Belgium and the Ottoman Empire: ‘Transnationals’ and Diplomacy in an Age of Global Capital.

10.12.2020 | 17.00 | A TSN Lecture by Houssine Alloul This event has passed.Houssine Alloul is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp. His interests lie principally in the history of Euro-Ottoman interstate encounters, diplomats and their habitus, finance capitalism and Leopoldian colonialism. His work has been supported by the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz and the Research Foundation Flanders. He has previously been a visiting fellow at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, European History Review and Journal of Belgian History. With Edhem Eldem and Henk de Smaele, he edited To Kill A Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905) (London: Palgrave, 2017).