Constantinople the eternal in a changing world: Swedish eye-witnesses through the ages, Karin Ådahl, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 26 January 2016

The Other Side: the story of Wolfgang Schrader - Dr Jochen Schrader, part of the Gallipoli ‘Evacuation’ Conference, 22 October 2016, Portsmouth, England

East of Venice: La Serenissima as Seen from its Eastern Frontiers, Larry Wolff | Molly Greene | Patricia Fortini Brown | Daphne Lappa, 13 February 2017 - The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Traveling in the Mediterranean in the Early modern period: the Grand Tour and beyond, Gilles Bertrand, 27 March 2017 - The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Book launch and discussion (in Greek): The treasures of Kampos through the testimony of its inhabitants, 25 August 2017 - International Centre for Maritime Research and Tradition, 51 Michail Livanou, Chios

Culture in Crisis: At Home in Syria - artist Zahed Tajeddin and author Diana Darke, 23 October 2017 - The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A; Museum, London

Book launch: Book launch: ‘La Fin du Smyrne - Greek version’, Hervé Georgelin, 27 October 2017 - Βιβλιοθήκη του Δήμου Κηφισιάς (Έπαυλη Δροσίνη) Αγ. Θεοδώρων & Κυριακού, Athens, Greece

‘Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East’ - Heather J. Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania), 2 November 2017 - UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA

Levant’ın Yıldızı İzmir’de Yabancı Gazeteler ve Matbaalar - Bülent Şenocak, 3 November 2017 - Çankaya, İzmir - poster:

Why did Lord Balfour support the Balfour Declaration?, Philip Alexander, 9 November 2017 - Gavin de Beer room, Anatomy Building, UCL, Gower Street, London

The Eastern Question: From Ukraine to Syria, a 300-Year Old Story, Dr. Williams, 13 November 2017 - The Institute of World Politics, 1521 16th St. NW, Washington DC, USA

Sōyleşi: 20. Yüzyılın Başlarında İzmir’in Avrupalı Mimarları, Cenk Berkant, 16 November 2017 - İKTAD, Şair Eşrev Bulvarı no: 22, Çankaya, İzmir - poster:

Mixed Cities of the Mediterranean, from Aleppo to Gibraltar, Philip Mansel, 17 November 2017 - Gibraltar Literary Festival, John Mackintosh Hall, 308 Main Street, Gibraltar

Sites of Religious Memory in an Age of Exodus: Eastern Mediterranean, 17 November 2017 - Maison Francaise, East Gallery, Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York, USA

The Geography of Cyrus in the Middle of the 19th Century – Evidence from Lord Kitchener’s Historical Map of Cyprus (edition of 1885), Dr Christos Chalkias, 20 November 2017 - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

‘Aleppo: A warning from history?’, Dr Philip Mansel, 22 November 2017 - The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, Paris, France

The fall of Jerusalem, Dr Juliette Desplat, 5 December 2017 - The National Archives, Kew, London

Devastated Lands: Lebanon at the End of the Great War, 1918, Professor Eugene Rogan, 16 January 2018 - Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London

Who’s who in sixteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), 18 January 2018 - Whitting Room - Arts Building (Room 436), University of Birmingham, England

Imperial Entanglements and exchanges in the Black Sea region, Kelly O’Neill, Harvard, 18 January 2018 - Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Budapest, Hungary

The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East, Dr James Baldwin, 19 January 2018 - Lecture Theatre, Reading School, Reading, England

Between the Ottoman Empire and Italy: The Jews of Rhodes 1880-1936, Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University), 22 January 2018 - UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, California

Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser - Najat Abdulhaq, author, 30 January 2018 - Khalili Lecture Theatre, Russell Square, SOAS, London

Constantinople and the Eurasian Trading System at the end of Antiquity, Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge), 12 February 2018 - Scheide Caldwell House 103, University of Princetown, New Jersey, USA

Troublemaker, Liberator, Scapegoat; Spears in Lebanon, 1941-44, Tom Young, 12 March 2018 - CBRL, British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London

Architecture and Identity from (Ottoman) Empire to Nation State: The emergence of modern Izmir, Kalliopi Amygdalou, 16 March 2018 - MBI Al Jaber Building, 21 Russell Square, SOAS, London

The East in the West: Fluctuating Borders, Cross-Cultural Encounters and Evolving Identities in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean, Margarita Voulgaropoulou, 16 March 2018 - Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Budapest, Hungary

Carpet trade between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain and its influence in a bilateral manner, Prof Elvan Özkavruk Adanır, 19 March 2018 - Yunus Emre Institute, 10 Maple Street, London

‘The Great War and Middle East’ Marquee Moments Talk, Rob Johnson, 22 March 2018 - Blackwell’s Festival Marquee, Clarendon Quad, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, England

Translating Across Minority and Dominant Languages, Prof Özlem Berk Albachten (University of Istanbul) and Dr Stefania Taviano (University of Messina), 22 March 2018 - Glamorgan Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building, Cathays, Cardiff, Wales

A post-imperial lens on displacement and development in the Middle East, Dawn Chatty, 22 March 2018 - Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton And Hove, England

Mapping Ottoman Turkey the Roman Way around 1900, Richard Talbert, 5 April 2018 - Old Capitol Museum, 1 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Trans-Imperial Archives: Rethinking Spatial Knowledge Production in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands - E. Natalie Rothman, 13 April 2018 - Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

‘Notes on The Crimean Memorial Istanbul and its living history’, Canon Ian Sherwood, 20 April 2018 - Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London

Book launch: ‘Österreich in Istanbul III’, Elmar Samsinger, 25 April 2018 - Austrian Cultural Office, Yeniköy Mahallesi, Köybaşı Cd., Sarıyer, Istanbul

Book launch: Lawrence of Arabia’s War - A Talk by Neil Faulkner, 17 May 2018 - Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London

‘Biography and the Blurring of Boundaries’, Robert Nemes, 3 June 2018 - Central Europe University, Nádor 15, Quantum Room 101, Budapest, Hungary

Söyleşi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğuna bakan İtalya: son çalışmalar, Michele Bernardini, 13 June 2018 - Casa d’Italia Tiyatrosu, Beyoğlu

Kitap sunumu: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan önce ve sonra Konstantinopolis Dominikenleri. Arşiv belgeleri görüntüleri ve tarih, Michele Bernardini, Claudio Monge & Silvia Pedone, 14 June 2018 - Casa d’Italia Tiyatrosu, Beyoğlu

Lecture: ‘The history of public health and epidemics in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th century’, Dr. Amany Soliman, 21 June 2018 - Conference Room, Johan Huizinga Building, Doelensteeg 16, Leiden, Holland

Lecture: Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Modern Galata, Prof. Fariba Zarinebaf, 15 August 2018 - ANAMED Auditorium, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Book launch: The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination, Robert Holland, 1 October 2018 - King’s Building, Strand Campus, London

Lecture: Education in Egypt under British Occupation, Moustapha Safouan, 8 October 2018 - Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, University College London

Book presentation: Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy, Dr Crinan Alexander, 8 October 2018 - The Nomads Tent, 21–23 St Leonards Lane, Edinburgh, Scotland

Seminar: Alexandria, from Mohammed Ali to Farouk: The Rise and Fall of a Royal Capital, Dr Philip Mansel, 29 October 2018 - British School of Athens, 52 Souedias Str, Athens, Greece

Lecture: Italy’s Eastern Question: Ottoman Collapse and Italian Mobilities in the Mediterranean, 1895-1945, Valerie McGuire, 1 November 2018 - The Italian and Mediterrenean Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, USA

Lecture: Towards a Post-Ottoman Dialogue: Origins and Solutions for Violent Extremism in the Middle East, Balkans, and Northern Africa, Mark Dechesne, 1 November 2018 - Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden, Holland

Lecture: ‘Imperial Apogee: Constantinople under Abdulhamid II 1876-1909’, Philip Mansel, 10 November 2018 - Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Lecture: European Craftsmen in the Ottoman Empire, Richard Wittmann, 12 November, 2018 - 310 Bishop Hall, University of Mississippi, USA

Lecture: The Archaeological Origins of Britain in Palestine, Dr Michael Talbot, 23 November 2018 – Palestine Exploration Fund, 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, London

Lecture: ‘From Mohammed Ali Pasha to King Farouk: the Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria’, Dr Philip Mansel, 4 December 2018 - Egyptian Cultural Centre and Education Bureau, 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London - flyer:

Lecture: ‘Refugees and mass migration to Istanbul in the wake of World War I’, Prof. Kent Schull, 5 December 2018 – Cezayir Toplantı Salonu, Hayriye Cad. no:12 Galatasaray, Istanbul

Lecture: ‘The Merchant of Syria and his Ottoman ancestors’, Diana Darke, 13 December 2018 – Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London

Lecture: ‘Beyond departure: The labour practices of Greeks in Egypt, 1961-1976’, Eftychia Mylona, 14 December 2018 – Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden, Holland

Lecture: ‘Bir Avusturya-Macaristan Askerinin Anılarında İşgal İstanbul’undan Manzaralar’, Nefin Dinç, 19 December 2018 - Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sokak No:16, Cihangir, Istanbul

Lecture series: L’Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l’Occident (II), Edhem Eldem, 11 January - 15 February 2019 - Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris, France

Lecture: ‘Martoni’s Pilgrimage: the Levant before the Pax Ottomana’, John Mole, 17 January 2019 - Anglo-Turkish Society, London

Lecture: Islamic History Series- Is Islam really so strange to Europe?, Dr Stef Keris, 19 January 2019 - Chapters Coffee Corner, 833-835 High Road, Goodmayes, Ilford

Lecture: ‘Mistakes to Avoid While Dining With Ottoman Gentlemen’, Dr Helen Pfeifer, 24 January 2019 - Trinity Hall History Society, Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, England

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’, 11 February 2019 – Council Room (K2.29), King’s College London

Söyleşi: Sosyolojik Bir Vaka Olarak Pera, Korhan Gümüş, Zafer Akay, 13 February 2019 - The Circle Space, Kumbaracı Yokuşu, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Book launch and talk: Admiral Lord Nelson and the Ottoman Sultan’s Diamond Chelengk, Martyn Downer, 21 February 2019 - Yunus Emre Institute, 10 Maple Street, London

Lecture: “1919: Venizelos’ Asia Minor policy revisited”, Roderick Beaton, 28 February 2019 - Archaeological Society, 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, Greece

Lecture: Travelling east via Burlington House: Orientalist painting at the Royal Academy, Madeline Boden, 7 March 2019 - The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, York, England

Lecture: Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine, Priscilla Mary Işin, 8 March 2019 - Yunus Emre Institute, 10 Maple Street, London

Lecture: The Paris of Gulbenkian, Jonathan Conlin, 13 March 2019 - Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France, 39 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, Paris, France

Book launch and discussion: Mr Five Per Cent: Jonathan Conlin in conversation with Philip Mansel about Calouste Gulbenkian, 20 March 2019 - John Sandoe Books, 10-12 Blacklands Terrace, Chelsea, London

Lecture: ‘Dangers of Cinema: Films and Moral Discourse in the late Ottoman Empire’, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, 21 March 2019 - Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, Fitzrovia, London

Lecture: ‘In the Age of Freedom, in the Name of Justice’: Slavery and Emancipation in the Late Ottoman Empire, Dr Ceyda Karamursel, 21 March 2019 - Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Theatre G6, 31-34 Gordon Square, London

Söyleşi: İzmir’in İtalyan Mimarları, Cenk Berkant, 22 March 2019 - İzmir Mimarlik Merkezi, 1474 sok. no.9, Alsancak, İzmir

Book launch: L’Eglise Saint-Polycarpe, Rinaldo Marmara, 26 March 2019 - The Congregation for the Oriental Churches, via della Conciliazione 34, Rome, Italy

Lecture: The singing Turk: Ottoman power and operatic emotions, Larry Wolff, 28 March 2019 - Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, England

Lecture: Uneven Centuries: Turkey’s Experience with Economic Development since 1820, Şevket Pamuk, 2 April 2019 - International Affairs Building, Room 1501, 420 West 118th St, Floor 15, New York, USA

Lecture: ‘Three Anglo-Greek families: three books’, Sofka Zinovieff, 2 April 2019 - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

A Mediterranean Conversation with Sharon Kinoshita, 4 April 2019 - Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King’s College London

Lecture: Shrieks, trills & squeaks: the cacophonus history of the Ottoman band of Jerusalem, Michael Talbot, 4 April 2019 - BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London - poster:

Discussion: Turkey, Britain and Europe in Global Turmoil: Historical Representations, Fuat Keyman, Atila Eralp, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, 5 April 2019 - Alison Richard Building Room 138, 7 West Road, Cambridge, England

Lecture: Unmixing the Holy City: Urban Coexistence and Segregation in Early 20th Century Jerusalem, Michelle Campos, 15 April 2019 - UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, 10286 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, USA

Lecture: Converging Paths: Photography and the Middle East: Documentation, Orientalism and Espionage, Richard Wilding, 18 April 2019 - Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London

Lecture: Protecting the Mediterranean: Ottoman responses to Maritime violence in the eighteenth century, Michael Talbot, 25 April 2019 - War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), King’s College London, King’s Building, Strand Campus, London

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, 25 April 2019 - The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London

Lecture: Imperial Interventions in the Levant in 1919: The Wilsonian Imaginary and the Ottoman Lands, Andrew Patrick, 2 May 2019 - Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London

Book launch discussion: Aspects and Visions of Greece in European Travellers’ Imagery from the Renaissance onwards, Dr Aphrodite Kouria, 8 May 2019 - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

Lecture: ‘Saladin, we have returned!’: The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era, Professor Jonathan Phillips, 9 May 2019 - Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London

Lecture: Venice and the Ottomans: a visual artistic journey between the Serenissima and Istanbul, Dr Stefano Carboni, 14 May 2019 - The University of Western Australia (Fox Lecture Theatre), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Australia

Book presentation: L’Eglise Saint-Polycarpe de Smyrna, Rinaldo Marmara, 15 May 2019 - Necatibey Bulvarı, No 2, Izmir - flyer:

Söyleşi: Levantenlerin İzmir’e Katkıları, Bülent Şenocak, 16 May 2019 - Foça Halk Kütüphanesi - flyer:

Lecture: From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Fundraising and Jewish Refugee Relief in the Seventeenth Century, Professor Adam Teller,22 May 2019 - Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Torrington Square, London

Book launch: Pierre Loti’s Collection of Oriental Arms and Armour, Stéphane Pradines, Claude Stefani, 24 May 2019 - Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London

Film screening: 1890: 125 Years Memory (2015), Dr Michael Talbot, 29 May 2019 – LT_0004 - University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street, London

Lecture: Landscapes of reform: Ottoman Palace gardens of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Deniz Türker, 30 May 2019 - The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, York, England

Guided tour: Pera’dan Beşiktaş’a İstanbul’da Sporun Tarihi, Mehmet Yüce & Hüseyin Avni, 29 July 2019 – Tünel İstiklal Caddesi çıkışı, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Walking Tour: Ottoman New York, 10 August 2019, Işıl Acehan and Todd Fine

Guided tour: The Music of “Little Syria” and “Ottoman New York”, Ian Nagoski, Işıl Acehan, and Todd Fine, 21 September 2019 - in front of 17 Battery Place, The Whitehall Building, 17 Battery Place, New York, USA

Book presentation: Aspects and Visions of Greece in European Travellers’ Imagery from the Renaissance onwards, Professor Bettany Hughes, Dr Theodoros Koutsogiannis, Dr Aphrodite Kouria, 27 September 2019 - The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London

Lecture: ‘Early British Travellers to Athens and the Hunt for Inscriptions: Some Overlooked Epigraphic Manuscripts of the 18th and 19th Centuries’, Robert Pitt, 7 October 2019 - British School at Athens, Upper House, 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

Sunum: 1922 İzmir Yangını, Yaşar Ürük, 9 October 2019 - Konak Belediyesi Türkan Saylan Kültür Merkezi, k.7 - Benal Nevzat Salonu, Alsancak, Izmir - flyer:

Lecture: The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire, Philip Mansel, 22 October 2019 - Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London

Lecture: ‘Smyrne dans la guerre, novembre 1914 - 8 Septembre 1922’, Hervé Georgelin, 15 November 2019 - Lexikopoleio, Proskopon Square, Pangrati, Athens, Greece - poster:

BAS Lecture: The Ottomans In Jordan, Alison McQuitty, 16 November 2019 - RISC Centre, London Street, Reading, England

Sunum: ‘İzmir’in İtalyan Mimarları’, Dr Cenk Berkant, 27 November 2019 - Ahmet Piriştina Kent Arşivi ve Müzesi Toplantı Salonu, İzmir - poster:

Lecture: ‘Iraida Barry, Thomas Whittemore & Constantinople’s “Russian” Moment’, Valentina Izmirlieva & Holger Klein, 9 December 2019 - Columbia Global Centers, Sıraselviler Cad. No:49, Yeni Hayat Apt. Kat:2 D:5 Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Lecture: ‘Changing Religious Landscapes: A Catholic Topography of Pera during the 18th and 19th Centuries’, Paolo Girardelli, 12 December 2019 - İstanbul Research Institute, Meşrutiyet Caddesi No.47, Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Lecture: Shown in a life-like way (or ‘no great art therein’): Ottoman costume album and the art of self, Prof Ünver Rüstem, 16 January 2020 - Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, England

Book launch: Smyrna Itinerant Guide 1922 (in Greek), George Poulimenos, 3 February 2020 - Conference Centre of the Municipality of Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece - poster:

Lecture: Hungarian Memoirs from the Ottoman Empire, 1848-1918, Gábor Fodor, 11 March 2020 - Big Hall, Cezayir Building, Hayriye Cad. 12, Galatasaray-Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Online presentation: Belgium and the Ottoman Empire: ‘Transnationals’ and Diplomacy in the Age of Capital - Dr Houssine Alloul, 21 May 2020 - info:

Presentation: Péra, Istanbul: sur la trace des Levantins, Francesca Ilaria Faiella, 3 September 2020 – Fondation Jan Michalski, En Bois Désert, Montricher, Switzerland

Online presentation: “Reason in All Its Habits:” Picturing an Empire from Istanbul to London, Alexander Bevilacqua, 16 October 2020 - Ottoman and Turkish Studies at NYU

Online presentation: ‘Ambrosio Bembo: Visualising Ottoman Space and Authority, the Traveller in 1671’, Palmira Brummett, 22 October 2020 - Skilliter centre

Online presentation: ‘Plague, princes and political embarras: Henrietta Liston’s Constantinople’, National Library of Scotland, 4 November 2020

Online presentation: Feriköy Latin Katolik Mezarlığı Yapılarında Üslûp Okumaları, Selva Suman, 24 November 2020 – Mimad, Istanbul

Online presentation: Istanbul’s Russian Moment, 1919-1923, Vladimir Alexandrov: ‘The Case of the Black Russian’, András Riedlmayer: ‘Russian Refugee Lives’, 7 December 2020

Online presentation: ‘The Lily and the Crescent: Louis XIV and the Ottomans, Culture, Commerce and Crusades’, Philip Mansel, 15 December 2020 - Anglo Turkish Society

Online presentation: ‘The ‘Deserving Foreigner’: Venetian Protection in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire’, Dr. Umberto Signori, 17 December 2020 - The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History

Online book launch: Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists (2020) — with readings, music and discussion, 28 January 2021 - Association For The Study Of Travel In Egypt And The Near East

Online presentation: ‘Epidemiologies: The Discourse of Disease in Victorian Britain and Late Ottoman Istanbul’, Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr, 16 February 2021 - Anglo-Turkish Society

Online book discussion: A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa, M'hamed Oualdi & Arthur Asseraf, 17 February 2021 - Cambridge Middle East History Group

Online presentation: Mr Consta and the OCM Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, James Crowden, 1 April 2021 – Royal Society for Asian Affairs

Online presentation: Whispers Across Continents: In Search of the Robinsons, Gareth Winrow, 1 April 2021 – The American Research Institute in Turkey

Online presentation: British Diplomatic Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Dr. Gemma Masson, 1 April 2021 – Association For The Study Of Travel In Egypt And The Near East

Online sunum: İzmir’de Çoğulculuk, Leyla Neyzi, Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 9 April 2021 - Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Online presentation: Traces of British Industrial Entrepreneurs in the late Ottoman Empire, Yonca Erkan, 14 April 2021 – Europa Nostra

