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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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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  

21 May 2024: ​This was a one-day graduate conference with members of the research project "Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire", which forms part of the University o

2 Jul 2024: Diplomacy Chair: Gül Tokay (Istanbul) John Burman (Cambridge), "Rebels and revolutionaries: Britain and opposition to the Ottoman system during the late Hamidian period, 1898-1908."  Gökhan Çetinsaya (Istanbul Şehir Univers

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

4 Jul 2024: On the other hand, Orthodox bishops, continuing the philanthropic tradition of the Orthodox Church, donated money to the monasteries for the relief of the ill and infirm people. ... Parallel to these, health administration also developed as a concept

16 Jun 2024: Conference poster This conference has now passed. Download Abstracts Download Programme The Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in association with the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies,

7 Jul 2024: Thursday 28th January 2021 4.30pm (UK time) The Cairo Geniza as a Source for Ottoman History? Jane Hathaway Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University

2 Jul 2024: Thursday 3rd December 2020 4.30pm (UK time) Military Masculinity Under Fire: Suffering and Manliness in the Ottoman First World War Yücel Yanıkdağ Professor of History, University of Richmond  

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26 Jun 2024: Thursday 25th March 2021 4.30pm (UK time) Not so distant neighbor: Turkey and the Middle East in the 1930s Amit Bein Professor of History, Clemson University

25 Jun 2024: Tuesday 3rd November 2020 4.30pm (UK time) Turkish Diplomacy and the 1936 Montreux Convention Onur

18 Jun 2024: Dr. Susan Skilliter read Persian and Arabic at Newnham College (1951-54) and was Lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Cambridge between 1965 and 1985. Her book, William Harborne and the Trade with Turkey, 1578-1582 (OUP 1977),

14 Jun 2024: Thursday 25th February 2021 4.30pm (UK time) Frames and Fashion: Ottoman Costume Books as Material Texts William Kynan-Wilson Lecturer in Department of History of Art, University of Bristol

21 May 2024: Thursday 22nd October 2020 4.30pm (UK time) Ambrosio Bembo: Visualizing Ottoman Space and Authority, The Traveler in 1671 Palmira Brummett Professor Emerita, Dept. of History, University of Tennessee      

21 Jun 2024: Thursday 13 September 9.00-10.30  Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space  “German expatriates in the “twilight” of the Ottoman empire: Friedrich Schrader in Istanbul, 1908-1919” Philip Wirtz (SOAS, London) “Post-Ottoman dreams and nightmar