In this event TSN Member Ozan Ozavci will discuss his latest book Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021) with five distinguished panelists: Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University), Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge), Selim Deringil (Boğaziçi University), Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Isa Blumi (Stockholm University). The…

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 11-12 November 2021 The Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries (TSN) is seeking original paper proposals that unsettle traditional narratives on exilic experiences in and between Europe and the later Ottoman Empire/modern Turkey as part of a two-day interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Amsterdam and hosted…

24.06.2021 | 17.00 CET | A TSN Spring Series Lecture by Esra Akcan This lecture explores architecture’s role in an extended notion of transitional justice and in healing societies after intense upheavals and internal conflicts. The concept of transitional justice emerged as accountability for large scale past abuses came to the forefront of grassroots human…

POSTPONED: 10.06.2021 | 16.00 CET | A TSN Spring Series Lecture by Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay What is de facto about the de facto state? Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay discuss their recent book Sovereignty Suspended, in which this question guides Bryant and Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process…

24.05 | 17.00 | A TSN Spring Series lecture by David Gutman This paper will discuss the conjuring of the Armenian migrant as a security threat in Ottoman state discourse during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). As this paper seeks to demonstrate, anxieties about the international migration of Armenians, particularly to the United…

Post-Imperial Equivocations: Turkey’s Temperamental Mobilization of the Caliphate, 1919-1924 13.05.2021 | 17.00 CET | A TSN Spring Series Lecture by Isa Blumi Central to the transformations of capitalist imperialism was the de facto bankruptcy of the old European empires after World War I. Accordingly, the cash-strapped bureaucrats of these dying structures stuck in Africa, the Middle…

Making Sense of Turkey’s Cold War This event has passed. 26.03.2021 | 13.00 – 19.00 Turkey’s Cold War history has received only limited attention from scholars. Most studies focus on conventional questions of either diplomacy or governance, sidelining the history of cultural developments, social movements, and transnational dynamics. Addressing these gaps in the literature, this…

Calouste Gulbenkian: Refugee, Oil Man or “Citizen of Nowhere”? This event has passed. 25.03 | 17.00 | A TSN Spring Series lecture by Jonathan Conlin By the time of his death in Lisbon in 1955 Calouste Gulbenkian was the world’s richest man, widely known as “Mr Five Per Cent” on account of his personal holding…

The Great War in the Middle East seen through the lens of Ottoman memoirs and archival documents. 17.02 | 17.00 | A TSN lecture by Selim Deringil This event has passed. This presentation is based on Deringil’s most recent book, The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands. Turkish Memoires and Testimonials of the Great War.…

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…