Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)

The following seminars will take place at 11:15 on Thursdays in the Old Common Room, Balliol College, unless otherwise noted. Coffee and tea are available from 11:00, and all are welcome for an informal lunch afterwards in the Hall at Balliol College.
Convener: Professor John-Paul Ghobrial.

This seminar is supported by funding from the European Research Council Consolidator Grant, Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East (2021-2026), under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant number 101001717).

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Timing: Thursdays at 11:15
Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
Coffee will be served from 2pm.
Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
Coffee will be served from 11am.
Dr Vazken Davidian

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