Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

20 January 2021, 6pm (UK time)

3rd LHF online presentation with guest speaker Deniz Türker: ‘The Yıldız Palace and Sultan Abdülhamid II’s Flat-Pack Homes’ - flyer - registration:

22 January 2021, 6pm (UK time)

Levanten derneği zoom sunumu no:3: Prof Dr İlber Ortaylı ile ‘Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda iki Levanten şehri İstanbul ve İzmir’

17 February 2021, 6pm (UK time)

4th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Houssine Alloul: ‘Belgium and the Ottoman Empire: ‘Transnationals’ and Diplomacy in an Age of Global Capital’ - flyer - registration:

External Events

28 January 2021, 8 pm

Online book launch: Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists (2020) — with readings, music and discussion - Association For The Study Of Travel In Egypt And The Near East

until 31 January 2021

Exhibition: Cairo Streets: Come face to face with everyday life in 19th century Cairo - Victoria & Albert Museum, Gallery 42, South Kensington, London

1 February 2021, 5 pm

Online presentation: C.P. Cavafy in the World: Origins, Trajectories and the Diasporic Poet, Dr Foteini Dimirouli – British School at Athens

3 March - 31 May 2021

Exhibition: The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764 – Sir John Soanes Museum, London

until 14 March 2021

Exhibition: Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the eyes of the Köpe Family – Salt Beyoğlu, İstiklal Caddesi 136, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

1 April 2021, 8 pm

Online presentation: British Diplomatic Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Dr. Gemma Masson – Association For The Study Of Travel In Egypt And The Near East

27 April 2021, 5 pm

Online presentation: John Craxton: A Life in Greece, Ian Collins – British School at Athens

28 June - 30 June 2021

Conference: 4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds – Aix-en-Provence, France - deadline: 1 July 2020

28 June - 2 July 2021

Conference: 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters – Royal Holloway, University of London

Thank you to all our supporters and sponsors (Erol Makzume, Catoni Group) who made our recent conference a success:

4th LHF-Istanbul Conference, ‘Levantine lifestyle on the Princes’ Islands’, 21 September 2019 - flyer: - brochure: - gallery:

LHF Istanbul volunteer group

Also thank you to the participants and supporters of the recent LHF-Italy roundable in Genoa on the occasion of Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia, Third Conference of the Symposium Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement, 27-29 June 2019 – Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, Italy - programme: - gallery:

We are saddened by the recent (19 August 2019) death of Prof. Haluk Dursun, the former vice culture minister of Turkey who honoured us with his introductory talk on 23 September 2016, at the Levantine Heritage Foundation conference in association with the Beyoğlu Municipality: ‘The Effects and Contributions of Levantines in the development of Beyoğlu/Pera and Galata Neighbourhoods: A long heritage of Trade, Culture and Arts since 1453’ - video (in Turkish) - Conveying to his family and friends our deepest condolences.

We also offer our condolences to the families of project contributors Mr Enrico Aliotti Snr (13 April 2020, Nice, France) and Mr Patrick Grigsby (8th June 2020, England). May they rest in peace.