Lectures
Autumn Lectures at SRII
Trade, Pilgrimage & Colonisation: The Imperial Roads of the Middle East
11/12/2018
Joakim Ostlund
Intersecting Worlds: Mehmed Said Efendis Sefâretnâme (Book of Embassy) and eighteenth-century Sweden
20/11/2018
Lisa Hellman
The knitting instructor and the map-maker: Swedish prisoners in eighteenth-century Dzungaria
06/11/2018
Meral Akbas and Özge Kelekci
RWI Lecture III: From Factory to Museum: They are telling our Story
30/10/2018
Susan Rottman
RESPOND Lecture IV: Reflections from the Field: Family and Gender for Syrian Migrants in Istanbul
09/10/2018
Killian Clarke
Princeton University
Popular Unrest in the Aftermath of Revolution: Contention and Resistance during Egypt's Democratic Experiment, 2012-2013
02/10/2018
Dr. Zeynep Gülru Göker
Sabanci University
Digital Feminism in Turkey: Memories, Deliberation and Negotiation
25/09/2018
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Lecture I:
Beril Eski
Istanbul Bilgi University
Negative Gendered Effects of Turkey’s Asylum Regime
18/09/2018
Digdem Soyaltin
Good Governance and Fight against Corruption in Turkey: Did the EU make a difference?
13/12/2016
Ulla Karin Warberg
Fredrik Robert Martin Swedish Orientalist, Art Historian, Collector and Dragoman in Istanbul.
13/10/2016
Fereshteh Ahmadi
Visiting Scholar at SRII University of Gävle
Islamic Feminism in Iran: Feminism in a New Islamic Context
15/12/2015
Prof. Elisabeth Özdalga Associated Fellow and Former Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
The Mosque in the Formation of Turkish Nationalism: Reflections on a Contested Public Space
01/12/2015
Kristina Josephson-Hesse, PhD Department of Archaeology & Ancient History Uppsala University
Palmyra, Pastoral Nomads and City-State Kings in the Old Babylonian Period (c. 1800 BCE)
03/09/2015
Walls and fences to prevent outsiders from entering Europe have been rising up, in the past years, and far right parties that oppose immigration and integration policies have been getting louder and louder. A recent poll in Sweden has suggested that the most popular party in Sweden currently is Sweden Democrats who represent the far right spectrum. In a country which has previously been known for welcoming policies towards non-nationals, the results of this poll are surprising to many people.
Today Talks - Rise of Far Right Parties in Europe & Mobility of People
12/06/2015
Set in Istanbul, this summer course offers students from the Nordic countries and Turkey a unique possibility to deepen their knowledge of the concept of human rights and its application together with an international group of scholars and practitioners. Our aim is to go beyond the Eurocentric narrative of how human rights have evolved by investigating legal, political and cultural transformations in both Europe and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey. Students acquire an in-depth understanding of the ways in which human rights have been understood, institutionalized, and contested, with special reference to the Nordic countries and Turkey. How historical injustices have become matters of contemporary human rights and how cultural heritage is conceived of as a human right will also be investigated.
Students have the chance to cooperate with leading human rights organizations and develop their skills to creatively tackle contemporary and historical human rights concerns in a small collaborative project within the three focal themes of the course:
1. Religion, nationalism and the universally human
2. Historical wrongs, the state, and human rights
3. Cultural heritage as human right
3rd Summer School Human Rights – A Recurrent History Istanbul 12 - 26 June 2015
21/05/2015
It is commonly argued that our personal spacer inevitably penetrated in modern and postmodern times with exponentially accelerating connection among the personal and public spaces.
