Exile, Political and Economic Migration in the Ottoman Empire

20.04.2017 (u.a.) Vortragsreihe, OI Istanbul

20. April: Muslim and Christian Refugees in the Balkans and Anatolia

  • Dr. Ayca Baydar (SOAS, Languages and Cultures, Alumna) Turkification of Anatolia: The Case of the Karamanlis' Deportation
  • Doç. Dr. Veli Aydın (Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, Tekirdağ) İşgal ve Sürgün: Balkan Savaşlarında Yaşanan Serez Faciası ve Müslümanların Kitlesel Göçü

26. April: Immigrants and Intercultural Transfer

  • Perihan Yücel (DenizBank Kültür ve Sanat Direktörü) İstanbul’a sığınan Beyaz Ruslar
  • Prof. Dr. Serdar Öztürk (Gazi Üniversitesi, Ankara) Empathising with refugees and immigrants through films

11. Mai: European Refugees in the Ottoman Empire

  • Prof. Dr. Johan Mårtelius (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul) The Royal Swedish exile in the Ottoman Empire, 1709-14
  • Paulina Dominik, M. A. (Freie Universität Berlin) Polish political émigrés in the Ottoman service as engineers in the 1850s-1870s

17. Mai: Choosing a New Homeland

  • Dr. Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul) In search of a better life. German-speaking craftspeople and journeymen in Late Ottoman Istanbul
  • Dr. Esra Almas (Netherlands Institute in Turkey) A Jewish novelist writes on Ottoman exiles in Berlin

Programme

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