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.
[Levantine Heritage Foundation] Online presentation: ‘Department Stores and Luxuries in the Levant: The Spread of Western Consumption Goods in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt
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[ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)] CfP ACLA 2023: The Ottoman Empire, Its Minoritized Voices, and the Global South
Dear Colleagues, We welcome paper proposals for the following seminar at the ACLA 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago (March 16-19): The Ottoman Empire, Its Minoritized Voices, and the Global South. This seminar shifts the focus from hegemonic narratives of and about the Ottoman Empire to epistemic, aesthetic, sociocultural and political imaginaries of minoritized communities in […]
[Anglo-Turkish Society] Online presentation: ‘Aligned Interests and Divided Loyalties: David Passi, Sultan Murad III’s favourite’, Elif Özgen
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[Levantine Heritage Foundation] In-person presentation: ‘Upstairs, Downstairs: British Diplomatic Travellers in 18th Century Istanbul’, Dr Gemma Masson
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[The University of Texas at Austin] *Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group at UT Austin // Spring 2023, 2nd meeting: Murathan Mungan’s Valor Stories—a conversation with Aron Aji and David Gramling
We welcome you to TLIT’s 7th term. Open to all, free and virtual discussions about Turkish literature. Follow us: http://literaturcapodcast.com/ For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. For your questions, contact Ipek Sahinler at ipeksahinler@utexas.edu
[Leipzig University] PhD Position Religion in Turkey/Alevi Studies
I would like to announce a funded position for a Ph.D. student in the field of Modern Turkish Studies / Religious studies / Alevi Studies for 3 years (start July 1, 2023) at the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University. For more information see the following link: https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Fakult%C3%A4t_GKR/Religionswissenschaftliches_Institut/Dokumente/Ph.D._position_Turkish_Alevi_Studies_EN.pdf
[Anglo-Turkish Society] Trans-imperial History of the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895-1899)
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[The University of Texas at Austin] *Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group at UT Austin // Spring 2023, 3rd meeting: Refik Halit Karay’s Stories of Exile—a conversation with Karolina Dejnicka and Nefise Kahraman
We welcome you to TLIT’s 7th term. Open to all, free and virtual discussions about Turkish literature. Follow us: http://literaturcapodcast.com/ For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. For your questions, contact Ipek Sahinler at ipeksahinler@utexas.edu
[Levantine Heritage Foundation] Online presentation: George Baker: From London Waif to Merchant Mogul of Constantinople, 1848-1905
by Gillian Mueller & James de Wesselow For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. Event contact information: contact@levantineheritage.com
[Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan] Call for Papers: Eleventh Workshop on Armenian and Turkish Scholarship
From the Foundational Crime to the Making of a New State (and Nation): The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Turkish Republic Call for Papers: Eleventh Workshop on Armenian and Turkish Scholarship WATS XI, November 10-11, 2023 To mark the centennial year of the founding of the Turkish republic, WATS (the […]
[Anglo-Turkish Society] Hybrid presentation: ‘Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman’, Professor Kaya Şahin
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W’OTSAP FRIDAYS: “Empire of Refugees” with Vladimir Hamed Troyansky
OnlineJoin OTSA and Vladimir Hamed Troyansky, University of California, Santa Barabara for a W'OTSAp Friday session titled "Empire of Refugees" on Friday, September 27, 2024 via Zoom, beginning at 12PM CST. Please register here: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdu6oqT4pHdBcoHSDgEwShf49XFAJ2L5I