Takvim-i Vekayi

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

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[Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient] The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey – Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality

Book presentation by Hilal Alkan (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Ayşe Dayı (Orca Dreams: Platform for Mindful Living), Sezin Topçu (French National Research Center), Betül Yarar (Universität Bremen) and Esra Sarıoğlu (Max Planck Institute for Human Development). In Turkey, during the last decade, women's central role in reproductive and domestic work has been reactionarily reaffirmed by the […]

[ANAMED] ANAMED Talks: Rediscovering Anatolia’s Forgotten Literary Heritage

How can scholars profit from the many textual sources of late medieval Muslim Anatolia on the eve of Ottoman hegemony, in the paucity of contemporary chronicles and archival documentation? For this month’s ANAMED Talk, Sara Nur Yıldız and Andrew Peacock will discuss how these works shed light not only on intellectual and literary currents of […]

[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens] Intercommunal Musical Geographies of late Ottoman Istanbul

The Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory of the Department of Music Studies of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens invites you to attend the international conference entitled Intercommunal Musical Geographies of late Ottoman Istanbul on Friday, 29 October 2021. The conference is organised in the framework of the research project InterMusiG funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). The […]

[Columbia University] Turkey through its Cinema: Kış Uykusu (Winter Sleep) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014

Turkey through its Cinema A Film Series Organized by Zeynep Çelik, Richard Peña, and A. Tunç Şen Poster Link Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies offers a series of conversations on Turkish Cinema during the academic year 2021-2022. Bringing eminent film critics, writers, scholars, and filmmakers together, the conversations will focus on critically acclaimed films, […]

New Dimensions of 1821 Conference

Conference Description  This conference, to be held online as part of the bicentennial commemoration of the Greek War of Independence. It will be an exploration of the many kinds of connections between the Greek War of Independence itself and developments and actors to the East and West. The Greek Kingdom that was established out of […]

[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Rules of Science – Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series – 10th Workshop

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

[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] “7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decolonizing Academia” with Murat Ergin, Koç University

Guest Speaker Murat Ergin (Associate Professor of Sociology, Koç University) joins the Keyman Program to present a talk via Zoom as part of our continuing series “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey,” featuring interdisciplinary discussions throughout this academic year. To register for this event, please use […]

[TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg] Of dirt and time: Urban sanitation, colonialism and modernity in post-Ottoman Crete (Lecture Series: Osmanische Lebenswelten. Räume und Grenzen interkommunaler Begegnung // Ottoman lifeworlds. Spaces and boundaries of intercommunal encounter) Speaker: Aris Anagnostopoulos (Kent)

The lectures are part of the lecture series "Ottoman lifeworlds". Scholars from various international universities present their research on selected former regions and provinces of the late Ottoman Empire. Speaker: Aris Anagnostopoulos (Kent) Time: 1st December 2021, 6-8 p.m. CET. To attend the event, please use this Zoom link. For more information on the event, please […]

[Columbia University] Turkey through its Cinema: Umut (Hope) dir. Yılmaz Güney & Şerif Gören, 1970

Turkey through its Cinema A Film Series Organized by Zeynep Çelik, Richard Peña, and A. Tunç Şen Poster Link Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies offers a series of conversations on Turkish Cinema during the academic year 2021-2022. Bringing eminent film critics, writers, scholars, and filmmakers together, the conversations will focus on critically acclaimed films, […]

[TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg] Gehen oder Bleiben? Muslimische Lebenswelten in der Grenzregion Thessalien/Tesalya nach 1878 (Lecture Series: Osmanische Lebenswelten. Räume und Grenzen interkommunaler Begegnung // Ottoman lifeworlds. Spaces and boundaries of intercommunal encounter) Speaker: Nicole Immig (Giessen)

The lectures are part of the lecture series "Ottoman lifeworlds". Scholars from various international universities present their research on selected former regions and provinces of the late Ottoman Empire. Speaker: Nicole Immig (Giessen) Time: 8th December 2021, 6-8 p.m. CET. To attend the event, please use this Zoom link. For more information on the event, please […]