Takvim-i Vekayi
The Calendar of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Virtual Events Communication Platform
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[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative] Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition with Marinos Sariyannis
[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative] Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition with Marinos Sariyannis
Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in the Ottoman Mentalities Dr. Marinos Sariyannis (ERC Grant 2017- 2023)
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[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
[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 […]
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[UC Berkeley Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative & Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Book Talk – Turkey: A Past Against History with Christine Philliou
[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
[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
[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: […]
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[Western Ottomanists’ Workshop @ Sacramento State] Panel 2 with Dilyara Agisheva and Merve Tekgürler
[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
[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
[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
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[NYU Kevorkian Center] GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS
[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 […]
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[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
[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
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[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
[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 […]
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[Columbia Global Centers Istanbul] Ideologies and Transregional Networks Circa 1920 | Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series
[Columbia Global Centers Istanbul] Ideologies and Transregional Networks Circa 1920 | Voices of Emerging Scholars Webinar Series
Registration link here. More information here.
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[OTS-NYU / NYU Kevorkian Center] Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, Keynote Lecture: Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge
[OTS-NYU / NYU Kevorkian Center] Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, Keynote Lecture: Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge
Speaker: Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University Abstract: This talk will explore the impact of translation on Ottoman language, culture, and politics. Most texts written in the first two centuries of Ottoman state formation in western Anatolia were works translated from either Arabic or Persian. This translation movement was the principal venue by which the Ottomans […]
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[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] — Interview: Marc David Baer on his book Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks Interviewed by Keyman Program Director İpek K. Yosmaoğlu
[Northwestern Univ. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program] — Interview: Marc David Baer on his book Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks Interviewed by Keyman Program Director İpek K. Yosmaoğlu
Interviewed by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu. Book description: What compels Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey? Marc David Baer confronts these convictions and circumstances to reflect on what moral responsibility the descendants of […]
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[UCLA – The Promise Armenian Institute] Paging through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazorian’s Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul
[UCLA – The Promise Armenian Institute] Paging through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazorian’s Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul
The Promise Institute for Human Rights and The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, in partnership with the UCLA Armenian Music Program under the direction of Movses Pogossian, present “Paging through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazarosian's Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul” by Dr. Melissa Bilal and Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu. This lecture is co-sponsored by […]
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[OTSA] Ottoman Environments with Faisal Husain and Michael Christopher Low
[OTSA] Ottoman Environments with Faisal Husain and Michael Christopher Low
Alan Mikhail will host Faisal Husain and Michael Christopher Low, who will present their books, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj and Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire. Zozan Pehlivan will be the discussant. Please register in advance: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdO2orDsvHtUJssubCUjv-EivgRyyWIul
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[ANAMED] Konuşmaları – Bir Kitap Sohbeti: Sefarad Güzergâhları
[ANAMED] Konuşmaları – Bir Kitap Sohbeti: Sefarad Güzergâhları
Website Link for more information and to register here. Language of the event: Turkish
[Columbia Global Centers Istanbul] Book Talk: “Europe Knows Nothing About The Orient” – Prof. Zeynep Çelik is in conversation with Prof. Rashid Khalidi
[Columbia Global Centers Istanbul] Book Talk: “Europe Knows Nothing About The Orient” – Prof. Zeynep Çelik is in conversation with Prof. Rashid Khalidi
Registration link here. More information here.
[UT Austin Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group] Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz
[UT Austin Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group] Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz
Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group: Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz with translator Nicholas Glastonbury. Meeting via Zoom.
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The Orient-Institut Istanbul Spring Lecture Series Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
The Orient-Institut Istanbul Spring Lecture Series Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
Poster Link Schedule of Lecture Series Leigh Gilmore (Ohio State University) Autobiographics: Gender, Life Narrative, and Self-Representation April 28, 2021, 20.00 - 21.00 (Turkish Time, GMT+3) Paulina Dominik (Freie Universität Berlin) Echo of the Journey and Adventures of My Life: Salomea Pilsztynowa – the Peripatetic Polish Ophthalmologist in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire – and […]
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[ANAMED] 15TH INTERNATIONAL ANAMED ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM – Winds of Change: Environment and Society in Anatolia
Website Link for more information and to register here. Language of the event: English-Turkish simultaneous translation will be provided.
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