• Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War

    IMPORTANT NOTE: To attend the conference, PRE-REGISTRATION is MANDATORY: to register, would you please send an EMAIL BY 15 AUGUST 2019 to underthesamebanner@gmail.com specifying your full name (surname, first name) and if you would like to attend the program on Friday (6 September), on Saturday (7 September), or on both days. The talks on Sunday […]

  • Moderate Secularism vs. Moderate Islam: A Human Rights Comparison

    Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Goerlich Universität Leipzig Secular Law and Freedom of Religion Doç. Dr. Emir Kaya Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi Moderate Secularism vs. Moderate Islam: A Human Rights Comparison Orient-Institut Istanbul: 6 November 2019 – 18:00 Susam Sokak No:16 Kat:3 Daire: 7 Cihangir – İstanbul   Helmut Goerlich studied philosophy, history and […]

  • Byzantine music: a traditional music expression with modern aspects

    Byzantine music: a traditional music expression with modern aspects. In this lecture, Emmanouil Giannopoulos will present some basic features of Byzantine music, which has a huge repertory created by skillful composers during the last centuries. Additionally, there will be some specific references for the great impact this musical tradition has on other kinds of non-ecclesiastic […]

  • The Politics of Life and Death at Istanbul’s Food Banks

    Through an analysis of two state-created and state-managed databases that assess the applicants’ eligibility, I will explore how the two fundamental components of biopolitics – ‘making live’ and ‘letting die’ – are interlaced in Istanbul’s food banks. After a discussion of what food banks are and how they got to Istanbul, I will introduce the […]