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq on his travels throughout the Ottoman realm. This is a continuation of the discussion opened by Jayda and Kerry on what it means to understand the history of the Ottoman Empire as perceived by the Ottomans. The works referenced in the episode

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01:03:31

Episode 9, Part One: Ottomancentrism and the Diplomat

Getting Comfortable ·

2023/06/02

Join Kerry and Jayda as they continue to discuss the Ottoman Empire further by engaging with historian Daniel Goffman’s notion of Ottomancentrism. The question is what does it mean to understand the history of the Ottoman Empire as perceived by the Ottomans as opposed to outside observers. The works referenced in the episode include Daniel Goffman's "Introduction: Ottomancentrism and the West" in The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge UP, 2002); "The Third Letter

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01:01:03

Episode 8: Becoming Familiar with the Ottomans

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2023/06/02

Join Jayda and Kerry as they venture into a discussion on what the Ottoman Empire was, and why it is still important. The works referenced in the episode include Donald Quataert's “Why Study Ottoman history?” in The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, New Approaches to European History series (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Daniel Goffman's "Introduction: Ottomancentrism and the West" in The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002); "The Third

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00:26:57

Episode 7: The Question of Orientalism and After

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2023/06/02

Join Isabella and Raisya in thinking about what it means to be a public intellectual. They consider the legacy of Edward Said’s work Orientalism (1978) and the controversy with historian Bernard Lewis. The works referenced in this episode include Alan Lightman’s essay about “The Role of the Public Intellectual," in the MIT Communications Forum; Bernard Lewis's “The Question of Orientalism” in The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982; Douglas Martin, "Bernard Lewis, Influential

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00:32:27

Episode 6: Theorising the West and Power

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2023/06/02

Join Matt and Sierra as they engage with Edward Said’s seminal text Orientalism (1978). Matt and Sierra consider the impact of Edward Said’s work and his framing of power, which draws upon French philosopher Michel Foucault’s work. The works referenced in the episode include an excerpt from Edward W. Said’s Orientalism (1978) as found in Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, eds. (Columbia University Press, 1994); Richard Bernstein's “Edward

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00:30:49

Episode 5: Unpacking Europe

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2023/06/02

Join Amanda and Cat as they begin to unpack Europe, the idea of it, and the origins of the word in different meanings. Europe as a monolith has meant different things, from a continent, a peninsula of Asia, a civilization, or a group of different civilizations. By examining Muhammad As-Saffar's account of Paris in 1845-1846, the audience is able to gain an outside perspective of Paris, a great French and European city at the height of its imperial power. The works referenced in the episode

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00:34:21

Episode 4, Part Two: Of Absolute Categories and...

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2023/06/02

Join Nico and Isaac as they discuss what it means when regions, religions, and peoples are referenced as absolute categories. Nico and Isaac also consider what it means to refer to a historical period and region as a “civilization.” The episode builds upon what Sierra and Matt began considering in Part One of Episode 4. The works referenced in the episode include Samuel P. Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations?" in Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993) and Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of

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00:32:50

Episode 4, Part One: Of Absolute Categories and...

Getting Comfortable ·

2023/06/02

Join Sierra and Matt as they think about what it means when regions, religions, and peoples are referenced as absolute categories. Sierra and Matt also consider what it means to refer to a historical period and region as a “civilization.” The works referenced in the episode include Samuel P. Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations?" in Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993), and Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, vol. 1 The Classical Age of

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00:27:15

Episode 3, Part Two: To Capitalize or Not/Lexical...

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2023/06/02

Join Isabella and Raisya in Part Two as they discuss the documentary Islam: Empire of Faith, which was produced by PBS in 2000. The works referenced in the episode include Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Princeton University Press, 2016); Andrew Rippin’s Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge, 2002); and the documentary Islam: Empire of Faith.

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Episode 3, Part One: To Capitalize or Not/Lexical...

Getting Comfortable ·

2023/06/02

Join Raisya and Isabella as they explore the idea of lexical conundrums and liken how we come to consider words to a game of telephone. The main question is whether there is a significance to distinguishing terms.

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00:31:39

Episode 2: (Un)Mapping Assumptions of a Region

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2023/06/02

Join Kerry and Jayda as they discuss the assumptions attached to the region of the "Middle East" including what countries make up the region. The works referenced in the episode include Abbas Amanat's “Introduction: Is There a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space” in Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept, Bonine, Amanat, and Gasper, eds. (Stanford UP, 2012) and Michael E. Bonine, “Of Maps and Regions: Where is the Geographer’s Middle East?” in Is There

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Episode 1: Introducing the Getting Comfortable Podcast

Getting Comfortable ·

2023/06/02

Join us in an icebreaker episode where Amanda introduces the podcast project and the five production teams. The podcast mirrors the thematic content in the Islam and the West syllabus as designed by Dr. Carole Woodall. The podcast teams are: Matt Reese and Sierra Banks, Jayda Wayman and Kerry Corbett, Amanda Espinel and Cat Bauder, Isabella Arsenault and Raisya Pratama, and Nico Essary and Isaac Sawyer.

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