Levantine Heritage Foundation
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Upcoming Events - LHF
4 December 2018, 7 pm
Lecture: ‘From Mohammed Ali Pasha to King Farouk: the Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria’, Dr Philip Mansel - Egyptian Cultural Centre and Education Bureau, 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London - flyer:
17 December 2018, 4-7 pm
Roundtable: ‘Who are these Levantines: Their activities and contributions to the society they lived in’, Beyoğlu, Istanbul - - further details and registration to follow.
15 January 2019
29th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London with guest speakers Robert Irwin ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: Western Travellers in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria’ and Raphael Cormack ‘Cairo’s multicultural interwar theatre scene’ - flyer - registration will soon be open.
External Events
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 November 2018, 3 - 5.30 pm
Lecture: The Archaeological Origins of Britain in Palestine, Dr Michael Talbot – Palestine Exploration Fund, 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, London
23-24 November 2018
Workshop: Nations and Minorities, Sovereignty and Secessionism, 1918-2018 – St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, England
5 December 2018, 6 pm
Workshop: Music and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean, Vasilis Kostas – Janet M. Daley Library Lecture Hall, Cardinal Cushing Library, Emmanuel College, Boston, USA
13 December 2018, 6 pm
Lecture: ‘The Merchant of Syria and his Ottoman ancestors’, Diana Darke – Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London
14 December 2018, 1 pm
Lecture: ‘Beyond departure: The labour practices of Greeks in Egypt, 1961-1976’, Eftychia Mylona – Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden, Holland
11 February 2019, 5.30 pm
Twin lecture: “Transcultural Encounters”, Nandini Das ‘City of Memory: Portuguese Goa and the First English Voyage to India’; Eva Holmberg ‘Beyond the Harem and the Veil: Early English Encounters with the Women of the Ottoman Empire, c. 1600’ – Council Room (K2.29), King’s College London
17-19 March 2019
Conference: New Geographies in Political Thought: The Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean - Washington State University, USA
21-24 March 2019
Roundtable: Trans-nationalizing Identity and Space in The Orient: 19th-century Women’s Travel Writing, Washington D.C., USA
27 March 2019
Conference: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: The Birth of the Modern Nation - Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London
10-11 May 2019
Colloquim: La maison consulaire: espaces, fonctions et usagers, INU Champollion, Place de Verdun, Albi, France
23-24 May 2019
Call for papers: Italy and the Suez Canal. A global history, from the mid-19th century to the present, University of Turin, Italy - deadline: 30 October 2018
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: 28 September 2018
13-15 June 2019
Call for papers: Currents and Currency: Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean and Beyond, Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Center for Mediterranean Civilizations, Antalya, Turkey - deadline: 15 January 2019
17-19 June 2019
Call for papers: Entanglements in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Seventh Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA - deadline: 31 December 2018