Takvim-i Vekayi

The Calendar of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Virtual Events Communication Platform

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[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 İpek Sahinler at ipeksahinler@utexas.edu. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link.  

[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 to Istanbul in the hope of securing Ottoman support in their efforts to regain national independence. For four decades between the 1840s and the 1870s, […]

[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 novel Dare to Disappoint). For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration […]

[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 Ben Zeev (Polonsky Academy), Ana Sekulic (University of Pittsburgh), Omer Shah (Columbia), and discussant James Ryan (NYU Kevorkian Center). This event is free and open […]

[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 formation. Applying current ideas from nostalgia theory, Nathan Young analyzes the significance of rural nostalgia from the nation’s founding to its present, where it manifests […]

[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 by Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University). For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration […]

[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 information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: Istanbul.cgc@columbia.edu

[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 questions, please contact İpek Sahinler at ipeksahinler@utexas.edu. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom […]

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 the weeks and months to come.

[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 page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu

[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 within a year, hundreds preferred to stay, live, and work in a society about which they knew virtually nothing. The importance of the Hungarian refugee […]