On Thursday, January 19, at 9 am US CT join the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois for a webinar with the National Library of Serbia. The webinar is a part of the Meet the National Libraries series. Attendees will learn about physical and digital collections, services and preservation work at the National Library of Serbia as well as the Digital Library of Serbia. For more information and to register, please visit: https://forms.gle/ow6a5QwsnW931FYS6.
Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society, a book talk with Professor Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth University.
The author explores what we can learn about Ottoman history over the long nineteenth-century by looking closely into the contested and shifting boundaries of the laziness - productivity binary. Hafez also considers how 'laziness' can be used to understand emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire.
Lecture, In person at ANAMED Auditorium, İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu and streamed online.
Date: January 31, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm (Istanbul, UTC + 3),10:00 am EST (New York).
For the online presentation, please Register here. For more information, please see https://aritweb.org/events/ or write to aritevents@gmail.com.
If it isn’t broke: Regional Shipbuilding Traditions and Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, an online seminar with Professor Paul Salay, Coe College.
Dr. Salay applies the geo-spatial tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create a picture of the development and increasing complexity of maritime connectivity and transport from the Late Archaic to the Early Empire.
Date: January 27, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm (Istanbul, UTC + 3),11:00 am EST (New York).
Please Register here. For more information, please see https://aritweb.org/events/ or write to aritevents@gmail.com.
IAN MAKSIN & GABRIEL DATCU "CELLO FOR PEACE"
Concert tour to support peace in Ukraine
January 12, 8:00PM
Artifact Events, 4325 N Ravenswood Ave
Register here: https://allevents.in/chicago/ian-maksin-and-gabriel-datcu-at-artifact-events-chicago-always-and-forever/10000484658926897
Sergey Ivanov (British Academy Fellow; Northwestern University Visiting Scholar) will be presenting "Byzantine Influence On Old Rus': A Reassessment" this Friday, January 6, at 12–2 p.m. in the Classics Seminar Room (Kresge 4-364) of Northwestern's Evanston Campus. Refreshments will be served at 12 to allow mingling, and then the talk will transpire at 12:30–2 p.m.
Anatolian Rock and 1960s Social Movements in Turkey: Between the Countryside and the World
Date: December 12, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm (Istanbul, UTC + 3),10:00 am EST (New York). 9:00 am Central Time.
An ARIT in-person and hybrid lecture at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations by Dr. Kenan Sharpe, ARIT National Endowment for the Humanities research fellow. Dr. Sharpe offers a cultural history of Anatolian Rock, a genre of popular music combining Turkish folk music with European and North American rock ’n’ roll.
For the online presentation, please Register here or for more information, please see https://aritweb.org/events/ or write to aritevents@gmail.com.
Ukraine in the Pan-European Natural Gas System
with Per Hogselius (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Tuesday, December 6
1:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm CT
Join our Zoom Meeting
982 8987 9324
REEESNe, a network out of Yale connecting institutions across the Northeast, is holding a webinar next Wednesday, Dec. 7th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Free and open to anyone who registers, it will focus on non-academic professions relating to and/or affected by U.S.-Russian relations and will highlight how graduates of our institutions have navigated the start to their careers in the geopolitically troubled times of the past few years.
"Spaces of Creativity, Creating Space"
organized by the Centre for Creativity Research (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Faculty of Polish Studies)
Thursday 1 December 2022
17.00 (5 p.m.) Warsaw time / 16.00 (4 p.m.) London time / 10.00 (10 a.m.) Chicago time
Join the Zoom Meeting with this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2187583567?pwd=Rmh3NGZxRVc0eHpqOU5JbHgxSXdhZz09
Meeting ID: 218 758 3567
Programme
1. Bożena Shallcross (The University of Chicago)
Keynote “The Unkempt Room as a Creative Space”
2. Discussion
3. Centre for Creativity Research: forthcoming events
“Digital Transformations of Feminisms in Russia and Eastern Europe”
Online Seminar
25 November 2022 (Friday)
12.00-15:00 GMT (UK Time) / 14:00-17:00 EET (Eastern European time) / 6AM Central Standard Time
The program consists of two sessions. A keynote address by Inna Perheentupa (University of Turku) moderated by Saara Ratilainen (Tampere University) will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Natalia Kovalyeva (University of Tartu), Viktoria Kravtsova (Feminist Translocalities project), Lola Tagaeva (Verstka media) and Maryia Shkumayeva (Feminist Anti-War Resistance), moderated by Ella Rossman (UCL SSEES).
Zoom registration link: https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdu6rpzktGN1fXenAmtU-QASh-8DXIfHL
