In November 2020, OTSA launched a Zoom meeting series that is meant to create an opportunity for us to get together more often than once a year at MESA. Inspired by our former president Virginia Aksan’s “What’s Up in Ottoman Studies?” (the article that launched our journal, JOTSA, in 2014), “W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?” (or simply W’OTSAp) aims to keep us up-to-date with the developments and news of our field. We hope to provide a forum for our members to get to know the recipients of our annual awards and prizes, the authors who contributed to special thematic issues of JOTSA, a book that received attention in the field, or issues and questions that require our attention.
Upcoming Meetings
“Ottoman Sufi Lodges at the end of Empire”
January 17, 2025, 12PM CST
Join OTSA and Brett Wilson, Central European University.
“Contesting Pluralism(s): Islam, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey”
February 14, 2025, 12PM CST
Join OTSA and Nora Fisher Onar, University of San Francisco.
“The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey”
March 21, 2025, 12PM CST
Join OTSA and Feyza Burak- Adli, Northwestern University.
“Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling
May 23, 2025, 12PM CST
Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig.
“Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalism 1919-1939”
June 20, 2025, 12PM CST
Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University.
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