The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Nir Shafiir @nirshafir.bsky.social, University of California, San Diego, for “The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire" on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register: northwestern.zoom.us/.../gfgCJM_L...

Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, for “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century" on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/.../njl-VY-j...

Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Nir Shafir, University of California, San Diego, for “The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire" on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/.../gfgCJM_L...

Apply for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship by THIS SUNDAY, March 1!

Register for this Friday, February 27! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Apply for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship by March 1!

Register for next Friday, February 27! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tomorrow!

This Friday, February 13!

The application deadline for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship, in the amount of $1,500, has been extended to March 1. Students with diverse academic interests related to Turkey are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please see: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Register for next Friday, February 13! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA for “Drones, Cartoons and Festivals: Techno-Nationalist Culture in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, IREMAM, CNRS/Aix-Marseille University on Friday, February 27, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/.../early-ca....

Join OTSA for “Inhabiting Extended Transiency in Fikirtepe, Istanbul" with Francesco Pasta, Architecture Sans Frontières-UK/Istanbul Policy Center, on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Read more about the 2025 OTSA award winners on our website! Congratulations to the winners! www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prize...

The 2026 OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship application is open until February 6. For more information, please visit: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Happening now!

Tomorrow!

Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/j/97676602573

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...

The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../

If you missed today's W'OTSAp Friday session, you can now watch the recording on our Youtube Channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UVO...

Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.

Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

WOT'SAp Friday: “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” YouTube video by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

For those interested but unable to attend last week here is the video of our presentation for @andottoman.bsky.social about the book @onurinal.bsky.social @serpilatamaz.bsky.social and I edited in tribute to our mentor Linda Darling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9G_...

OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

This Friday👇

Join us this Friday!