Polish Republic was founded in 1918 and was able to defend its independence against Bolsheviks in the following years. The Peace Treaty of Riga (1921) was, however, rather a cease-fire […]

Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University) The place of Islamic artefacts in Osman Hamdi Bey’s artistic and museological career Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) Abstract […]

The story of the rise of modern Arabic literature begins in the 19th century when the encounter with Europe instigates a far-reaching process of translation, adaptation, and transmutation against the […]

Dr Ambra D’Antone (The Warburg Institute, London) “Karagöz is ours”: İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s Cultural Revivalism and the Long Turkish Modernity Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) […]

M. Merve Uca (Sadberk Hanım Müzesi) Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam: Sadberk Koç as a Rigorous Collector Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) Turkey’s first private museum […]

Dr. Theodor E. Ulieriu-Rostás (Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Ethnological Archive) Recovering the Provisional. Musealization and Photography in the Early Years of the Museum of Ethnography and National Art in […]

Dr. Roxana Coman (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Orient-Institut Istanbul) Antiquities and Rarities in mid-19th Century Wallachia: Dimitrie Papazoglu’s Collection for “The Feeling of Love of the Progress of my Nation” Wednesday, […]

Prof. Dr. Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) Hima in the House: Avian Architecture across the Islamic World Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT +3)   Through its recent […]