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19 Jun 2024: Search for:. People. PeopleEve Lacey2024-02-22T17:44:3100:00. Director. ... Clare Hanson and Gerri Kimber; Edinburgh University Press, 2016). In 2021, she delivered the Jack Mills lecture on classification (inspired by her dissertation, “Aliens in the

3 Jun 2024: The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies supports research into the history, literature and culture of the Ottoman empire and the early Turkish Republic. It seeks to encourage knowledge and understanding of a major Muslim empire with large

21 Jun 2024: Madeline Zilfi (Maryland), Wealth in people: slave ownership and elite contestation in the Ottoman reform era. ... Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge), People, coca, and cloth: changing ideas about wealth in 16th-century Peru.

25 Jun 2024: The Skilliter Centre held a Summer Gathering for Patrons, Friends and supporters of the Skilliter Centre on 2 July,2006. Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet gave a talk on “The Ottoman Garden”. The food for the buffet lunch was given by Mr Hüseyin Özer,

25 Jun 2024: This conference was organised in conjunction with Mark Nesbitt, Institute of Archaeology, UCL. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu (Hacettepe, Ankara), Excavations in Istanbul.  Machiel Kiel (Utrecht), Electronic" excavation of an Ottoman k

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21 Jun 2024: The Skilliter Centre Research Library focuses on Ottoman history. Originally made up of Susan Skilliter’s bequest of some 3,000 books, it now comprises over 12,000 volumes. It has a large collection of travel accounts and Ottoman material from the

25 Jun 2024: This conference examined the Ottoman frontier under four main headings: the fluid frontier, the fixed frontier, the commercial frontier and the cultural frontier. 17-20 March 1999 The Fluid Frontier Chair: Colin Heywood (SOAS) Colin

18 Jun 2024: The Skilliter archive collection includes correspondence, unpublished papers, and documentation, as well as photographic material, in discrete special collections. We hold a founding collection of the Susan Skilliter archives, along with material

21 Jun 2024: From 2007 to 2010, the Skilliter Centre ran a series of graduate seminars. Papers given at the Skilliter Centre Graduate Seminar in Ottoman Studies Butrus Abu-Manneh (Haifa), “The Reform Edict of 1856 and its antecedents”. James

21 Jun 2024: Ottomans and Disorder conference programme PDF

21 Jun 2024: Moody-Stuart Scholarships in Turkish Studies Applications are invited for the Moody-Stuart Scholarships in Turkish Studies. Two scholarships of £5,000 each will be awarded annually for a period of six months to be spent in Turkey learning and/or

18 Jun 2024: In March 2009, four of the undergraduates taking Dr. Fleet's course on the history of modern Turkey - Ivan Gladstone, Bayan Parvizi, Isobel Spaven-Donn, and Adam Williams - visited Ankara, with bursaries from the Skilliter Centre. Whilst in Ankara,

14 Jun 2024: Thursday 24th June 2021 4.30pm (UK time) The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna as a unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire Professor Yavuz Köse University of

19 Jun 2024: The different collections which make up the library are rich and varied, and a valuable resource for researchers: it is estimated that around 20% of the library’s holdings represent the only copy of that item held in the UK. Languages of items

21 Jun 2024: This conference (5-6 February 2010) considered various aspects colonialist from a comparative perspective, with papers covering the Ottoman empire and the early Turkish Republic, the Portuguese in early modern Southeast Asia, American missionaries,

21 Jun 2024: Search for:. Other Activities. Other ActivitiesSkilliter Centre2019-10-04T13:51:4401:00. From 2007 to 2010, the Skilliter Centre ran a series of graduate seminars. Papers given at the Skilliter Centre Graduate Seminar in Ottoman Studies Butrus

25 Jun 2024: Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich)   Kate Fleet (Cambridge) Italians, Turks and intelligence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries   Alexander Halenko (Kiev) Moscow spying in the Ottoman empire from the fifteenth to the

21 Jun 2024: From 1-10 September 2005 there was a Skilliter Centre tour organised for a group of 26 Newnham alumnae and friends and led by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet to Istanbul, Bursa and Edirne. Over the ten days of the tour, the group visited sites ranging

21 Jun 2024: Friday 22 March, 1996 Elizabeth Zachariadou, Monks and Sailors under the Ottoman Sultans. Catherine Otten, Relations between the Aegean Islands and the Turks in the 14th and 15th Centuries.  Kate Fleet, Early Turkish naval acti

4 Jun 2024: Call for Papers for The Politics of Giving in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic (1853-1950) The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, is organising a conference on The Politics of Giving

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

21 Jun 2024: This joint conference was organized with l'Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, Rome and CNRWS, Leiden University, and held in Leiden on 21-22 September 2002. Papers from the conference were edited by Maurits van den Boogert and Kate Fleet and

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:

25 Jun 2024: This conference was part of a three-year project organised by the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies and Vehbi Koç ve Ankara Araştırmaları Merkezi (VEKAM), Koç University, on The Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period. It was

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

4 Jun 2024: Panels on the Ottoman neighbourhood were organised by Ebru Boyar and the Skilliter Centre within the METU 4th International Relations Conference, Neighbourhood: Past, Present and Future, held in Ankara, between 30 June-2July 2005. 'Foreigners'

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

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

6 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. Sempozyum / Symposium 12-13 Aralık / December 2018 Vekam Ankara Bağ Evi Ankara, Turkey

2 Jun 2024: Nazan Çiçek (Ankara University), Caring for Children through the Social Aid Branches of the People’s Houses: Shoes, Lunches and Circumcision Ceremonies (1933-1946).

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

Papers at this conference considered Cairo, Üsküp and Jerusalem, as well as Qasr Ibrim and Ottoman style and imperial ideology in an urban setting. Chair: André Raymond (Aix-en-Provence)   Doris Behrens Abouseif (Munich) Dawudiyya i

21 Jun 2024: Programme A digital copy of the programme can be downloaded here.

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

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

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

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

Thursday 27th May 2021 4.30pm (UK time) A Queer Cosmology: Male Ottoman Poets and the Power of Poetry Selim Kuru Associate Professor University of Washington, Seattle

Dr. Susan Skilliter was Lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Cambridge from 1965-1985, having read Persian and Arabic at Newnham College in the 1950s. She always declared that she owed her inspiration in Turkish Studies to Professor

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,

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

Search for:. Librarian. About Eve Lacey. This author has not yet filled in any details. So far Eve Lacey has created 11 blog entries. The Politics of Giving in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic (1853-1950). The Politics of Giving in

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

21 Jun 2024: Discussant: Kate Fleet (Cambridge) Bülent Gökay (Cambridge) The end of Ottoman rule in the Balkans   Discussant: Richard Crampton (Oxford) Stevan Pavlowitch (Southampton) Serbia and the decline of the Ottoman empire  

Papers from this conference were edited by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet and published in The Ottomans and Trade (Oriente Moderno, XXV/1) (Rome, 2006). Thursday 21 March PANEL 1:  Chair: Dr Colin Heywood (SOAS) Professor Dan G

25 Jun 2024: 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 Araştırmaları Merkezi (VEKAM), Koç University. As part of this project, there were three confere

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

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