
"The Social Life of Occupied Istanbul, 1918-1923"
by
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal (Assistant Director at the British Institute)
Date: 17 May 2023, Wednesday
Place: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
You are cordially invited!

INTERESTED IN HISTORY?
Masters and Ph.D. Programs
Application Deadline:
15 May 2023
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"Fethin 570. Yılında: Fatih'in İstanbul’u"
Panelistler/Panelists: İlber Ortaylı, Nurhan Atasoy ve Mehmet Kalpaklı
Moderatör/Moderator: Cengiz Özdemir
Yazarlar/Authors: Günsel Renda, Paolo Girardelli, Sümer Atasoy, Zeynep Tarım
Tarih/Date: 07.05.2023 Pazar/Sunday
Zaman/Time: 18.00
Yer/Place: Anadolu Hisarı Müzesi

4-5 May 2022
Twenty eight graduate students from various universities of Turkey, Europe and United States will present their work in eight panel sessions at this two-day event which will be held at C-Block Amphi from 10:30 till 17:30 each day.
Keynote Speaker: Christoph K. Neumann - The Director of the Orient-Institut Istanbul
Symposium Program

Saturday, April 8, 2023
Learn about the admission process and financial support opportunities.
Meet with our faculty and current graduate students in the department of your interest.
Register before April 7, 23.59
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17 DECEMBER
10:40 Session One
Seljuk View of Byzantium:
Oya Pancaroğlu
Dmitry Korobeynikov
Respondent: Alexander Beihammer
2:00 Session Two
Late Byzantium and It's Viewers
Mİchael Chatzidakis
Siren Çelik
Respondent: Scott Kennedy
DETAILED PROGRAM
Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/3899516358

SEMINAR
"Byzantium Outside Byzantium: The Evidence of The Non-Greek Seals From
Dumbarton Oaks Collection”
by
Dimitri Korobeinikov
(University of Albany)
Date: 14.12.2022
Time: 14:30
Room: A-130

"Behind the Walls"
The Department
of History, cordially invites you to special screening of “Behind the Walls” Documentary.
Date: 07 December 2022, Wednesday,
Avenue: Mithat Çoruh Amphitheather
Time: 16.30

8 DECEMBER
10:30 Session One
Cultural Construction of Space:
Maria Cristina Carile
Nikos Bakirtzis
Respondent: Ivana Jevtic
2:00 Session Two
Icon, Texts, and Monuments
Jelena Bogdanovic
Elena Boeck
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
Respondant: Sercan Yandım Aydın
DETAILED PROGRAM
Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/3899516358

“The Imperial Palace as an Iconic Space of Power: In and Beyond Constantinople”
by
Marie Cristina Carile
(University of Bologna)
Date: 9.12.2022
Time: 10.30
Room: A-130

"LexiQamus: A Digital Humanities Project, Challenging Long-Established Definitions and Methodologies"
by
Dr. Ahmet Abdullah Saçmalı
Date: 30 November 2022, Wednesday
Avenue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 15.30-17.30
You are cordially invited!

25 NOVEMBER
10:30 Session One
Cities of the Byzantine Heartland:
Zeliha Demirel Gökalp
Jenny Albani
Suna Çağaptay
Respondent: Anais Lamesa
2:00 Session Two
Urbanism in the Insular and Coastal Koine:
Akın Ersoy
Paul Arthur Respondant: Luca Zavagno
DETAILED PROGRAM
Zoom link : https:/ /zoom.us/j/3899516358

Çiğdem Barçan Tansel
and
Kalbiye Tansel Thesis Awards
Our M.A. Student Ayşenur Çenesiz is awarded the best MA thesis written in history
We would like to congratulate our student for receiving the award!

15 OCTOBER
11:00 Session One
Water at Constantinople:
Kerim Altuğ
Michael Jones
Respondent: Jim Crow
1:30 Session Two
History and Urbanism:
Jorge Quiroga
Natalia Poulou Papadimitriou
Respondent: Koray Durak
Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/3899516358

On the sixth anniversary of his passing (25 July), we commamorate with respect and grattitude Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık, prominent Ottoman historian and founder of the Department of History at Bilkent University
Vefatının altıncı yılında (25 Temmuz) Bilkent Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nün kurucusu ve değerli Osmanlı tarihçimiz sayın Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık'ı saygı ve minnetle anıyoruz

9-10 May 2022
Twenty six graduate students from Bilkent University, Bogazici University, Middle East Technical Umiversity and Koç University will present their work in eight panel sessions at this two-day event which will be held at C-Block Amphi from 09:30 till 17:00 each day.
Symposium Program
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"Coins and Contexts – Enriching Our Picture of the Past"
by
Assoc. Prof. Andrew Kurt
Date: 29.04.2022
Time: 16.30 (GMT +3)
Zoom Meeting Link
Meeting ID/Password:
463 611 1564 / 604a2ab80e

"From Coins to Data: New History for Ancient Antioch"
by
Assoc. Prof. Kristina Neumann
Date: 27.04.2022
Time: 17.30 (GMT +3)
Zoom Meeting Link
Meeting ID/Password:
463 611 1564 / 604a2ab80e

"Blue Eyes, Pockmarks, and the Violent Making of the Slaves in the Late Ottoman Empire"
by
Dr. Ceyda Karamürsel
Date: 19.04.2022
Time: 17.00 (GMT +3)
Online Event (Zoom)
Room 167
Zoom ID: 463 611 1564
Password: 604a2ab80e

"Beyond Books: the Diagrammatic Mode in Byzantium"
by
Prof. Linda Safran
(Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto)
Date: 31.03.2022
Time: 18.00 (İstanbul Time Zone)
Zoom Event
For further info and registration:
byzantiumatankara@hotmail.com

"Love (mahabbet): An Emotion Providing the Meaning-making Mechanisms of Protection (hıfz) in early modern Ottoman Familial Relations"
by
Dr. Nil Tekgül
(the Department of History)
Date: 29.03.2022
Time: 17.00 (İstanbul Time Zone)
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://zoom.us/j/4636111564?pwd=c1g5NjcyWW9Qc2E4dEhUTTBNZ2poUT09
Meeting ID/Password:
463 611 1564 / 604a2ab80e

Studies”
by
Date: 08.03.2022
Time: 17.00 (Ankara Time Zone)
Zoom Meeting ID: 463 611 1564
Password: 604a2ab80e
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"The Visible city": History of Byzantine
Urbanism Between 600 and 1204
by
Asst. Prof. Luca Zavagno
(Metu Architectural History Talks
Fall 2021-22)
Date: 24.01.2022
Time: 18.00 (İstanbul Time Zone)
Zoom Event
Meeting ID: 982 4937 9054
Passcode: 462612

BYZANTIUM AT ANKARA SEMINAR SERIES
FALL 2021/22
"Cherson in the Crimea and the Byzantine Empire (early – middle Byzantine period)”
by
Dr. Martina Cechova
(Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague)
Date: 10.01.2022
Time: 18.00 (Ankara Time Zone)

“Fantastic Fountains and Where to Find Them
A Comparative Analysis on Fountains In Byzantium and the Islamicate World”
by
Federica A. Broilo
(University “Carlo Bo” of Urbino)
Date: 16.12.2021
Time: 18.00 (İstanbul Time Zone)
To obtain Zoom access
byzantiumatankara@gmail.com
Byzantium at Ankara

"Some Considerations on Relationship Between the Western Powers and the Ottoman Turks in the Late Middle Ages: From the Case Study of Sigismondo Malatesta Lord of Rimini"
by
Elisa Tosi Brandi
(University of Bologna)
Date: 02.12.2021 Thursday
Time: 18.00 (İstanbul Time Zone)
(Zoom Event)
Byzantium at Ankara

Assist. Prof. Dr. Luca Zavagno of the Department of History published his third monograph.
"The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610-1204"
The book was published by Palgrave McMillan, 2021 in the New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Series.
Detailed Information

“Strolling Through Echoes of the Past: Byzantine Music"
This mini symposium/workshop aims to explore the many facets of Byzantine music and its legacy. The symposium provides also a Byzantine Note-Reading Workshop. Friday's session will be concluded with a concert program.
(Zoom Event)
Detailed Program
For more details:
Byzantium at Ankara
Bilkent Saygun Center

"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)
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

A further seminar on Byzantine Coins will be held (virtually) in the Fall 2021/22 Semester.

Date: 10-15 May 2021
Program
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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

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.

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

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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