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Upcoming Events - LHF
23 October 2018, 6,30 pm
1st LHF-Italy lecture: ‘Catholic faith and transnational culture among Levantines of Italian origin in Ottoman and Early Republican Turkey, Istanbul’ - The Polo del Novecento, Via del Carmine, 14, Turin - flyer:
26-27 October 2018
CFP: 3rd LHF-Istanbul international conference: ‘Legal Status of Levantines in the Ottoman Empire’, Istanbul - - Call for papers - deadline Sept 15 2018.
2-4 November 2018
3rd Levantine Heritage Foundation international conference: ‘The Levantines: Identities and Heritage’, Athens, Greece - - Call for papers (now closed for submissions) - accommodation offer link:
4 December 2019, 7 pm
Lecture: ‘From Mohammed Ali Pasha to King Farouk: the Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria’, Dr Philip Mansel - Egyptian Cultural Centre and Education Bureau, 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London - flyer:
15 January 2019
29th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London with guest speakers Robert Irwin ‘Western travellers in the Mamluk lands’ and Raphael Cormack ‘Cairo’s multicultural interwar theatre scene’ - further details and registration to follow.
External Events
29 August - 1 September 2018
Conference: Spectacle, Entertainment, and Recreation in the Modernizing Ottoman Empire, Department of Business Studies – Roma Tre University, Via Silvio d’Amico 77, Rome, Italy
7-8 September 2018
Conference: The Forgotten Revolution: Visual and Material Culture of the Hungarian Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire, University of Cambridge, England
19-21 September 2018
Conference: The Power of Language: Linguistic and Social Order in the Ottoman Empire, Turkologentag, Bamberg, Germany
19-21 September 2018
Panel: Going Native: Converts, Renegades and ‘New’ Ottomans”, 16th-19th century, Turkologentag, Bamberg, Germany
until 23 September 2018
Exhibition: Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century, Gli Uffizi / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
25-27 September 2018
Conference: Art and Textile Production in the Medieval Mediterranean, Museo del Traje, Madrid, Spain
12-13 October 2018
Call for applications: Late-Ottoman Identities: The National, Transnational and Marginal, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic - deadline: 7 July 2018.
17-20 October 2018
2nd International Congress on Ottoman Studies (OSARK), Tirana University, Albania
26-27 October 2018
Call for papers: Margins of the Mediterranean, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA - deadline: 15 July 2018
1-3 November 2018
Conference: Transnationalism and Questions of Identity, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1700, New York, USA
10 November 2018
Lecture: ‘Imperial Apogee: Constantinople under Abdulhamid II 1876-1909’, Philip Mansel - Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
22 November 2018, 6 pm
Lecture: ‘The concept, development and execution of the Ottoman Garden in St Louis, Missouri, USA’, Anderson Bakewell - Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London - flyer - booking:
22-24 November 2018
Conference: Visions of the future in Ottoman Europe (15th – 20th century), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
23 November 2018, 3 - 5.30 pm
Lecture: The Archaeological Origins of Britain in Palestine, Dr Michael Talbot – Palestine Exploration Fund, 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, London
23-24 November 2018
Workshop: Nations and Minorities, Sovereignty and Secessionism, 1918-2018 – St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, England
17-19 March 2019
Call for papers: New Geographies in Political Thought: The Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean - Washington State University, USA - deadline: 6 August 2018
27 March 2019
Conference: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: The Birth of the Modern Nation - Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London
25-26 May 2019
Call for papers: 21st International Conference on History and Culture of Ottoman Empire, Holiday Inn London – Wembley, Empire Way, Wembley, London - deadline: 25 July 2018
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