Takvim-i Vekayi

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

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[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 1 with Gülay Tulasoğlu and Kaleb Herman Adney

Discussant: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) Gülay Tulasoğlu (Hacettepe University): The Son of İzmir’s Richest Man in the Mediterranean Trade in the Beginning of the 19th Century: Katipzade Mehmed Efendi Kaleb Herman Adney (UCLA): “To Acquire the Amount Agreed Upon” — The Transformation of Macedonian Credit and the Politicization of Tobacco (c. 1874-1889 CE) Registration Link: […]

[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 2 with Dilyara Agisheva and Merve Tekgürler

Discussant: Fariba Zarinebaf Dilyara Agisheva (Georgetown University): Knowledge Networks: Crimean ‘Ulemâ and the Ottoman Learning Establishment from the 15th Century until the Early Years of the Russian Annexation of the Crimean Peninsula Merve Tekgürler (Stanford University): Recounting News, Gathering Information: Ottoman Experiences of Eastern Europe in the Time of the Polish Partitions (1772-1795) Registration link: […]

[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 3 with Mustafa Emre Günaydı and İsmail Noyan

Discussant: James Grehan (Portland State University) Mustafa Emre Günaydı (Iowa State University): At the Crossroads of Disaster and Opportunity: Ecologies of Centralization in Ottoman Baghdad, 1828-1831 İsmail Noyan (Simon Fraser University): Rifa’a Rafi al-Tahtawi’s Travel to Paris and His Ideas’ Travel to Istanbul Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://csus.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-6gpj8oHNVHVkxbRMJd0kIoWobWLkvf

[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 4 with Fariba Zarinebaf and Baki Tezcan

Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona) Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside): The Battle for Silk: Rethinking Ottoman- Safavid Encounters on their Borderlands Baki Tezcan (UC Davis): The Three Conversions of İbrahim Müteferrika: Risale-i İslamiye, Niyazi Berkes, and Mahmud Esad Coşan Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://csus.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-6gpj8oHNVHVkxbRMJd0kIoWobWLkvf

[NYU Kevorkian Center] GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS

GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS Speakers: Aslı Iğsız (NYU), Leopold Lambert (The Funambulist), A. Naomi Paik (U-Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and discussant Paula Chakravartty (NYU) Abstract: If uprising is not a discrete event but a protracted temporality then how do we account for its various afterlives? For the ways it continues to exact an […]

[UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program] The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province with Ümit Kurt and Janet Klein

Dr. Ümit Kurt, Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow, will present his new book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021). Professor Janet Klein (University of Akron) will be the discussant. Zoom link (registration is not required): https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/98162496364?pwd=WTRaT3lmV2pZbEdBQWdwMThlY2t4dz09

[ÖAW] Balkan Studies Lectures: Günhan Börekçi: From Prosopography to Social Network Analysis: Towards a First Systematic Study of the Ethnic-Regional Solidarity among the Ottoman Ruling Elite in the 16th-17th Centuries

Host: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan History, Vienna Description: The talk will present the main parameters and some initial findings of an ongoing personal research project, which aims to map out and analyze such ethno-regional solidarities and factional rivalries among the Ottoman ruling elite based on the most recent computer-based methods […]