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.
[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 […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion with Dimitar Bechev (Carnegie Europe, Oxford), Sinem Adar (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), and Ṣener Aktürk (Koç University), moderated […]
[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Reading, Commenting, and Interpreting – Voices of Emerging Scholars
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 […]
[The University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation: In the Shadow of the Yalı by Suat Derviş
Discussion with guest Maureen Freely on her translation of "In the Shadow of the Yali" by Suat Dervis as a part of the Turkish Literature in Translation series. For your […]