‘Levantines Past, Present, Future’ Symposium, Izmir, November 3-8, 2010 - details:

Second Levantine Symposium in Izmir, Friday 31 October, 2014 with an optional visit to Chios on 2-3 November - flyer:

1st International Conference by the LHF: ‘The Levantines: Commerce and Diplomacy’, Istanbul on 3-5 November 2014 (with optional sightseeing on 6 November), 2014 - flyer - press release / Türkçe - booklet - Mimarist news

18th London group meeting 4 February 2015, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speaker Joseph Murat: ‘The Murat family of Bournabat, Smyrna, Turkey’ - video:

19th London group meeting 2 July 2015, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speakers Edward Charlton-Jones: ‘White Russian Émigré Society in Constantinople, 1918-23’ and George Vassiadis: ‘Sacred Spaces: Greek and Levantine Places of Worship in Alexandria and Cairo’ - flyer:

20th London group meeting 21 October 2015, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speakers Brian Taylor: ‘In search of Antoine van der Steen, the forgotten painter of eighteenth-century Constantinople’ and Valerie Neild: ‘Snow in Smyrna: the travels of a portrait’ - flyer:

21st London group meeting 27 January 2016, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speakers Briony Llewellyn: ‘The Ambassador’s Artist: Luigi Mayer (c. 1750-1803) and Sir Robert Ainslie, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1775-93)’ and Thora Ray: ‘A Millwright’s Tale; Life in Menemen during WW1’ - flyer:

22nd London group meeting 28 April 2016, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speakers Dr Philip Mansel: ‘Aleppo: World City to War Zone’ and Dr Simon Mills: ‘Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and Aleppo, 1620-1760’ - flyer:

23rd London group meeting 7 September 2016, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speakers Charles Newton: ‘Count Amadeo Preziosi: Levantines Observed’ and Malcolm Billings: ‘Vartan of Nazareth’ - flyer:

LHF Conference in Istanbul: ‘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’ (25th September a cultural tours day) 23-24 September, 2016 - Programme - poster - booklet - gallery - local press: Turkish / French

LHF Second International Conference: ‘The Levant & Europe: Shipping and Trade Networks of People and Knowledge’, 2-4th November 2016, London - Programme - booklet - press - gallery - videos:

24th group meeting 19 January 2017, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knigtsbridge, with guest speakers author Jerry Brotton: ‘This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World’ and LHF trustee Zeynep Cebeci Suvari: ‘Consular property records of the Italian community of Istanbul 1873-1910’ - flyer:

25th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London, 24 April 2017, with guest speaker author Haydn Williams: ‘Turquerie: An 18-Century European Fantasy’ - flyer:

26th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London, 21 September 2017, with guest speakers Dr Jonathan Conlin, senior lecturer in modern history at Southampton University on ‘Very Loyal Subjects and Friends of Our Country: The Gulbenkians and Ottoman/Turkish Economic Development, 1880-1935’ and Nicholas Pelham, author and Middle East correspondent of The Economist, on his ‘Alexandrian and Levantine background’ - flyer:

LHF Second Beyoğlu Conference in Istanbul: ‘Levantines as pioneers of Modernization in Industry and Trade in the Ottoman Empire’, 10-11 November 2017 - call for papers - flyer: / Türkçe: - gallery - videos:

27th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London, 18 January 2018, with guest speakers Dr Philipp Wirtz (SOAS) ‘Rave reviews in Pera: German Residents in late Ottoman Istanbul as Observers of Ottoman Cultural Life, 1908 - 1918’ & Taylan Güngör (SOAS) ‘The late-Medieval Italian community in Pera’ & Tom Young ‘Lost Levantine Houses of Beirut’ - flyer:

28th Levantine Heritage Foundation gathering in London in association with the London Hellenic Centre, 10 April 2018, with guest speakers Prof Peter Mackridge ‘The delights of Istanbul in eighteenth-century Greek literature’ and Tom Rees ‘Camarthen to Cairo via Smyrna and Cyprus: the Rees family 1850 to 1950’ - flyer - video:

