Very much looking forward to giving the keynote at the Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium and to the discussions it will open up!
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Very much looking forward to giving the keynote at the Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium and to the discussions it will open up!
🔔 Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium
🗣 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!
Dr İlkay Yılmaz (Freie Universität Berlin) will give the keynote lecture at the upcoming OM&I Symposium (13-14 April, Istanbul), focused on "Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire."
Looking forward to read Owen Miller’s new book! #ottomanempire #mountains @universitypress.cambridge.org
I’m grateful for this thoughtful note,
@alanlester.bsky.social
It’s encouraging to see the article engaging readers across different fields.
@journalgenocide.bsky.social
My new open access article: “Security Memory, Knowledge Production, and State Formation: The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire (1876–1908),” Journal of Genocide Research. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@syracuseup.bsky.social
Loved moderating Prof. Berberian & Prof. Grigor on their inspiring book “Armenian Women, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity“(@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025) at @zmo-berlin.bsky.social. A fascinating mix of political, gender, and art history. Don’t miss their Europe tour!
Join us at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social on 20 Oct 2025 for the book talk:
📘 The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
by Houri Berberian & Talinn Grigor.
www.zmo.de/en/events/th...
Excited to join Napoli L’Orientale as a guest professor to teach on Ottoman migrations! Looking forward to this new adventure. Thanks to
Lea Nocera to for this opportunity!
Not surprising:
“German Academia after October 7: Self-Censorship and Restrictions of Academic Freedom among MENA Scholars”
www.interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...
Pleasure to be part of this great conference! Many thanks to Jordi Tejel Gorgas for the kind invitation.
Gaza famine: To be killed by an air strike is easier than watching your children starve - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-famine-killed-air-strike-easier-watching-your-children-starve
Toplumsal Tarih’in yeni sayısına “Göç, Evraklar ve Şiddet (1876-1908)” başlıklı yazımla bu sefer ben de küçük bir katkıda bulundum👇
Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk titled “The Armenian Question in the Ottoman East: Security, Violence, and Knowledge Production” as part of the Dynamics of Security Collaborative Research Center’s Fellow Talks series at Marburg University. Looking forward to the discussion! @sfb138.bsky.social
A third wave of autocratization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
70 per cent of the world’s population now live in dictatorships, according to this year’s report on democracy from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg. v-dem.net/media/public...
OTSA has issued a statement on Academic Freedom. To read the full statement, please visit: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/news/
Excellence in Middle East Studies — something Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer personify— is being sacrificed at the altar because the boards of these schools wager not many people will care and it will satisfy the barbarians at the gates. They’re wrong on both counts.
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who came to Turkey to follow the protests, was arrested and sent to Maltepe Prison.
BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Another packed house for another @hiddencostaction.bsky.social member @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social speaking about her fascinating work on Ottoman passports @esshc.bsky.social at another great conference session
The Education and Science Workers’ Union backed students’ boycott with a one-day strike. Now, the government is investigating the union, and this morning, my dear colleague Dr.Levent Dölek was taken into custody. @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social
The Education and Science Workers’ Union decided to go on strike at universities in solidarity with the students in Turkey.
www.evrensel.net/haber/547754...
Lawyers in Gaziantep organised a march to protest the court's decision to remove the president of the Istanbul Bar Association and its board members from their duties.
Police barricaded the area and are not allowing the Gaziantep lawyers to march.
1,133 people were detained during the protests between March 19 and 23. www.birgun.net/haber/19-23-...
CHP Istanbul Chair Özgür Çelik was injured during the police intervention.
Chp PM is in the hospital because of the brutal police attack
Interesting piece, echoes what both critical and pro-government pundits have said since Imamoglu's detention.
They see Erdogan as emboldened by Trump's return and believe reaction from Nato/EU will be muted due to Turkey's possible role in new security structures.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Mahir Polat'ın tutuklanması, en az İmamoğlu'nun tutuklanması kadar manidar. Alçıpan sevmiyordu çünkü adam, şehrin tarihine sermaye gözüyle bakmıyordu, sahiden önemsiyor, sahiden dert ediyordu. Cezalandırılmasının sebebi de bu. Bir şehrin tarihi nasıl sevilir onu gösteriyordu.
