🖊️ New blogpost! In this summer read, Dr Enno Maessen takes us to the Istanbul of the long 20th century, describing how the geopolitical events of that century affected the city and reflecting on the footsteps of James Baldwin and Kim Philby in Istanbul. securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/08/15/the…

Please join a lecture by Adam Sabra, Professor of History UCSB, hosted by Christian Lange Utrecht University, 17-9, 12.00, Janskerkhof 13, room 006. Sabra will discuss the rise of a scholarly nobility in Egypt of unprecedented wealth, influence, and durability in the Ottoman period.

Applying for a visa is a rite of passage (or non-passage) for many Turkish nationals. But who decides, and how? Mert Cangönül explains in this week's podcast.🛂🛂 thelausanneproject.com/2024/09/06/pod…

“The regime’s gulag, with imprisonment and torture at its core, is geared towards one supreme goal: the extermination of dissent.” Read @LaraSabra_'s sharp review of Jaber Baker & Uğur Ümit Üngör's book Syrian Gulag, which details Assad’s prison system. aljumhuriya.net/en/2024/09/06/…

Join us on Thursday, October 10 for a book talk / lecture featuring Prof. Sebouh Aslanian. Aslanian’s latest book offers a compelling exploration of the Armenian diaspora's formation by tracing the movement of books from Asia to Europe in the early modern era.

Interesting interview with @SamuelJHirst about his new book, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939." Anyone interested in Turkey, the USSR, or interwar development policies should give it a listen. pca.st/f2n28dr2

My review of @ozanozavci1 's Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864. A must-read for those interested in global history and the Middle East. Middle East Policy Council doi.org/10.1111/mepo.1…

Join us for a stimulating lecture by Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoğlu Sertaç Sehlikoglu, PhD, SFHEA (University College London)

#LECTURE | On 17/10 Martin Shaw will deliver the Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture: ‘In Defence of the Concept of Genocide’. Shaw is a Research Professor at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, currently working on 'The Return of Genocide: The Idea and Its Uses after Gaza'. ℹ️: ow.ly/gjhe50TChkO

Compulsory or voluntary? Gözde Kırcıoğlu sheds new light on who first came up with the idea of a compulsory Lausanne population exchange Leiden University Universiteit Leiden thelausanneproject.com/2024/10/04/con…

For my international colleagues who are wondering what the heck is going in in the Netherlands: Dutch Academia is facing the largest budget cuts since the 1980s. Programs will disappear, work load will go up, students will be penalised. It's grim 1/x

Syrian Gulag has been shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. There's nothing to celebrate, but it's good that #Assad's machinery of torture and extermination is not forgotten. Jaber Baker

Please join us on 15 November for a TSN lecture by Ümit Selim Kurt, supported by The Lausanne Project (TLP) on Biographies of Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. Registration via turkeystudiesnetwork.org.

Looking forward to it. Thank you Turkey Studies Network, @ozanozavci1, Uğur Ümit Üngör

The world out there is burning, but I feel too excited to withhold this news: my book, Voices that Matter, won the 2024 OTSA Book Prize! 🥳 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association UChicagoPress Cultural Anthropology UU Grateful to all who have made this possible 🙏 #KurdishStudies #Voice

CfP: Sensescapes of War and Ritual in the Early Islamic World at Utrecht University. sensis.wp.hum.uu.nl/2024/10/call-f…

If you haven't registered yet, today’s the day! Join us with Ümit Selim Kurt! 👇🔽