Museum Lectures

Cengiz Şişman

"Failed Proselytizers or Modernizers?: The Rise and Fall of Protestant Missionary Activities among Ottoman Jews and Sabbatians/Dönmes in the Nineteenth Century"

Friday, May 10, 2013, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Lino Pertile

“Bernard Berenson and Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti: Past, Present, and Future”

Monday, April 1, 2013, 17:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Haris Exertzoglou

"Greek Nationalism and the Politics of Acculturation in the Ottoman Empire"

Thursday, March 28, 2013, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Sophia Laiou

“Between pious generosity and faithful service to the Ottoman state: the vakıf of a Phanariot, end of the 18th c.”

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis

"The Port-cities of Izmir, Thessaloniki and Istanbul: Harbor Building and Urban Transformations in the Late 19th Century"

Thursday, March 7, 2013, 13:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Geoffrey D. Summers

"The Anatomy of the Iron Age Capital on the Kerkenes Dağ"

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

François Georgeon

"Time, State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and Kemalist Turkey (1839-1939)"

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Nenad Filipovic

"How to Read Early Ottoman Chronicles: A Call for Humility"

Thursday, November 29, 2012, 14:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Scott Redford

"Citadels, Bastions & Slave Soldiers in Medieval Anatolia, Syria & Egypt"

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 15.30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Doğan Gürpınar

"Some Observations on the Intellectual and Cultural Collective Biography of the Ottoman Diplomatic Service: Transitions from the Empire to the Republic"

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Suzan Yalman

"Rebuilding Konya: The Reconceptualization of the Seljuk Capital under Sultan 'Ala al-Din Kayqubad I (r. 1220-37)"

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 16:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Nadezhda Alexandrova

"Women, Nation and Narration in the 19th c. Bulgarian History"

Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 15.00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Sherene Seikaly

"A Discipline of Detail: Economic Thought in Interwar Palestine"

Thursday, December 22, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Baki Tezcan

"The Many Lives of a Geographical Text: From the New Report to the History of the West Indies"

Thursday, December 8, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Molly Greene

"Recent Developments in the Study of Ottoman Christians"

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Christine Philliou

"Secret Agents: Making History in the Final Ottoman Century"

Thursday, July 28, 2011, 14:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Pelin Başçı

"Depictions of the 1980 Military Takeover in Turkish Cinema and Serialized Film for Television"

Friday, July 1, 2011, 14:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Ariel Salzmann

"Proof-Texts, Politics and the Patterns of Religious Exclusivity in Medieval Mediterranean States (500-1500)"

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 17:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Sofia Georgiadou

"Palaeologan Perceptions of Thier Empire: The Evidence of the Architecture"

Thursday, May 12, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Jeffrey Michael Featherstone

"Wisdom of the Ancients: Theodore Metochites' SEMEIOSEIS GNOMIKAI"

Thursday, May 12, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Selçuk Akşin Somel

"Tanzimati Şeriat ve Kürtaj Sorunu"

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik

"Divorce in Late Eighteenth Century Istanbul"

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Nur Sara Yıldız

"Spatial Networks & Spiritual Protection: Elite Patronage in Seljuk Konya during the Regency of Jalal al-Din Karatay, 1249-1254"

Thursday, December 23, 2010, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Bissera Pentcheva

"Hagia Sophia and the Aesthetics of the Sea"

Thursday, December 9, 2010, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Tolga Esmer

"A Micro-History of an Ottoman Bandit: Kara Feyzi (d. 1823) and the Economics of Violence in Late-Eighteenth-Century Rumeli"

Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 17:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Rachel Gosgharian

"New Approaches to the History of Some 13th Century Anatolian Cities: Convivencia and Competition as Reflected in Armenian, Persian and Turkish Texts"

Thursday, November 25, 2010, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Ceylan Tözeren

"The Coveted Shore: An Economic View of the Ancient Propontis"

Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 11:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Jay Winter

"Thinking About Silence"

Friday, May 28, 2010, 16:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Leslie Pierce

"Abduction and the Problem of Violence in the Early Modern Ottoman World"

Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 14:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Paul Magdalino

"Some Little Known Lost Monuments of Byzantine Costantinople and Theirl Forgotten Significance"

Thursday, April 21, 2010, 16:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Gilles Veinstein

"La Frontiére ottomane en Europe a l'époque moderne" (The Ottoman Frontier in Europe in the Early Modern Period)

Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Sophie Basch

"Clowns and Puppets from the Antiquity to the Ottoman Empire"

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Cultural Heritage Museum

V. Kornelia Kaschke-Kısaarslan

"Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: Integrating and Producing Knowledge"

Thursday, February, 25, 2010, 15:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Anne Foley and Richard Greenfield

"Holy men, lobbyists and imperial wealth in 11th C Byzantium:  Creating the monasteries of Galesion and the Nea Moni"
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 17:00 Cultural Heritage Museum

Dror Zeevi

"Who Killed Sexuality? The Gradual Disappearence of  an Ottoman Discourse"
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 15:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

John F. Haldon

"Problems  With Byzantine Iconoclasm"
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Richard Bauman

“The Poetics of The Public Marketplace”
Monday, August 3, 2009, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Zouhair Ghazzal


"From Political Economy to Textual Analysis: Greater Syria in Contemporary Ottoman Historiography"
Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 17:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Eleni Gara


"Protest, Negotiation and Provincial Administration in the Seventeenth-Century Balkans"
October 9, 2008, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Engin Akarlı

"Devlet ve Hukuk: Osmanlı Hukuk Tarihinde Gezintiler"
June 10, 2008, 17:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Mahir Şaul


"From ‘Segmentary’ to ‘Heterarchy’ in West African History: Any Relevance for Today?"
May 28, 2008, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Rashid Khalidi

"Post-Ottoman Elites in the Middle East: Continuities and Discontinuities"
Friday, May 30, 2008, 14:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Yücel Yanıkdağ


"Making Sense of War Neurosis and Malingering: Ottoman Psychiatry in World War One"
Wednesday May 21, 2008 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

The 12th Annual Workshop on Ottoman Material Culture

"Travel and Travel Narratives in the Ottoman World"
April 25, 2008,  Cultural Heritage Museum

Mark Fissel 

"Teaching and Race in the Old South"
April 10, 2008, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Aliye Mataracı  

"Business Correspondence of a Muslim Merchant House at the End of the Ottoman Empire"
April 9, 15:00, Kriton Curi Hall

Regna Darnell

"Current Trends in Ethno-history: Converging Evidence from Archive, Oral Tradition, Archeology and Linguistics"
April 3, 2008, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Kemal Kahraman

"Dolmabahçe Sarayı Hazine-i Hassa Arşivi"

March 26, 2008, 16:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Marc Aymes

"A Great Advance - on Paper: Reform in the Provincial Ottoman Empire (Mid-nineteenth Century)"
March 25, 2008, 15:00, Kriton Curi Hall

Hiroshi Ohta

“The Contradicting Images of Contemporary Japan and Its Foreign Relations”
March 19, 2008, 15:00, Natuk Birkan İbrahim Bodur Salonu

Noémi Levy

"Career, Community and Individual in the Ottoman Police: The Case of a Komiser in İzmir at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century"
March 17,2008, 15:00, Kriton Curi Hall

Nayan Chanda

"A World Connected: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization"
March 13, 2008, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Nayan Chanda

“Designed in California, Made in the World: Globalization and the Supply-Chain Economy”
March 14 2008, 15:00, Rektörlük Konferans Salonu

Malte Fuhrmann  

"Anatolia in German Colonial Imagination and Practice, 1800-1918"
March 6, 2008, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Yaşar Tolga Cora

"Jimnastik, İzcilik, Spor Festivalleri: II. Meşrutiyet Döneminde Beden Eğitiminin Birey ve Ulus İnşasındaki Rolü"
March 5, 2008, 15:00, Kriton Curi Hall

Nazan Maksudyan

"Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space: Industrial Orphanages"
January 16, 2008, 11:00 Cultural Heritage Museum

Eleni I. Kanetaki

"Architect engineer, Specialist in the Restoration of Monuments Typology of the Surviving Ottoman Monuments in Greece: The Example of Baths (Hamams)"
December 10, 2007, 17:00 Cultural Heritage Museum

Aslı Özyar

"Boğaziçi University Tarsus Gözlükule Excavation 2007"
November 29, 2007, 16:00 Cultural Heritage Museum

Jasleen Dhamija

"5000 Years of Indian Textiles"
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 17:00 Cultural Heritage Museum

Margaret Mills 


"The State of Oral History and Oral Historians in Afghanistan"
November 1, 2007 16:00 Cultural Heritage Museum

Alexander Kitroeff

"Football and National Identity Between the 1930s and 1990s: A Changing Relationship?"
October 15, 2007, 17:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Mireille Corbier

"Memory and Communication in Ancient Rome"
October 16, 2007, 11:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Rebecca E. Karl

"Revolution, Politics, and the State: Republican China, Mohammed Ali, and the Young Turks"
May 23, 2007, 16:30, Cultural Heritage Museum

Alan Wood

"Plots, Politics and Politkovskaya: The History and Tradition of Political Assassination in Russia"
May 11, 2007, 11:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Amy Singer

"What is the Price of a Free Lunch? Another Perspective on Ottoman Imarets"
May 10, 2007, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Selçuk Esenbel

“Güzel Kokulu Cariye veya Uygur Vatanperveri İparhan 18inci yüzyıl Qing Hanedanı  ve   Kimlik Sorunsalı”
March 15, 2007, 15:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Athanasios (Sakis) Gekas

"Cotton Textiles as a Global Industry, 1600-1850: An 'experiment' in Global History"
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Przemyslaw Marciniak

"Theatre That Did Not Exist: Drama, Theatre and Theatricality in Byzantium"
November 22, 2006, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Diana Mishkova
Balazs Trencsenyi
Michal Kopecek
Ahmet Ersoy
Vangelis Kechriotis

“Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe”
October 12, 2006 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum

Sandrine Bertaux

“Mussolini, the “Population Problem” and the Making of the Facist state: From the Democratic State to the Demographic State”
Thursday, November 24, 2006, 16:00, Cultural Heritage Museum