Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

17 December 2018, 6 - 8 pm

Roundtable: ‘Who are these Levantines: Their activities and contributions to the society they lived in’, Akademi Beyoğlu, İmam Adnan Sokak, Beyoğlu, Istanbul - - flyer: - booklet:

15 January 2019, 6 pm

29th Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture gathering in London with guest speakers Robert Irwin ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: Western Travellers in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria’ and Raphael Cormack ‘Cairo’s multicultural interwar theatre scene’ - flyer - registration:

External Events

19 December 2018, 7 pm

Lecture: ‘Bir Avusturya-Macaristan Askerinin Anılarında İşgal İstanbul’undan Manzaralar’, Nefin Dinç - Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sokak No:16, Cihangir, Istanbul

17 January 2019, 6 pm

Lecture: ‘Martoni’s Pilgrimage: the Levant before the Pax Ottomana’, John Mole - Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London

until 25 January 2019

Exhibition - The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures, Çankaya Belediyesi, Zülfü Livaneli Kültür Merkezi, Ankara

6 February 2019, 3 - 4.15 pm

Lecture - ‘PhD and a Cup of Tea: A Sarajevo Jewish Story’, The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London

11 February 2019, 5.30 pm

Twin lecture: “Transcultural Encounters”, Nandini Das ‘City of Memory: Portuguese Goa and the First English Voyage to India’; Eva Holmberg ‘Beyond the Harem and the Veil: Early English Encounters with the Women of the Ottoman Empire, c. 1600’ – Council Room (K2.29), King’s College London

28 February 2019, 7 pm

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

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

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

10-11 May 2019

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

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

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

Call for papers: Entanglements in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Seventh Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA - deadline: 31 December 2018

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: