Levantine Heritage Foundation

23-24 September 2016

LHF Conference in Istanbul: ‘The Effects and Contributions of Levantines in the development of Beyoğlu/Pera and Galata Neighbourhoods: A long heritage of Trade, Culture and Arts since 1453’ (25th September is planned as a cultural day) - For enquiries or offer to help for the conference please contact:

Programme - poster - booklet - local press:
Registration: Sunday Galata/Pera buildings tour (info) - Cemetery tour sold out.

2-4th November 2016

LHF Conference in London: ‘The Levant & Europe: Shipping and Trade Networks of People and Knowledge’ - For enquiries or offer to help for the conference please contact:

Provisional programme
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19 January 2017, 6-9pm

24th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering, with guest speakers author Jerry Brotton: ‘This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World’ and LHF trustee Zeynep Cebeci Suvari: ‘Consular property records of the Italian community of Istanbul 1873-1910’ - flyer - booking

21 September 2016, 16.15-18.00

Seminar: ‘Svenskar i Konstantinopel under det långa 1700-talet’ [Swedes in Constantinople in the long eighteenth century] - M. A. Karin Berner, Uppsala, docent Paula Henrickson, Uppsala & docent Joachim Östulund, Lund, Sweden.

Engelska Parken Humanistiskt Centrum, hall 6 room 0022, Uppsala, Sweden

23-25 September 2016

Rhodes Open doors 2016: the Knights of Rhodes - programme, Rhodes town, Greece

26-30 September 2016

Conference: ‘Instruments between East and West’, Istanbul.

XXXV Scientific Instrument Symposium

22 October 2016

The Other Side: the story of Wolfgang Schrader - Dr Jochen Schrader , part of the Gallipoli ‘Evacuation’ Conference, Portsmouth, England.

18-19 November 2016

Conference: The Mercantile Effect: On art and exchange in the Islamicate world during 17th – 18th centuries, Istanbul and London.

27 November 2016, 7pm

Lecture by Philip Mansel: ‘Aleppo: a Warning from History’, Kensington Central Library, London W8 - info

until 18 December 2016

Exhibition: Anatolian Travels, 19th century - Arkas Art Centre, Kordon, Izmir

March 24-25, 2017

Call for Papers - Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization Symposium - The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

3-4 April 2017

Conference - call for papers, Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World, 1400-1750 - Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

10-12 July 2017

Call for papers - ‘Communities, Imaginations and Emotions in the Medieval Mediterranean’, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean Biennal Conference, Gent University, Belgium - deadline: 31 October 2016

24-28 July 2017

Call for papers - 14th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), Sofia University, Bulgaria - deadline: 15 January 2017

Vangelis Kechriotis has died

We are sad to report the death of the scholar Vangelis Kechriotis 27 August 2015 (aged 46) who was an Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and was one of our session chairs of our 2014 Levantine Conference in Istanbul - an online interview. May he rest in peace.

Alex Baltazzi has died

We are sad to report the death of our friend Alex Baltazzi of Izmir on 18 September 2015 who was one of our original contributors to this project and was the local organiser of the First Symposium on Levantines Conference in Izmir in November 2010, as well as many other gatherings. May he rest in peace. Obituary:

Livio Missir de Lusignan has died

We are sad to report the death of the foremost scholar on Levantine studies Livio Missir de Lusignan on 16 October 2015. The scholar was born in Izmir 1931 and has published numerous papers and books on the story and genealogy of Levantines. May he rest in peace. Obituary: