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2005 – 2006 

November 29, 2005

The Economics of Ottoman Taxation

Professor Metin M. Cosgel,Economics Department The University of Connecticut  

2004 - 2005 

April 19, 2005

“Ottoman Rule in Palestine During the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (with special reference to the period of Ali Ekrem Bey, governor of Jerusalem)”

Dr David Kushner, Professor, University of Haifa, Israel, Student Attendees:

 

April 26, 2005

“Making Sense of the first American Missionary Martyr in the Ottoman Empire”

Dr Ussama Makdisi, Associate Professor of History, Rice University, Student Attendees:

 

May 3, 2005

“Mixed Messages: Rethinking Manuscript Patronage and Creativity

 in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Court”

Emine Fetvaci, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, Harvard University Student Attendees:

October 19, 2004

“Selective Institutional Change and the Longevity of the Ottoman Empire”

Sevket Pamuk, Professor of Economic History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul Student Attendees:

November 16, 2004

“The Emergence of a Non-Muslim Specific Bureaucratic Discourse in Late Seventeenth Century Istanbul”

Dr Karen Leal, Packard Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow, CMES Student Attendees:

November 30, 2004

300 Years of Turkish Music series How Did 'The Janissaries' Become a Part of Western Music?: A Story of a 'Natural Synthesis'

Dr Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, President of Dunya (www.dunyainc.org) Student Attendees:

December 14, 2004

“The Menakibname of Çelebi Mehemmed: A Contemporary Epic Chronicle of the Ottoman Interregnum (1402-1413)”

Dimitris Kastritsis, PhD candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University    
2002 – 2003 

FALL 2002

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4-6 PM

Early Ottoman-Dutch Relations And the First Dutch Ambassador in Istanbul: Cornelis HAGA

Bulent Ari, Bilkent University Cankaya University, Turkey CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue 
2001 – 2002 

SPRING 2002

Wednesday, May 8th, 2002

The Seer’s Shadow, or Scenes From a Prophetic History of Sultan Suleyman

Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago Coolidge Hall, Room 14:00-6:00 PM

Tuesday, May 28th, 2002 Kelam in Late Ottoman Thought Dr. M. Said Ozervarli, Marmara University, Istanbul; Visiting Scholar, NELC, Harvard University Coolidge Hall, Room 12:00 PM

Wednesday, May 29th, 2002

Boatmen as a Social Group in Ottoman Istanbul

Dr. Nejdet Ertug, Sakarya University, Turkey; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University