The Quest for Modern Language
Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
April 13–14, 2023
Neubauer Collegium
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Turkish Related
Prof. Michael Khodarkovsky
Professor of History
Loyola University Chicago
"Empires of the Steppe: Russian, Ottoman, Persian and Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective"
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
4:00PM-5:30PM
SSRB 302
OTTOMAN SUMMER SCHOOL at İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNIVERSITY
Course dates: July 3 - August 10, 2023
The Deadline for applications is March 15, 2023
Apply here: https://ottoman.bilgi.edu.tr
Turkey-Syria Earthquakes Benefit Concert
Saturday, February 18 at 2 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
$8 presale Venmo @UCHICAGOTSA
Please write "Ticket" for your Venmo description
$10 cash at door
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to invite applications to the summer program in Turkish, Istanbul 2023.
For additional information please see the ARIT webpage at https://aritweb.org/fellowships/arit-summer-fellowships-turkish/
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.
Hakan Karateke
Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language and Literature
University of Chicago
"Burning Books in Ottoman Lands"
FRIDAY, January 13th, 2023
3:15-4:15
OI 208
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.
American Councils for International Education is hiring short-term Resident Directors for summer language immersion programs abroad for American high school and college students studying one of 14 critical languages including: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.
Mobilizing Gender and Family for the Ottoman First World War
Date: November 8, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm (Istanbul, UTC + 3),9:00 am Central Time
An ARIT online lecture by Dr. Kate Dannies, Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University
For more information and registration, please use link at https://aritweb.org/events/ or write to aritevents@gmail.com
For livestreaming on zoom, register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-GvrD0pHtL6OE8_ifC-csYf_cG_CAJa