Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

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

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

11-12-13 February 8 pm - 15 February 3 & 8 pm - 16 February 4 pm, 2020

Theatre production: İkinin Biri - 12th Izmir Levantine Theatre shows - poster:

18 February 2020, 5-6.30 pm

Lecture: Middle East: political economy of lost opportunities, chaos and uncertainty, John Sfakianakis - Bateman Auditorium, Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, England

6 March - 3 April 2020

Course: Travellers to and from the Middle East, Paul Starkey & Dr Janet Starkey - Berwick Educational Association, William Elder Building, 56-58 Castlegate, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England

until 15 March 2020

Exhibition: From Istanbul to Oxford: The Origins of Coffee Drinking in England – Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England

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

Symposium: Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologists – German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul, Turkey

29-30 April 2020

Workshop: The Visibility of Strangers. Diasporas, Urban Spaces, and Material Pluralism in the Mediterranean Space – Rome, Italy

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

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.