5th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Dr Viorel Panaite: ‘Western European Merchants in the Eastern Mediterranean in 16th-17th century Islamic-Ottoman View. The Evidence of a Turkish Manuscript from Bibliothèque Nationale de France’ - flyer - registration:
Levanten derneği zoom sunumu no:5: ‘Feriköy’ün sessiz sakinleri: Latin katolik mezarlığı ve anıt yapıları’, Dr Selva Suman
6th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Berna Kamay: ‘“Frenkhâne” of Rossi: An Inheritance Story from a Port City, Smyrna’ - flyer - registration:
Exhibition: The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764 – Sir John Soanes Museum, London
Exhibition: Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the eyes of the Köpe Family – Salt Beyoğlu, İstiklal Caddesi 136, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Online presentation: Alep, du cosmopolitisme à la catastrophe, Philip Mansel – Fondation Boghossian
Online presentation: British Diplomatic Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Dr. Gemma Masson – Association For The Study Of Travel In Egypt And The Near East
Online presentation: Lebanon in Italy, Italy in Lebanon, Part I: The 1608 Visit of Fakhr-al-Din ibn Maan (‘Fakhreddine’) to the Medici Court, Carole Dagher - The Medici Archive Project
Online presentation: Lebanon in Italy, Italy in Lebanon, Part II: Italian Baroque Paintings in Beirut, Gregory Buchakjian – The Medici Archive Project
Online presentation: John Craxton: A Life in Greece, Ian Collins – British School at Athens
Conference: The Greek War of Independence and British Involvement (politics, diplomacy, philhellenism, philanthropy) – The Anglo-Hellenic League / The Hellenic Centre, London
Conference: 4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds – Aix-en-Provence, France - deadline: 1 July 2020
Conference: 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters – Royal Holloway, University of London
Conference: Ethnic Violence, Imperial Vision, and National Churches in the Ottoman Empire – Montreal, Canada, MESA - deadline: 12 February 2021
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:
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.