Upcoming Events

  • Methodological Remarks on Studying Metal Belt Buckles: A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Byzantine Mediterranean by Sara Tacconi, University of Cagliari November 27, 2024 at 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm A-130
  • Byzantine Sardinia: History and Archaeology Through Coins, Seals, and Metal Artifacts by Marco Muresu, University of Cagliari November 28, 2024 at 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm A-130

Past Events

This page only includes last years’ events. 2007-2023 Event Pages can be found here.

2023-2024 FALL AND SPRING SEMESTERS

BHS EVENT
Join us for our introductory meeting in to learn more about Bilkent Historical Society and our plans for 2023-2024.

Bilkent Tarih Topluluğu ve 2023-2024 planlarımız hakkında bilgi almak isteyen herkesi tanışma toplantımıza bekliyoruz.

Date/Tarih: 29.09.2023 Friday/Cuma 
Time/Zaman: 17:30
Venue/Yer: BZ-01

SEMINAR

“Religion and Science”: The late Ottoman case in a global debate

by

M. Alper Yalçınkaya

Date: 12 October 2023, Thursday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

TALK

Ottoman Justice and Political Economies of Empires: European merchants in Ottoman courts (16th/17th centuries)

by

Dr. Tommaso Stefini, PhD, Yale University

Date: 19 October 2023, Thursday
Time: 16:30
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room

Event Details

BHS EVENT
Digital Humanities: Academic Workflow, Zotero and Obsidian Demo

Join us for an enlightening discussion that will unveil the impact of this dynamic field on academia and inspire fresh perspectives on the future of scholarship.

Date: 25.10.2023 
Time: 12:30
Venue: AZ-31

BHS EVENT
Historians at the Movies: Kingdom of Heaven Movie Screening

Guest: Prof. Paul Latimer

Date: 08.11.2023 
Time: 16:30-19:00
Venue: FFB222

BHS EVENT:
Seminar

“Framing Late Antiquity in the Iberian Peninsula”

by

Jorge Lopez Quiroga, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Date: 21.11. 2023, Tuesday
Time: 17:30
Venue: AZ-31

BHS EVENT:

Historians at the Movies: Seven Days in May Movie Screening

Guest: Dr. Kenneth Weisbrode

Date: 22.11.2023
Time: 16:30-19:00
Venue: FFB222

SEMINAR

The Use of Friday Sermons (Khutbahs) As Ideological State Tools in the Early Turkish Republic

by

Asst. Prof. Akile Zorlu, METU

Date: 07 December 2023, Thursday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

BHS EVENT
Historians at the Movies:
Mediterraneo Movie Screening

Guest: Dr. Luca Zavagno

Date: 12.12.2023
Time: 17:30-19:30
Venue: FFB22

Four Seasons Seminar Series
Series Opening Lecture:

“Romans in the East, Roman Religion and Unbecoming Roman”

by

Prof. Dr. Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Date: 15.12.2023
Time: 15.20 (GMT +3)
Venue: H-232

Zoom Meeting Link

TALK

Mediating between East and West: Ottoman Migrants in Medici Tuscany

by

Asst. Prof. Özden Mercan, Hacettepe University

Date: 29.02 2024, Thursday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

SEMINAR

Imperial Relatives and Neighbourhood Ties in Early Palaiologan Constantinople

by
James Cogbill

Date: 14 March 2024, Thursday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

Seminar

The Politics of Ethics from Kınalızade to Birgivi:
The beginnings of majoritarian identity politics in the early modern Ottoman Empireby
Prof. Baki Tezcan, UC Davis

Date: 26.03 2024, Tuesday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

BHS EVENT
Dance, sin and sickness in late antique and early medieval Christianity

by
Dr. Donatella Tronca, University of Bologna

Date: 27.03.2024
Time: 16:30
Venue: AZ-31 (Seminar Room)

Event Details

Seminar
Land, Labor, and Class Making in the Seventeenth Century Thessalonikiby
Mehmet Ali Çelik, University of California

Date: 18.04 2024, Thursday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

Seminar
Hukuk, Faillik, Sıçanotu: Geç Osmanlı Taşrasında Hane İçi Çatışmalar ve Kocalarını Zehirleyen Kadınlarby
Doç. Dr. Ebru Aykut

Date: 24.04 2024, Wednesday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

*The event will be in Turkish.

Event Details

SEMINAR

“ ‘Are We Not Human Beings!?’ ‘Are We not Ottomans!?’: Popular Consciousness on Human Rights in the late Ottoman Empire.”

by

Dr. İbrahim Halil Kalkan

Date: 08 May 2024, Wednesday
Venue: AZ-31 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

Bilkent History Graduate Symposium 2024

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

Bilkent History Graduate Symposium 2024
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

SEMINAR

British Concepts of Race and Nation in Plans to Partition Ireland and Palestine, 1911-1938

by
Dr. Michael Christopher Rast, University of St. Thomas

Date: 20 May 2024, Monday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details

SEMINAR

A Silent Government: Mediterranean Conditions of Imperial and Ecclesiological Authority in the Sixteenth Century between Curial Rome, Ottoman Empire, and Spanish Monarchy

by
Dr. Filip Malesevic, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Date: 04 June 2024, Tuesday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

Event Details