Speaker Series 2022-2023

Kyriakos Kalaitzidis

University of Ioannina, Greece 

"Post-Byzantine Musical Manuscripts as a Source for Oriental Secular Music (15th - 19th centuries)" 

with the support of the Phrixos Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek Studies 

Discussant: Tassos Anastassiadis, McGill University 

September 28, Wednesday, 4 pm 

Evgenia Kermeli 

Hacettepe University, Turkey 

"Coercion and Justice for Non-Muslims in an Ottoman Imperial Context" 

November 23, Wednesday, 5 pm, Hybrid Event

Discussant: Tassos Anastassiadis, McGill University 

Neveser Köker

Independent Scholar, Canada

"Translation as Modality of Belonging: Cosmopolitan Nativeness in Ignatius Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau Général de l’Empire Othoman (1788-1794)" 

Discussant: Virginia Aksan, McMaster University

January 18, Wednesday, 5 pm, Hybrid Event

Lilyana Yordanova 

École française d’Athènes, Greece

"Christian Art and Privileges under the First Ottoman Sultans" 

with the support of the Phrixos Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek Studies

Discussant: Cecily Hilsdale, McGill University

February 22, Wednesday, 5 pm, Hybrid Event

Cemal Kafadar 

Harvard University, USA

"Green Reading: Books and Outdoors in the Early Modern Ottoman World" 

March 24, Friday, 5 pm, Hybrid Event

ARTS, #150

Ferenc Péter Csirkés 

Sabancı University, Turkey

"Turkic Literary Practices and Political Theology in Safavid Iran" 

Discussant: Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University

Co-sponsored by the Persianate Studies Colloquium and MOTS

March 28, Tuesday, 4 pm - Zoom only

Belgin Turan Özkaya 

Middle East Technical University, Turkey

"Itinerant Objects: The British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity" 

Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology and the Research Group on Global Antiquities, Yan Lin Centre

April 11, Tuesday, 12:30 pm, Hybrid Event

Macdonald Harrington Building, #206

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