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Upcoming Events - LHF
26-27 October 2018
CFP: 3rd LHF-Istanbul international conference: ‘Developments in the legal status of Foreigners in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of 19th Century’, Istanbul - - Call for papers - deadline Sept 15 2018.
2-4 November 2018
CFP: 3rd Levantine Heritage Foundation international conference: ‘The Levantines: Identities and Heritage’, Athens, Greece - - Call for papers: - deadline 1 July 2018 - accommodation link: (offer deadline 30th June)
External Events
21-24 June 2018
Workshop: ‘Mediterranean Mobilities and Borders’ - Orient-Institute Istanbul, Susam sok. no. 16, d.7, Cihangir, Istanbul
25-28 June 2018
Conference: ‘New Approaches to Studying the Middle East’, BRISMES 2018 – Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London
27-28 June 2018
Conference: ‘Exile Studies (Europe 16th-19th. c.)’, Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), France
4-6 July 2018
Conference: Mediterranean Europe(s). Images and ideas of Europe from the Mediterranean shores, Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy
until 16 July 2018
Exhibition: ‘Kendine Has: The story of the Bomonti Brewery’, Mahall Bomonti, Konak, Halkapınar Mahallesi, Şehitler Caddesi, 1558. Sokak, Izmir - poster - trailer:
16-22 July 2018
Panel: Beyond the ‘Great Powers’: Foreign Relations, Secondary States and the Ottoman Empire in the Modern Age, Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Seville, Spain
16-22 July 2018
Conference: ‘Christians in the Middle East’, Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Seville, Spain
26-28 July 2018
Conference - On Belonging: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550 – 1700, TIDE, University of Liverpool, London Campus, 33 Finsbury Square, London
1-3 August 2018
Conference: 4th CSS International Conference on Syria: “The Syrian War: Later Evolution, Future Prospects”, The Centre for Syrian Studies (CSS), University of St Andrews, Scotland
29 August - 1 September 2018
Conference - Spectacle, Entertainment, and Recreation in the Modernizing Ottoman Empire, Department of Business Studies – Roma Tre University, Via Silvio d’Amico 77, Rome, Italy
7-8 September 2018
Conference: The Forgotten Revolution: Visual and Material Culture of the Hungarian Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire, University of Cambridge, England
19-21 September 2018
Conference: The Power of Language: Linguistic and Social Order in the Ottoman Empire, Turkologentag, Bamberg, Germany
19-21 September 2018
Panel: Going Native: Converts, Renegades and ‘New’ Ottomans”, 16th-19th century, Turkologentag, Bamberg, Germany
25-27 September 2018
Conference: Art and Textile Production in the Medieval Mediterranean, Museo del Traje, Madrid, Spain
12-13 October 2018
Call for applications: Late-Ottoman Identities: The National, Transnational and Marginal, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic - deadline: 7 July 2018.
17-20 October 2018
2nd International Congress on Ottoman Studies (OSARK), Tirana University, Albania
26-27 October 2018
Call for papers: Margins of the Mediterranean, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA - deadline: 15 July 2018
1-3 November 2018
Conference: Transnationalism and Questions of Identity, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1700, New York, USA
10 November 2018
Lecture: ‘Imperial Apogee: Constantinople under Abdulhamid II 1876-1909’, Philip Mansel - Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
22 November 2018, 6 pm
Lecture: ‘The concept, development and execution of the Ottoman Garden in St Louis, Missouri, USA’, Anderson Bakewell - Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London - flyer - booking:
22-24 November 2018
Conference: Visions of the future in Ottoman Europe (15th – 20th century), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
23-24 November 2018
Workshop: Nations and Minorities, Sovereignty and Secessionism, 1918-2018 – St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, England
25-26 May 2019
Call for papers: 21st International Conference on History and Culture of Ottoman Empire, Holiday Inn London – Wembley, Empire Way, Wembley, London - deadline: 25 July 2018
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