Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

22 April 2021, 6pm (UK time)

7th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Giampaolo Salice: ‘The Alexianos. A transnational Greek family’ - flyer - registration:

14 May 2021, 6pm (UK time)

8th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Kaleb Herman Adney: ‘Portfolio Habits: Commercial Networks, Oriental Tobacco, and Extraterritoriality in the Age of International Finance’ - flyer - registration:

20 May 2021, 6pm (UK time)

9th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Dr. Malte Fuhrmann: ‘Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire’ - flyer - registration:

External Events

22 April 2021, 6 pm (UK time)

Online panel: The Greek Revolution through the Eyes of its ‘Others’, Dr Sukru Ilicak, Dr Paris Chronakis, Dr Antonis Hadjikiriakou – The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway

27 April 2021, 5 pm (UK time)

Online presentation: John Craxton: A Life in Greece, Ian Collins – British School at Athens

29 April 2021, 4.30 pm (UK time)

Online presentation: Portside trouble in Ottoman waters: the enforced detention of the Blackham Galley at Izmir in 1697. (From the unpublished “Journall” of John Looker, ship’s surgeon.), Colin Heywood – The Skilliter Centre

5 May 2021, 6 pm (UK time)

Online presentation: Echo of the Journey and Adventures of My Life: Salomea Pilsztynowa – the Peripatetic Polish Ophthalmologist in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire – and Her Unusual Memoir (1760), Paulina Dominik – Orient-Institut Istanbul

6 May 2021, 6 pm (UK time)

Online presentation: Aleppo: from World City to Civil War, Philip Mansel – The Nomads Tent, Edinburgh

14 May 2021, 6.30 pm (UK time)

Online presentation: Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece Tableau général de l’Empire othoman, Carter V. Findley – Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU

19 May - 5 September 2021

Exhibition: The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764 – Sir John Soanes Museum, London

15 June 2021, 5 pm (UK time)

Online seminar: Frankish Gravestones in the Eastern Aegean from the Medieval Period, Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora, Denys Pringle – BIAA

17 June 2021

Conference: The Greek War of Independence and British Involvement (politics, diplomacy, philhellenism, philanthropy) – The Anglo-Hellenic League / The Hellenic Centre, London

14-16 July 2021

Conference cfp: Education and cultural policy in Italian migrations – Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy - deadline 1 May 2021

28-31 October 2021

Conference: Ethnic Violence, Imperial Vision, and National Churches in the Ottoman Empire – Montreal, Canada, MESA

Thank you to all our supporters and sponsors (Erol Makzume, Catoni Group) who made our recent conference a success:

4th LHF-Istanbul Conference, ‘Levantine lifestyle on the Princes’ Islands’, 21 September 2019 - flyer: - brochure: - gallery:

LHF Istanbul volunteer group

Also thank you to the participants and supporters of the recent LHF-Italy roundable in Genoa on the occasion of Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia, Third Conference of the Symposium Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement, 27-29 June 2019 – Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, Italy - programme: - gallery:

We are saddened by the recent (19 August 2019) death of Prof. Haluk Dursun, the former vice culture minister of Turkey who honoured us with his introductory talk on 23 September 2016, at the Levantine Heritage Foundation conference in association with the Beyoğlu Municipality: ‘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’ - video (in Turkish) - Conveying to his family and friends our deepest condolences.

We also offer our condolences to the families of project contributors Mr Enrico Aliotti Snr (13 April 2020, Nice, France) and Mr Patrick Grigsby (8th June 2020, England). May they rest in peace.