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
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