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.
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] Visiting Speaker Dr. Ezgi Guner: Scramble for African Hearts: Muslim Whiteness, Islamic Civility, and Interracial Intimacy in AKP’s Turkey
Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography in Turkey, Tanzania, Senegal, Gambia, and Benin, Dr. Guner shows how whiteness, historically associated with Western modernity and state secularism in Turkey, is redefined as the marker of Islamic civility in and through these transnational relations. Analysis of the construction of Muslim whiteness contributes to debates on intersectionality of race […]
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative & Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Book Talk – Turkey: A Past Against History with Christine Philliou
Dr. Christine Philliou, UC Berkeley Moderator: Dr. Selim Deringil, Bogaziçi University Zoom Registration here.
[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Keynote Speech: Justice and Ottoman Political Thought with Linda Darling
Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://csus.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcOCgrjIrGdG0tWjqjOG5flZxEGQSqjIh
[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
[American Research Institute in Turkey] Talk – Ottoman Pluralism by Henry Clements
Zoom Registration here.