Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

15 January 2020, 6.30 pm

33rd Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture in association with the Egyptian Cultural Centre: ‘Cairo through the lens of pilgrims and explorers from the Middle Ages to Napoleon’, Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif - Egyptian Cultural Centre, London - flyer - registration:

20 January 2020, 6.45 pm

Lecture: Venetians in the Levant: from Constantinople to Aleppo, Dr Philip Mansel
A joint Venice in Peril and LHF event
Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE - booking:

External Events

9 December 2019, 6 - 8.30 pm

Lecture: ‘Iraida Barry, Thomas Whittemore & Constantinople’s “Russian” Moment’, Valentina Izmirlieva & Holger Klein - Columbia Global Centers, Sıraselviler Cad. No:49, Yeni Hayat Apt. Kat:2 D:5 Beyoğlu, Istanbul

12 December 2019, 6.30 pm

Lecture: ‘Changing Religious Landscapes: A Catholic Topography of Pera during the 18th and 19th Centuries’, Paolo Girardelli - İstanbul Research Institute, Meşrutiyet Caddesi No.47, Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

10 January 9 pm - 11 January 2020 8 pm

Workshop: Visible and Invisible Borders Between Christians and the Muslims in the Early Modern World - Gellner room, Budapest Campus Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Hungary

20 January 2020, 7 pm

Panel discussion: Migration and Diaspora, co-organized with King’s College London - British School at Athens, Upper House, 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

until 26 January 2020

Exhibition: Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art - The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London

27 January 2020, 5- 9 pm

Panel discussion: Migration and Diaspora, co-organized with the British School at Athens - Council Room, Strand Campus, Strand, London

16 March 2020, 7 pm

Lecture: The Sun King and the Ottoman Empire, from Constantinople, via Athens, to Jerusalem, Dr Philip Mansel – The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

26-28 March 2020

Panel: Diversity and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean – Berkely, California, USA

April - June 2020

Exhibition: The Characters Of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures – SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London

21-23 April 2020

Call for papers: Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologists – German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul, Turkey - deadline: 1 November 2019

29-30 April 2020

Call for papers: The Visibility of Strangers. Diasporas, Urban Spaces, and Material Pluralism in the Mediterranean Space – Rome, Italy - deadline: 30 September 2019

29 June - 3 July 2020

Call for papers: 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters – Royal Holloway, University of London - deadline: 1 November 2019

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

Call for papers: Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display – University of Antwerp, Stadscampus, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium - deadline: 29 October 2019

1-3 October 2020

Call for papers: Varieties of Capitalism in the Mediterranean (18th-20th c.) – Ionian University, Corfu, Greece - deadline: 30 October 2019

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.