Lectures
Autumn Lectures at SRII
Trade, Pilgrimage & Colonisation: The Imperial Roads of the Middle East
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
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
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