Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

3 March 2021, 6pm (UK time)

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:

6 March 2021, 1pm (UK time)

Levanten derneği zoom sunumu no:5: ‘Feriköy’ün sessiz sakinleri: Latin katolik mezarlığı ve anıt yapıları’, Dr Selva Suman

19 March 2021, 6pm (UK time)

6th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Berna Kamay: ‘“Frenkhâne” of Rossi: An Inheritance Story from a Port City, Smyrna’ - flyer - registration:

External Events

3 March - 11 July 2021

Exhibition: The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764 – Sir John Soanes Museum, London

until 14 March 2021

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

18 March 2021, 7 pm

Online presentation: Alep, du cosmopolitisme à la catastrophe, Philip Mansel – Fondation Boghossian

1 April 2021, 8 pm

Online presentation: British Diplomatic Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Dr. Gemma Masson – Association For The Study Of Travel In Egypt And The Near East

6 April 2021, 5 pm

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

20 April 2021, 5 pm

Online presentation: Lebanon in Italy, Italy in Lebanon, Part II: Italian Baroque Paintings in Beirut, Gregory Buchakjian – The Medici Archive Project

27 April 2021, 5 pm

Online presentation: John Craxton: A Life in Greece, Ian Collins – British School at Athens

17 June 2021

Conference: The Greek War of Independence and British Involvement (politics, diplomacy, philhellenism, philanthropy) – The Anglo-Hellenic League / The Hellenic Centre, 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

28-31 October 2021

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:

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.