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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 - Postponed until further notice.
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
2 October 2018, 6.30 pm
Book presentation: Migration and identity at the edge of Europe and beyond - Alev Scott and Daniel Trilling - Stanfords, Covent Garden, London
8 October 2018, 5 pm
Lecture: Education in Egypt under British Occupation, Moustapha Safouan - Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, University College London
12-13 October 2018
Workshop: Late-Ottoman Identities: The National, Transnational and Marginal, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
17-20 October 2018
2nd International Congress on Ottoman Studies (OSARK), Tirana University, Albania
22 October 2018, 6.30 pm
Lecture: Syria’s People: Lessons for the Future?, Dawn Chatty & Diana Darke - The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
29 October 2018, 7 pm
Seminar: Alexandria, from Mohammed Ali to Farouk: The Rise and Fall of a Royal Capital, Dr Philip Mansel - British School of Athens, 52 Souedias Str, Athens, Greece
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
1-3 November 2018
Workshop: Myths and Narratives of Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism 1848-1918, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10 November 2018
Lecture: ‘Imperial Apogee: Constantinople under Abdulhamid II 1876-1909’, Philip Mansel - Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
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
Conference: New Geographies in Political Thought: The Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean - Washington State University, USA
21-24 March 2019
Call for papers: Trans-nationalizing Identity and Space in The Orient: 19th-century Women’s Travel Writing, Washington D.C., USA - deadline: 30 September 2018
27 March 2019
Conference: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: The Birth of the Modern Nation - Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London
23-24 May 2019
Call for papers: Italy and the Suez Canal. A global history, from the mid-19th century to the present, University of Turin, Italy - deadline: 30 October 2018
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: 28 September 2018
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