INVITATION to an ONLINE LECTURE in the Musicology Lecture Series (2025) The Sound of Politics: Party Music in Lebanon and Turkey SPEAKERS: Sophia Zervas (Orient-Institut Istanbul) Pierre France (Aix-Marseille University) MODERATOR: Dr. habil. Martin Greve (Orient-Institut Istanbul, Orient-Institut Beirut) Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 19:00 (Turkish Time GMT+3) Beginning in the 20th […]
INVITATION to LECTURES & PANEL Freedom in an Islamic context: intellectual conceptions and emotional expressions in the late Ottoman Empire SPEAKERS: Prof. Florian Zemmin (Freie Universität Berlin) Asst. Prof. Alp Eren Topal (Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul) Asst. Prof. Şeyma Afacan (Kırklareli University) Monday, 22 September 2025, 19:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul This panel […]
INVITATION to LECTURES followed by a PANEL DISCUSSION in the Musicology Lecture Series (2025) Early Recordings of Armenian Classics SPEAKERS: Ara Dinkjian (Independent performer & researcher) Vahé Tachjian (Houshamadyan Association) MODERATORS: Ersin Mıhcı (Orient-Institut Istanbul) Will Sumits (Orient-Institut Istanbul) Monday, 29 September 2025, 19:00 (Turkish Time GMT+3) For sixty years, Ara […]
Hülya Adak, Deniz Yüce Başarır: Reading Madame Bovary Today – A Feminist Perspective Lecture October 10, 7:00 p.m. Orient-Institut Istanbul To join the event in person please register below. The language of the event is Turkish. The festival’s guest from Brussels, Bovary by the Royal Flemish Theatre, reimagines Flaubert’s landmark novel Madame Bovary through a […]
Non-Muslim communities’ identity and survival strategies at the frontiers of Empires Keynote Lecture in the frame of the conference Beyond Borders: Colonial Encounters & Challenges of Religious Minorities between Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Iran (19th–Early 20th Centuries) 16.10.,17:30 Orient-Institut Istanbul From the early eighteenth century to the early 20th century the Indo-Persian and Central Asian […]
Conversation Series “Dialogues” Date: 28 November, 6:00 PM Venue: Orient-Institut Istanbul Paul Lynch: Prophet Song 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. On Friday, 28 November, at 6:00 PM, Ayfer Tunç and Murat Gülsoy […]
Sultan Mehmed, who conquered Constantinople in 1453 at the age of twenty-one, subsequently received the epithet Fatih (“the Conqueror”). He was also a poet and left behind a Dîvân. The Dîvân was first published in 1904 by Georg Jacob in Berlin. Three manuscript copies attributed to Fatih are extant today, all of which are preserved […]
9.12.2025, 19:00-21:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Language: English This presentation, entitled “The Golden Age of Turkish Humanism: Georg Rohde’s Ankara Stay (1935–1949)”, explores the intellectual and cultural significance of German classical philologist Georg Rohde’s (1899-1960) years in Turkey. Arriving in Ankara shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, Rohde played a pioneering role in establishing the first Department […]
Conversation Series “Dialogues” Date: December 19, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Orient-Institut Istanbul 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. On Friday, December 19, at 6:00 p.m., Ayfer Tunç and Murat Gülsoy will discuss Saša […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]