Turkey

Profile: Nicholas Norberg

April 30, 2018

Nicholas Norberg is a first-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program.... Read more about Profile: Nicholas Norberg

Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers

May 7, 2018

On the evening of April 26, nearly 100 members of our community gathered for a concert that brought to light the underappreciated contributions of women composers to Ottoman music. The event was held as part of the continuing Sohbet-i Osmani series organized by Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar.... Read more about Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers

Variations on a Theme: 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Lectures Delivered by Nasser Rabbat

May 1, 2018

Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, was the distinguished speaker this year for the H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series, established in 1964 in honor of Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, who was a director of CMES as well as University Professor and James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard. Meredyth Lynn Winter, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture and Middle Eastern Studies, covered the lectures for CMES.... Read more about Variations on a Theme: 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Lectures Delivered by Nasser Rabbat

2018 Apr 27

The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

A. Tunç Şen Tunc Sen
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University... Read more about The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

2018 Apr 26

Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

two_musician_girls by Osman Hamdi Music of Turkish Ottoman Women Composers with

Ceren Turkmenoglu - Violin, Rebab, Bendir, Voice
Volkan Efe - Oud, Ney, Kemence, Voice
Michael Harrist - Yayli Tanbur, Bendir, Double Bass
Tev Stevig - Tanbur, Saz, Oud

Free and open to the public.... Read more about Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers

2018 Apr 23

DATE CHANGE: Writing History, Writing Documents: Self-representation of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Historian-cum-Judge

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Akiba Jun

Jun Akiba
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo; Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Harvard University

Please note: the date of this talk has been changed to April 23rd.

2018 Apr 25

CANCELLED: Turkey under Erdogan: Implications for US policies

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Middle East Forum & the Institut des Amériques (New England) present

Soner Cagaptay
Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute

Please note: this event has been cancelled.... Read more about CANCELLED: Turkey under Erdogan: Implications for US policies

2018 Apr 30

The changing dynamics of Kurdish politics in the post-ISIS era

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

CGIS Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Bayar Mustafa
Assistant Professor of Politics at the College of International Studies at the American University of Kurdistan, Duhok... Read more about The changing dynamics of Kurdish politics in the post-ISIS era