Upcoming Events

  • Bilkent History Graduate Symposium Call for Paper Deadline February 14, 2025 For more information please refer to: history.bilkent.edu.tr/bilkent-history-graduate-symposium-2025
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  • Bilkent History Graduate Symposium 2025 Day 1 May 7, 2025

Off-Campus Events

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

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

Important information about the event: This event took place in multiple dates in multiple locations. To find the information related to Bilkent location, please check: Past Events

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

Important information about the event: This event took place in multiple dates in multiple locations. To find the information related to Bilkent location, please check: Past Events

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

Important information about the event: This event took place in multiple dates in multiple locations. To find the information related to Bilkent location, please check: Past Events

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

ANAMED TALKS
“Urban Life After Antiquity:
The Byzantine City between Heraclius and the Fourth Crusade”
by

Assist. Prof. Dr. Luca Zavagno (the Department of History)
Moderator:
Nokolas Bakirtzis

Date: 21.04.2022
Time: 17.00 (GMT +3)
Online Event
For Registration and Information

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
“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)

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

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