2024 Mar 18 The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures A book talk by C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç University, in conversation with William Granara, Research Professor of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University... Read more about The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
2022 Nov 29 Beyond Nationality: Belonging and Empire in Ottoman North Africa 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138; and on Zoom The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series is pleased to present Youssef Ben IsmailMellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Society of Fellows This event will take place in-person at CMES and on Zoom; please register in advance for Zoom: https://bit.ly/3EuEZH8... Read more about Beyond Nationality: Belonging and Empire in Ottoman North Africa
2022 Nov 10 Planting Mallow for the End of Times: Agriculture and the Rebuilding of Konstantiniyye 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Aleksander ShopovAssistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton... Read more about Planting Mallow for the End of Times: Agriculture and the Rebuilding of Konstantiniyye
2022 Oct 05 The Gerays and Ottomans: Two Dynasties in Alliance and Rivalry 1:15pm to 2:30pm Location: CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA; and on Zoom The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present Hakan KırımlıAssociate Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey This talk will be in-person, but you can also connect via Zoom; register in advance here: https://bit.ly/3R5bWhm.... Read more about The Gerays and Ottomans: Two Dynasties in Alliance and Rivalry
2022 Oct 27 Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series is pleased to present Yavuz AykanAssociate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University, School of History... Read more about Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput
2020 Mar 03 Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp 7:00pm to 9:00pm Location: First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Consulate General of Turkey in Boston presents Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp RSVP required: bostonbk.rsvp@mfa.gov.tr... Read more about Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp
2020 Mar 04 Reciprocal Pan-Islamism: Bosnian Muslim Reformists and the Young Turk Revolution, 1908-1914 4:00pm to 5:30pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Dr. Harun BuljinaIndependent Scholar... Read more about Reciprocal Pan-Islamism: Bosnian Muslim Reformists and the Young Turk Revolution, 1908-1914
2020 Mar 09 An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier 12:30pm to 2:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Chris GratienAcademy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia... Read more about An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
2020 Apr 08 **CANCELLED** Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community" 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Ayfer Karakaya-StumpAssociate Professor, Department of History, College of William & Mary... Read more about **CANCELLED** Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community"
2019 Oct 09 A Contemporary Sufi Tradition: The case of the Late Ottoman Elite and Sufi Sheikh Ken'ân Rifâî 6:30pm to 8:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Arzu Eylül YalçınkayaLecturer, Institute for Sufi Studies, Üsküdar University, Istanbul... Read more about A Contemporary Sufi Tradition: The case of the Late Ottoman Elite and Sufi Sheikh Ken'ân Rifâî
2019 Apr 29 Patrimonial Empire-Building and the case of Authoritarian Turkey 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Soli ÖzelProfessor of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; columnist for Habertürk daily newspaper Ayşen CandaşRice Faculty Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor, Yale MacMillan Center, Council on Middle Eastern Studies, Yale University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul... Read more about Patrimonial Empire-Building and the case of Authoritarian Turkey
2019 Mar 13 Rethinking Recruited Children: Body Politics of the Devshirme System in the Ottoman Empire 12:30pm to 2:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Gulay YilmazVisiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Ottoman History, Department of History, Akdeniz University... Read more about Rethinking Recruited Children: Body Politics of the Devshirme System in the Ottoman Empire
2019 Jan 30 The Written Word Under Pressure: Namık Kemal (1840-1888) and The Beginnings of Modern Turkish Prose 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Emrah PelvanogluPhD, Department of Turkish Language and Literature Teaching, Yeditepe University, Istanbul... Read more about The Written Word Under Pressure: Namık Kemal (1840-1888) and The Beginnings of Modern Turkish Prose
2018 Sep 21 Robert Underhill: A Life Devoted to the Study of Linguistics 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Engin SezerLinguist (retired), formerly of Harvard University... Read more about Robert Underhill: A Life Devoted to the Study of Linguistics
2018 Oct 29 Alî Ufukî and Musical Knowledge Transfer in 17th-century Istanbul 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents PD Dr. Judith I. HaugResearch fellow in musicology, Orient-Institut Istanbul... Read more about Alî Ufukî and Musical Knowledge Transfer in 17th-century Istanbul