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Conversation Series “Dialogues”: Linn Ullmann: Girl, 1983

Date: 13 February 2026, 6:00 PM Venue: Orient-Institut Istanbul Book: Linn Ullmann: Girl, 1983 A conversation series by Ayfer Tunç and Murat Gülsoy, organized in cooperation of the Nâzım Hikmet Culture and Arts Research Center at Boğaziçi University and the Orient-Institut Istanbul. Ayfer Tunç and Murat Gülsoy will discuss Linn Ullmann’s book Girl, 1983 at […]

Conversation Series “Dialogues” – Book: Katharina Volckmer: The Appointment

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu

  Date: 23 January 2026, 6:00 PM Venue: Orient-Institut Istanbul Book: Katharina Volckmer: The Appointment   A conversation series by Ayfer Tunç and Murat Gülsoy, organized in cooperation of the Nâzım Hikmet Culture and Arts Research Center at Boğaziçi University and the Orient-Institut Istanbul. Ayfer Tunç and Murat Gülsoy will discuss Katharina Volckmer’s book The […]

Ali Uğurlu: Captives of Freedom: The Paradoxical World of Critique, Political Economy, and Emancipation in the Ottoman Age of Capital

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu

  Lecture 7.1.26, 19.00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Language: English Moderator: Christoph K. Neumann Freedom is one of the central political concepts in modern life. Most intellectual historians and historians of political thought, however, argue for a Western provenance of freedom as a political or philosophical concept and conceive of its reception in the extra-European world as […]