Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

17 April 2019, 6 pm

30th Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London with guest speakers to be announced soon.

24 July 2019, 6 pm

31st Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London with guest speakers to be announced soon.

External Events

21 February 2019, 7 pm

Book launch and talk: Admiral Lord Nelson and the Ottoman Sultan’s Diamond Chelengk, Martyn Downer - Yunus Emre Institute, 10 Maple Street, London

23-24-25-26-27 February 2019

Theatre presentations: ‘Tom, Dick & Harry’, Izmir Amateur Levantine Theatre - Kültür Park İzmir Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey - poster: SOLD OUT.

28 February 2019, 7 pm

Lecture: “1919: Venizelos’ Asia Minor policy revisited”, Roderick Beaton - Archaeological Society, 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, Greece

1-2 March 2019

Seminar: “Turning Points”, Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2019 Workshop - Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

7 March 2019, 6.30 pm

Lecture: Travelling east via Burlington House: Orientalist painting at the Royal Academy, Madeline Boden - The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, York, England

13 March 2019, 6.30 - 8 pm

Lecture: A Frayed Fabric: The Unmaking and Remaking of Harput’s Cultural Landscapes, Dr Zeynep Kezer - COW 1.11, Cowdray House, LSE, Houghton Street, London

13 March 2019, 7 - 8.30 pm

Lecture: The Paris of Gulbenkian, Jonathan Conlin - Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France, 39 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, Paris, France

17-19 March 2019

Conference: New Geographies in Political Thought: The Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean - Washington State University, USA

21-24 March 2019

Roundtable: Trans-nationalizing Identity and Space in The Orient: 19th-century Women’s Travel Writing, Washington D.C., USA

27 March 2019

Conference: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: The Birth of the Modern Nation - Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London

28 March 2019, 5 pm

Lecture: The singing Turk: Ottoman power and operatic emotions, Larry Wolff - Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, England

10-12 April 2019

Conference: Crossing Boundaries? ​Trade and Connections on the Medieval Mediterranean - Woolf Institute, Madingley Road, Cambridge, England

26 April 2019, 6.30 - 8 pm

Book club: Les Échelles du Levant d’Amin Maalouf - Alliance Française de Washington DC, 2142 Wyoming Avenue Northwest, Washington, USA

3-5 May 2019

Conference: Seventh International Symposium on Ottoman Istanbul - 29 Mayıs University, Elmalıkent Cad. No:4, Ümraniye, Istanbul

8 May 2019, 7 pm

Book launch discussion: Aspects and Visions of Greece in European Travellers’ Imagery from the Renaissance onwards - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

9 May 2019, 6.30 pm

Lecture: ‘Saladin, we have returned!’: The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era, Professor Jonathan Phillips - Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London

10-11 May 2019

Colloquim: La maison consulaire: espaces, fonctions et usagers, INU Champollion, Place de Verdun, Albi, France

22 May 2019, 6.30 - 8 pm

Lecture: From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Fundraising and Jewish Refugee Relief in the Seventeenth Century, Professor Adam Teller, Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Torrington Square, London

23-24 May 2019

Conference: Italy and the Suez Canal. A global history, from the mid-19th century to the present, University of Turin, Italy

25-26 May 2019

21st International Conference on History and Culture of Ottoman Empire, Holiday Inn London – Wembley, Empire Way, Wembley, London

30 May - 1 June 2019

Conference: Cultural Entanglement, Transfer and Contention in Mediterranean Communities, CEMS, Nador 15, Room 103, Budapest, Hungary - deadline: 15 February 2019

13-15 June 2019

Call for papers: Currents and Currency: Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean and Beyond, Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Center for Mediterranean Civilizations, Antalya, Turkey - deadline: 15 January 2019

17-19 June 2019

Entanglements in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Seventh Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA

12-15 July 2019

Call for papers: Thirteenth Biennial ASTENE Conference – University of York & National Railway Museum, York, England - deadline 28 February 2019

13-16 October 2019

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

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