7/15/24 Dr. Özge Samanci (Northwestern University): Evil Eyes Sea
5/1/24 Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey): ‘Twilight Diplomacy‘ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey
4/11/2024 Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara): Empire of Refugees: Muslim Migration from Russia to the Middle East
3/30/23 Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington): From Gecekondu to A Strangeness: One-Hundred Years of Rural-Urban Relations in Turkey
2/17/23 Aimee Genell: Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Late Ottoman Empire
2/28/22 J. R. Osborn: The Ottoman Transition to Print: Technology, Aesthetics, and Textual Administration (video recording)
2/22/2021 Nilay Özok-Gündoğan: A Gordian Knot in the Ottoman East: Kurdish Nobility, the Ottoman State, and the Question of Fiscal Autonomy in the Long Nineteenth Century (video recording)