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4 Jul 2024: Download the program in PDF. September, 28 2017, Thursday 10:00 - 10:15  Opening Speech Prof. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Koç University, Director of VEKAM Dr. Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge, The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Stu

21 May 2024: The Skilliter Centre research projects are designed to bring together scholars to address specific research questions.

18 Jun 2024: This conference considered various aspects of corsairing, piracy and ransom in the Mediterranean. CHAIR: Elena Frangakis-Syrett (CUNY) Elizabeth Zachariadou (Crete) Itinerant corsairs in the Aegean (14th-15th centuries)  Nicolas Vatin (

25 Jun 2024: Colin Heywood (SOAS) Ottoman documents and their context Julian Chrysostomides (Royal Holloway, London) Byzantine and Venetian sources for Ottoman history Kate Fleet (Cambridge) Genoese archival sources for Ottoman history Colin Imber

13 Jun 2024: This conference was held at the Skilliter Centre for Ottomans Studies from 29 June to 2 July 2016. Papers did consider Ottoman entertainment in the widest possible sense, from specific areas of entertainment (including performing arts, religious

25 Jun 2024: Focusing on commerce, banking, crafts, guilds and economic trends, this conference considered the Ottoman economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Amnon Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The changing face of the Fertile Crescent:

4 Jul 2024: Sempozyum / Symposium 12-13 Aralık / December 2018 Vekam Ankara Bağ Evi Ankara, Turkey Osmanlı Anadolusu’nda Toplumsal ve Kültürel Yaşam Social and Cultural Life in Ottoman Anatolia Bilimsel Komite // Scientific

19 Jun 2024: 2023 Ebru Boyar & Kate Fleet (2023) “The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s”, Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2023.2255139

2 Jul 2024: Programme A digital copy of the programme can be downloaded here.

19 Jun 2024: Search for:. Skilliter Centre. About Skilliter Centre. This author has not yet filled in any details. So far Skilliter Centre has created 35 blog entries. This conference, which examined travel accounts, histories and chronicles, and personal

25 Jun 2024: CHAIR: Lesley Peirce (UCLA) Jonathan Harris (London), Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Ottoman taxation.  Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Tax farming in Istanbul after the conquest: the case of rents.  Eleni Sakellariou (Ioannina), Th

25 Jun 2024: This conference examined various aspects of identity in the late Ottoman empire.​​ Discussant: Ulrike Freitag (SOAS) Bülent Gökay (Keele), A quest for identity: the Kurds in the late Ottoman empire. Nelida Fuccaro (Exeter), The Yazidi

20 Jun 2024: All books are for reference use only and appointments to visit the Centre should be made in advance.  The collection is catalogued and browsable on iDiscover. For enquiries relating to research and archive materials, or to make an appoin

21 Jun 2024: Much has been written about the lack of visibility of women, their insignificance in society and their lack of a role in spheres such as politics or popular protest. Traditionally regarded as a largely silent element of society, restricted to the

Search for:. project. Research Projects. The Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period. The Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period was a three-year project organised by the Skilliter Centre and Vehbi Koç ve Ankara

3 Jun 2024: Aid Branches of the People’s Houses: Shoes, Lunches and Circumcision Ceremonies (1933-1946)./em/p pMesadet Maria Sözmen (University of California, Santa Barbara), emNurturing the Future: Intellectual Philanthropy and Charity

25 Jun 2024: On Sunday 28th September 2008, the Skilliter Centre hosted a talk, "The changing city: Istanbul at the end of empire", as part of Cambridge University's alumni weekend. The talk, given by Kate Fleet and Ebru Boyar, covered a range of aspects of

14 Jun 2024: The aim of the conference (30 June-2 July 2011) was to examine the role of women within Ottoman society and to question some of the more stereotypic representations of women not as integrated, active and visible members of society but as excluded,

Search for:. Librarian. About Eve Lacey. This author has not yet filled in any details. So far Eve Lacey has created 11 blog entries. Thursday 22nd October 2020 4.30pm (UK time) Ambrosio Bembo: Visualizing Ottoman Space and Authority, The Traveler

Search for:. Skilliter Centre. About Skilliter Centre. This author has not yet filled in any details. So far Skilliter Centre has created 35 blog entries. Sempozyum / Symposium 12-13 Aralık / December 2018 Vekam Ankara Bağ Evi Ankara, Turkey