The lectures are part of the lecture series "Ottoman lifeworlds". Scholars from various international universities present their research on selected former regions and provinces of the late Ottoman Empire. Speaker: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Santa Barbara) Time: 26th January 2022, 6-8 p.m. CET. To attend the event, please use this Zoom link. For more information on the event, […]

Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) joins us to have a conversation on her recently published book, States of Dispossession, with event discussant Anoush Tamar Suni (Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow). To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration link. For more information, please visit the event page. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu

This talk revisits the reign of one of the most contested historical figures in Ottoman history, Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909). It questions the financial underpinnings of the Hamidian regime that enabled its sustenance for over three decades by focusing on the Sultan's Privy Purse. To that end, it provides an overview of the scope […]

The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged charts the transformation of a once formidable Eurasian power into a colonial client of Britain, France, Germany and Russia. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. Event contact information: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk

Keyman Guest Speaker Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania) joins us to present a keynote lecture as part of our continuing series “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey,” featuring interdisciplinary discussions throughout this academic year. For more info on this event, please view the event page. […]

This meeting will discuss A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies with translator Murat Nemet-Nejat as a part of the Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group. For your questions, please contact İpek Sahinler at ipeksahinler@utexas.edu. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link.  

Throughout the nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire was one of the chief destinations for the Polish political émigrés who following the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 fled to Istanbul in the hope of securing Ottoman support in their efforts to regain national independence. For four decades between the 1840s and the 1870s, […]

This lecture will tell the story of a long-overlooked Ottoman Jewish community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. Event contact information: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk

Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), Ergün Gündüz (illustrator of Turkish Kaleidoscope), and Özge Samancı (author of graphic novel Dare to Disappoint). For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration […]

Please join the Kevorkian Center for another installment of our virtual series, "Elements of Border and Infrastructure" on the theme of "Earth." This event will feature a discussion between Nimrod Ben Zeev (Polonsky Academy), Ana Sekulic (University of Pittsburgh), Omer Shah (Columbia), and discussant James Ryan (NYU Kevorkian Center). This event is free and open […]

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Izmir and Ankara, Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey, demonstrates how sentiments for small-scale, rural lifeways continue to shape Turkish identity and national formation. Applying current ideas from nostalgia theory, Nathan Young analyzes the significance of rural nostalgia from the nation’s founding to its present, where it manifests […]

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion with Dimitar Bechev (Carnegie Europe, Oxford), Sinem Adar (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), and Ṣener Aktürk (Koç University), moderated by Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University). For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration […]