
TRAVELLERS in OTTOMAN LANDS (TIOL3)
Places forgotten, Places remembered
Istanbul, 9–12 April, 2025​​
Three days of presentations in the historical neighbourhoods of Karaköy and BeyoÄŸlu plus excursions on Friday and Saturday.​
Seminar locations:
Sabancı University – Minerva Han: Bereketzade, Bankalar Cd., BeyoÄŸlu.
Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT) – ANAMED Auditorium, Merkez Han, İstiklal Caddesi 181, BeyoÄŸlu.​
Excursions:
The Tulip Gardens – Emirgan Korusu
The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery – Cumhuriyet, Abide-i Hürriyet Cd No:5, 34380 ÅžiÅŸli
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Ahmet Ersoy
Associate Professor, History Department of BoÄŸaziçi University, Istanbul.
Specialist in the cultural history of the Late Ottoman Empire, with particular interests in architecture, visual culture and image reproduction. He is the author of Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire (2015), and a co-editor of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeastern Europe (1775-1945), vol. III (2010).
Professor Reina Lewis
Professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. Art historian, author and curator who specialises in gender, religion and fashion. Among her research interests are western women orientalist artists and writers, and her publications include: Gendering Orientalism: Race, Representation, Femininity (1996), Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem (2004), and Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures (2015).
Presented by Travellers in Ottoman Lands (TIOL), in association with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University, the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT) and the Koç University Research Centre for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and Cornucopia.







