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Upcoming Events - LHF
?15 September 2020, 6.30 pm
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
26-28 March 2020
Panel: Diversity and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean – Berkely, California, USA
1 April 2020, 7 pm
Lecture: Traveling Outside the Colonial Framework. Czech Travelers to Istanbul, 1860s-1923, Jitka Malečková - Big Hall, Cezayir Building, Hayriye Cad. 12, Galatasaray-Beyoğlu, Istanbul
7 April 2020, 7 pm
Lecture: Mediations of Orientalism in the Late Ottoman World, Ahmet Ersoy – Big Hall, Cezayir Building, Hayriye Cad. 12, Galatasaray-Beyoğlu, Istanbul
until 14 April 2020
Exhibition: Un Sultan à Paris, Une Impératrice à Constantinople, 1867-1869 – Notre Dame de Sion, Cumhuriyet Cad. no: 127, Harbiye, Istanbul
15 April 2020, 5.30 pm
Lecture: From Lord Elgin to Gertrude Bell: a local perspective on British archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, Edhem Eldem – BP Lecture Theatre British Museum, Great Russell Street, London
17 April 2020
Book launch: The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A modern history, Dina Danon – Thomson Hall 101, 2023 King Lane, Seattle, USA
29-30 April 2020
Workshop: The Visibility of Strangers. Diasporas, Urban Spaces, and Material Pluralism in the Mediterranean Space – Rome, Italy
7 May 2020, 6 pm
Lecture: Aleppo: from World City to Catastrophe, Philip Mansel – The Nomads Tent, 21 – 23 St Leonard’s Lane, Edinburgh, Scotland
29 June - 3 July 2020
Conference: 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters – Royal Holloway, University of London
10-11 July 2020
Conference: The Power of the Dispersed: Early Modern Global Travelers beyond Integration – German Orient Institute in Istanbul
2-5 September 2020
Conference: Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display – University of Antwerp, Stadscampus, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium
11-13 September 2020
Call for papers: New Perspectives on Middle East Migrations) – North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - deadline 3 April 2020
24-25 September 2020
Call for papers: Venice, a Mediterranean regional power: Economic, maritime and political perspectives, 1669 – 1797 – Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France - deadline: 15 April 2020
25-27 September 2020
Call for papers: Occupied Istanbul: Urban Politics, Culture, and Society, 1918-1923 – Boğaziçi University, Bebek, Istanbul - deadline: 1 March 2020
1-3 October 2020
Conference: Varieties of Capitalism in the Mediterranean (18th-20th c.) – Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
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.