SEMINAR

"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?

The Department of History is now accepting applications for
Masters and Ph.D. Programs

Application Deadline:
15 May 2023

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Admission and Application

Etkinlik/Event

"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
BİLKENT HISTORY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
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
Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences Open House
Saturday, April 8, 2023

At the open house you will have the opportunity to:
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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Information and registration
ZOOMING IN ON BYZANTINE CITIES: HAI ALĒTHEIAI TŌN POLEŌN
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

 

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

"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


ZOOMING IN ON BYZANTINE CITIES: HAI ALĒTHEIAI TŌN POLEŌN
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
SEMINAR

“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


SEMINAR

"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!
ZOOMING IN ON BYZANTINE CITIES: HAI ALĒTHEIAI TŌN POLEŌN
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

Kalbiye Tansel and Çiğdem Barçan Tansel Thesis Awards are presented to the best MA and PhD thesis written in graduate programs under ESBE each year

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!
 
ZOOMING IN ON BYZANTINE CITIES: HAI ALĒTHEIAI TŌN POLEŌN
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

DETAILED PROGRAM

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

BİLKENT HISTORY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
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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SEMINAR
"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
SEMINAR
"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
HISTORY TALKS

"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

SEMINAR SERIES
"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
SEMINAR
"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
PUBLIC LECTURE 

“"Can Ottoman Women Speak? An Inquiry into Ottoman Gender
Studies”

by
Asst. Prof. Dr. Berrak Burçak

Date: 08.03.2022

Time: 17.00 (Ankara Time Zone)
Zoom Meeting ID: 463 611 1564
Password: 604a2ab80e
Zoom Link

SEMINAR
"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)

Live YouTube Broadcast
For More Information 
Registration

SEMINAR
“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

SEMINAR
"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
PUBLICATION

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

MINI SYMPOSIUM/WORKSHOP
“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


 
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



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