Online presentation: Ruin and Knowledge in Pera: The Invention of the Genoese heritage in Istanbul in the moment of its destruction, Mehmet Kentel, 5 May 2021 – Centre for Arts and Humanities at AUB

Online presentation: Echo of the Journey and Adventures of My Life: Salomea Pilsztynowa – the Peripatetic Polish Ophthalmologist in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire – and Her Unusual Memoir (1760), Paulina Dominik, 5 May 2021 – Orient-Institut Istanbul

Online presentation: The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar, 6 May 2021 - Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington

Online presentation: Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece Tableau général de l’Empire othoman, Carter V. Findley, 14 May 2021 – Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU

Online presentation: Eleftherios Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914, Michael Llewellyn-Smith, 19 May 2021 – British School at Athens

Online presentation: Alemin Acayip İcadı Fotoğraf: İzmir’den Buca’ya Görsel Üzerinde Geçmişi Okumak, Ali Özkan, 24 May 2021 – Buca Belediyesi

Online presentation: George Finlay among the Scottish Philhellenes, Dr Alasdair Grant, 27 May 2021 – British School at Athens

Online lecture: From Ottoman Smyrna to Georgian London: Travel, excavation and collecting of Levant Company merchant Thomas Burgon (1787-1858), Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, 16 September 2021 - British School of Athens

Online lecture: The Ottoman-Italian War of 1911-12: Conflict and Consequences, Benjamin Fortna, 26 October 2021 – British Institute at Ankara / Society of Libyan Studies

Hybrid lecture: The Sun King and the Ottoman Empire: Culture, Commerce, Crusades, from Versailles to Constantinople, Philip Mansel,29 October 2021 – Ebenezer Presents, Seed Factory, Aller, Somerset

Online lecture: The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna, Yavuz Köse, 18 November 2021 – Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Vienna

Online lecture and Panel discussion: Imagining a Free Greece: British, Cypriot and Russian engagements, Professor Sakis Gekas, 26 November 2021 – The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway

Online lecture: The Making of the Arab Hall at Leighton House, Dr Melanie Gibson, 2 December 2021 – British Institute of Interior Design

Online book launch: The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe, Mark Mazower & Roderick Beaton, 7 December 2021 – British School at Athens

Lecture: In the Footsteps of Lord Byron: John Frederick Lewis in Greece and Albania, Briony Llewellyn & Charles Newton, 8 December 2021 – The Hellenic Centre, London

Online book launch: Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, Kerem Tınaz, Hannah S. Pressman, Maureen Jackson, and Laurent Mignon, 12 December 2021 – UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

Online lecture: Presbyterianism and Philhellenism, 1821–56, Dr Alasdair Grant, 13 December 2021 – Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Lecture: Levantine Alternatives: Greeks in Constantinople, Smyrna and Alexandria after 1821, Dr Philip Mansel, 14 December 2021 – The Hellenic Centre, London

Zoom webinar: Geç Osmanlı Döneminde İtalyan Mimarların İzmir’deki Çalışmaları ve Venedik Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nde Mimarlik Eğitimi Alan Osmanlı Vatandaşları, Dr. Cenk Berkant, 12 January 2022 - MIM-AD

Online presentation: The Jews of Alexandria: middle class feelings, urban identity and politics, 1880s-1920s, prof Dario Miccoli, 17 January 2022 - Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

Presentation: Antiquitates Asiaticae : Le Voyage Savant en Orient au XVIIIe Siècle, Raphaëlle Merle, 18 January 2022 - Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 10 place du Panthéon, Paris - exhibition info:

Online sunum: Belgeli Katalog ve Vatikan Arşivleri, Dr Rinaldo Marmara, 28 January 2022 - Istanbul Aydın Üniversitesi - flyer:

Online lecture: Houses of Worship, Objects of Heritage: On Intersections of Post-Imperial Memory and Religion, Jeremy Walton, 3 February 2022 - Central European University

1inci Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği & Tepta Aydınlatma Zoom sunum, Turan Farajova: ‘Pera’nın Levanten Aileleri ve Evleri’, 21 February 2022 - poster:

Book Presentation: The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1800, Dorothea McEwan and Stefan Hanß, 28 March 2022 – Austrian Cultural Forum, London

2inci Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği & Tepta Aydınlatma Zoom sunum, Turan Farajova: ‘Pera’nın Levanten Mimarları ve Eserleri’, 30 March 2022 - poster:

Book launch and discussion: Smirna Seyahat Rehberi 1922, George Poulimenos, 8 April 2022 - Yakın Kitabevi, Alsancak, Izmir - flyer:

Book launch and discussion: Antenati a Costantinopoli, Luis Miguel Selvelli & Prof İnci Kuyulu Ersoy, 13 April 2022 - Apikam, Çankaya, Izmir - flyer:

Rencontre: La Colonie Hongroise de Rodosto et L’ambassade de France à Constantinople au Xviiie Siècle, Ferenc Tóth, 21 April 2022 - Institut français Istanbul & le Centre Culturel Hongrois- flyer:

Online presentation: The Persian Carpet Man, Mark Flinn, 27 April 2022 - The Nomads Tent

Online SSC Dissertation Fellow Showcase: Millets, Minorities and Migrants: Rethinking Identity in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Levant, Joshua Donovan, 29 April 2022 - Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University