Today Talks - Personal Space & Invasion of Privacy
16/10/2014
Prof. Mia Lövheim - Uppsala University
Prof. Alf Linderman - Sigtuna Foundation
The Resurgence of Religion? A study of Religion and Modernity in Sweden with the Daily Press as Case
08/10/2014
Prof. Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford
3. From the Ottoman Empire to the Contemporary Middle East: The Centrality of Forced Migration
10/12/2013
Önver A. Cetrez,Uppsala University. Fellow of the SRII Collegium
Mobility,Acculturation and Identity Formation
19/11/2013
Plurilingualism and Language Rights: Mother Tongue Education in Turkey: Political Prospects and Legal Dilemmas
Plurilingualism and Language Rights: Mother Tongue Education in Turkey: Political Prospects and Legal Dilemmas
05/11/2013
Caroline FInkel, University of Edinburg and University of Exeter
Traveling Narratives: History on the Hoof - the Evliya Celebi Way as a Case-Study in Expanding our Historical Horizons
22/10/2013
Susan Rottman
Migration and Changing Identities: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Citizenship: German-Turkish Return Migrants and the Ethics of Belonging
04/12/2012
Jesper Blid, Stockholm Univesity
Labraunda in Late Antiquity: A wayside sanctuary & trade emporium in times of changing cult practises
06/11/2012
Federica A. Brolio - Assistant Professor of History of Art, Mardin Artuklu Univesity
Itinera ad Orientes: Correcting some prejudices about travel and trade along the Egnatian Way in the 16th and 17th centuries
16/10/2012
Gustaf Fryksén - Lund University
Network South: George Logie (1694 - 1776) & the Mediterranean World
02/10/2012
Nina Ergin - Koç University
Feeding Travelers on Ottoman Roads: Economic, Social, and Culinary Aspects of Imarets
22/11/2011
Joakim Parslow
Law´s Audience: Military Trials as a Public Issue in Turkey from 1960 to 1980
15/11/2011
Sevda Alankus
Trafficking (other) women´s bodies: The Case of War Journalism in Turkish Media
18/10/2011
Daniella Kuzmanovic
Conspiracy thinking and politics in Turkey: The Türkan Saylan controversy in Turkish media
23/11/2010
Cecilia Olovsdotter
Imperial power and the early Byzantine state: the consular diptychs from Constantinople
19/10/2010
Marianne Boqvist
The Takkiya Sulaymaniya Complex in Damascus and its role as a symbol of Ottoman power
Spring Lectures at SRII
Fiction and Reality: Literature as a Means of Exploring Identities
09/04/2019
Jorunn Okland - Norwegian Institute in Athens
Queen Esther’s States of Dress and Undress across Languages and Empires: Material and Ideological Comparisons
12/02/2019
Selda Tuncer
Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience
29/01/2019
Kate Cooper (London) Åsa Eldén (Stockholm) Berna Ekal (Istanbul)
Violence against women – a panel discussion on historical, social and religious perspectives
08/05/2018
Dr. Ela Gökalp Aras
SRII: RESPOND lecture I: Coercive Engineered Syrian Mass Migration in EU-Turkey Relations
10/04/2018
Dr. Jonas Bergan Dræge
The Rise of Street Politics in Turkey: The Gezi Protests and the Opposition's Failure to Launch
13/03/2018
Paul Levin
Stockholm University
I Feel Turkish but Sweden is my Home: Migrants from Turkey and Their Children
06/03/2018
Dr. Åsa Eldén
Stockholm University
The making of emblematic murders. Media stories of violence against women in Turkey and Sweden
27/02/2018
Helena Bodin
University of Stockholm
Seclusion vs. accessibility – the harems of Constantinople in stories by Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette
30/05/2017
Björn Magnusson Staaf
"Stalking Kemal Basmaci" - a study of visitors at the Museum of Innocence
09/05/2017
Cecilia Olovsdotter
Victory universal and eternal: Victoria and cosmic conceptions of victory in late-antique art and architecture
13/04/2017
Matthew Goldman
Who is the Mastermind? Conspiracism and Accountability in Contemporary Turkish Politics
04/04/2017
Dr. Roman Shliakhtin
Fellow at ANAMED, Koc University
Princess and Turks: Images of Seljuk Rulers in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene
04/05/2016
Dr. Susan Rottmann
Turkish migrants and the pursuit of belonging in European-Turkish spaces
05/04/2016
Çigdem Kafescioglu
Bogaziçi University
Picturing the square, the streets and denizens of Istanbul: Practices of urban space and shifts in visuality
08/03/2016
Michael Featherstone
The Great Palace of Constantinople: an enduring symbol in constant transition
02/02/2016
Prof. Pontus Hellström
The Andrones at Labraunda. Buildings for elite dining and receptions.
26/01/2016
Karin Ådahl
Constantinople the eternal in a changing world. Swedish eye-witnesses through the ages
05/05/2015
Johan Mårtelius - Director os SRII
A Tale of Two Cities: Historical and Architectural Relationships Between Istanbul and Stockholm
14/04/2015
Prof. Nuran Zeren Gülersoy
ITU Faculty of Architecture Urban and Regional Planning Department
Istanbul ´s Urban Heritage: Protection and Threats
31/03/2015
Önver Cetrez, Deputy Director, SRII
“Qnushyo” - Faith as Support or Burden Among Christian Syrian Refugees in Istanbul
17/03/2015
Pekka Tuominen
Moral Communities, Cultural Intimacy and Symbolic Boundaries in the Beyoglu District of Istanbul
10/06/2014
In contrast to “state language” or “official language”, a “national language” need not be declared as such by law. However, the more emphasis that is put on the nation-state in modern politics, the stronger the tendency to view a national language as representing in some sense the inhabitants of a well delimited territory stipulated to be a unique state. The two Turkic languages Turkish and Uzbek have played a prominent role in the formation of Turkey and Uzbekistan, respectively, and have themselves undergone profound changes as parts of these state-building processes.
