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Past events

Online

Editing & Interpreting the Liston Papers: Explorations in the Turkish Embassy Archives

12th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Valerie Kennedy, Patrick Hart, Dora Petherbridge
July 22, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
Online

The Rock Inscriptions, Graffiti and Crosses from Quarry GO3C at Göktepe, Muğla District/Ancient Cari

A BIAA Online Lecture by Paweł Nowakowski and Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino
July 20, 2021 Tuesday, 19:00 – 20:30 +03
Online talk

Storytelling in the Great Mongol Shahnama

with Professor Robert Hilllenbrand
July 13, 2021 Tuesday 12 noon EDT
Online

Prinkipo Regattas as Urban-Social Activity in 19th century İstanbul

11th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Bengi Su Ertürkmen Aksoy
July 13, 2021 Tuesday, 18:00 GMT
Online lecture

Phanariots, Ottoman governance and the Greek Revolution

New perspectives on life before the Tanzimat reforms
July 8, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
Art Fair

Bodrum Art and Antique Fair (BAAF)
July 7, 2021 – July 11, 2021
Bodrum
Yavuz Köse: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna

A unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire
June 24, 2021 16.30 (UK time)
Online

Revisiting Mihri Hanım (1885-1954): A Woman Painter in the late Ottoman Empire

A BIAA Online Lecture by Gizem Tongo
June 24, 2021 Thursday, 19:00 – 21:00 (Ankara UTC+3)
Online

The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures

10th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Mehmet Kentel & Özge Ertem
June 23, 2021 Wednesday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT +3
Performance

Fête de la Musique

Summer Solstice with music
June 21, 2021
Architecture & Design

Alpaslan Ataman’s Drawing of Spacial Typology of Ottoman Architecture
18.00 BST, 20.00 Turkish time
Online

Becoming Bursa: The First Ottoman Capital Revisited

ANAMED Talk by Suna Çağaptay
June 17, 2021 Thursday, 18:30 GMT +3
Online, Performance

Film Mor Womens’ Film Festival 2021
June 16, 2021 – June 29, 2021
Online

Ottomans and their ‘Others’: Uses of soft power

Columbia Global Centers: Voices of Emerging Scholars webinar series
June 16, 2021 6pm Istanbul time, 11am NYC
Online, Talks and tours

Frankish Gravestones in the Eastern Aegean from the Medieval Period
June 15, 2021
Bazaar

Ottoman Silks at The Silk Road Bazaar
June 11, 2021 – June 13, 2021
International Conference

Musical Sources and Theories

From Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period
June 10, 2021 – June 12, 2021
Germany
Online, Talks and tours

Public Perceptions of the Other’s Heritage: Ottoman Heritage in Greece

A BIAA Online Lecture with Hakan Tarhan (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)
June 8, 2021
Online

The cemetery at Haidar Pasha with reference to those providing medical care during the Crimean War

An online lecture by Dr Mike Hinton
June 3, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT +3
Exhibition

Eye on Nature

Douglas McBride: Photography
June 3, 2021 – June 26, 2021 11am – 4pm Monday to Saturday
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Performance

Istanbul Music Festival 2021
June 3, 2021 – June 21, 2021
ISTANBUL
Online talk

Etel Adnan: Her Life, Her Work, Her Cities
June 2, 2021 Wednesday, 18:30
Online

Subterranean Hagia Sophia: Revealing the Waters below Hagia Sophia

A BIAA Online Lecture by Dr Çiğdem Özkan Aygün and Professor James Crow
June 1, 2021 Tuesday, 19:00 – 21:00 GMT +3
exhibition

Deniz Pasha - Blood Memory

Last days
May 27, 2021 – July 3, 2021
Online

Unlikely Diaologues in Art

Voices of Emerging Scholars 5th Workshop
May 26, 2021 Wednesday, 18:00 GMT +3
Online Symposium

Perceptions of the Other:

The Ottoman Empire / Turkey and the West
May 22, 2021 Saturday 17.30 – 19.30 BST
Online

In conversation: Melih Fereli and Laura Kuhn
May 20, 2021 Thursday, 19:00 GMT +3
Connoisseur

Fatoş Irwen: Exceptional Times
May 20, 2021 – June 27, 2021
DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul
Connoisseur

Raziye Kubat: Night Flight
May 20, 2021 – June 27, 2021
DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul
Online

Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire

9th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Dr Malte Fuhrmann
May 20, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT+3
Connoisseur

Istanbul Art and Antique Fair
May 18, 2021 – May 23, 2021
Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Maçka, Istanbul
Online Conference

Travel and Archaeology in Ottoman Greece in the Age of Revolution c.1800–1832

Organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
May 17, 2021 – May 18, 2021
Athens, Greece
Connoisseur

Necla Rüzgar: My Name was Written on Every Page
May 16, 2021 – June 27, 2021
Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara
Kemal Seyhan
May 13, 2021 – June 30, 2021
Pi Artworks London, London
Online, Talks and tours

The Martyrdom of Konon of Bidana:

How the Patron of the Isaurians was Made
May 11, 2021 Tuesday 17:00-18:30 (London UTC+1) | 19:00-20:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
Live Exhibition

Boundaries II

Recent paintings by Ewen Macdonald
May 6, 2021 – May 29, 2021 Monday to Saturday 11am to 4pm or by appointment. Closed Sundays
Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland
Online talk

Aleppo: from World City to Civil War

A talk by Philip Mansel
May 6, 2021 Thursday at 6pm
Online festival

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021
April 29, 2021 – May 3, 2021
Scotland
Online lecture

Bodies, Bronze, and Başur:

What the dead have to say about it
April 26, 2021 Monday 5 – 7.30pm (London)
Roundtable webinar

Teaching the ‘long’ 18th century

Roundtable organized by Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia, and Dipti Khera, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York
April 23, 2021 16.00–18.00 Turkish time
Exhibition

Intersection VI

Burak Dak, Gökhan Gökseven and Metin Alper Kurt
April 22, 2021 – July 3, 2021 Monday – Friday, 12:00 –18:00
x-ist, ISTANBUL
ONLINE TALK

Ruyer and Embryogenesis

Online Interpretation Event
April 22, 2021
Online lecture

The Alexianos: A transnational Greek family

7th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Giampaolo Salice
April 22, 2021 Thursday, 18:00 – 20:00 BST
Connoisseur

Single Channel -

Nermin Er, Hale Tenger and Inci Eviner
April 15, 2021 – May 14, 2021
Connoisseur

Site-specific virtual light installation

Installation by Özge Topçu
April 15, 2021 – May 15, 2021
Online class

Languages and Writing Systems of Anatolia

(Oriental Institute, 5 weeks)
April 15, 2021 – May 20, 2021 Zoom: Thursdays 17.00–19.00 CST (recorded for participants)
The Oriental Institute, USA
Online Zoom talk

Tales from the Turkish newsroom:

Why Newspapers Sometimes Lie
by Andrew Finkel
April 15, 2021 Thursday at 6pm (GMT)
Exhibition

The Garden of (not) Forgetting

Dilşad Aladağ and Eda Aslan
April 14, 2021 – May 30, 2021 Tuesday – Friday, 11:00 – 19:00
DEPO, ISTANBUL
Conceptual art

Deniz Gül: Scratch and Surface

Seqential II
April 13, 2021 – June 28, 2021
SALT Galata, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

The Turkish contemporary artist Deniz Gül speculates on the nature of words and translation.
Online, Talks and tours

Cooking Sections
April 11, 2021 19.00 Istanbul time
SALT Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Online

Istanbul Unbound

Environmental Approaches to the City
April 8, 2021 – April 11, 2021
ISTANBUL
Connoisseur

Fluid Dynamics

Versus Art Project
April 8, 2021 – May 8, 2021
Conference

Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East
April 8, 2021 – April 10, 2021
The Silk Road: A Living History

Outdoor exhibition documenting Christopher Wilton-Steer’s four-month journey along the world’s oldest trade route
April 8, 2021 – June 16, 2021
London
Performance

Oboe and Piano Recital

Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi Wednesday Classics
April 7, 2021 18:00
Performance

Istanbul Film Festival 2021
April 1, 2021 – June 29, 2021
ISTANBUL
Online

British Diplomatic Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

A Lecture by Dr Gemma Masson
April 1, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 21:30 BST
Auction

Islamic art at Christie’s, Spring 2021

Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets, Spring 2021
April 1, 2021 11:00 AM BST
Christie’s King Street, London
Online, Talks and tours

Gareth Winrow: Whispers Across Continents: In Search of the Robinsons
April 1, 2021 19.00 Istanbul time
Friends of the American Research Institute Turkey (FARIT), ISTANBUL
Talks and tours

Mr Costa and the OCM Oriental Carpet Manufacturers

A webinar from the Royal Society for Asian Affairs with James Crowden
April 1, 2021 14.00 UK time
London
Auction

Islamic art at Sotheby’s, Spring 2021

Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets, Spring 2021
March 31, 2021 Wednesday, 10:30 AM BST
Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London
Auction, Connoisseur

Material Culture: Oriental Rugs from American Estates
March 31, 2021 17.00 (GMT +3)
Material Culture, USA
Auction

The Sotheby’s Orientalist Sale

Including works from the Najd Collection
March 30, 2021 15.00 (UK time)
Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London
Contemporary Art Fair

ARTANKARA 2021

Contemporary Art Fair
March 30, 2021 – April 1, 2021
Ankara
Auction, Connoisseur

Bonhams: Islamic and Indian Art, Spring 2021
March 30, 2021 11:00 BST
Bonhams New Bond Street, London
Auction, Online

Istanbul Müzayede: Anılar ve İmzalar II

Online auction
March 30, 2021 21,00 Istanbul time
Nişantaşı, Istanbul
Virtual seminar

Decoding the Milesian Agro-Pastoral Economy from Above: Remote Sensing and Metrology

An Anatolian Studies Virtual Seminar with Toby Wilkinson and Anja Slawisch
March 30, 2021 17.00–18.30
British Institute at Ankara, Southern Aegean
Online panel

The “Ottoman” Mediterranean
March 26, 2021 Friday, 12:30–14:00 EST
Online

Dr Matthew Kinloch: Character Systems and Cultural Solipsisms

Comparing the Histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni
March 25, 2021 17.00 (Istanbul time)
Bosphorus University Byzantine Studies Research Center, ISTANBUL
Talks and tours

Amit Bein: Not so distant neighbours

Turkey and the Middle East in the 1930s
March 25, 2021 16.30 (UK time)
The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, United Kingdom
Online art course

Online Art of Illumination Course

Complete beginners
March 22, 2021 – April 12, 2021
Yunus Emre Institute in London, London
Performance

BIPO: Following the 20th Century
March 21, 2021 – April 1, 2021
ISTANBUL
Talks and tours

Cycling Anatolia: Three Weeks on the Sufi Trail
March 20, 2021 16.30 (UK time)
Cycling Anatolia: Three Weeks on the Sufi Trail, Central Anatolia
Connoisseur

Refik Anadol: Machine Memoirs – Space
March 19, 2021 – April 25, 2021
Pilevneli, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Online, Talks and tours

Berna Kamay: The “Frenkhâne” of Rossi

An Inheritance Story from a Port City, Smyrna
March 19, 2021
Online

Fine Antique Oriental Rugs XXIV

Auction
March 19, 2021
Connoisseur

Dilara Göl: Disorder
March 18, 2021 – May 8, 2021
Simbart Projects, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Online

Visiting the Cedars of Lebanon: from Gilgamesh to Edward Lear

A lecture by Paul Starkey
March 18, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 GMT
Film, Performance

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
March 18, 2021 – March 30, 2021
Connoisseur

Ak-sayanlar
March 17, 2021 – April 17, 2021
x-ist
Connoisseur

Barış Doğrusöz: Locus of Power
March 15, 2021 – March 27, 2021
SALT Galata
Connoisseur

Ceylan Öztrük: Zintuhi
March 11, 2021 – April 3, 2021
Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara
Connoisseur

Love over Entropy

Group exhibition curated by Ayça Okay
March 11, 2021 – April 29, 2021
Anna Laudel, Galata, Istanbul
Group exhibition

Daydreams
March 5, 2021 – April 11, 2021
Galeri Nev Istanbul, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Video installations

Ali Kazma: Europeans
March 5, 2021 – April 30, 2021
Kiraathane: Istanbul Literature House, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Connoisseur

