Events

Past Events Archive

Concert

Nicesün Venedik Frengi?
Ottoman-Venice, Cretan War (1645-1669) and Its Musical Reflections
Ensemble Rûm (Early Ottoman Music Ensemble)

Sunday, May 5, 2024 15:30

Workshop

From Paper to Book: Bookbinding Workshop

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 15:00

Yavuz Sezer Memorial Talks

Damascus: A City in Words
Dana Sajdi

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 18:00

Workshop

Istanbul Map Puzzle

Saturday, July 8, 2023 13:30

Workshop

Collage Workshop: City Design

Sunday, June 11, 2023 13:30

Workshop

Newspaper of the Occupied City

Sunday, June 4, 2023 13:30

Panel

East Pixelated: Byzantinism and Orientalism in Video Games

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 18:00

Talk

Rethinking Occupied Istanbul: Historiography and Public History

Friday, April 28, 2023 18:30

Workshop

From Paper to Book: Bookbinding Workshop

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 14:00

Yavuz Sezer Memorial Talks

Bibliophilia beyond Istanbul: The Eighteenth-Century Jazzar Library of Acre
Konrad Hirschler

Friday, December 2, 2022 18.00

58th Library Week

Organizing Bookshelves

Thursday, March 31, 2022 19:30

Yavuz Sezer Memorial Talks

Forms Effect Meaning: The Materiality of Text and Reading Expectations
Roger Chartier

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 18:00

Chamber Talks

An Attempted Pogrom in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman Society: Let Adapazarı not be Adana!
Ümit Kurt

Monday, September 13, 2021 18:00

Online Talk

Istanbul Unbound Talks
The Sea and the Snot, Transcending Disciplinary and Administrative Boundaries

Thursday, July 1, 2021 17:00

Chamber Talks

The Interaction Between The Musics of Aleppo and Istanbul
İbrahim Muslimani

Thursday, May 27, 2021 18:00

Online Conference

Istanbul Unbound 2021: Environmental Approaches to the City

8 - 11 April 2021 18:30

Chamber Talks

Phonograph in the Field: Early Studies in Comparative Musicology and Turkey
Elif Damla Yavuz, Nihan Tahtaişleyen
Chair: Derya Türkan

Thursday, March 11, 2021 18:00

Fellow Talks

Aspects of Domestic Life in Byzantine Constantinople with Regard to Ceramics
Pamela Armstrong

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 18:00

Online Conference

Echos of an Empire

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 18:00

Online Talk

Provincial Composers Making Music in Ottoman Istanbul
Harun Korkmaz
Moderator: Derya Türkan

Friday, November 13, 2020 18:00

Fellow Talks

Sinan Ekim
Towards a “New” Turkishness?: Islam, Education and the Making of the “Ideal Turk” under Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, 1950–1960

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 18:00

Fellow Talks

Mine Yıldırım
Between Violence and Care: Dogs of Istanbul

Thursday, June 25, 2020 18:00

Memories of Humankind Seminars

In Pursuit of the Unknown: Ottoman Sufi Culture and Manuscripts
M. Baha Tanman

Thursday, May 28, 2020 18:00

Fellow Talks

Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan
The 1720 Imperial Celebrations in Istanbul:
A Holistic Analysis of an Ottoman Festival in Light of New Sources

Thursday, May 14, 2020 18:00

Memories of Humankind Seminars

An Original Ottoman Contribution to İskendername (the Book of Alexander): Ahmedi's Story of Alexander and Candace
Edhem Eldem

Friday, May 8, 2020 18:00

Memories of Humankind Seminars

Bringing Back the Books that Timur Stole from Anatolia: The Story of the Book Seven of Mathnawi
Aslıhan Gürbüzel

Friday, February 28, 2020 18.30

Fellow Talks

Ceren Abi, Sezen Kayhan

Thursday, February 20, 2020 18:30

Workshop

In Pursuit of Manuscripts
Artist Workshop: Murat Palta

Saturday, February 8, 2020 14.00

Chamber Talks

City and Nature through the Cartographer’s Hand
Urban Imagination and the Environment in Istanbul’s Early Modern Maps
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu

Thursday, January 30, 2020 18.30

Memories of Humankind Seminars

Mapping Bostancıbaşı Registers

Thursday, January 16, 2020 18:30

Memories of Humankind Seminars

'Physicians Prescribe Five Hundred Medicines for a Malady': Ottoman Manuscripts and Healing Culture in the premodern Period
Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu

Thursday, January 9, 2020 18:30

Memories of Humankind Seminars

Enderunlu Fazıl's Istanbul: Istanbul Beyond the Human Mind
Selim S. Kuru

Thursday, December 19, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

Changing Religious Landscapes: A Catholic Topography of Pera during the 18th and 19th Centuries
Paolo Girardelli

Thursday, December 12, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

"1902 Pera Salon Exhibition" Revisited
Seza Sinanlar Uslu

Thursday, November 28, 2019 18:30

Conference

Media of Performance and Intersecting Identities of Music in Istanbul

1 - 2 November 2019 09:00

Chamber Talks

A Forgotten Museum in Istanbul: Galatasaray School of Medicine Museum of Natural History (1835-1850)
Dr. Semih Çelik

Thursday, October 10, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

Turkish Music in the Context of Its Interactions
Through Medium and Space
Barış Güleç

Thursday, May 23, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

Münir Nurettin Selçuk: Performer and Composer
Cemal Ünlü

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 18:30

Talk

Sounds of Istanbul
Haldun Dormen

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

Una Matika De Ruda: Romaniote and Sephardic Cultures, and Music in the Holocaust Era

Thursday, March 7, 2019 18:30

Concert

An Istanbul Carnival, Απόκριες στα Ταταύλα/Baklahorani

Friday, March 1, 2019 20:00

Talk

Sounds of Istanbul
Ayla Erduran

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

Istanbul Inspiration
Merih Akoğul

Thursday, February 21, 2019 18:30

Chamber Talks

Music in Mevlevi Lodges of Istanbul
Refik Hakan Talu

Friday, January 18, 2019 18.30

Talks on Atatürk

Daily Life During Atatürk’s Era: 1918 – 1938
Prof. Zafer Toprak

Thursday, December 20, 2018 18:30

Talks on Atatürk

The Architecture of Atatürk’s Era, from the Perspective of Intellectual and Political Periphery
Prof. Uğur Tanyeli

Thursday, November 22, 2018 18:30

Talks on Atatürk

Atatürk and Turkish Archaeology
Prof. Mehmet Özdoğan

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 18:30

Talks on Atatürk

Thessaloniki during Atatürk’s Childhood and Youth
Prof. Vasilis Colonas

Thursday, September 27, 2018 18:30

Chamber Talks

Observations on the Conservation
of Cultural Heritage and
Restorations in Today’s Istanbul
Prof. Dr. K. Kutgün Eyüpgiller

Thursday, April 26, 2018 18:30

Chamber Talks

Following in a Design’s Footsteps: Raimondo D’aronco’s First Istanbul Project
“Dersaadet Agriculture and Industry Public Exhibition”
in Light Of New Findings
Dr. Hatice Adıgüzel

Thursday, March 29, 2018 18:30

Chamber Talks

Do We Know İstanbul? Reading the City’s History from Coins
Oğuz Tekin

Thursday, February 22, 2018 18:30

Chamber Talks

Settlement and Transformation on the Shores of the Golden Horn from late-18th Century to Present
Baha Tanman

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 18:30

Panel

Afro-Turks and Africans in Turkey:
Shades of Color-Based Racism

Monday, December 18, 2017 18:30

Concert

Rum Composers: Breaths of Constantinople, Sounds of Istanbul

Friday, November 17, 2017 19:30

Symposium

Discovering Byzantium in Istanbul:
Scholars, Institutions, and Challenges, 1800–1955

16 - 18 November 2017

Talk

Istanbul Becoming Dog-Free
Mine Yıldırım

Monday, May 8, 2017 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Defense of the Bosphorus between the 17th and 19th Centuries
In Light of Documents from the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Ministry
Assistant Professor Sevgi PARLAK

Thursday, April 27, 2017 18:30

Chamber Talks

Press in Bloom:
19th-Century Reading Culture and Illustrated Ottoman Journals
Ahmet Ersoy

Thursday, March 30, 2017 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Image of Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Arts
Reyhan Ekşioğlu

Thursday, February 23, 2017 18:30

Pera Film

Tales of Tails: Dogs on Screen

10 - 28 February 2017

Chamber Talks

Observatories Founded to Survey the Weather Conditions of İstanbul from the 19th Century up to the Republic
Mithat Atabay

Thursday, January 26, 2017 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Seventeenth-Century Tiles in the Architectural Structures of İstanbul
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emine Naza Dönmez

Thursday, December 22, 2016 18:30

Talk and Book Launch

Palmyra Through The Lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, a Forgotten Photographer, and Monuments in Peril

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 18:30

Chamber Talks

Decorative Elements and Illustrations in the Fine Arts Journals from the Second Constitutional Reform through the Alphabet Revolution
Arzu Akkaya

Thursday, November 24, 2016 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Sea Walls of İstanbul and Proposals for Their Preservation
Nisa Semiz

Thursday, April 28, 2016 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Image of Mimar Sinan in Today’s Popular Culture
Asst. Prof. Aysun Aydın Öksüz

Thursday, March 31, 2016 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Role of the Administrative System in Shaping the Ottoman Palace Spaces
Asst. Prof. Zafer Sağdıç

Thursday, February 25, 2016 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Long-Forgotten Fantastic World of Architect Nazimî Yaver
Büke Uras

Thursday, December 17, 2015 18:30

Pera Film

Views of Ottoman Empire Selection

Friday, December 4, 2015

Chamber Talks

Recent Discoveries in Edirne Palace Excavations
Mustafa Özer

Thursday, November 26, 2015 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Place Of Alexandre Vallaury in Late Ottoman Architecture
Seda Kula Say

Thursday, October 22, 2015 18:30

Chamber Talks

A Byzantine Legacy in Ottoman Architecture: Undulating Drums
M. Baha Tanman

Thursday, April 30, 2015 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Construction Process, Sections, and Organization of Dolmabahçe Palace
Cengiz Göncü

Thursday, March 26, 2015 18:30

Chamber Talks

Confirmed Findings at the Restoration of Süleymaniye Mosque
Nilgün Olgun

Thursday, January 22, 2015 18:30

Chamber Talks

Artisanship-Design-Innovation
Relations in the Pursuit of İstanbul Jewellers:
“Living Human Treasures” of the Grand Bazaar

Thursday, December 18, 2014 18:30

Symposium

Imagining the City: Representations of İstanbul from Art to Life

21 - 22 November 2014

Chamber Talks

A Forgotten Architect of the Early Republican Era
Semih Rüstem Temel

Thursday, November 13, 2014 18:30

Symposium

11th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography

9 - 10 May 2014

Conference

A Master during the Transformation of the Cookshops into Restaurants: Baba Karpiç
Turan Tanyer

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 18:00

Conference

Who Wants to be a “Star”! An Attempt to Historicize the Conservatory’s Lost Archive
Hakan Kaynar

Thursday, April 24, 2014 18:30

Conference

Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Composer, Educator, Ethnomusicologist
Özkan Manav

Thursday, April 17, 2014 18:30

Conference

The Republic’s Reflection in Cinema: Muhsin Ertuğrul
Burçak Evren

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 18:30

Conference

Praxis, Thought, and Context - On Sedad Hakkı Eldem and Turgut Cansever
Aykut Köksal

Thursday, March 6, 2014 18:30

Conference

Oktay Rifat: What Happened after "Garip"? The Adventure of Modernism in Contemporary Turkish Poetry
Ekrem Işın

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 18:30

Conference

Fifties’ Modernism and İlhan Usmanbaş
Aykut Köksal

Thursday, February 6, 2014 18:30

Chamber Talks

The Weighing and Distribution Centers of Ottoman İstanbul: The Architecture of Kapans and the Scale of Silk, Hoca Hanı
Namık Erkal

Thursday, January 30, 2014 18:30

Conference

"Halet Çambel: Archaeology, Science and Modernization"
Mehmet Özdoğan

Friday, January 24, 2014 18:30

Chamber Talks

Public Houses of Istanbul at the end of the 18th Century

Thursday, December 19, 2013 18:30