Deadline for Yavuz Sezer Memorial Prize for the history of architecture and the urban environment in the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey is extended! New deadline is September 15. www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prize...

🐬 Dolphin hunting in the Black Sea isn’t just history—it still echoes today. Fatma Esen's fieldwork from Trabzon explores how a once-thriving industry left lasting marks on both nature and memory g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe... #BlackSea #envhist #Trabzon #Conservation #oralhistory #OttomanEmpire

Occupied Istanbul: Urban Politics, Culture and Society, 1918–1923, edited by Yaşar Tolga Cora, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, and Gizem Tongo, is now out. Many thanks to my dear colleagues for including me in this edited volume. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/CoraOc...

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We have a new article published in @g-ehr.bsky.social about Zionist colonization and sand mining in Palestine's coastal strip - by Dotan Halevy g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe...

Here is my review published in Environment and History. I believe İnal's work makes a major contribution to Ottoman environmental historiography, linking urban and rural change, infrastructure and animal labor, and commodity production with migration. www.whpress.co.uk/EH/reviews/2...

Yine harika yazılarla dolu bir Toplumsal Tarih sayısı! Sevgili Gülhan Balsoy ve İpek Hüner'in hazırladığı toplumsal cinsiyet ve zaman sayısına kadınların gece deneyimlerini ele alan bir yazıyla katkı sundum. Diğer yazıları da çok merak ediyorum! Tüm emeği geçenlerin eline sağlık!

I’m very happy to share our call for papers for “Illuminating the Dark! Night Histories from Byzantion to Istanbul,” organized by the Istanbul Research Institute and the Pera Museum. ⬇️ en.iae.org.tr/.../Call-for...

Looking forward to reading these two books. Once again congratulations @onurinal.bsky.social and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social ❤️

Our documentary, based on my research project on the socio-environmental history of electricity in Istanbul and supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, is now available online: lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/istanbul_unt...

Istanbul unter Strom | Technik und Natur | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG

Die zuverlässige Versorgung mit Energie stellt heute ebenso wie vor hundert Jahren eine zentrale Herausforderung für jede Volkswirtschaft dar. Sie ist abhängig von natürlichen Ressourcen, geografische...

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Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here: eseh.org/membership/h... #EnvHist #EnvHum

I am very excited about this forthcoming collection, to be published in June, and grateful to the editors for bringing together such an outstanding group of scholars. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/CoraOc...

Occupied Istanbul: Urban Politics, Culture and Society, 1918-1923 | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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ICOHTEC 2026: Call for Proposals is now open! The next Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in collaboration with the Lab of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace. Thread: 1/4 #histtech

My essay on how early Republican, hygiene-focused modernization intersected with the visual and rhetorical representations of electric household appliances was published on the Trafo Blog. For more: trafo.hypotheses.org/62593

2024'te Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları’ndan çıkan “Bir Cereyan Hâsıl Oldu”nun yazarlarından Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile Ottoman History Podcast'ten Can Gümüş’ün sorularını yanıtladık. Yine meslektaşlarımdan çok şey öğrendiğim keyifli bir sohbet oldu www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/cere...

Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam

Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde, Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile ...

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My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude

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Looking forward to reading it. Congratulations @onurinal.bsky.social 🎈

Onur Inal@onurinal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Look what I found in my mailbox today! 🤗 🤩 ✨It’s finally real ✨

Is it just me, or do mushrooms make anyone else happy, when they see them! 😊 #zeist #netherlands

Germinate’s @g-ehr.bsky.social inaugural article is Nancy Jacobs’ presidential address, delivered at the 2025 ASEH conference in Pittsburgh, in three parts, with some fabulous visuals 🦜 g-ehr.com/special-feat...

And today is that day ✨ Today we start a new journey with the launch of Germinate! @g-ehr.bsky.social is an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

Germinate@g-ehr.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are here!!

Tarihçiler Derneği-Historians Association Halusinasyon Günleri kapsamında “Tarih, Hayal, Hakikat” çalıştayını düzenliyoruz. Tarihyazımı, kurmaca ve tarihin farklı tahayyül biçimlerini tartışacağımız bu etkinliğe yolu Çanakkale’ye düşen herkesi bekleriz!

Toplumsal Tarih'in yeni sayısı çıktı! Dosya konusu “hijyenin maddi kültürü.” Ben de elektrikli ev aletlerinin temizlik, düzen ve hijyen ile ilşikisine dair ufak bir katkı sundum. Tüm sayıda emeği geçenlerin eline sağlık!

Learn more about ASEH's new online publication: Germinate: Environmental History Review! Submit/Subscribe/Read: g-ehr.com

My short essay on women, visibility, and the politics of the night has just been published on the Trafo Blog. Women, Visibility, and Politics of Night from Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey trafo.hypotheses.org/60490

Women, Visibility, and Politics of Night from Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey

By Nurçin Ileri. When Kamelya Hanım was found dead in her home on Taksim Street in 1896, the news made headlines with sensational details in the newspapers of the time. In January 2016, 19-year-old E....

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We have a new article published in the volume “Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure, edited by Stefan Dorondel and Luminita Gatejel👇 “Coping with the River: Nature, Empire, and the Making of the Early Modern Ottoman Danube”

My review of Zozan Pehlivan’s book, "The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century," has just been published in the Journal of Social History: academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...

The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century. By Zozan Pehlivan

What if the unraveling of a multiethnic rural society in Ottoman Kurdistan had as much to do with distant ocean currents in the Pacific as with imperial re

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I can finally share the cover of my forthcoming monograph, “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” A few more weeks and this thing becomes real: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Sevgili Görkem Akgöz ile Toplumsal Tarih için hazırladığımız Mayıs ayı dosyasının giriş yazına buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: Ulusötesi Karşılaşmalar: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Teknoloji, Uzmanlık ve Emek Dolaşımı www.academia.edu/129841862

Yarın, 9 Mayıs’ta Kadir Has Üniversitesi’nde İstanbul Talks kapsamında böyle bir açık dersimiz var. İlgilisine⚡️

Bir toplantının daha sonuna geldik, birlikte daha nice güzel işlere💜 📚Ölçek, Aktör, Sınır Üçgeninde Emek Tarihini Yeniden Düşünmek 6 Mayıs 2025, Tarih Vakfı, İstanbul @tarihvakfi @asliodman.bsky.social Nurşen Gürboğa, Gorkem Akgoz, @ozgertem.bsky.social

Toplumsal Tarih’in Mayıs sayısını Görkem Akgöz ile büyük bir heyecan ile hazırladık: Ulusötesi Karşılaşmalar: Teknoloji, Uzmanlık ve Emek. Katkı sunan meslektaşlarımıza ve özveri ile çalışan dergi editörlerimize bin teşekkür. @tarihvakfi.bsky.social @ozgertem.bsky.social @darinamarty.bsky.social