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15 May 2018: The Middle East Lecture Series closed its 2017/2018 season with a talk by Dr. Fred Anscombe (Birkbeck, University of London) on "The (Ir)Relevance of Ethnicity in a Multiethnic Empire."
19 April 2018: The Middle East Lecture Series welcomed Prof. Amy Singer (Tel Aviv University) for its second installment of the Spring 2018 session for a talk on "'An Excellent Place to Spend the Winter'" Edirne (Adrianople) as an Ottoman Capital."
15 March 2018: “Middle East Movie Nights with the Filozofická Fakulta” screened Gallipoli (dir. Tolga Örnek, 2008). The film was introduced and moderated by Ebru Akcasu and Michal Láznička (Turkologie, Ústav Blízkého východu a Afriky).
1 March 2018: The Middle East Lecture Series opened its Spring session by welcoming Professor Edhem Eldem, for a talk on "Orientalism, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey: an Ambiguous and Multilayered Context."
14 December 2017: “Middle East Movie Nights with the Filozofická Fakulta” screened Empire 1453 (dir. Faruk Aksoy, 2012). The film was introduced and moderated by Ebru Akcasu and Michal Láznička (Turkologie, Ústav Blízkého východu a Afriky).
4 December 2017: A one-day conference organized by Dr. Stefano Taglia (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences) and featuring seven international scholars discussed "Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire." The introduction and the concluding remarks were delivered by Prof. Benjamin Fortna (University of Arizona).
21 November 2017: The second evening of the Middle East Lecture Series featured a public talk by Professor Isa Blumi (University of Stockholm). Prof. Blumi spoke on "Adapting to Global Transformations: Finance Capitalism and Balkan Muslim Migrations tot he Larger World, 1900-1919."
12 October 2017: Middle East Lecture Series was inaugurated with a public talk by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford). Prof. Rogan spoke on "The Wartime Context of the Balfour Declaration."
Photographer: J. Mahan Akcasu
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