Birsen Çınar, administrative assistant of Department of Turkish Literature, passed away on Sunday, May 16, 2021. We wish to extend our condolences to Çınar family and the Bilkent community. 

The funeral service will be held on Monday, May 17, 2021 at  Ortaköy Mosque (Mamak) at noon prayers.

Üniversitemiz, Türk Edebiyatı Bölümü İdari Asistanı Birsen Çınar, 16 Mayıs 2021, Pazar günü vefat etmiştir. Merhume rahmet, Çınar ailesi ve Bilkent camiasına başsağlığı dileriz. 

Cenaze, 17 Mayıs 2021, Pazartesi günü öğle namazını müteakip, Ortaköy Camii’nden (Mamak) kaldırılacaktır.
INTERESTED IN HISTORY?

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Application Deadline: 31 May 2021

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BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"Venedik Arşivi'nden II. Osman Fermanı"

by
Dr. Vera Costantini
(Ca' Foscari Venedik Üniversitesi)

Date: 20.04.2021 Tuesday 
Time: 20:00 (Ankara Time Zone)
Zoom Meeting Info


SEMINAR

"Machiavelli's Florentine Histories: An Essay on the Birth of 'Constitutional' Law"

by 
Prof. Levent Yılmaz (University of Paris Nanterre)

Date: 08.04.2021, Thursday
Time: 16.30 (Ankara Time Zone)

Zoom Meeting Info

Meeting ID: 256 109 2748
Passcode: 768464

 

BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA 
SPRING 2021

Byzantium and the Silk Roads, Mini Seminar Series

by

Irene Giviashvili, Qiang Li Ihac, Aniket Chettri

Friday 9 April (17.00 o'clock, Istanbul time)


For More Information: byzantiumatankara@hotmail.com
For further info and registration: Program



The Dumbarton Oaks Library Research Collection/ Harvard Center for Byzantine Studies has selected the Department of History as one of the few institutional recipients of their Byzantine Seminar Series on Numismatic and Sigillography. Prof. Jonathan Shea has delivered a seminar on "Byzantine Seals and their use" to Bilkent Ug and Grad students enrolled in Dr. Luca Zavagno's Byzantine History course.
A further seminar on Byzantine Coins will be held (virtually) in the Fall 2021/22 Semester.
Dr. Luca Zavagno and three Bilkent History Grad Students (Fermude Gulsevinç, Yunus Dogan and Aysenur Mulla) will be delivering a paper at the 52 International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo as members of the FLAME-Princeton University project

Date: 10-15 May 2021

Program
the Flame Project

EXTRATERRITORIALITY AND THE CAPITULATIONS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: AN OVERVİEW
By

Dr. Berke Torunoğlu
(The University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Date:10.03.2021, Wednesday
Time: 17.00 (Ankara Time Zone)

Zoom Meeting Info

Meeting ID: 256 109 2748
Passcode: 768464

Bedirhan Laçin, our Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded a TUBITAK
research grant for nine months as a visiting fellow at the University
of California, Davis in the United States of America.

Göksel Baş, our Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded a TUBITAK research
grant for six months as a visiting fellow at the University of Vienna,
Austria.


Turaç Hakalmaz, our Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded a TUBITAK research grant for one year as a visiting fellow in the United Kingdom.
He will also be delivering a speech at the IMC International Medieval Congress 2021 
(Turaç Hakalmaz has been awarded a grant by "Templar Heritage Trust Fund" which has been awarded only to six applicants) 
Date of the Congress: 5-9 July 2021
IMC Website

Two of our Ph.D. students, Yunus Doğan and Fermude Gülsevinç will be delivering a paper at the prestigious OUBS 23rd International Graduate Conference, Organized by the University of Oxford

Date: 26-28 February 2021

Registration
Program

BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA 
SPRING 2021
February: Ceylan Karaca, Rossina Kostova, Malte Fuhrman
March: Myrto Veikou, Jonathan Shea
April: Byzantium and the Silk Roads, Mini Seminar Series
Irene Giviashvili, Qiang Li Ihac, Aniket Chettri
May: Sercan Yandım Aydın, Cenk Güray & Nevin Şahin, Ingo Herklotz
For More Information: byzantiumatankara@hotmail.com
Also: Program



PUBLICATION

Early Ottoman Military and Administrative Order in the Balkans 

A Muster Roll of the Voynuk Corps (Defter-i Esami -i Voynugan) in the Western Balkans From 1487

by

Dr. Evgeni R. Radushev (Department of History)
and
Göksel Baş, PhD. Candidate 

Details

 

 

 

BETWEEN TWO PASSPORTS: THE FORMATION OF OTTOMAN NATIONALITY AND THE GREEK POPULATION QUESTION, 1830-1875

By

Dr. Berke Torunoğlu
(The University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Date: 01.12.2020
Time: 16.30 (Ankara Time Zone)

Zoom Meeting Info

Meeting ID: 256 109 2748
Passcode: 768464

BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA 
BYZANTINE SEMINAR
SERIES FALL 2020

“The Grave of St. Nicholas"

by
Dr. Philip Niewöhner
(Privatdozent in Göttingen)

Zoom Event
15 October 2020, at 6.00 pm.