1st LHF-Italy round-table: ‘Catholic faith and transnational culture among Levantines of Italian origin in Ottoman and Early Republican Turkey, Istanbul’, 23 October 2018 - The Polo del Novecento, Via del Carmine, 14, Turin - flyer: - poster: - photos:

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

Roundtable: ‘Who are these Levantines: Their activities and contributions to the society they lived in’, 17 December 2018, Akademi Beyoğlu, İmam Adnan Sokak, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, flyer: - booklet: - video:

1st Levantine Heritage Foundation tour gathering in Athens with guest guide Nicolas Nicolaides: ‘Traces of Levantine Athens’, 4 May 2019 - flyer: - gallery:

2nd LHF-Istanbul tour: ‘Multi-cultural history of Yeşilköy / St Stefano, Istanbul’, Zafer Akay, 15 May 2019 - flyer: - gallery:

29th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London, 15 January 2019, 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:

30th Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering in London, 17 April 2019, with guest speakers Talitha Schepers: ‘Perceiving the Sublime Porte: Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Encounters as seen through the Eyes of Netherlandish Artists (1526-1574)’ and Coline Houssais: ‘Paris and its historic connections with the Arabic world’ - flyer:

LHF-Italy panel presentation: ‘The Italians of Turkey: a Forgotten Community’ - 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: - proceedings: - gallery:

31st Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London, 24 July 2019, with guest speaker Gareth Winrow: ‘Patriot and Liberal Internationalist? The Life of Ahmed Robenson’ and Prof Gerald MacLean: ‘Ottoman Aleppo Through British Eyes’ - flyer:

32nd Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture & dinner gathering in London, 18 September 2019, with the theme ‘Levantine Legacies in 19th century Asia Minor’ with guest speaker Gwendolyn Collaço: ‘Prints and Impressions from Ottoman Smyrna: The Harvard Fulgenzi Album’ and Richard Wittmann: ‘The Feriköy (Istanbul) Protestant Cemetery Initiative’ - flyer:

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

33rd (part 1) Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture in association with the Egyptian Cultural Centre: ‘Cairo through the lens of pilgrims and explorers from the Middle Ages to Napoleon’, Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 15 January 2020 - Egyptian Cultural Centre, London - flyer: - video:

33rd (part 2) Levantine Heritage Foundation lecture in association with Venice in Peril: ‘Venetians in the Levant: from Constantinople to Aleppo’, Dr Philip Mansel, 20 January 2020 - the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London - photo: - video:

1st LHF online presentation with guest speaker Nilay Özlü: ‘A Levantine Architect: Alexandre Vallaury (1850-1921)’, 19 November 2020 - flyer: - video:

1st The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Philip Mansel: ‘Istanbul and Smyrna through the eyes of Levantine artists from Luigi Mayer to Fausto Zonaro’, 12 December 2020 - flyer: - video:

2nd LHF online presentation with guest speaker Diana Darke: ‘Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe’, 16 December 2020 - flyer: - video:

Online concert presentation: Christmas 2020 Organ concert from the Holy Spirit Cathedral of Istanbul, 19 December 2020 - flyer - programme:

2nd The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Fabrizio Casaretto: ‘Sebah & Joaillier merceğinden siyah beyaz Osmanlı’ [The black & white Ottoman world through the lens of Sebah & Joaillier], 2 January 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

3rd LHF online presentation with guest speaker Deniz Türker: ‘The Yıldız Palace and Sultan Abdülhamid II’s Flat-Pack Homes, 20 January 2021 - flyer:

3rd The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Dr İlber Ortaylı: ‘Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda iki Levanten şehri İstanbul ve İzmir’, [Two Levantine cities in the Ottoman Empire: Istanbul and Izmir], 29 January 2021 - flyer: - video:

