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.
[UIO – Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages] Turkish Kaleidoscope: Joining Art and Science
A seminar with Professor Jenny White. It is 1975 and Turkey is near civil war. Four medical students struggle on opposing sides in a society torn apart by violent political factions. […]
[Remembering and Coexisting in the Eastern Mediterranean] Thessaloniki Workshop
Unspoken memories, unwritten histories: Eastern Mediterranean pluralism in oral history and memory studies A series of workshops devoted to theory and practice in academia and civil society Less than a […]
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative] Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition with Marinos Sariyannis
Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in the Ottoman Mentalities Dr. Marinos Sariyannis (ERC Grant 2017- 2023)
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Visiting Speaker Dr. Ezgi Guner: Scramble for African Hearts: Muslim Whiteness, Islamic Civility, and Interracial Intimacy in AKP’s Turkey
Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography in Turkey, Tanzania, Senegal, Gambia, and Benin, Dr. Guner shows how whiteness, historically associated with Western modernity and state secularism in Turkey, is redefined as […]
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative & Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Book Talk – Turkey: A Past Against History with Christine Philliou
Dr. Christine Philliou, UC Berkeley Moderator: Dr. Selim Deringil, Bogaziçi University Zoom Registration here.
[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Keynote Speech: Justice and Ottoman Political Thought with Linda Darling
Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://csus.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcOCgrjIrGdG0tWjqjOG5flZxEGQSqjIh
[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 1 with Gülay Tulasoğlu and Kaleb Herman Adney
Discussant: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) Gülay Tulasoğlu (Hacettepe University): The Son of İzmir’s Richest Man in the Mediterranean Trade in the Beginning of the 19th Century: Katipzade Mehmed Efendi Kaleb […]
[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 2 with Dilyara Agisheva and Merve Tekgürler
Discussant: Fariba Zarinebaf Dilyara Agisheva (Georgetown University): Knowledge Networks: Crimean ‘Ulemâ and the Ottoman Learning Establishment from the 15th Century until the Early Years of the Russian Annexation of the […]
[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 3 with Mustafa Emre Günaydı and İsmail Noyan
Discussant: James Grehan (Portland State University) Mustafa Emre Günaydı (Iowa State University): At the Crossroads of Disaster and Opportunity: Ecologies of Centralization in Ottoman Baghdad, 1828-1831 İsmail Noyan (Simon Fraser […]
[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 4 with Fariba Zarinebaf and Baki Tezcan
Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona) Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside): The Battle for Silk: Rethinking Ottoman- Safavid Encounters on their Borderlands Baki Tezcan (UC Davis): The Three Conversions of İbrahim […]
[NYU Kevorkian Center] GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS
GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS Speakers: Aslı Iğsız (NYU), Leopold Lambert (The Funambulist), A. Naomi Paik (U-Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and discussant Paula Chakravartty (NYU) Abstract: If uprising is […]