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] “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 in an Armenian bathhouse and then were brought in. Thereupon, Sırrı Bey, the district governor of Adapazarı (appointed on April 29, 1910), gave a political […]
[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 - A Reassessment,” which will be held on Friday evening 6 May and Saturday, 7, May 2022 on the California State University, Fresno campus. You are […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Discussion Panel: Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern), Ali Rıza Güngen (York University)
A discussion panel with Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern), Ali Rıza Güngen (York University). More details to come... For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC)
Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) presents a talk on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC) Wednesday, May 18 @ 12p CT via Zoom. For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul with Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University)
Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University) presents, "Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul", a talk as part of the interdisciplinary series, “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey” For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Discussion Panel: 2022 Conference: Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss: Politics of Archeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post Ottoman Lands
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from around the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Turkey from a global perspective. This year the conference’s theme will be “Heritage.” Stay tuned for further updates... For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register […]
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Discussion Panel: 2022 Conference: Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss: Politics of Archeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post Ottoman Lands
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from around the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Turkey from a global perspective. This year the conference’s theme will be “Heritage.” Stay tuned for further updates... For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register […]
[Anglo-Turkish Society] The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist
By Jo Willett For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. Event contact information: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk
[University of Florida] A Call for Abstracts for the Fall 2022 Symposium: Assessing the Ethnic Groups of the Late Ottoman Empire through a Decolonial Lens 1900 -1922
From September 13 to September 17 of 1922, a holocaust engulfed the Ottoman city of Izmir. Almost one hundred years to the day, on September 9 of 2022, the Center for Greek Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program are organizing a two-day symposium […]
[Anglo-Turkish Society] Online lecture: ‘Prisoner of the Infidels: The Life and Adventures of Osman Agha of Timişoara, An Ottoman Muslim in 17th-Century Europe’, Giancarlo Casale
In 1688, in the tumultuous aftermath of the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna, a young soldier by the name of Osman of Timişoara fell prisoner to the Austrian Habsburgs, and spent over a decade in captivity. In this respect, he was no different from thousands of other Ottoman subjects who, during the sixteenth, seventeenth and […]
[University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation: Amy Marie Spangler Discusses “A Strange Woman” by Leyla Erbil
The Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group at the University of Texas at Austin is starting its sixth term with a recently translated novel: A Strange Woman (Tuhaf Bir Kadın. Deep Vellum Press; 2022) by Leyla Erbil. This is the first novel by a Turkish female writer to ever be nominated for the Nobel. It […]
[The University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group at UT Austin // Fall 2022, 2nd meeting: “Joyce in Turkish and Ulysses’ Centenary—a conversation with Armağan Ekici”
The centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses is being celebrated around the world in 2022. This year brought us many new books on Ulysses, some of them synthesizing a century of efforts in understanding this famously difficult book. Armağan Ekici, who translated Ulysses into Turkish in 2012, will share his thoughts on the […]