4th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Dr Emre Aracı: ‘Donizetti Paşa ve Osmanlı Sarayından Avrupa Müziği’, [Donizetti Pasha and European Music from the Ottoman Palace], 13 February 2021 - flyer:

4th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Houssine Alloul: ‘Belgium and the Ottoman Empire: ‘Transnationals’ and Diplomacy in an Age of Global Capital’, 17 February 2021 - flyer: - slides: - interview:

5th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Dr Viorel Panaite: ‘Western European Merchants in the Eastern Mediterranean in 16th-17th century Islamic-Ottoman View. The Evidence of a Turkish Manuscript from Bibliothèque Nationale de France’, 3 March 2021 - flyer: - abstract: - video: - interview:

5th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Dr Selva Suman: ‘Feriköy’ün sessiz sakinleri: Latin katolik mezarlığı ve anıt yapıları’, [The silent residents of Feriköy: The Latin Catholic Cemetery and monumental tombs], 6 March 2021 - flyer: - video:

6th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Berna Kamay: ‘“Frenkhâne” of Rossi: An Inheritance Story from a Port City, Smyrna’, 19 March 2021 - flyer: - video: - slides:

6th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Fortunato Maresia: ‘1838 Artigiana ve Levantenler’, [1838 Artigiana and Levantines], 28 March 2021 - flyer: - video:

1er conférence Zoom de LHF avec Philip Mansel: ‘Vénitiens en Levant: de Constantinople, par Smyrne et Alep, à Alexandrie’, 13 April 2021 - prospectus: - video:

7th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Giorgia Renata Taoussi: ‘Edebiyat ve Levantenler - Edmondo De Amicis’in Istanbul’undan, Giovanni Scognamillo’nun Pera’sına uzanan bir yolculuk’, [Literature and the Levantines - A journey from Edmondo De Amicis’s Istanbul to Giovanni Scognamillo’s Pera], 18 April 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

7th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Giampaolo Salice: ‘The Alexianos. A transnational Greek family’, 22 April 2021 - flyer:

8th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Turgay Tuna: ‘San Stefano’nun Levantenleri’, [The Levantines of San Stefano], 2 May 2021 - flyer:

8th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Kaleb Herman Adney: ‘Portfolio Habits: Commercial Networks, Oriental Tobacco, and Extraterritoriality in the Age of International Finance’, 14 May 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

9th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Dr. Malte Fuhrmann: ‘Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire’, 20 May 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

9th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Frederick De Cramer: ‘Osmanlı İmparatorlu’ğunda Oryantal Tütünün Sigara Sanayisinde Rolü’, [The Role of Oriental Tobacco in the Cigarette Industry in the Ottoman Empire], 30 May 2021 - flyer: - video:

10th LHF online presentation with guest speakers Özge Ertem & K. Mehmet Kentel: ‘The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures’, 23 June 2021 - flyer: - video:

10th The Association of Levantines online presentation with guest speaker Dr. Yonca Erkan: ‘İngiliz Levantenler ve Moda Semtinin Kentsel Gelişimi’, [Anglo-Levantines and the urban development of Moda quarter], 27 June 2021 - flyer: - video:

11th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Bengi Su Ertürkmen-Aksoy: ‘Prinkipo Regattas as Urban-Social Activity in 19th century Istanbul’, 13 July 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

12th LHF online presentation with guest speakers Valerie Kennedy, Patrick Hart & Dora Petherbridge: ‘Editing & Interpreting the Liston Papers: Explorations in the Turkish Embassy Archives’, 22 July 2021 - flyer: - video:

1st LHF tour gathering in London: ‘Search for Ionia exhibition’, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2 September 2021 - gallery:

13th LHF online presentation with guest speaker David Whittall: ‘The Whittalls of Turkey: Migration, Diaspora, and Cultural Identity’, 2 September 2021 - flyer:

14th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Ian Lyster: ‘The Lyster family in Constantinople/Istanbul 1884-1980’, 28 September 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

