Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

4 May 2019, 3 pm

1st Levantine Heritage Foundation tour and meal gathering in Athens with guest guide Nicolas Nicolaides: ‘Traces of Levantine Athens’ - flyer: - registration:

24 July 2019, 6 pm

31st Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London with guest speaker Gareth Winrow: ‘Patriot and Liberal Internationalist? The Life of Ahmed Robenson’ and Prof Gerald MacLean: ‘Ottoman Aleppo Through British Eyes’ - flyer: - registration:

18 September 2019, 6 pm

32nd Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London with guest speakers soon to be announced soon

External Events

24 April 2019, 8 pm

Izmir Amateur Theatre performance: ‘Tom, Dick & Harry’ - Tepekule Kongre ve Sergi Merkezi, Bayraklı, Izmir - flyer:

25 April 2019, 5.15 - 7.30 pm

Lecture: Protecting the Mediterranean: Ottoman responses to Maritime violence in the eighteenth century, Michael Talbot - War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), King’s College London, King’s Building, Strand Campus, London

25 April 2019, 6 - 7 pm

Twin Lectures: ‘The Ottoman Costume Album as Collaborative Object and Agent of Contact’, Professor Elisabeth Fraser & ‘Edward Said and the Epistolary Interior’ - Professor Mary Roberts, ‘Orientalism’ after 40 - The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London

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

Until 27 April 2019

Exhibition: “Features of an Era” - Aisha Fahmy Palace, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt - info:

2 May 2019, 6 - 8 pm

Lecture: Imperial Interventions in the Levant in 1919: The Wilsonian Imaginary and the Ottoman Lands, Andrew Patrick - Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London

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, Dr Aphrodite Kouria - 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

14 May 2019, 6 - 7 pm

Lecture: Venice and the Ottomans: a visual artistic journey between the Serenissima and Istanbul, Dr Stefano Carboni - The University of Western Australia (Fox Lecture Theatre), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Australia

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 2019, 6.30 pm

Lecture: Landscapes of reform: Ottoman Palace gardens of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Deniz Türker - The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, York, England

30 May - 1 June 2019

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

1 June 2019

Call for papers: Celebrations in the eastern Mediterranean: private and public, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, England - deadline 7 April 2019

6 June 2019, 6,30 pm

Lecture: Mamluk Fashion Trends in Egypt and Syria, Shireen El Kassem - Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York, York, England

13-15 June 2019

Workshop: Currents and Currency: Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean and Beyond, Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Center for Mediterranean Civilizations, Antalya, Turkey

17-19 June 2019

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

27-29 June 2019

Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia, Third Conference of the Symposium Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement – Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, Italy

12-15 July 2019

Thirteenth Biennial ASTENE Conference – University of York & National Railway Museum, York, England

until 14 July 2019

Exhibition: From Dresden to Baghdad and back – Verkehrsmuseum Dresden gGmbH, im Johanneum am Neumarkt, Augustusstraße 1, Dresden, Germany - info in German:

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:

until 27 November 2019

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

28-30 November 2019

Call for papers: Vikings in the Mediterranean – Athens, Greece - deadline 30 March 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: