Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

18 September 2019, 6 pm

32nd Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London with the theme ‘Levantine Legacies in 19th century Asia Minor’ with guest speaker Gwendolyn Collaço: ‘Prints and Impressions from Ottoman Smyrna: The Harvard Fulgenzi Album’ and Richard Wittmann: ‘The Feriköy (Istanbul) Protestant Cemetery Initiative’ - flyer: - registration:

21 September 2019, 10 am - 5 pm

Call for papers: 4th LHF-Istanbul Conference, ‘Levantines’ culture of recreation, clubs and Princes Islands’ - flyer: - registration:

External Events

20 September 2019, 7 pm

Book presentation & Alumni Reunion: ‘Memories of the English School’ - Kyriacos Demetriades, Professor Kypros Nicolaides and Mr Harry Sophoclides - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

until 21 September 2019

Exhibition: Looking from In-Between: A Section of Meşrutiyet Street – Istanbul Research Institute, Meşrutiyet Caddesi No.47, Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu

27 September 2019, 7 pm

Book presentation: Aspects and Visions of Greece in European Travellers’ Imagery from the Renaissance onwards, Professor Bettany Hughes, Dr Theodoros Koutsogiannis, Dr Aphrodite Kouria - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

7 October 2019, 5.30 pm

Book launch: ‘Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities’, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies - IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, London

7 October 2019, 7 pm

Lecture: ‘Early British Travellers to Athens and the Hunt for Inscriptions: Some Overlooked Epigraphic Manuscripts of the 18th and 19th Centuries’, Robert Pitt - British School at Athens, Upper House, 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

10 October 2019 - 26 January 2020

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

13-15 October 2019

Call for papers: From Archives to Arch-Lives, The American University in Cairo’s 100th Anniversary – The American University in Cairo, Egypt - info:

16-17 October 2019

Call for papers: Eastern Questions: New Perspectives on British Orientalism - Watts Gallery, Artists’ Village and Royal Holloway, University of London - deadline: 31 July 2019

22 October 2019, 6.30 pm

Lecture: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire: ‘the union of the lily and the crescent’, Philip Mansel - Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London

24-26 October 2019

Conference: The War That Never Ended: Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in the Aftermath of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1918-1923, Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

27 October 2019, 11 am - 6 pm

Exhibition: ‘Echoes of the past: Turkish, Venetian, and Greek’ - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

until 3 November 2019

Exhibition: John Frederick Lewis: Facing Fame – Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Guildford, Surrey, England

until 10 November 2019

Exhibition: The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam – Gallery 10, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England

until 27 November 2019

Exhibition: ‘... in Fried und Einigkeit ...’ [in peace and unity] - Bernardisaal Stift Stams, Tyrol, Austria

28-30 November 2019

Conference: Vikings in the Mediterranean – Athens, Greece

26-28 March 2020

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

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

10-11 July 2020

Call for papers: The Power of the Dispersed: Early Modern Global Travelers beyond Integration – German Orient Institute in Istanbul - deadline: 31 July 2019

Thank you to all our supporters who made our recent conference a success:

3rd Levantine Heritage Foundation international conference: ‘The Levantines: Identities and Heritage’, Athens, Greece, 2-3 November 2018 - programme - booklet - tours flyer - gallery - videos:

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: