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Join OTSA for “Empire of Officials: Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy" with Abdulhamit Kırmızı, Marmara University and University College Dublin, on Friday, May 29, 2026 at 12pm CST (8pm Istanbul) via Zoom. Register here:
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Join OTSA for “Empire of Officials: Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy" with Abdulhamit Kırmızı, Marmara University and University College Dublin, on Friday, May 29, 2026 at 12pm CST (8pm Istanbul) via Zoom. Register here:
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Today! Register:
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This Friday, April 10! Register:
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Register for next Friday, April 10!
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The deadline for the AATT Graduate Student Conference and the ATAA Scholarship has been extended to April 8, 2026. More info:
www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/
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TOMORROW! Register here:
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Register for this Friday, March 20!
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Apply for the 2026 CEST Summer School, "The Politics of Archives in Turkey and Related Geographies," in Naples, Italy from September 20-28 by April 9! More info:
cest-turkey.org/cest-summer-...
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CEST Summer School 2026 | Naples – CEST
https://cest-turkey.org/cest-summer-school-2026-naples-2/
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Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Nir Shafiir
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, University of California, San Diego, for “The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire" on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register:
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Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, for “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century" on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here:
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Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Nir Shafir, University of California, San Diego, for “The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire" on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here:
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Apply for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship by THIS SUNDAY, March 1!
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Register for this Friday, February 27!
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Apply for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship by March 1!
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Register for next Friday, February 27!
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Tomorrow!
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This Friday, February 13!
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The application deadline for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship, in the amount of $1,500, has been extended to March 1. Students with diverse academic interests related to Turkey are strongly encouraged to apply. Please see:
ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/
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Awards & Prizes – Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association
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Register for next Friday, February 13!
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Join OTSA for “Drones, Cartoons and Festivals: Techno-Nationalist Culture in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, IREMAM, CNRS/Aix-Marseille University on Friday, February 27, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here:
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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program
4 months ago
Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit:
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Join OTSA for “Inhabiting Extended Transiency in Fikirtepe, Istanbul" with Francesco Pasta, Architecture Sans Frontières-UK/Istanbul Policy Center, on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here:
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Read more about the 2025 OTSA award winners on our website! Congratulations to the winners!
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Recent Winners (2017-2025) – Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association
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The 2026 OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship application is open until February 6. For more information, please visit:
www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/
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Awards & Prizes – Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association
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Happening now!
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Tomorrow!
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Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit:
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Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom!
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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW! Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026 For more information, please visit
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CEST Symposium 2025/2026, Naples – CEST
https://cest-turkey.org/cest-symposium-2025-2026-naples/
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The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information:
www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../
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If you missed today's W'OTSAp Friday session, you can now watch the recording on our Youtube Channel!
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James Ryan
11 months ago
Really looking forward to talking with my friend,
@samueljhirst.bsky.social
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Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!
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Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit:
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Alex Schweig
11 months ago
For those interested but unable to attend last week here is the video of our presentation for
@andottoman.bsky.social
about the book
@onurinal.bsky.social
@serpilatamaz.bsky.social
and I edited in tribute to our mentor Linda Darling:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9G_...
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WOT'SAp Friday: “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean”
YouTube video by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
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OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit
www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/
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Onur Inal
12 months ago
This Friday👇
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Join us this Friday!
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Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling. To register, please visit
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Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit:
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Join us Friday at 12PM!
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Join OTSA and Timur Hammond, Syracuse University, for a WOT'SAp Friday session on April 18, 2025, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" beginning at 12PM CST! Registration can be found here:
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Join OTSA and Timur Hammond, Syracuse University, for a WOT'SAp Friday session on April 18, 2025, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" beginning at 12PM CST! Registration can be found here:
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about 1 year ago
Glad that our board was able to issue this statement.
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OTSA has issued a statement on Academic Freedom. To read the full statement, please visit:
ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/news/
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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program
about 1 year ago
Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here:
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139
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The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association endorses and supports the Middle East Studies Association's statement regarding the dismissals of the director and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. To read the full statement:
mesana.org/advocacy/com...
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Middle East Studies Association
Our letter expressing concern about Harvard University’s decision to remove Professor Cemal Kafadar and Associate Professor Rosie Bsheer as, respectively, director and associate director of the univer...
https://mesana.org/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom/2025/03/31/letter-to-harvard-university-protesting-the-dismissals-of-the-director-and-associate-director-of-the-center-for-middle-eastern-studies
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Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling. To register, please visit
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The recording of Feyza Burak- Adli's WOTSAp Friday event “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey” is available now!
youtu.be/A_gXDWxkyq8?...
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W'OTSAp Friday: “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey”
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Join us this Friday beginning at 12PM via Zoom!
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