• Resmin Gücü: Erken Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Sağlık Propagandasında Görsel Malzeme Kullanımı

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

    SUNUMA DAVET   Prof. Dr. Ebru Boyar Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü)   Resmin Gücü: Erken Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Sağlık Propagandasında Görsel Malzeme Kullanımı   Salı, 17 Haziran 2025, 19:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul’da   Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin kuruluş yıllarında en zorlu mücadele alanlarından biri halk sağlığıydı. Ülkenin içinde bulunduğu zorlu ekonomik koşullar ve sağlık altyapısındaki çok […]

  • The Sound of Politics: Party Music in Lebanon and Turkey

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

    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 […]

  • Freedom in an Islamic context: intellectual conceptions and emotional expressions in the late Ottoman Empire

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

    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 […]

  • Early Recordings of Armenian Classics

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

    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 […]

  • Tomasz Prasqual: Hidden Crossings

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

    Tomasz Prasqual: Hidden Crossings Concert   Thursday, 9.10., 19:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul To attend the concert please register  below   At the Orient-Institut Istanbul, Tomasz Prasqual opens up soundscapes that connect across time, space, and body. Baroque reflections of Couperin (L’Art de toucher le Clavecin) and Rameau (First Suite, selections) encounter the music of Chopin – […]

  • Reading “Madame Bovary” Today – A Feminist Perspective Talk

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

    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 […]

  • Jonathan Lee: ’Sons of Adam, limbs of the same body’

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

    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 […]

  • Aude Aylin de Tapia, Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia: Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside, 1839–1923, Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies 9 (Brill: Leiden, 2023).

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

    Book Presentation Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 19:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Presentation: the author, Aude Aylin de Tapia Discussant: Stefo Benlisoy Moderation: Christoph K. Neumann Language: English   This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims in late-Ottoman Cappadocia. Based on various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources, the study proposes an anthropological […]

  • Conversation Series “Dialogues” – Paul Lynch: Prophet Song

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

    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 […]

  • Emeritus Prof. Dr. Günay Kut: The ʿAvnî Dîvân (Fatih Sultan Mehmed) (1432–1481)

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

    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 […]

  • Sena Yapar: The Golden Age of Turkish Humanism – Georg Rohde’s Ankara Stay (1935-1949)

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

    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 […]

  • Cüneyt Ersin Mıhcı: Forging National Music on Both Sides of the Aegean in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2025)

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

    10.12.2025, 19:00-21:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Language: English This evening will be dedicated to a discussion of the book Forging National Music on Both Sides of the Aegean in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2025) by Cüneyt Ersin Mıhcı. The study examines how music evolved as a means of expressing national identity and belonging in nineteenth-century Greece […]