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.
[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 […]
Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop (MAOW)
Please "save the date" for our third annual "Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop" (MAOW), scheduled to take place at the University of Mary Washington (UMW) on April 1-2, 2022. Details will follow in […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Discussion Panel: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern), Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University, DC)
A MENA Monay discussion panel with Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern), Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University, DC). Details to come... For more information on this event, please visit the event […]
[Levantine Heritage Foundation] Changing by the Needs: The Story of the Hungarian Society in Constantinople – Gabor Fodor
After the failure of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848‒1849 against the Habsburg Monarchy, thousands of soldiers found asylum in the Ottoman Empire. Even though most of them left the empire […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Conversation with Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey
Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) joins us for an online conversation on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey. To attend this […]
[American Research Institute in Turkey] “An Attempted Pogrom in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman Society: Let Adapazarı not be Adana!” by Dr. Ümit Kurt
A compelling incident occurred in the district of Adapazarı on February 25, 1911. Three Armenian and two Greek local men were caught while having sexual intercourse with a Muslim prostitute […]
[California State University, Fresno] Perpetrator, Savior or Bystander: Jemal Pasha and the Armenian Genocide – A Reassessment
Dear Colleague, The Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, is planning to hold a conference tentatively titled, “Perpetrator, Savior or Bystander: Jemal Pasha and the Armenian Genocide - […]