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.
[The Orient-Institut Istanbul] Digital Humanities in Ottoman and Turkish Studies: Initiatives, Projects, and Online Resources
Poster PDF Link For more information about this event, please go to the event page. The meeting will be held online via Zoom. To attend this lecture, prior registration is necessary. Please send an email specifying your name and academic affiliation to events@oiist.net by June 22, 2021 (Tuesday) at the latest. For technical reasons, the […]
[Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU] Ottoman Palestine: Why Does it Matter?
Ottoman Palestine and its legacy have been a common reference point in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict. Both sides have referred to specific historical events and details from the Ottoman era to justify their claims to authority, property, and land. What is the importance of knowing the Ottoman past for understanding today? How has Ottoman […]
[ANAMED] Library Talks: Sinan Kaya – “Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa” Arşivi
More information about the event will be added soon. ANAMED's website here.
[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Politics of Literature – Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series – 6th 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. Organized by Professor Zeynep Çelik, our seventh workshop "Politics of Literature" will discuss the engagement of literary figures in the turbulent politics of the turn-of-the-century. For more […]
[Middle East Librarians Association] Turkish Literary Sources on Whiteness and Blackness at the Early Modern Ottoman Court
Poster Link This lecture with Baki Tezcan is part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East. For more information, and to view recorded lectures, see the MELA Blog (https://bit.ly/MELASJSeries). In the light of three books that were either written […]
[W’OTSAp] Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition
At this W’OTSAp meeting, which is hosted by Marinos Sariyannis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno), Zeynep Aydoğan (FORTH), Feray Coşkun (Özyeğin University), Güneş Işıksel (Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Ethan Menchinger (Manchester University), and Ahmet Tunç Şen (Columbia University) will present some of the work they have been doing within the framework of “GHOST — Geographies and Histories […]
[W’OTSAp] The Greek Revolution and Ottoman Studies: Problems, Methods, and Revisions
2021 is the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution. This panel is a continuation of the discussion the panelists (in alphabetical order of their last names) Hakan Erdem (Sabancı University), Ioannis N. Grigoriadis (Bilkent University/ELIAMEP), Şükrü Ilıcak (University of Crete), and Christine Philliou (University of California, Berkeley) engaged in at the Delphi Economic Forum panel “Ottoman […]
[W’OTSAp] Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean
JaNet, funded by the European Research Council and run by Yannis Spyropoulos, investigates the economic and sociopolitical role of the Janissaries in the 18th and early 19th centuries through their examination as a complex of interconnected networks in the ‘extended Mediterranean’ (including major Black Sea and Danubian ports). At OTSA’s 11th W’OTSAp meeting, Yannis Spyropoulos […]
[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Bodies, Technologies, Spaces – Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series – 8th 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. Organized by Professor Zeynep Çelik, our eighth workshop, "Bodies, Technologies, Spaces," explores the impact of new technologies on everyday life at home from the 1880s to the […]
[University of Texas at Austin] Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: The Mosquito Bite Author by Barış Bıçakçı
Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: The Mosquito Bite Author by Barış Bıçakçı with translator Dr. Matthew Chovanec Thursday September 30, 2021 • via Zoom 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Register to attend this event here. The Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group aims to gather those who are interested in Turkish literature at UT together. It meets each […]
[Columbia University] Turkey through its Cinema: Bir Başkadır (Ethos) dir. Berkun Oya, 2020
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, […]
[Pennsylvania State University] The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe
Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire conquered and ruled most of the European territories east of Vienna, establishing Muslim institutions and laws in the heartland of Christendom. In his new monumental book, prominent historian Gábor Ágoston revisits Ottoman westward expansion, arguing that Ottoman power rested not only on sheer religious fervor or […]