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.
[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 University): Rifa’a Rafi al-Tahtawi’s Travel to Paris and His Ideas’ Travel to Istanbul Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://csus.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-6gpj8oHNVHVkxbRMJd0kIoWobWLkvf
[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 Müteferrika: Risale-i İslamiye, Niyazi Berkes, and Mahmud Esad Coşan Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://csus.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-6gpj8oHNVHVkxbRMJd0kIoWobWLkvf
[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 not a discrete event but a protracted temporality then how do we account for its various afterlives? For the ways it continues to exact an […]
[UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program] The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province with Ümit Kurt and Janet Klein
Dr. Ümit Kurt, Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow, will present his new book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021). Professor Janet Klein (University of Akron) will be the discussant. Zoom link (registration is not required): https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/98162496364?pwd=WTRaT3lmV2pZbEdBQWdwMThlY2t4dz09
[American Research Institute in Turkey] Talk – Ottoman Pluralism by Henry Clements
Zoom Registration here.
[ÖAW] Balkan Studies Lectures: Günhan Börekçi: From Prosopography to Social Network Analysis: Towards a First Systematic Study of the Ethnic-Regional Solidarity among the Ottoman Ruling Elite in the 16th-17th Centuries
Host: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan History, Vienna Description: The talk will present the main parameters and some initial findings of an ongoing personal research project, which aims to map out and analyze such ethno-regional solidarities and factional rivalries among the Ottoman ruling elite based on the most recent computer-based methods […]
[Columbia Global Centers Istanbul] Ideologies and Transregional Networks Circa 1920 | Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series
Registration link here. More information here.
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative] Book Talk – Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj with Lale Can
Dr. Lale Can, The City College of New York
[OTS-NYU / NYU Kevorkian Center] Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, Keynote Lecture: Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge
Speaker: Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University Abstract: This talk will explore the impact of translation on Ottoman language, culture, and politics. Most texts written in the first two centuries of Ottoman state formation in western Anatolia were works translated from either Arabic or Persian. This translation movement was the principal venue by which the Ottomans […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] — Interview: Marc David Baer on his book Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks Interviewed by Keyman Program Director İpek K. Yosmaoğlu
Interviewed by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu. Book description: What compels Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey? Marc David Baer confronts these convictions and circumstances to reflect on what moral responsibility the descendants of […]