Turning Over a New Leaf:
The Evolution of Environmental History in Türkiye
by
Faisal Husain, Penn State University
Date: 17 April 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Evangelia Balta of the Department of History published her new book.
"KARAMANLIDIKA STUDIES: between the Greek and Ottoman Literary Legacy"
TUVALDE YAŞANAN AŞKLAR: Tarih, Resim ve Şiir
Konuşmacı: Prof. Dr. Gül İrepoğlu
Zaman: 17:30
Yer: C-Blok Amfi
Seminer Bilgisi
GE250 Puanı: 10
Understanding the First Muslim Communists of Central Asia:
Anticolonialism and the Politics of Muslim Solidarity in the Age of the Russian Revolution
by
Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
Date: 10 April 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Irregular Warfare in History: From Outlaws to Freedom Fighters
by
Mark Lawrence, University of Kent
Date: 07 April 2025, Monday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Empire on the Line: Governing the Sea Lanes of French Colonialism in the Age of Steam
by
Charles Fawell, Yale University
Date: 03 April 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
12 April 2025, Saturday
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 11, 23:59
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Halil İnalcık’ı Anma Söyleşileri 4
On Yedinci Yüzyıla Ait Bir Risale Işığında Erken Modern Osmanlı Dünyasının İktisadi Ahlak Tartışmaları
Konuşmacı: Oya İklil Selçuk, Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: İİSBF A-130
Detaylar posterdedir. / Details are on the poster.
Tarih/Date: 06 Mart/March 2025, Perşembe/Thursday
Zaman/Time: 14:00 (Açılış/Opening)
Yer/Venue: Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi/Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Kale Mahallesi, Gözcü Sokak No:2 Ulus/Ankara
Masters and Ph.D. Programs
Application Deadline:
15 May 2025
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Admission and Application
The Battle of Nicopolis (1396) From the Perspective of French Authors
by
Zeynep Kocabıyıkoğlu Çeçen, Royal Holloway, University of London
Date: 20 February 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Fighting with our Shadows: Greek and Turkish Historiography
by
Evangelia Balta, Bilkent University
Date: 13 February 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Department of History Research Talks
Some Local Perspectives on Medieval English Economy: A Comparison of Urbanization in Salford, Steyning, and Agrbrigg and Morley, 1086-1348
by
M. Özgür Elmacıoğlu, Bilkent University
Date: 06 February 2025, Thursday
Time: 16:30
Venue: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room
Event Details
Halil İnalcık’ı Anma Söyleşileri 3
Geç Osmanlı Döneminde Kadın Güzelliği:
Estetik, Toplumsal Kodlar ve Moda
Konuşmacı: Berrak Burçak, Bilkent Üniversitesi
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: İİSBF A-130
The Department of History at Bilkent University invites applications for a tenure-track position of open rank in Modern European History.
Application deadline: January 31, 2025.
Application Link
For more information about the position, job benefits and application please refer to;
Job Opportunities Page
Deadline: 14 FEBRUARY 2025
The Department of History at Bilkent University and the Bilkent Historical Society invite graduate students to the 2025 Bilkent History Graduate Symposium which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 7th and 8th of May, 2025.
Our theme for this year is mobility.
For more information and to apply please visit the following link:
Graduate Symposium Page
Island and Empire:
How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World
by
Uğur Zekeriya Peçe, Lehigh University
Date: 12 December 2024, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
The Concept of the Persianate:
What It Can and Cannot Tell Us!
by
Evrim Binbaş, University of Bonn
Date: 05 December 2024, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Byzantine Sardinia: History and Archaeology Through Coins, Seals, and Metal Artifacts
by
Marco Muresu, University of Cagliari
Date: 28 November 2024, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Methodological Remarks on Studying Metal Belt Buckles: A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Byzantine Mediterranean
by
Sara Tacconi, University of Cagliari
Date: 27 November 2024, Wednesday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Çayın Hikâyesi
Konuşmacı: Esra Ansel Derinbay
Gün: 20 Kasım 2024, Çarşamba
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: AZ-31
The Making of Corporate Bodies in the Late Ottoman Empire:
Law, Property and Greek Communal Institutions in Istanbul
by
Ayşe Ozil
Date: 14 November 2024, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
Event Details
Edebiyat ve Tarihle Mitoloji ve İklim Krizi İlişkisi
Konuşmacı: Buket Uzuner
Gün: 06 Kasım 2024, Çarşamba
Zaman: 15:30
Yer: C-Blok Amfi
Halil İnalcık’ı Anma Söyleşileri 2
Erken Tanzimat Döneminin Bilinmeyen Tarihi
Konuşmacı: S. Akşin Somel, Sabancı Üniversitesi
Gün: 07 Kasım 2024, Perşembe
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: İİSBF A-130
Department of History Research Talks
Ottoman Censuses of the Famagusta Region (1831-1877)
by
Ahmet Zeybek
Date: 24 October 2024, Thursday
Time: 16:30
Venue: AZ-31
Event Details
Guest: Dr. Kenneth Weisbrode
Date: 15.10.2024
Time: 17:30-20:00
Venue: FFB-05
GE250-251: 10 Points
Department of History Research Talks
Liber Historiae Francorum: Its Content, Importance and Turkish Translation
by
Erdinç Ofli
Date: 10 October 2024, Thursday
Time: 16:30
Venue: AZ-31
Event Details
Halil İnalcık’ı Anma Söyleşileri 1
Türkiye’de ve Dünya’da Osmanlı Tarihçiliği: Nereye?
Konuşmacı: Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford Üniversitesi
Gün: 24 Eylül 2024, Salı
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: İİSBF A-130
We commemorate with respect and gratitude Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık, prominent Ottoman historian and founder of the Department of History at Bilkent University, on the eight anniversary of his passing (25 July).
Vefatının sekizinci yılında (25 Temmuz) Bilkent Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nün kurucusu ve değerli Osmanlı tarihçimiz sayın Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık'ı saygı ve minnetle anıyoruz.
May 9-10, 2024
We would like to thank all our attendees for their participation. We hope you enjoyed your time here with us. We are looking forward to see everyone in next year's symposium.
For more information and more pictures please visit the following link:
Graduate Symposium Page
Masters and Ph.D. Programs
Application Deadline:
15 May 2023
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Admission and Application
The Department of History at Bilkent University invites everyone to the 2024 Bilkent History Graduate Symposium which will take place on Thursday and Friday, 9th and 10th May, 2024.
GE 250/251: 20 Points (Per day)
For more information, abstracts and a higher resolution of the program please visit the following link:
Graduate Symposium Page
Abstracts
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
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!
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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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
A further seminar on Byzantine Coins will be held (virtually) in the Fall 2021/22 Semester.
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