Lecture: Echoes of Orientalism – Arab-Islamic Sexuality through European Eyes: Burton and Beyond, Feras Alkabani, 4 May 2022 – Room A501, Checkland Building, University of Brighton, England

Lecture: The Grand Tour in the Ottoman Empire: Power, Pleasure and Ruins, Dr Philip Mansel, 10 May 2022 – The Nomad’s Tent, 21 St Leonards Lane, Edinburgh, Scotland - flyer: - info:

Cultural tour and cocktail with ft Ian Sherwood, Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği, 22 May 2022 – Crimean Memorial Church, Galata, Beyoğlu, Istanbul - flyer:

Sunum: Pera’dan Ada’ya Vallaury Mimarisi, Nilay Özlü, 25 May 2022 – Yüksek Kahve, Büyükada, Istanbul - flyer:

Book presentation: Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul, Philippe Bourmaud, 26 May 2022 – St. Pierre Catholic Church, Galata, Beyoğlu, Istanbul - flyer:

Zoom sunum: ‘Pera ve Levantenler’, Dr Yavuz Dizdar, 26 May 2022 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği - flyer:

Book presentation (in Italian): Antenati a Constantinopoli, 6 June 2022 – Circolo Roma, Tepebaşı, Istanbul

3üncü Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği & Tepta Aydınlatma Zoom sunum, Turan Farajova: Peralı Levantenlerin Buluşma Noktaları, 8 June 2022 - flyer:

Online Book Talk: Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism, Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, Göksun Akyürek, Assaad Seif and Caroline Goodson, 16 June 2022 – ANAMED - flyer:

Hybrid presentation: Images of Egypt and the Far East by Six Scottish Artist-Adventurers, Prof Paul & Dr Janet Starkey, 21 June 2022 - flyer:

Lecture: architetti italiani a Smirne nel periodo di modernizzazione dell’impero Ottomano (1839-1922), Cenk Berkant, 29 June 2022 – l’Università di Padova, Italy - flyer:

Hybrid lecture: ‘The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist’, Jo Willett, 13 July 2022 - Anglo-Turkish Society

Online lecture: Prisoner of the Infidels: The Life and Adventures of Osman Agha of Timişoara, An Ottoman Muslim in 17th-Century Europe, Giancarlo Casale, 20 September 2022 – Anglo-Turkish Society

Book launch: Apollo Cokkinis: Proud Greek, Proud Briton: From Odessa and Smyrna to London and Dorking, Alan Charlton, 21 September 2022 – The Hellenic Centre, London

Book Talk: How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs, Prof Elizabeth Thompson, 28 September 2022 - IAS Forum, Room G17, Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, London

Lecture series: Tracce italiane nella città ottoman: un dialogo mediterraneo, Paolo Girardelli, 17-21 October 2022 - Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy

Online lecture: The Byzantine Aegean: A Connecting Sea, Dr. Alkiviadis A. Ginalis, 20 October 2022 - American Research Institute in Turkey & Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) & the Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR)

Online lecture: Guns, Money and Lawyers: The English Chartered Trading Companies 1688-1763, Mike Wagner, 25 October 2022 – The British in India Historical Trust

Film screenings and talk: Screening of: ‘Lollars’ painting process, ‘Connections’ (voyage of discovery with General and Lady Spears), Premiere of a rare interview with May Arida, Tom Young, 30 November 2022 - Beit Beirut, Lebanon - flyer:

Online sunum: Levanten Yemekleri, Ingrid Bragiotti, 30 November 2022 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirası Koruma Derneği - flyer:

Lecture: Smyrna, September 1922: Memories of “others”, Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter, 1 December 2022 – The Hellenic Centre, London

Book presentation: La Casa della Vergine Maria, Efeso Smirne & Mgr Angelo Rotta, catalogo con documenti, Rinaldo Marmara, 12 December 2022 – Facoltà di Storia e Beni Culturali della Chiesa, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Piazza della Pilotta, Roma, Italy - flyer:

Hybrid Sunum: Galata Rıhtım Hanları: Kent, Ticaret ve Toplum 1920’lerde Galata: Sokaklar, İşyerleri, Konutlar, Murat Güvenç, 19 January 2023 – İPM ve Tarih Vakfı - flyer:

Hybrid presentation: British and other Philhellenes in the Greek Revolution during the 1820s, Roderick Beaton, 31 January 2023 – British School at Athens

Online sunum: ‘Spadaro Paşa Apartmanı’nın dillendirilmemiş öyküsü’, Prof. Dr. Seza Sinanlar Uslu, 1 February 2023 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği - poster:

Book presentation: Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire, Mostafa Minawi, 27 February 2023 – Schermerhorn Hall, 1198 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 Room 807 - flyer:

Online presentation: ‘The British Relief Efforts for the Ottoman Refugees of 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War’, Sena Hatip Dinçyürek, 7 March 2023 - Anglo Turkish Society

Online presentation: Nostalgie et appartenance dans les récits de patrie perdue des réfugiés chrétiens ottomans, 1922-1952, Dr. Ümit Eser, 21 March 2023 - l’Axe AMiMo de l’IFEA & Göç Araştırmaları Derneği

Online presentation: ‘Aligned Interests and Divided Loyalties: David Passi, Sultan Murad III’s favourite’, Elif Özgen, 27 March 2023 - Anglo Turkish Society