National Languages in a Globalizing World Turkish and Uzbek
20/05/2014
Nationhood and Citizenship in Turkish Friday Sermons:
Excerpts from an ongoing research project
Speaker: Elisabeth Özdalga, Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Fellow of the SRII Collegium
Nationhood and Citizenship in Turkish Friday Sermons
15/04/2014
Birinci Dünya Savasi’nda Rusya’daki Malul Türk Esirlerinin Isveç Kizilhaçi Yardimiyla Mübadelesi
International Relations in Historical Perspective
08/04/2014
”Into golden dark”
Orthodox Icons as Objects of Modern and Postmodern Desire
Literary History
19/03/2013
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio - Dominican Institute Istanbul (EHESS)
Anti-Sufism in the Turkish Republican Era
05/03/2013
Mathilde Pinon - Art Historian, Docent at Context Travel
Some Considerations on the Ottoman Caravanserais along the Pilgrimage Road (Hajj)
19/02/2013
Jesse Howell - Research Fellow, RCAC
Triumph of the Mule: Overland Travel in the Ottoman Western Balkans (1500 – 1700)
22/01/2013
Özlem Ezer, METU Northern Cyprus Campus
Process of "Othering" Women in Travel Literature: Selma Ekrem & Halide Edip
17/04/2012
Orhan Tekelioglu
Turkish Poetry After the 1980 Coup: From Communal Values Towards Individual Identities
03/04/2012
Laurent Mignon
Unveiled Wor(l)ds: Judeo-Turkish Literature From the 19th Century To the Present Day
21/02/2012
Türker Armaner
Fictitious Encounters: The Representation of the “European” in Turkish Literature
24/05/2011
Ewa Balicka-Witakowska
Splendour of “the Lion of Juda”: Ethiopian Ruler and His Symbols of Power
15/03/2011
Michael Featherstone
De Cerimoniis: the revival of antiquity in the Great Palace and the ‘Macedonian Renaissance’
Occasional Lectures
02/11/2017
Zaur Gasimov
Ideas, Persons, and Transfers: Russian-Turkish Interaction Between 1917 - 2017
10/10/2017
Stefo Benlisoy
Images of the Bolshevik Revolution in the "Well Protected Domains". Looking to the Revolution of 1917 from Ottoman Lands
26/05/2016
Prof. Bo Utas
The Circum-Mediterranean scene in the first centuries of the second millennium CE – mirrored in the works of Ramon Llull
17/12/2014
Aryo Makk, PhD, Department of History, Stockholm University
Fatherland and Diaspora: The AKP, the Turkish Diaspora and minorities from Turkey
12/12/2014
Dr. Anita Sengupta & Sr. Priya Singh - Fellows at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India
Rhetoric and Politics
09/09/2014
Prof. Jeff Hearn - Örebro University, Sweden, Hanken School of Economics, Finland and University of Huddersfield, UK
Locating the (Transnational) Politics of "Men": Activism, Policy, Theorising
16/01/2014
Dr Cecilia Olovsdotter,Senior Research Fellow,Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Imperial rulership and universal hierarchies in Early Byzantine art
18/12/2013
Dr. Ivana Jevtic, Koc Universitesi
Emotions, Motion and Narration in Late Byzantine Painting
04/11/2013
Birgit Schlyter,the director of the SRII
Post-Soviet Central Asia in a New Eurasia Discourse
30/09/2013
Valerie DeMarinis
The Impact of Cultural Analysis on Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Programmes in Complex Emergency Settings
25/06/2013
Gunvald Ims - Visiting Scholar at SRII Spring 2013
Tanpinar ´s Irony in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü in Relation to the Westernization Discourse
30/04/2013
Butrus Abu-Manneh - University of Haifa
Social Mobility in Turkish Society and Its Impact on the Tanzimat Reforms
29/01/2013
Dr. Paul Levin - Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies
European Identity Crises and Turkey´s Quest for EU Accession: Reflections on the Past and the Future
10/11/2012
Med anledning av Svenska Forskningsinstitutet i Istanbuls 50-årsjubileum presenteras pågående forskningsprojekt som lyfter fram svenskarnas relation till det osmanska riket under 16- och 1700-talet.
Sverige och Det Osmanska Riket
11/10/2012
Assoc. Prof. Kenan Çayir & Asst. Prof. Tuba Kanci
Citizenship & Education in Turkey - Some Reflections
06/06/2012
Dr. Rano Turaeva-Hoehne
Language of Discrimination: The Impact of Linguistic Differences on Collective Identities
12/04/2012
Cecilia Olovsdotter
Architectural symbolism in the figural arts of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine era
06/03/2012
Michael Fredholm
The Function of Religious Ideology and Secular Narrative in Uzbek-led Terrorist Groups: Implications for Central Asia and Europe
07/02/2012
Birgit N. Schlyter
Welcome to greet the new Director of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Jarring Lectures
12/10/2017
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ölmez
Old Turkic and Uighur Inscriptions in Mongolia, Investigated during an Expedition in August 2017
23/11/2016
Nathan Light
Uppsala universitet