Honored to see the GHOST project featuring so prominently in this discussion of A. Tunç Şen's (a member of our research team) magnificent book on astrology: New Book Forgotten Experts and Grant-Funded Project "GHOST" iserp.columbia.edu/news/new-boo...

latest interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Paris Papamichos discussing his new book on Saloniki @stanfordpress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-business...

Σας περιμένουμε σήμερα στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών για την #ΒραδιάΤουΕρευνητή! 🔹 Ταξιδέψτε στο αρχαίο περιβάλλον 🔹 Παιχνίδια γνώσης & ψηφιακές δράσεις 🔹 Το κόμικ «Μαγική Κλεψύδρα» για την ενάλια αρχαιολογία 🔹 Εξερευνήστε τη ναυτική ιστορία της Μεσογείου με το παιχνίδι SeaLiT

📢 Βραδιά του Ερευνητή στο Ρέθυμνο! Την Παρασκευή 26 Σεπτεμβρίου, στις 17:00, το Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών (ΙΜΣ-ΙΤΕ) ανοίγει τις πύλες του και σας προσκαλεί σε μια βραδιά αφιερωμένη στην επιστήμη, την τεχνολογία και τον πολιτισμό. ✨ Μια μοναδική εμπειρία για μικρούς και μεγάλους!

The importance of academic boycott through the proceedings of a Knesset sub-committee. main.knesset.gov.il/en/news/pres...

New publication: The story of Alberto/Albrecht Caprara and Georg Christoph von Kunitz in Istanbul in the summer of 1682, trying to convince Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha to extend the Peace of Vasvar... www.academia.edu/144017901/Th...

I had forgotten that story (A. Tunç Sen, Forgotten Experts p. 141)

I have the privilege of opening “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ forum in the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog ( @jhideas.bsky.social )‬ with an essay titled “The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas.”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Very interesting! www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/02/t...

Υπέροχα νέα: Το Podacst του ΙΤΕ είναι πλέον στον αέρα! Στο πρώτο επεισόδιο, η αστροφυσικός Καθ. Βασιλική Παυλίδου συζητάει με την Ανθή Στρατάκη για ένα συναρπαστικό θέμα: τους Εξωγήινους! Στο YouTube: youtu.be/i59rQ70poMY στο Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0RMS...

Caroline Finkel was arrested among 64 others for supporting Palestinian Action. We are all behind you, Caroline. What a dark times we live in. chiswickcalendar.co.uk/historian-fr...

The Greek government's pledge to boost research & innovation is going up in smoke: The research sector is facing growing turmoil, marked by accusations of opaque practices, political indifference+the resignations of prominent scientists from key advisory bodies. www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1279...

What an excellent book this is! www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

I am so excited to leverage AI-generated content for more efficient pedagogical purposes!

From A. Azfar Moin's chapter in the Wiley Blackwell History of Islam

From A. Azfar Moin's chapter in the Wiley Blackwell History of Islam

More Trumpist attacks upon history and historians. Now, the Economist. www.academia.edu/community/VB...

Other colleagues rightly highlighted Jan Schmidt's majestic work on Mustafa Ali, "Pure Water for the Thirsty Muslims", or his editions of Ottoman prose and poetry. Let me add his pioneering article on occult manuscripts in Dutch libraries; actually, a survey of Ottoman occult sciences >

Jan Schmidt, a pioneer of Ottoman intellectual history, passed away. www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Jan Schmidt, a pioneer of Ottoman intellectual history, passed away. www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...

I know other historians have been more open to using AI for our work than me--even if only to automate teaching tasks rather than research itself. So they should be producing just, massive amounts of scholarship with all this free time/thinking power AI has given them, right? Any time now...?

Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict: uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji

Πολλές από τις δημοσιεύσεις του Γιάννη Αλεξανδρόπουλου, του πρωτοπόρου της ελληνικής οθωμανολογίας, έχουν ανέβει και είναι διαθέσιμες. Τις συνιστώ ανεπιφύλακτα!

Just discovered that part of the work of my beloved mentor, John C. Alexander, has been uploaded to Academia.edu! Cannot recommend them enough. aristoteleio.academia.edu/%CE%93%CE%B9...

This is so fascinating!

Almost done with the final proofs!

Almost done with the final proofs!

*Laughs in historianese

Professor Machiel Kiel (February 25, 1938-July 7, 2025) passed away yesterday. A special loss for Greek ottoman history as well. Machiel Kiel was the first to show, in a couple of publications he co-authored with the architect Dimitris Karydis in the early 1980s, that Greek populations 1/2

論文　18世紀初頭の知識人ヴェリユッデン・ジャールッラーのオスマン帝国東部への知識を求める旅 M. Sait Özervarlı, Seeking Knowledge beyond Istanbul: Ottoman Scholar Veliyüddin Cârullah’s (d. 1738) Journey to the Eastern Lands of the Empire for Intellectual Explorations, Journal of Islamic Studies, July 2025, etaf026, otmn doi.org/10.1093/jis/...

This must be exquisite! I cannot wait reading it. (All the series is of outstanding quality!) www.sup.org/books/middle...

Today on the blog, M. Fatih Çalışır discusses the mutual reinforcement of statesmanship and intellectual life in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, which broadened and internationalized its epistemologies under the rule of Fazıl Ahmed Pasha.

#CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Ottoman history as world history" by Huri Islamoğlu [Istanbul: ISIS, 2007] dx.doi.org/10.25673/117... #OttomanEmpire #history

Thursday, July 3, at 9:00 PM Palestine/Israel Time at the following link: tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/83104563242

*Newly Published* Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire The newest TRANSOTTOMANICA publication has been released, featuring contributions by Bockholt and Sick from TRANSLAPT, Drkić, Zildžić, Benedek Péri, Sargsyan and Çelik.

Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online! #linguistics abla.cnrs.fr/features/ abla.cnrs.fr/features/

Marinos Sariyannis - Ottomans and the Supernatural Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire À paraître en décembre aux Oxford UP

And... we have a cover!

Black Flag silent protests are taking place in campuses across Israel. academia.edu/community/5wXJ

This is my PhD thesis I did not ask for this I did not consent to this I did not approve of this I was not compensated for this I would not have advised this I do not like this And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

Volumes 5-9 and 12 of the series "Halcyon Days in Crete", the prestigious triennial Ottomanist symposia initiated in 1991, are available online free of charge to the wider public, a practice that will continue for future Halcyon Days in Crete volumes. cup.gr/blog/halcyon...

University of Vienna, Phil-Kult We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of Geographies of Power in the Eastern Mediterranean World (c. 1000-1800) (within the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Prae-doc... Application deadline: 1 July 2025

Obscurantisme, intolérance, inquisition : un professeur d’université accusé de liens avec l’idéologie des Frères musulmans à cause d’une recherche internationale sur l’influence du Coran dans l’histoire intellectuelle de l’Europe médiévale et moderne. www.ouest-france.fr/societe/reli...

So, here am I, in my ninetieth year, looking back on my career as a geographer interested in explaining, with a little help from Marx, how urbanization and uneven development work, finding myself obliged to some extraordinary scholars, such as Sraffa and Robinson;

Hidden Histories of Twentieth-Century Istanbul with Dr Daniel Joseph MacArthur Seal youtu.be/APCx8pSxIac?...

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

An interesting take

This is to an urgent call to the heads of the academic system in Israel to act immediately to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza. It was signed by almost 700 academics in Israel. www.academia.edu/129469726/An...