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Students in Professor Meredith Martin's "Visualizing Turks" Seminar Participate in Exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe

In Fall 2026 Professor Meredith Martin taught a seminar at the Institute called "Visualizing Turks in Early Modern Europe," which was related to an international exhibition that she co-curated at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris entitled Esclaves en Méditerranée, XVII-XVIIIe siècle . Students researched and wrote short essays on a range of related topics, from Doccia porcelain figurines of enslaved Muslims imprisoned in the Medici port of Livorno to a work by the Malta-based painter Mattia Preti that depicts a man named Cianferli, whom Preti enslaved but whom he also trained to be an artist. These essays became part of a collaborative digital mapping project entitled Slavery in the Mediterranean World , which was designed by one of the students in the seminar, Muna Diaf. The project is featured on the main website of the Institut du monde arabe exhibition and has been incorporated into its tours and programs.

Screen capture from *Slavery in the Mediterranean World*

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