Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) joins us to have a conversation on her recently published book, States of Dispossession, with event discussant Anoush Tamar Suni (Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow). To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration link. For more information, please visit the event page. Event contact information: turkishstudies@northwestern.edu

This talk revisits the reign of one of the most contested historical figures in Ottoman history, Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909). It questions the financial underpinnings of the Hamidian regime that enabled its sustenance for over three decades by focusing on the Sultan's Privy Purse. To that end, it provides an overview of the scope […]

The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged charts the transformation of a once formidable Eurasian power into a colonial client of Britain, France, Germany and Russia. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. Event contact information: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk

Keyman Guest Speaker Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania) joins us to present a keynote lecture 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. For more info on this event, please view the event page. […]

This meeting will discuss A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies with translator Murat Nemet-Nejat as a part of the Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group. For your questions, please contact İpek Sahinler at ipeksahinler@utexas.edu. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this Zoom registration link.  

Throughout the nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire was one of the chief destinations for the Polish political émigrés who following the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 fled to Istanbul in the hope of securing Ottoman support in their efforts to regain national independence. For four decades between the 1840s and the 1870s, […]

This lecture will tell the story of a long-overlooked Ottoman Jewish community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For more information on this event, please view the event page. To attend this event, please use this registration link. Event contact information: contact@angloturkishsociety.org.uk

Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), Ergün Gündüz (illustrator of Turkish Kaleidoscope), and Özge Samancı (author of graphic novel Dare to Disappoint). For more information on this event, please visit the event page. To register for this event, please use this Zoom registration […]