Takvim-i Vekayi

The Calendar of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Virtual Events Communication Platform

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[The Social Democrat Hınçak Party’s Istanbul Student Union and Journal, Gaydz (1911-1914)] in the July 2020 issue of Toplumsal Tarih [Social History]

Dr. Yaşar Tolga Cora, a professor of History at Boğaziçi University. Tolga Hoca received his PhD from the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2016. Dr. Cora will present a talk titled "Gaydz: An Example from the Armenian Socialist Press in the Second Constitutional Era" based in part on his recently published article "Sosyal Demokrat Hınçak […]

[Stanford Program on Turkey] The university and authoritarian resilience in Turkey with Ayça Alemdaroğlu

Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Associate Director of the Program on Turkey and Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Increasing access to higher education is often seen as a threat to authoritarian regimes. Accordingly, authoritarian rulers would limit access to avoid the spread of anti-regime sentiments. Turkey suggests […]

[Duke Middle East Studies Center] Book Talk: Landed Internationals with Burak Erdim | special guest Sibel Zandi-Sayek (respondent)

Burak Erdim is an associate professor of architectural history and design at North Carolina State University. He teaches studios and courses on the global history of architecture and urbanism from the mid-19th Century to the present. Landed Internationals provides a refreshing perspective on the aims of mid-century architectural education and examines the operations of housing […]