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.
[Sephardic Studies Program in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington] The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
Drawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material, Danon will offer a new read on Jewish modernity. Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, rabbis and housewives, this talk will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class, not Judaism, […]
[Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Visiting Speaker Ezgi Çakmak: The Roots of the Silence: Encounters with Blackness in Early Turkish Republic
Departing from the recently sparked interest in the discussions of race in Turkey following the anti-racism protests in the US, Ezgi Çakmak will discuss the echoes of these protests in relation to the silence over the intersecting histories of ‘race’, slavery and blackness in Turkey. More information here.
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative] RICONTRANS: Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda
Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterraneans (16th - early 20th c.) Dr. Yuliana Boycheva (ERC Grant 2017 - 2024)
[Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Visiting Speaker Dr. Aslı Bâli: Decentralization as Self-Determination?: Reframing the question of minority rights in Turkey
This talk explores how the Kurdish political movement has re-imagined the terms of self-determination to facilitate the realization of minority rights in Turkey. NU individual event calendar link (with registration link) here.
[TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg] Edirne. Geschichtskultur und Geschichtspolitik in der „Monumental City of Turkey (Lecture Series „Stadtgeschichten. Urbane Zentren der Türkei im Wandel der Zeit“ // „Urban (hi)stories. Turkey’s metropolises through time”) Visiting Speaker: Florian Riedler Time: 19th May 2021, 6-8 p.m.
This talk takes place as part of the lecture series "Urban (hi)stories". Scholars from various universities in Germany present their research on selected urban centres of Turkey. Visiting Speaker: Florian Riedler Time: 19th May 2021, 6-8 p.m. CEST. To attend the event, please use this Zoom link. For more information on the event, please go […]
[OTSA] Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice with Heghnar Watenpaugh and Emily Neumeier
Chris Gratien will host Heghnar Watenpaugh for a presentation of her Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, the winner of OTSA’s (2020) and the Society for Armenian Studies’ (2019) book prizes, as well as the Gold Medal (tie) in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in History (World) […]
[University of Graz, Centre for Southeast European Studies] Online Book Launch: “The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany” by Dr. Banu Karaca
In “The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany” Dr. Banu Karaca explores the art settings and actors of two cities: Istanbul and Berlin. The book is an ethnographic investigation of how artists navigate the art world, the dependencies and power differentials it creates and reproduces, their relationship to cultural policies, and […]
[New York University’s Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative] Panel: Women, Agency and Patronage in the Ottoman Empire
This panel will present a diverse and nuanced set of studies that seek to expand, question, and resituate our understandings of gender and women’s agency in the Ottoman Empire. Gamze Yavuzer examines 17th-century legal cases of Muslim and non-Muslim Ottoman women abandoned by their husbands to question the notion of the advantageousness of the Sharia […]
[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Unlikely Dialogues in Art | Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series
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. Organized by Professor Zeynep Çelik, our fifth workshop, "Unlikely Dialogues in Art," turns to artistic production in comparative context. This event takes place on May 26th at 11 AM NYC […]
[ANAMED] Library Talks: Esra Satıcı, Özge Ertem, Mehmet Kentel – Yusuf Franko
More information about the event will be added soon. ANAMED's website here.
ANAMED Konuşmaları – Bir Kitap Sohbeti – Yusuf Bey: On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Sonunda Pera’nın Yüklü Portreleri
27 Mayıs 2021, Perşembe günü gerçekleşecek ANAMED Konuşması, ANAMED’in 2017 yılında açılan. “Yusuf Franko’nun İnsanları: Bir Osmanlı Bürokratının Karikatürleri” sergisine eşlik eden İngilizce yayının, genişletilmiş Türkçe yayınına odaklanıyor olacak. Bu ayın konuşmacıları, serginin ve kitabın editörlerinden Özge Ertem, serginin galeri küratörü Ebru Esra Satıcı ile serginin danışmanı ve metin yazarı olan K. Mehmet Kentel olurken, sohbetin […]
[ANAMED] Library Talks: Evangelia Balta – Beyoğlu Sırları Tefrika Romanı 1888-1889
More information about the event will be added soon. ANAMED's website here.