1918 - Calamity and Aspiration in the Ottoman Empire

Orient-Institut Istanbul

A new lecture series of the Orient-Institut Istanbul and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, in cooperation with Anadolu Kültür and Evangelia Balta

1918 - Calamity and Aspiration in the Ottoman Empire

starts October 10, 7pm. Venue: Cezayir Toplantı Salonu, Galatasaray, Beyoğlu.

Program:

October, 10
Prof. Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi): The Ottoman Economy in 1918.

October, 24
Prof. Serdar Öztürk (Gazi Üniversitesi, Ankara): Ottoman Cinema from 1917 -1919.

October, 31
Prof. Jay Winter (Yale University): The Second Great War.

November, 7
Prof. Önder Ergönül, MD, MPH. (Koç Üniversitesi): The Spanish Flu of 1918 and the Ottoman Empire.

November, 28
Prof. Zafer Toprak (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi /Koç Üniversitesi): 1918: The Concept of the “New Life”and “Emancipated” Women in Turkey.

December, 5
Prof. Kent Schull (Binghamton University, New York): Refugees and Mass Migration to Istanbul in the Wake of World War I.

For more information, click here.