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  • October 2025

  • Fri 10

    Reading “Madame Bovary” Today – A Feminist Perspective Talk

    October 10, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Available Languages: Turkish
    • Presentation
    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 […]

  • Thu 16

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

    October 16, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
    • Available Languages: English
    • Presentation
    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 […]

  • November 2025

  • Wed 26

    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).

    November 26, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Available Languages: English
    • Book Presentation
    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 […]

  • Fri 28

    Conversation Series “Dialogues” – Paul Lynch: Prophet Song

    November 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    • Available Languages: Turkish
    • Presentation
    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 […]

  • December 2025

  • Thu 4

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

    December 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    • Available Languages: Turkish
    • Presentation
    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 […]

  • Tue 9

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

    December 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Available Languages: English
    • Presentation
    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 […]

  • Wed 10

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

    December 10, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Available Languages: English
    • Book Presentation
    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 […]

  • Fri 19

    Conversation Series “Dialogues” – Saša Stanišić: If the Widow Wants to Be Addressed, She Places the Watering Can on the Grave with the Spout Facing Forwad

    December 19, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    • Available Languages: Turkish
    • Presentation
    Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

    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 […]

  • January 2026

  • Wed 7

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

    January 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Available Languages: English
    • Presentation
    Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

      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 […]

  • Wed 14

    Banu Şenay and Christopher Houston: Hiding in plain site: Ottoman objects and the crafting of alternative Muslim citizenship in Istanbul

    January 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Lecture
    Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

    Lecture 14.1.26, 19.00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Language: English Picture: İstimlak (Expropriation), artwork by Tuğrul Yıldırım, “El-mülk-ü lillah” (Photo by Dilanur Yıldırım) Ottoman objects, art traditions, and social practices occupy a contested place in Turkish political life, shaped by the Republic’s selective rupture with its Ottoman past and more recent projects of civilizational restoration. This talk explores […]

  • Fri 23

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

    January 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    • Available Languages: Turkish
    • Presentation
    Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

      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 […]

  • Wed 28

    Denis Hermann & Erdal Kaynar: Constitutionalism Unbound: Constitutional Dynamics and Political Transformation in the Ottoman and Qajar Lands

    January 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    • Available Languages: English
    • Book Presentation
    Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

      Book Launch 28.1.26, 19.00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Language: English Discussant: Anja Pistor-Hatam, Ahmet Kuyaş   Marking the 150th anniversary of the Kanun-i Esasi of 1876, this edited volume invites a reassessment of the history of constitutionalism in Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire. Moving beyond interpretations that frame the Persian and Ottoman revolutions of 1906 […]

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