Online presentation: ‘Encounters in the Medieval Mediterranean World’, Hussein Fancy & Jonathan Conant, 31 March 2023 - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU

Online sunum: Cadde-i Kebir’in Levanten Kitapçıları, Emin Nedret İşli, 26 April 2023 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirası Koruma Derneği - flyer:

Hibrid Sunum: Galata’nın Surlarını Yıkarken Tarihini Yazmak, Mehmet Kentel, 27 April 2023 - Tarih Vakfı & İPM - Minerva Han, Karaköy, İstanbul

Konuşma: İşgal İstanbul’unu Yeniden Düşünmek: Tarihyazımı ve Kamusal Tarih, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal & Gizem Tongo, 28 April 2023 - İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, Meşrutiyet Caddesi No.47, Tepebaşı - Beyoğlu - İstanbul

Hybrid lecture: Historical Trajectories of Hellenism in Asia Minor, Professor Paschalis Kitromilides, 8 May 2023 - SFU Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies

Online sunum: 17. Yüzyıldan günümüze İzmir’deki Levanten Tiyatrosunun Tarihi, Ugo Braggiotti, 17 May 2023 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirası Koruma Derneği

Lecture: A Glaswegian in Troy: William Simpson’s Vision of Western Anatolia, Alex Solovyev, 19 May 2023 - Paul Mellon Centre 16 Bedford Square London

Online presentation: Ottoman Echoes: Remnants of Empire among Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945, Robin Buller, 14 June 2023 - JDC Archives | Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Hybrid lecture: Oriental objects for disposal: the arrival of Armenian dealers in 1890s London, Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan, 14 June 2023 - Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS, London

Presentation: Liman Kenti İzmir: Bir Levantenler Hikayesi [The port city of Izmir: A story of Levantines], Philip Mansel, 20 September 2023 - İzmir Sanat Merkezi / Alsancak Fuar Alanı, Izmir - gallery:

Presentation: Hamidiye District of Thessaloniki (1885-1912), Vassilis Colonas, 6 October 2023 - İzmir Mimarlık Merkezi, 1474 sok. No:9 35220 Alsancak, İzmir

Film presentation: The Waterfront, directed by Vassilis Colonas, 7 October 2023 - Reha Midilli Kültür Merkezi, Eski Foça, İzmir, Turkey

Discussion: ‘Unutma ve Hatırlama Arasında İzmir’, George Poulimenos & Aggelos Kovotsos, 10 October 2023 - BAYETAV Art, Fernand Paggy pavillion, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey - flyer:

Online presentation: Becoming Catholic in the Middle East: Early Modern Fantasies & Modern Myths, John-Paul Ghobrial, 17 October 2023 - German Historical Institute London

Hybrid presentation: A Lost Greek Renaissance: Nicodemus Metaxas and the first Greek printing press in Constantinople (1627–28), Dr Nil Palabıyık, 24 October 2023 - Anglo-Turkish Society

Online sunum: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan’nın gözünden Scognamillo’nun hayatı, 26 October 2023 - Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği - flyer:

Hybrid sunum: Sébah & Joaillier Merceğinden Siyah Beyaz Osmanlı, Fabrizio Casaretto, 17 November 2023 - İBB Atatürk Kitaplığı, Miralay Şefik Bey Sok. No: 6, Taksim, Beyoğlu, Istanbul - poster

Online presentation: The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery (Turkey) and the Heritage of Monument Row, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal & Brian Johnson, 25 November 2023 - Church Monuments Society

Online sunum: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Venedik Cumhuriyeti Yüzyıllar Süren İlişkinin Evreleri, Vera Constantini, 30 November 2023 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirası Koruma Derneği - flyer:

Açık Konuşma: ‘İzmir Tarihi’ ve ‘Kozmopolitlik’ Tartışmaları, Erkan Serçe, 15 December 2023 - Bayetav Sanat, Bornova, İzmir - flyer:

Online sunum: ‘İstanbul’da Levanten Mimari Mirası Alexandre Vallaury Örneği’, Doç. Dr. Nilay Karaca, 20 December 2023 - Levanten Kültür ve Mirasını Koruma Derneği - flyer:

Hybrid presentation: Ottoman No More: “Oi Mikrasiatai Yper tōn Deinopathountōn Adelfōn tōn”, Yiorgo Topalidis, 9 January 2024 - American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece

Presentation: ‘Smyrne. La grécité complexe de la cité portuaire : le rêve de la Grèce d’Asie’, Hervé Georgelin, 11 January 2024 - EHESS (Salle AS1_08), 54 Boulevard Raspail, Paris

Presentation: Luigi Storari (1821-1894), un ingegnere ed esule ferrarese a Smirne (Turchia), Cenk Berkant, 5 February 2024 - Biblioteca Ariostea Via delle Scienze, 17 Ferrara, Italy

Presentation: Multiple Identities and Shifting Allegiances in a Levantine Diplomat Family in Ottoman Istanbul: the Case of the House of Chirico, Vjeran Kursar, 13 February 2024 - Central European University, Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Austria