1st LHF / MAP joint online presentation with guest speaker Özden Mercan: ‘From Constantinople to Livorno: Merchants, Migration, and Transfer of Technologies’, 30 September 2021 - flyer: - interview:

15th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Ozan Ozavci: ‘Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant’, 7 October 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

1st joint LHF / Royal Asiatic Society live lecture gathering with guest speaker Michael Cottakis: ‘Echoes of the Levant: Salonica and Smyrna in the Aegean Near East’, 4 November 2021 - flyer: - video: - interview:

34th LHF hybrid lecture & dinner gathering in London with guest speaker Prof Eric Dursteler: ‘The Honour of the European Nation: Women and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Levant’, 16 November 2021 - flyer:

2ème conférence Zoom de LHF avec Dominique Gogny: ‘Archives d’Orient: Les notables alexandrins, des héritiers sans héritage (1882-1985)’, 17 November 2021 - prospectus: - video: - interview:

16th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Dr Vjeran Kursar: ‘Croatian Levantines in Ottoman Istanbul’, 8 December 2021 - flyer: - video:

17th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Brian VanDeMark: ‘American University of Beirut: The Story of America’s Influence in the Middle East’, 13 January 2022 - flyer: - slides: - video: - interview:

3ème conférence Zoom de LHF avec R. Dussart-Desart: ‘Les tramways belges dans l’Empire ottoman’, 19 January 2022 - prospectus: - slides: - video: - interview:

18th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Paulina Dominik: ‘Levantine-Polish Contacts in Late Ottoman Istanbul’, 17 February 2022 - flyer: - video:

19th LHF online presentation with guest speaker Gábor Fodor: ‘Changing by the Needs: The Story of the Hungarian Society in Constantinople’, 5 April 2022 - flyer: - video: - interview:

20th LHF online presentation with guest speakers Tom Rees, Noël Woolrych, George York: ‘The English Consul – Chief of British Intelligence’, 20 April 2022 - flyer: - video:

3rd LHF-Istanbul tour: ‘Art Nouveau Architecture in Beyoğlu’, Zafer Akay, 16 May 2022 - flyer:

2nd joint LHF / Royal Asiatic Society live lecture gathering with guest speaker Esther-Miriam Wagner: ‘From Tuscany to Egypt and the Levant: 18th-c. Arabic letters in the Prize Paper Collections’, 14 June 2022 - flyer: - video:

Première réunion à Paris : ‘La France et le Levant’, Paris, France, 30 June 2022 - prospectus: - video:

21st LHF online presentation with guest speaker Joshua Shannon-Chastain: ‘For Queen and Sultan: Anglo-Ottoman Advisors, Soldiers, Mercenaries and Imperial Agents in War and State (1853-1890)’, 6 September 2022 - flyer: - video:

Book launch: ‘Smyrna on my mind’, George Galdies, 28 September 2022 - Hellenic Centre London - flyer: - slides: - interview:

22nd LHF online presentation with guest speaker Michael Refalo: ‘At home: Maltese British subjects in Egypt 1860s-1923’, 11 October 2022 - flyer: - video: - interview:

Conference: ‘Venice, Italians and the Ottoman Levant’, Venice, Italy, 24 November 2022 - flyer: - video 1:, video 2:, video 3: - gallery:

Online presentation: ‘Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson on Law and the State’, Prof Carter V. Findley, 13 December 2022 - joint event with ATS - flyer: - video: - interview:

23rd online presentation with guest speaker Michael Wagner: ‘Guns, Money and Lawyers: The English Chartered Trading Companies’, 24 January 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

24th online presentation with guest speaker Ben Singer: ‘Rediscovering the Diversity of a Levantine Family – the Jewish, German, Austrian, French and Armenian branches of One Istanbul Family’, 26 February 2023 - flyer: - video:

25th online presentation with guest speaker Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt: ‘Department Stores and Luxuries in the Levant: The Spread of Western Consumption Goods in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, 21 March 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

