Takvim-i Vekayi
The Calendar of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Virtual Events Communication Platform
If you are interested in submitting your events to be posted on this platform’s calendar, the Takvim-i Vekayi, please fill out this form and e-mail it to osta.webmaster@gmail.com and otsa.webeditor@gmail.com copying secretariattsa@gmail.com at least ten days before your event. The form will be processed within a week of receipt. We are grateful to our volunteer webmaster, Gharam Alsaedi, a UC Davis Computer Science senior, and our volunteer web editor Molly Powers, a UC Davis junior double majoring in International Relations and History, for their work on the Takvim-i Vekayi and to Professor Carole Woodall for her initiative in creating this calendar.
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion
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 […]
[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Reading, Commenting, and Interpreting – Voices of Emerging Scholars
Columbia Global Centers Istanbul invites you to a series of webinar workshops to highlight the research of emerging scholars in the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican history. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: Istanbul.cgc@columbia.edu
[The University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation: In the Shadow of the Yalı by Suat Derviş
Discussion with guest Maureen Freely on her translation of "In the Shadow of the Yali" by Suat Dervis as a part of the Turkish Literature in Translation series. 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 […]
Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop (MAOW)
Please "save the date" for our third annual "Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop" (MAOW), scheduled to take place at the University of Mary Washington (UMW) on April 1-2, 2022. Details will follow in the weeks and months to come.
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Discussion Panel: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern), Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University, DC)
A MENA Monay discussion panel with Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern), Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University, DC). Details to come... For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
[Levantine Heritage Foundation] Changing by the Needs: The Story of the Hungarian Society in Constantinople – Gabor Fodor
After the failure of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848‒1849 against the Habsburg Monarchy, thousands of soldiers found asylum in the Ottoman Empire. Even though most of them left the empire within a year, hundreds preferred to stay, live, and work in a society about which they knew virtually nothing. The importance of the Hungarian refugee […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Conversation with Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey
Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) joins us for an online conversation on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. For more information, please visit the event page. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
[American Research Institute in Turkey] “An Attempted Pogrom in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman Society: Let Adapazarı not be Adana!” by Dr. Ümit Kurt
A compelling incident occurred in the district of Adapazarı on February 25, 1911. Three Armenian and two Greek local men were caught while having sexual intercourse with a Muslim prostitute in an Armenian bathhouse and then were brought in. Thereupon, Sırrı Bey, the district governor of Adapazarı (appointed on April 29, 1910), gave a political […]
[California State University, Fresno] Perpetrator, Savior or Bystander: Jemal Pasha and the Armenian Genocide – A Reassessment
Dear Colleague, The Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, is planning to hold a conference tentatively titled, “Perpetrator, Savior or Bystander: Jemal Pasha and the Armenian Genocide - A Reassessment,” which will be held on Friday evening 6 May and Saturday, 7, May 2022 on the California State University, Fresno campus. You are […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Discussion Panel: Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern), Ali Rıza Güngen (York University)
A discussion panel with Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern), Ali Rıza Güngen (York University). More details to come... For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC)
Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) presents a talk on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC) Wednesday, May 18 @ 12p CT via Zoom. For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul with Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University)
Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University) presents, "Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul", a talk as part of the interdisciplinary series, “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey” For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this […]