Online book promotion - Conversazioni Italo-Ottomane/ İtalyan- Osmanlı Konuşmaları/ Italo-Ottoman Conversations: ‘Tanzimat sonrası İzmir’de İtalyan mimar ve mühendislerin etkinlikleri’, Doç. Dr. Cenk Berkant, 5 March 2024 - flyer:

Sunum: Levantenler ve Kültürüleri, Rinaldo Marmara, 16 March 2024 - Tarihsel Çevre ve Yapı Korumacıları Derneği, Istanbul - flyer:

Book presentation: ‘Smyrna in the middle of the war (1914-1922)’, Hervé Georgelin, 29 March 2024 - O Politis bookstore, 84 Mavromihali and Kallidromiou, Athens, Greece - flyer:

Book presentation: Smirne e l’Italia, Luis Miguel Selvelli, 5 April 2024 - Galleria Tergesteo - Piazza della Borsa 15, 34121 Trieste, Italy - flyer:

Online sunum: ‘Emile Guwy’nin Gözünden Lazarist Rahiplerin ve Şefkat Rahibelerinin İstanbul’daki çalışmaları’, Damien Dessane, 17 April 2024 – Levanten Kültür ve Mirası Koruma Derneği

Hybrid lecture: Landscapes of the Eastern Question: Architecture and Power Balances in Istanbul, Paolo Girardelli, 23 April 2024 – University of Amsterdam

Hybrid lecture: ‘Hungarian Architects in Early Republican Turkey’, Gergő Máté Kovács, 20 May 2024 - ARIT, Anamed Auditorium, Istanbul

Presentation: ‘La dualité de la Communaté latine après la prise de Constantinople en 1453 et les Levantins’, Rinaldo Marmara, 24 May 2024 - Salle de réunion de l’Hôpital de la Paix Şişli, Büyükdere Caddesi 18, Istanbul - flyer:

Sunum: Bornova Kentsel Miras Haritasi, Mark Giraud, 5 June 2024 - İKSF – Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, Ziya Gökalp Bulvarı No: 36, Konak, Izmir - flyer:

Panel: “Pera’nın Levantenleri”, Rinaldo Marmara, 10 September 2024 - Metrohan, Şahkulu, Çukur, Erkanı Harp Sk. No: 2, Beyoğlu, Istanbul - poster:

Sergi / Lansman: “Postane: Bir Bina Arkeolojisi Kitap Lansmanı”, Liana Kuyumcuyan, Murat Tülek, Yaşar A. Adanalı, 11 September 2024 - İngiliz Postanesi Binası, Bereketzade, Camekan Sk. No.9, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Söyleşi: “Minoa Pera: Union Française Binası’nın Tarihi ve Mimarisi”, Turan Farajova, 12 September 2024 - Minao Pera, Evliya Çelebi, Meşrutiyet Cd. No:99, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Tur / Söyleşi: “Galata’nın İhtişamlı Frej Apartmanı: Eşsiz Bir Hikaye”, 13 September 2024 - İstanbul Galata Üniversitesi / Frej Binası, Müeyyedzade, Okçu Musa Cd. No:2 D:1, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Lecture: The Dawn of Orientalism: Dutch scholars and Arabic classics in Ottoman Istanbul, Peter Webb, 13 September 2024 - Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Anamed Auditorium

Hybrid presentation: Passport to Immortality: Lord Byron’s firman from the Sultan Mahmut II for a Grand Tour / Seyâhat in the Ottoman Empire (1810-11), Elias Kolovos & Anne McCabe, 8 October 2024 - Cotsen Hall, Athens, Greece - flyer:

In-person debate: Religious diplomacy between Paris, Rome and Istanbul: The Assumptionists’ Mission in the Ottoman Empire (1863-1918), Ediz Edouard Hazır, 14 October 2024 - Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome - flyer:

Proiezione del Docufilm: ‘L’Angelo di Istanbul’, Vincenzo Pergolizzi & Professor Stefano Trinchese, 22 October 2024 - Auditorium del Rettorato, Università degli Studi, "G. d’Annunzio", Chieti – Pescara, Italy - flyer:

Online presentation: Consuls, Travellers, Spies, Philip Mansel, 5 November 2024 - Egypt Exploration Society

Book launch: ‘La Latinité de Constantinople: Gravée sur le marbre du Cimetière Latin-Catholique de Feriköy Istanbul’, Rinaldo Marmara, 12 November 2024 - Patriarcato di Antiochia dei Siri, Rome, Italy - flyer:

Online presentation: ‘Smyrna (1870-1922), City and Architecture, The contribution of the Greeks’, Vassilis Colonas, 12 November 2024 - Anglo-Turkish Society - flyer:

Hybrid presentation: Mysterious M. Falkowski, ingénieur civil: railways and informal imperialism in the Ottoman Syria and Iraq (1850s-1860s), Darina Martykánová, 14 November 2024 - L’Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes, Istanbul

Discussion: Ingrid Braggiotti, 19 November 2024 - Casa Italia d’Izmir - flyer: - images:

Online presentation: Canadians in Turkey (1876–1938), Evren Altinkas, 20 November 2024 - University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science - flyer:

Book presentation: ‘Following Miss Bell: İzmir and Beyond’, Pat Yale, 5 December 2024 - Be Water Coffee and Book Store, 1389 Sokak No 2/A, Konak, Izmir, Turkey - flyer: