Takvim-i Vekayi

The Calendar of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Virtual Events Communication Platform

If you are interested in submitting your events to be posted on this platform’s calendar, the Takvim-i Vekayi, please fill out this form and e-mail it to osta.webmaster@gmail.com and otsa.webeditor@gmail.com copying secretariattsa@gmail.com at least ten days before your event. The form will be processed within a week of receipt. We are grateful to our volunteer webmaster, Gharam Alsaedi, a UC Davis Computer Science senior, and our volunteer web editor Molly Powers, a UC Davis junior double majoring in International Relations and History, for their work on the Takvim-i Vekayi and to Professor Carole Woodall for her initiative in creating this calendar.

[OTSA] Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice with Heghnar Watenpaugh and Emily Neumeier

Chris Gratien will host Heghnar Watenpaugh for a presentation of her Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, the winner of OTSA’s (2020) and the Society for Armenian Studies’ (2019) book prizes, as well as the Gold Medal (tie) in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in History (World) […]

[University of Graz, Centre for Southeast European Studies] Online Book Launch: “The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany” by Dr. Banu Karaca

In “The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany” Dr. Banu Karaca explores the art settings and actors of two cities: Istanbul and Berlin. The book is an ethnographic investigation of how artists navigate the art world, the dependencies and power differentials it creates and reproduces, their relationship to cultural policies, and […]