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.
[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Orientalism, Moral Imagination, and Ottoman Jews – Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series – 11th Workshop
Columbia Global Centers Istanbul invites you to a series of webinar workshops to highlight the research of emerging scholars in the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican history. For more […]
[TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg] Muslims from Russia in the Ottoman Empire, 1850s–1914 (Lecture Series: Osmanische Lebenswelten. Räume und Grenzen interkommunaler Begegnung // Ottoman lifeworlds. Spaces and boundaries of intercommunal encounter) Speaker: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Santa Barbara)
The lectures are part of the lecture series "Ottoman lifeworlds". Scholars from various international universities present their research on selected former regions and provinces of the late Ottoman Empire. Speaker: […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Conversation with Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) on her book, States of Dispossession, with discussant Anoush Tamar Suni (Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow)
Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) joins us to have a conversation on her recently published book, States of Dispossession, with event discussant Anoush Tamar Suni (Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow). To […]
[American Research Institute in Turkey] ‘Rethinking Economic Sources of Hamidian Legitimacy’ by Naz Yücel
This talk revisits the reign of one of the most contested historical figures in Ottoman history, Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909). It questions the financial underpinnings of the Hamidian regime […]
[Anglo-Turkish Society] ‘An Empire Besieged: The Last Ottomans’, Virginia H. Aksan
The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged charts the transformation of a once formidable Eurasian power into a colonial client of Britain, France, Germany and Russia. For more information on this […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] 2021 Conference — Keynote Lecture with Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania)
Keyman Guest Speaker Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania) joins us to present a keynote lecture as part of our continuing series “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the […]
[The University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies by Ece Ayhan
This meeting will discuss A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies with translator Murat Nemet-Nejat as a part of the Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group. For your questions, please contact […]
[Levantine Heritage Foundation] Levantine-Polish Contacts in Late Ottoman Istanbul – Paulina Dominik
Throughout the nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire was one of the chief destinations for the Polish political émigrés who following the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 fled […]
[Anglo-Turkish Society] ‘Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir’, Prof Dina Danon
This lecture will tell the story of a long-overlooked Ottoman Jewish community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For more information on this event, please view the event […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Book Discussion with Jenny White, Ergün Gündüz, and Özge Samancı
Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), Ergün Gündüz (illustrator of Turkish Kaleidoscope), and Özge Samancı (author of graphic […]
[NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies] Elements of Border and Infrastructure: Earth II
Please join the Kevorkian Center for another installment of our virtual series, "Elements of Border and Infrastructure" on the theme of "Earth." This event will feature a discussion between Nimrod […]
[American Research Institute in Turkey] “Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey” by Nathan Young
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Izmir and Ankara, Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey, demonstrates how sentiments for small-scale, rural lifeways continue to shape Turkish identity and national […]