Takvim-i Vekayi

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

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[TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg] Edirne. Geschichtskultur und Geschichtspolitik in der „Monumental City of Turkey (Lecture Series „Stadtgeschichten. Urbane Zentren der Türkei im Wandel der Zeit“ // „Urban (hi)stories. Turkey’s metropolises through time”) Visiting Speaker: Florian Riedler Time: 19th May 2021, 6-8 p.m.

This talk takes place as part of the lecture series "Urban (hi)stories". Scholars from various universities in Germany present their research on selected urban centres of Turkey. Visiting Speaker: Florian Riedler Time: 19th May 2021, 6-8 p.m. CEST. To attend the event, please use this Zoom link. For more information on the event, please go […]

[OTSA] Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice with Heghnar Watenpaugh and Emily Neumeier

Chris Gratien will host Heghnar Watenpaugh for a presentation of her Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, the winner of OTSA’s (2020) and the Society for Armenian Studies’ (2019) book prizes, as well as the Gold Medal (tie) in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in History (World) […]

[University of Graz, Centre for Southeast European Studies] Online Book Launch: “The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany” by Dr. Banu Karaca

In “The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany” Dr. Banu Karaca explores the art settings and actors of two cities: Istanbul and Berlin. The book is an ethnographic investigation of how artists navigate the art world, the dependencies and power differentials it creates and reproduces, their relationship to cultural policies, and […]

[New York University’s Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative] Panel: Women, Agency and Patronage in the Ottoman Empire

This panel will present a diverse and nuanced set of studies that seek to expand, question, and resituate our understandings of gender and women’s agency in the Ottoman Empire. Gamze Yavuzer examines 17th-century legal cases of Muslim and non-Muslim Ottoman women abandoned by their husbands to question the notion of the advantageousness of the Sharia […]

[Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul] Unlikely Dialogues in Art | Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series

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 fifth workshop, "Unlikely Dialogues in Art," turns to artistic production in comparative context. This event takes place on May 26th at 11 AM NYC […]

ANAMED Konuşmaları – Bir Kitap Sohbeti – Yusuf Bey: On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Sonunda Pera’nın Yüklü Portreleri

27 Mayıs 2021, Perşembe günü gerçekleşecek ANAMED Konuşması, ANAMED’in 2017 yılında açılan.  “Yusuf Franko’nun İnsanları: Bir Osmanlı Bürokratının Karikatürleri” sergisine  eşlik eden İngilizce yayının,  genişletilmiş Türkçe yayınına odaklanıyor olacak. Bu ayın konuşmacıları, serginin ve kitabın editörlerinden Özge Ertem, serginin galeri küratörü Ebru Esra Satıcı ile serginin danışmanı ve metin yazarı olan K. Mehmet Kentel olurken, sohbetin […]

[The Orient-Institut Istanbul] Recording Feminist History: Anbara Salam Khalidi’s Memoir

The Orient-Institut Istanbul Spring Lecture Series Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean Nova Robinson (Seattle University) For more information, please view the full program. The lectures will be held online via Zoom. To attend this virtual lecture series, prior registration is necessary. Please send an email specifying […]

[TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg] Von „gavur“ zu „güzel“ – İzmir: Erinnungen an die griechi¬sche Besatzung, die Rückeroberung und den Brand von İzmir in der frühen Republikzeit (Lecture Series „Stadtgeschichten. Urbane Zentren der Türkei im Wandel der Zeit“ // „Urban (hi)stories. Turkey’s metropolises through time”) Visiting Speaker: Ellinor Morack Time: 3rd June 2021, 6-8 p.m.

This talk takes place as part of the lecture series “Urban (hi)stories”. Scholars from various universities in Germany present their research on selected urban centres of Turkey. Visiting Speaker: Ellinor Morack Time: 3rd June 2021, 6-8 p.m. CEST. To attend the event, please use this Zoom link. For more information on the event, please go to […]

[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] 2021 Conference — Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism

Annual Keyman Conference bringing together global scholars discussing some of the most pressing issues facing Turkey from a global perspective, this year in the context of a Queer and Gender Studies focus. Conference Dates: June 4th,  June 11th,  and June 18th Conference Times: Chicago 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM (June 18th only 9:30 AM - […]

[New York University’s Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative] Panel: Ottoman Migration, Immigration, and the “New World”

This panel will explore a diverse set of studies around the notions of migration, state-making, and borders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of the Ottoman Empire. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel traces the use of photographs at the border during Ottoman Armenian emigration to the United States in order to examine how photography and […]