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.
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative] Polorization on Demand: Ethos/Bir Baskadar in Turkey and the US
Panel Discussion Dr. Melis Behlil, Kadir Has University Dr. Esin Paça Cengiz, Kadir Has University Dr, Ekif Akçali, Kadir Has University Moderators: Dr. Deniz Goktūrk, UC Berkeley Dr. Christine Philiou, UC Berkeley Respondent: Dr. Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley
[University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: A Long Day’s Evening by Bilge Karasu
Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: A Long Day's Evening by Bilge Karasu with translator Dr. Aron Aji. Meeting Via Zoom.
[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 […]
[Center for Middle East Studies – University of California, Santa Barbra] Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire
At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Traveling long distances, many lived for extended periods in Ottoman cities dotting the routes, effectively blurring the lines between pilgrims and migrants, and the legal boundary between Ottomans and foreigners. As the Ottoman Empire sought to promote a […]