3rd joint LHF / Royal Asiatic Society live lecture gathering with guest speaker Dr Gemma Masson: ‘Upstairs, Downstairs: British Diplomatic Travellers in 18th Century Istanbul’, 28 March 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

26th online presentation with guest speaker Enno Maessen: ‘Urban life in Twentieth-Century Beyoğlu’, 8 May 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

27th online presentation with guest speakers Gillian Mueller & James de Wesselow: ‘George Baker: From London Waif to Merchant Mogul of Constantinople, 1848-1905’, 13 June 2023 - flyer: - video:

28th online presentation with guest speaker Reem Haddad: ‘From Smyrna to Beirut: The Story of International College’, 3 July 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

29th online presentation with guest speaker Chloe Metz: ‘“A Thoroughly Mongrel Race” in a “Faraway, Gaslit World”: Levantine Liminality and Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Port Cities’, 25 July 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

1st Joint conference with LKMKD & LHF: ‘Istanbul, Diplomatic Capital of Europe’, Philip Mansel and Sinan Kuneralp, moderated by Philippe Bourmaud, Palais de France, Istanbul, 22 September 2023 - flyer: - gallery: - video:

4th joint LHF / Royal Asiatic Society live lecture gathering with guest speaker Stephen Boys Smith: ‘Through Consular Eyes: Thomas Sandwith, British Levant Consul 1855-1891’, 28 November 2023 - flyer: - video: - interview:

Hybrid presentation: ‘The Grand Tour in the Levant, from Athens, via Constantinople and Aleppo, to Cairo: Power, Pleasure and Scholarship’, Philip Mansel, 1st joint event with the Anglo-Turkish Society, 12 December 2023 - flyer: - slides: - video:

30th online presentation with guest speaker Achilleas Chatziconstantinou: ‘The Smyrna Quay book. A decade-long multidisciplinary effort to research and reconstruct the legendary face of the most important ottoman city port’, 11 March 2024 - flyer: - video: - interview:

31st online presentation with guest speaker Iosif Maravelakis: ‘From Crete to London: A Case Study of British Influence in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire’, 14th May 2024 - flyer: - video: - interview:

32nd online presentation with guest speaker Roberto Mazza: ‘The Crucible of Jerusalem: Local Dynamics in Palestine During the Great War (1914-1918)’, 10th June 2024 - flyer: - video:

33rd online presentation with guest speaker Dimitris Kousouris: ‘The Latin communities of the Archipelago and the Greek Revolution of 1821’, 18th June 2024 - flyer: - video: - interview:

Hybrid presentation: ‘The 1860 Events and the Reconstruction of Ottoman Damascus’, Professor Eugene Rogan, 2nd joint event with the Anglo-Turkish Society, 19 June 2024 - flyer: - video:

Hybrid presentation: ‘Remembering and Forgetting: Britain, Turkey, and the Occupation of Istanbul, 1918-1923’, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, 3rd joint event with the Anglo-Turkish Society, 9 July 2024 - flyer: - video:

34th online presentation with guest speaker Vjeran Kursar: ‘Multiple Identities and Shifting Allegiances in a Levantine Diplomat Family in Ottoman Istanbul: the Case of the House of Chirico’, 16 July 2024 - flyer: - video:

In-person presentation: ‘The Tears of Chios: a Greek family’s story of Diaspora’, Richard Calvocoressi, 2 October 2024 - KCL Strand Campus, London - flyer: - slides: - gallery: - video:

Online presentation: ‘Layered Levantine Identities: The Glavany Family’s Networks and Built Legacy in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond’, Efe Erünal & Alexandra Koumpouli, 29 October 2024 - flyer: - video:

Hybrid joint Symposium with the School of Advanced Study, University of London: ‘Trieste and the Levant’, Katia Pizzi, Richard Bassett (slides), Philip Mansel (slides), Michael Cottakis (slides), 27 November 2024 - Woburn Suite, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU - information: - photo: - video: