Join us to talk about Digital Ottoman Studies on August 17! Nora Barakat, Ali Yaycıoğlu & Yunus Ugur will introduce the special dossier they edited for jotsa journal & lead a conversation with some of the contributors (13 on the poster & maybe more). Register: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Ali Yaycıoğlu Yunus Ugur jotsa journal Join us to talk about Digital Ottoman Studies on Thursday! Nora Barakat, Ali Yaycıoğlu & Yunus Ugur will introduce the special dossier they edited for jotsa journal & lead a conversation with some of the contributors (14 on the poster--maybe more). Register: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

If you missed our W'OTSAp meeting on Digital Ottoman Studies yesterday that was chaired by Nora Barakat Yunus Ugur & Ali Yaycıoğlu at which 14 contributors to the latest issue of jotsa journal talked about 16 digital projects, you can now watch it on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=5Z50p1…

If you missed our W'OTSAp meeting earlier today, which featured Elif Kevser Özer's award winning project on the expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul in 1964-65 with ilayors's commentary and @chrisphilliou's moderation, you can now watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/YVWi66sk5iI

Join us on Thursday, October 26, to listen to the co-winner of the 2022 OTSA Book Prize, Murat Metinsoy (İÜ), introduce his book. Burak Gürel (Koç Üniversitesi) will be the discussant and James Ryan (Foreign Policy Research Institute) will moderate the session. Registration: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The OTSA Board endorses the MESA Board Statement on Palestine & Israel: "There can be no justification for the targeting of civilians... We also join all those who are committed to a political solution that offers safety, dignity, and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis."

This month's W'OTSAp, which was going to happen tomorrow, is CANCELLED due to health related reasons -- it will be rescheduled to December or 2024.

OTSA's annual Awards Ceremony took place in Montreal on November 2; for a complete list of winners in all categories, see our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/photo?fbid=727…. Ailya Leflore (liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/news/ailya…) won the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship, congratulations to Ailya!

Sertaç Kaya Şen (Brown University) won the OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize with "Marshaling Development: Turkish Thrace in the Interwar Years." Myrsini Manney-Kalogera (University of Arizona: x.com/GradsUa/status…) won the OTSA Vangelis Kechriotis Memorial Travel Grant.

Efe Erünal received the inaugural OTSA Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies Award, which we started thanks to Muteferriqa. We would like to thank Miletos, the company behind Muteferriqa, for helping us launch this award and sponsoring our reception at the MESA annual meeting

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel was one of the co-winners of the OTSA Article Prize for her article “Classifying the Cartozians: Rethinking the Politics of Visibility Alongside Ottoman Subjecthood and American Citizenship,” which you can read here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

The other co-winner of the OTSA Article Prize was Samuel Dolbee for his article “Empire on the Edge: Desert, Nomads, and the Making of an Ottoman Provincial Border,” which you can read here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

Andrew Hammond received an Honorable Mention in the OTSA Book Prize competition for his book "Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought: Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge": google.com/books/edition/…

Finally, the winner of the OTSA Book Prize for 2023 was Nilay Özok-Gündoğan with her book "The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege": edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-kurdi…

Join us on Thursday November 30 to discuss the future of History with John McNeill, Özlem Sert, Sena Akçer-Ön, İlgi Gerçek, and Rula Nuri Shafiq-Baysan. Alan Mikhail will be the discussant and Faisal Husain will moderate the session. Zoom reg./ration link: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

This is happening THIS THURSDAY!!! Join us as we discuss the future of history! Register here: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

If you missed our W'OTSAp session about the Future of History that was organized by Faisal Husain and featured presentations by John McNeill, Özlem Sert, Sena Akçer-Ön, İlgi Gerçek, and Rula Nuri Shafiq-Baysan & Alan Mikhail's commentary, you can watch it: youtube.com/watch?v=y79IFq…

Join our 35th W'OTSAp meeting this Friday to talk about Ottoman Passports (Syracuse U Press) with İlkay Yılmaz (Freie Universität)! Janet Klein (The University of Akron) will be the discussant and @DavitGutman (@Mville_College) will moderate the session. Click the link for registration: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Join our 35th W'OTSAp meeting THIS Friday to talk about Ottoman Passports (Syracuse U Press) with @IlkayYilmazz (Freie Universität)! Janet Klein (The University of Akron) will be the discussant. @DavitGutman (@Mville_College) will moderate the session. Click this link for registration: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

If you missed our W'OTSAp meeting on Friday with @IlkayYilmazz, Janet Klein, and @DavitGutman, who talked about İlkay's new book, Ottoman Passports (Syracuse U Press), you can now watch it on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=vrO_IH…