Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

Postponed to a date yet to be announced

34th LHF gathering in London with guest speaker Esther-Miriam Wagner: ‘From Tuscany to Egypt and the Levant: 18th-c. Arabic letters in the Prize Paper Collections’ - Joint event with the Royal Asiatic Society - flyer:

External Events

15 September - 27 December 2020

Exhibition: Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the eyes of the Köpe Family – Salt Beyoğlu, İstiklal Caddesi 136, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

22 September 2020, 1-2:30 am CEST

Online lecture: A Short Lesson on the Crisis in Lebanon, Philip Raad

25-27 September 2020

Conference: Occupied Istanbul: Urban Politics, Culture, and Society, 1918-1923 – Boğaziçi University, Bebek, Istanbul

1-3 October 2020

Conference: Varieties of Capitalism in the Mediterranean (18th-20th c.) – Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

until 31 October 2020

Exhibition: Levantines of Izmir - Apikam, Şair Eşref Bulvarı No: 1/A Çankaya, Izmir (gallery during opening) - flyer:

until 31 January 2021

Exhibition: Cairo Streets: Come face to face with everyday life in 19th century Cairo - Victoria & Albert Museum, Gallery 42, South Kensington, London

? February - ? May 2021

Exhibition: In Search of Ionia – Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

28 June - 30 June 2021

Conference: 4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds – Aix-en-Provence, France - deadline: 1 July 2020

28 June - 2 July 2021

Conference: 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters – Royal Holloway, University of London

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.