Sarine Agopian’s article “Urban Modernization of Late Ottoman Kadıköy and the Memoirs of Hovhannes Kalfa Stepanian” is the winner of our Early Career Article Prize! Congratulations to Sarine Agopian! dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/… #kadikoy

Yaşar Tolga Cora’s “The Failed Housing Cooperative Project of the Oriental Savings Association: Housing and Urban Rent in Istanbul in the 1880s and 1890s” provides an insightful and fresh look into the housing cooperatives of late Ottoman Istanbul: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Among the peer-reviewed articles of YILLIK 5, Selin Sur and Ufuk Serin’s “A Reappraisal of the Genoese Walls of Galata (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) in terms of Medieval Building Techniques and Masonry Traditions” delves into the interaction between Genoese and Byzantine

“Producing, Transporting, and Distributing Charcoal: From the View of the Charcoal Merchants’ Guild in the Eighteenth Century in Istanbul and its Surrounding Regions,” by Kazuma Iwata, explores the dynamics of the premodern Ottoman energy trade: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Gürbey Hiz and ASenturer presents a novel take on Servet-i Fünûn, through exploring how it manifested the various experiences of modernity in “A Collection of Late Ottoman Imaginations, Constructions, and Experiences: Servet-i Fünûn”: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

“The Venues of Musical Performances in the Early Eighteenth Century and the Rûznâmes of Mahmud I (r. 1730-1754),” by Hande Betül Ünal, examines the intrinsic relationship between musical performance and space in the eyes of the sultan and palatial elite: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

In this year’s Cabinet, K. Mehmet Kentel engages with previously unpublished and unexhibited anonymous views of Istanbul, a part of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collections, currently on view at Pera Müzesi in the current exhibition “On the Spot,” curated by cigdem kafescioglu, the

Bu yılki Meclis’te Emre Güldoğan 2013 yılında başlatılan ve 15 ilçede yürütülen İstanbul İli Yüzey Araştırmaları (İstYA) Projesi’nin Şile ayağına dair bulgularıyla yer alıyor: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Anthony Kaldellis reviews Yannis Stouraitis’s Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval and East Roman World by Edinburgh University Press : dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Ivana Jevtić reviews Sarah Bassett’s The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople by Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press - History : dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Elif Bayraktar-Tellan reviews Vanessa R. De Obaldía and Claudio Monge op’s Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul: Properties, People & Missions by The Isis Press: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Dr. Emine Fetvaci reviews TarkanOkçuoğlu’s Hayal ve Gerçek Arasında Osmanlı Resminde İstanbul İmgesi, 18. ve 19. Yüzyıllar by IAE : dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Artemis Papatheodorou reviews Dimitris Stamatopoulos’ Byzantium after the Nation: The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies by Central European University Press: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Yağmur Yıldırım ugur tanyeli’nin Korku Metropolü İstanbul: 18. Yüzyıldan Bugüne (Metis Yayınları) kitabını inceledi: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Soner Demir Müjde Dila Gümüş’nın İstanbul Art Nouveau’su (Albaraka Yayınları) kitabını inceledi: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Daniele Tinterri reviews Alexios G. C. Savvides’ Bosphorus/Bosporos (Boghaz-içi) from Byzantine to Latin and Ottoman Times (4th-15th Centuries): Constantinople Viewed from the North-East Water Currents by Herodotos Press: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

Bihter Çetinyol küratörlüğü sevince bayrak ve oral göktaş tarafından yapılan Hayalet Hikayeleri: Mimarlığın Çuval Teorisi isimli 18. Venedik Mimarlık Bienali Türkiye Pavyonu’nu inceledi: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/… #exhibitionreview

Istanbul Bibliography 2023, per usual, brings together the latest research on Istanbul / İstanbul Kaynakçası 2023 her zamanki gibi kent üzerine en yeni araştırmaları bir araya getiriyor: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/yillik/…

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I'll be giving a book presentation at the University of Amsterdam on Tuesday, May 7. Thank you to Nurçin İleri for initiating the conversation, the Turkey Studies Network for inviting me, and K. Mehmet Kentel for acting as a discussant. turkeystudiesnetwork.org/2024/04/18/07-…