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.
[UCLA – The Promise Armenian Institute] Paging through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazorian’s Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul
The Promise Institute for Human Rights and The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, in partnership with the UCLA Armenian Music Program under the direction of Movses Pogossian, present “Paging through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazarosian's Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul” by Dr. Melissa Bilal and Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu. This lecture is co-sponsored by […]
[OTSA] Ottoman Environments with Faisal Husain and Michael Christopher Low
Alan Mikhail will host Faisal Husain and Michael Christopher Low, who will present their books, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj and Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire. Zozan Pehlivan will be the discussant. Please register in advance: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdO2orDsvHtUJssubCUjv-EivgRyyWIul
[ANAMED] Konuşmaları – Bir Kitap Sohbeti: Sefarad Güzergâhları
Website Link for more information and to register here. Language of the event: Turkish
[Columbia Global Centers Istanbul] Book Talk: “Europe Knows Nothing About The Orient” – Prof. Zeynep Çelik is in conversation with Prof. Rashid Khalidi
Registration link here. More information here.
[UT Austin Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group] Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz
Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz with translator Nicholas Glastonbury. Meeting via Zoom.
[UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ] Intersectional Perspectives on Turkey – Book Launch “The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918”
As part of our online lecture series “Intersectional Perspectives on Turkey,” we will be hosting the historian Dr. Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University) in our upcoming event which will be introduced by Dr. Seyhan Bayraktar (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, ZHAW, SFST). Mouradian will present his new book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism […]
The Orient-Institut Istanbul Spring Lecture Series Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
Poster Link Schedule of Lecture Series Leigh Gilmore (Ohio State University) Autobiographics: Gender, Life Narrative, and Self-Representation April 28, 2021, 20.00 - 21.00 (Turkish Time, GMT+3) Paulina Dominik (Freie Universität Berlin) Echo of the Journey and Adventures of My Life: Salomea Pilsztynowa – the Peripatetic Polish Ophthalmologist in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire – and […]
[ANAMED] 15TH INTERNATIONAL ANAMED ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM – Winds of Change: Environment and Society in Anatolia
Website Link for more information and to register here. Language of the event: English-Turkish simultaneous translation will be provided.
[ANAMED] Library Talks: Nisa Semiz – Dimitriadis Efendi’nin Marmara Sahil Surları Panorması
More information about the event will be added soon. ANAMED's website here.
[Stanford Program on Turkey and OTSA] Reckoning the Cold War’s Legacy in Turkey
This conversation with Behlül Özkan (Marmara University) and Mehmet Ali Tuğtan (Bilgi University) will examine the adverse and long-lasting impact of the US-led anti-communism on Turkish democracy. We will trace the roots of current authoritarianism in the top-down Islamization of society and institutions since the 1950s, paying special attention to the role of the military […]
[Sephardic Studies Program in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington] The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
Drawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material, Danon will offer a new read on Jewish modernity. Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, rabbis and housewives, this talk will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class, not Judaism, […]
[Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Visiting Speaker Ezgi Çakmak: The Roots of the Silence: Encounters with Blackness in Early Turkish Republic
Departing from the recently sparked interest in the discussions of race in Turkey following the anti-racism protests in the US, Ezgi Çakmak will discuss the echoes of these protests in relation to the silence over the intersecting histories of ‘race’, slavery and blackness in Turkey. More information here.