All Else Is Far

Başka Her Şey Üzak
March 4, 2021 – April 25, 2021
Dirimart Dolapdere, Dolapdere
Online lecture

Feminist Art in the Middle East and Turkey

A British Institute at Ankara lecture
March 4, 2021 Thursday, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT
Exhibition

Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement
March 3, 2021 – April 18, 2021 Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00 – 19:00.
DEPO, ISTANBUL
Solo exhibition

Oğuz Kaleli: Exit
March 3, 2021 – April 4, 2021 11.00–18.00
C.A.M. Gallery, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Online, Talks and tours

Magnet Talks: 19th-century Soldier Painters: The Primitives

19. Yüzyılın Asker Ressamları I: Primitifler
March 3, 2021 20:00 – 21:30
Online

Western European Merchants in the Eastern Mediterranean in 16th-17th century Islamic-Ottoman View

5th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Dr Viorel Panaite
March 3, 2021 Wednesday, 18:00 GMT
Exhibition

Echos: “Defragmentology” by Mathias Hornung and “Assimilation” by Onur Hastürk
February 28, 2021
Anna Laudel, ISTANBUL
Online, Talks and tours

Turkish Foreign Policy in Flux

John Martin Lecture: Prof Ziya Öniş on Traditional Alignments with the West versus the New Eastern Orientation
February 27, 2021
Online

Rural Hinterlands of the Black Sea during the Fourth Century BCE
February 22, 2021 Monday, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT
online film

Istanbul Film Festival online screenings
February 17, 2021
Online

Belgium and the Ottoman Empire: ‘Transnationals’ and Diplomacy in an Age of Global Capital

4th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Houssine Alloul
February 17, 2021 Wednesday, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT
Connoisseur

Leyla Emadi: Tidal Waves
February 16, 2021 – April 3, 2021
Exhibition

Alp İşmen and Yüksel Dal: Marvelous Correspondences, Subtle Resemblances
February 16, 2021 – April 3, 2021
Mixer, Tophane, Istanbul
Online

Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image

Book talk with Dr Elizabeth Rodini
February 16, 2021 Tuesday, 19:00 GMT+3
Connoisseur

İz Öztat: Watercolour on Paper
February 11, 2021 – March 23, 2021
Pi Artworks Istanbul, Karaköy, Istanbul

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Past events

Online

12th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Valerie Kennedy, Patrick Hart, Dora Petherbridge

Online

A BIAA Online Lecture by Paweł Nowakowski and Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino

Online talk

with Professor Robert Hilllenbrand

Online

11th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Bengi Su Ertürkmen Aksoy

Online lecture

New perspectives on life before the Tanzimat reforms

Art Fair

Bodrum

A unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire

Online

A BIAA Online Lecture by Gizem Tongo

Online

10th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Mehmet Kentel & Özge Ertem

Performance

Summer Solstice with music

Architecture & Design

Online

ANAMED Talk by Suna Çağaptay

Online, Performance

Online

Columbia Global Centers: Voices of Emerging Scholars webinar series

Online, Talks and tours

Bazaar

International Conference

From Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period

Germany

Online, Talks and tours

A BIAA Online Lecture with Hakan Tarhan (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)

Online

An online lecture by Dr Mike Hinton

Exhibition

Douglas McBride: Photography

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

Performance

ISTANBUL

Online talk

Online

A BIAA Online Lecture by Dr Çiğdem Özkan Aygün and Professor James Crow

exhibition

Last days

Online

Voices of Emerging Scholars 5th Workshop

Online Symposium

The Ottoman Empire / Turkey and the West

Online

Connoisseur

DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul

Connoisseur

DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul

Online

9th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Dr Malte Fuhrmann

Connoisseur

Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Maçka, Istanbul

Online Conference

Organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews

Athens, Greece

Connoisseur

Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara

Pi Artworks London, London

Online, Talks and tours

How the Patron of the Isaurians was Made

Live Exhibition

Recent paintings by Ewen Macdonald

Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

Online talk

A talk by Philip Mansel

Online festival

Scotland

Online lecture

What the dead have to say about it

Roundtable webinar

Roundtable organized by Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia, and Dipti Khera, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York

Exhibition

Why Newspapers Sometimes Lie
by Andrew Finkel