If you’re attending the ASEEES, join us for our roundtable “Remembering the Ottomans across Post-Ottoman Spaces,” featuring Leyla Amzi Erdogdular, Milena Methodieva, Lediona Shahollari, Hannes Grandits (chair), and me! Thu, November 20, 5:00 to 6:45pm DC Hilton, Floor: Terrace, Fairchild East

Most authentic experience that you can get after moving to New York is to clean a roach infested apartment between two exterminations.

The section goes beyond a single article; it includes several pieces and a short introduction. This project is the result of years of effort and collaboration with Emmanuel Szurek. I am very happy to see it published.

This special issue of the European Journal of Turkish Studies features a section called “Le Meurtre et la Langue,” co-authored by Emmanuel Szurek and me, which explores how early republican popular educators discussed the genocide in 1930s Turkey. journals.openedition.org/ejts/8382

My article about the category of "münevver" in 1930s Turkey is finally published. I dedicate it to my cat Nuri—who always politically intervened in the name of his enlightenment. journals.openedition.org/ejts/8764

Football is the opium of the masses.

X restricts access to activist accounts in Turkey amid İmamoğlu protests bianet.org/haber/x-rest...

When researching the history of refugees, it's easy to end up with a bibliography dominated by women—and honestly, it's refreshing

İki senedir, her gece depreme yatıp her sabah depreme uyananlar için, depremin anılacak bir yanı yoktur belki.

If you mentor students from MENA, please consider sending them my way. I started a Zoom writing solidarity group after the 2023 earthquakes, and we’re still active. This week, members said it was a helpful space after a devastating hotel fire in Turkey. Please reach out if our group might help.

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Cumhuriyet gazetesinin 1920lerdeki sayılarına PDF olarak ulaşacak bir kaynak bilen varsa çok yardımcı olur. Wikilala dışında hiç bir yerden ulaşamıyorum. Ona da kurumsal erişimim yok maalesef...

Excerpt from a letter sent from Paris in January 1938 from a Jewish family from Istanbul: "Ichallah! que cette année soit heureuse pour tous !"

Even though he is the great enabler of French far right, we will remember him through these résistants - he hopes…

Macron’a way of whitewashing his fascism: putting Missak, Mélinée Manouchian and Marc Bloch into Panthéon

#Marseille! Le 6 décembre, j'organise avec Pierre Sintès ( TELEMMe/ AMU ) une journée d'études sur les juifs de Rhodes. Nous parlerons d'histoire ottomane et italienne, de muséalisation, de la Shoah, de diaspora, de mémoire... Rejoignez-nous au MUCEM 🗃️ www.mucem.org/programme/le...

Fransa'da hükümetimiz düştü. Sol seçimi kazandıktan sonra teamüle aykırı bir şekilde atanan sağ bir hükümetti. Muhtemelen sonrası daha da kötü olacak. Ama düştü.. O da bir şey...

Italo-Turkish mantı experience on a Sunday afternoon

I know nobody cares but X also blocked accounts of many journalists and news outlets in Turkey. It is not only “toxic” it is against the press freedom.

They detained over 200 women protesting against violence against women. bianet.org/haber/nearly...

Ce qui va se passer, c’est l’opposé d’un « manel », and I think it is beautiful 🌸

I was so excited to take in this view after sixteen months of being unable to visit that I couldn’t even manage to capture a proper picture. Istanbul is Istanbul—no matter how gruelling the political and economic situation, nothing can take Istanbul out of Istanbul.

🧵 Can we create a “Modern European History 1789-1989” ugrad survey-course reading list of core, must-read, ‘big picture’ (i.e. *not* gender-focused), English-language texts—ideally monographs—that were NOT WRITTEN BY (WHITE) MEN? #inheritedsyllabus #womenalsoknowhistory I’ll start:

Bumped into a former student from Reims in Istanbul while visiting my alma mater 💜

Minimum-wage earners are falling further behind in Istanbul, where rents have gone up a staggering 1100% in four years: Average rent in Oct 2020: 2,308 TL Net minimum wage: 2,235 TL Average rent in Oct 2024: 27,733 TL Net minimum wage: 17,0002 TL t24.com.tr/haber/asgari...

J’ai tellement hâte de discuter de la mémoire des Arméniens avec Duygu Tasalp et Tülin Özdemir le 25 novembre à Louvain !

Yet another day hearing about tenured male ottomanists gatekeeping younger, untenured non-male colleagues with highly condescending tones as if they were the keepers of the Bab-i ali

Je dois rembourser l’administration allemande pour le colloque que j’ai raté à cause de l’administration française.

Elle essaie depuis 10 minutes.

L’agent de la préfecture est parti vérifier si l’Italie est bien dans l’Union européenne