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2024-2025 FALL AND SPRING SEMESTERS
SEMINER
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
TALK
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
BHS EVENT
Historians at the Movies: The Return of Martin Guerre
Guest: Dr. Kenneth Weisbrode
Date: 15.10.2024
Time: 17:30-20:00
Venue: FFB-05
GE250-251: 10 Points
TALK
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
SEMİNER
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
SEMİNER
Edebiyat ve Tarihle Mitoloji ve İklim Krizi İlişkisi
Konuşmacı: Buket Uzuner
Gün: 06 Kasım 2024, Çarşamba
Zaman: 15:30
Yer: C-Blok Amfi
SEMINAR
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
SEMİNER
Çayın Hikâyesi
Konuşmacı: Esra Ansel Derinbay
Gün: 20 Kasım 2024, Çarşamba
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: AZ-31
SEMINAR
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
SEMINAR
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
SEMINAR
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
BOOK TALK
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
SEMİNER
Halil İnalcık’ı Anma Söyleşileri 3
Geç Osmanlı Döneminde Kadın Güzelliği:
Estetik, Toplumsal Kodlar ve Moda
Konuşmacı: Berrak Burçak, Bilkent Üniversitesi
Gün: 19 Aralık 2024, Perşembe
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: İİSBF A-130
TALK
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
SEMINAR
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
SEMINAR
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
ETKİNLİK/EVENT
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
SEMİNER
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
Gün: 27 Mart 2025, Perşembe
Zaman: 16:30
Yer: İİSBF A-130
Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences Open House
12 April 2025, Saturday
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 11, 23:59
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Information and registration
SEMINAR
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
SEMINAR
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
SEMINAR
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
SEMİNER
TUVALDE YAŞANAN AŞKLAR: Tarih, Resim ve Şiir
Konuşmacı: Prof. Dr. Gül İrepoğlu
Gün: 09 Nisan 2025, Çarşamba
Zaman: 17:30
Yer: C-Blok Amfi
GE250 Puanı: 10
PUBLICATION
Evangelia Balta of the Department of History published her new book.
“KARAMANLIDIKA STUDIES: between the Greek and Ottoman Literary Legacy”
SEMINAR
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
Bilkent History Graduate Symposium 2025
The Department of History at Bilkent University invites everyone to the 2025 Bilkent History Graduate Symposium which will take place on Thursday and Friday, 7th and 8th May, 2025.
GE 250/251: 20 Points (Per day)
For more information and a higher resolution of the program please visit the following link:
Graduate Symposium Page
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
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.
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