For Questions

For full seminar
series program

GLOBAL BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA 
FROM PAST TO PRESENT(SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES)

A Zoom Virtual Event

10-17-24 July 2020

Seminar Web Site
 Byzantium at Ankara

For Questions Contact Us at: byzantiumankara@hotmail.com

BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA 
BYZANTINE SEMINAR
SERIES SPRING 2020/21

“1st Graduate Students Forum
A Zoom Virtual Event”

In Collaboration with Bilkent University, Hacettepe University,
Koç University and Boğaziçi University
26-27 June 2020

Seminar Web Site: Byzantium at Ankara
For Questions Contact Us at: byzantiumankara@hotmail.com

CONDOLENCES

We have received the sad news that our former colleague, Cadoc Leighton, who was a faculty member between 1994-2015, passed away. We wish to extend our condolences to Leighton family and Bilkent community.

Bölümümüz hocalarından (1994-2015) değerli meslektaşımız Cadoc Leighton’un vefat ettiğini üzülerek öğrenmiş bulunmaktayız. Leighton ailesine ve Bilkent camiasına başsağlığı dileklerimizi sunarız.
 
BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA
SEMINAR SERIES

“Byzantine - Turkish Diplomacy and The Loss of Western Asia Minor (1260-1335)”
by

Alexander Beihammer
(University of Notre Dame)


 March 11, 2020 at 14:30. Room: A-130.

BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA 
BYZANTINE SEMINAR SERIES

“A Pilgrimage Site in Lycia: Saint Nicholas Church and Monastery in Myra"

by
Sema Doğan
(Hacettepe University)

27.02.2020 Thursday. Room: A-130. Time: 14:30.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY TALK

"Byzantine Tents and the Global Middle Ages"

by
Margaret Mullett
(Queen's University Belfast)

16.12.2019 Monday. Room: A-130. Time:14:30

WORKSHOP
"The Byzantine Countryside: Insular and Coastal Perspectives"

Elena Boeck (De Paul University), Angelo Castrorao (CSIC Madrid), Lucia Arcifa (University of Catania), Fabio Pinna (University of Cagliari), Elisabetta Giorgi (University of Siena), Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University), Ufuk Serin (Metu)

06.12.2019 Friday. C Block Amphi. Time: 09:30-16:15.

BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"XVI. ve XVII. Yüzyıllarda Osmanlı-Habsburg Diplomatik İlişkileri: Temel Meseleler ve Literatür Eleştirisi"

by
Özgür Kolçak
(İstanbul Üniversitesi)

28.11.2019 Thursday. Room: AZ-31. Time: 16:45.


BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"Ottoman Consuls in Boston 1845-1914: An Untold Story"

by
Ömür Budak

21.11.2019 Thursday. Room: AZ-31. Time: 16:45.

BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"Habsburg Merceğinden Bakmak: Osmanlı Tarihçiliği İçin Avusturya Arşivlerinin Önemi"

by
Ömer Gezer
(Hacettepe Üniversitesi)


14.11.2019 Thursday. Room: AZ-31. Time: 16:45.
BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"Habsburg Ordusunda İtalyan Bir General: Kont Luigi Marsigli ve Dünyası"

by
Dr. Güner Doğan


07.11.2019 Thursday. Room: AZ-31. Time: 16:45.
SEMINAR

"The Governor's Divan and the Sharia Court: Administration of Justice in the Ottoman Provinces during the Eighteenth Century"

by
Jun Akiba

(Institute for Advanced
Studies on Asia,
The University of Tokyo)

31.10.2019 Thursday. Room: A130. Time: 17:40

OTTOMAN LEVANTINE MAPS
FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UNTIL THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Opening and Panel: 13 May 14:00-17:00
ALL ARE WELCOME

Date: 13-22 May 2019
Place: Lıbrary Art Gallery



BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"May 10: A Spring Day to Remember in the History of Modern Romanian-Ottoman Relations"

by
Silvana Rachieru
(University of Bucharest)

10.05.2019 Friday. Room: AZ-31. Time: 16:40.

 
BİLKENT INTERNATIONAL
HOUSE (BIH) TALKS

"Shared Worlds: Connecting the Medieval Mediterranean  (a model for present day?)"

By
Luca Zavagno


28 March 2019. Room: B Building (B-111) Time: 18:00

BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"Para Tarihi Araştırmaları ve Osmanlı Arşivi"

Ömerül Faruk Bölükbaşı

04.04.2019 Perşembe. Yer: AZ-31 Saat: 16:45

BİLKENT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TALKS

"Roma Identity: Orientalism Transposed"

by
Owen Miller

28.03.2019 Thursday. Room: AZ-31 Time:16:40

STUDENT COLLOQUIUM

"The Longue Durée of the Eastern Mediterranean: Byzantium Venice and the Ottomans"

Friday, 21 December, H. 9:30-16:20 C-Block Amphi.


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CONFERENCE


Some Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Ottoman Accommodation in the Hungarian Kingdom - the Possibilities of Visualization in GIS


December 6th, 2018
Time: 14:00
FEASS, Room A-130


(The conference will be held in Turkish and English)
WORKSHOP

"Sailing to Byzantium"
Insular and Coastal Urban Spaces in the Medieval Mediterranean

Bilkent University, FEASS, C Block Amphi, Friday, November 2018.

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HIST 200 History of Turkey Award Ceremony


The annual History of Turkey award ceremony took place on Monday, October 15 at C-Block Auditorium. The awards were presented to students whose projects were judged the best of the 2017-2018 academic year.

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Bilkent Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü ve Londra Birkbeck Üniversitesi arasında yapılan işbirliği çerçevesinde son dört ayda üç farklı eğitici ve geliştirici "Yazı Atölyesi" düzenlendi.




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