Bilkent History

Bilkent University Department of History

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We commemorate with respect and gratitude Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık, prominent Ottoman historian and founder of the Department of History at Bilkent University, on the ninth anniversary of his passing (25 July).

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Explore the Masters and PhD programs of Bilkent University’s Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences (ESBE) at our Online Open House event!

April 25, 2026
10:30-11:30

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Değerli hocamız İlber Ortaylı’nın vefatından büyük üzüntü duyduk. Yeri doldurulamayacak bir tarihçiyi kaybettik.

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We’re thrilled to announce our Women’s Day Symposium titled:
 
Echoing Her: (Re)Narrating Women’s History.
We kindly invite you to join us as we reflect upon her voice in history and her presence in the field.
Place: A-130
Date: March 7, 2026, Saturday
Time: 11.15-16.00

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SEMINAR
The Body of Leo V is Dragged to the Hippodrome through the Skyla Gate
by
Gianluca Raccagni, The University of Edinburgh 

Date: 04 March 2026, Thursday
Venue: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

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SEMINAR
Binding Ties: The Performance of Exchange in 7th-Century Byzantium
by
Rebecca Darley, Krea University

Date: 26 February 2026, Thursday
Venue: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

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Workshop
Materializing the Edges of Empire
by
Bilkent University, Department of History

Date: 24 February 2026
Venue: C Block Amphi
Time: 10:00-17:30

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The Department of History is now accepting applications for Masters and Ph.D. Programs

Application Deadline:
15 May 2026

Date of Interview:
11 June 2026

For more information please check the following link: https://t.co/PSjc9ubDbs

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SEMINAR
Secularizing Science to Get to Know God Intimately:
İbrahim Hakkı of Erzurum and hid Ma’rifetnâme (1757)
by
Baki Tezcan, UC Davis

Date: 19 February 2026, Thursday
Venue: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

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SEMINAR
Türkiye in German Strategic Considerations during the Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1944
by
Alan Donahue, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 

Date: 26 January 2026, Monday
Venue: AZ-31 Department of History Seminar Room
Time: 12:30

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SEMINAR
The Russian Ottoman Wars and the Transformation of European Warfare
by
Viktor Taki, University of Edmonton, Canada

Date: 28 January 2026, Wednesday
Venue: AZ-31 Department of History Seminar Room
Time: 12:30

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You are kindly invited to the seminar “Contested Space in Holy Places from Palestine to the Horn of Africa at the. Turn of the 20th Century”

Date: 04 December 2025, Thursday

Time: 16.30

Venue: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room

Speaker: Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University

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SEMINAR

“The Transimperial Labor Market in Istanbul during the Late Nineteenth Century”

By
Yaşar Tolga Cora, Boğaziçi University

Date: 06 November 2025, Thursday

Time: 16.30

Venue: AZ-130 FEASS Seminar Room

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Call for Papers!

We are excited to announce the call for papers for this year’s Graduate Student Symposium, which will be held on April 2-3 2026. Our theme for this year will be “Tradition”.

For more information please check:

https://t.co/J4Wsgwgn06

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Vefatının dokuzuncu yılında (25 Temmuz) Bilkent Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nün kurucusu ve değerli Osmanlı tarihçimiz sayın Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık'ı saygı ve minnetle anıyoruz.

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We commemorate with respect and gratitude Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık, prominent Ottoman historian and founder of the Department of History at Bilkent University, on the ninth anniversary of his passing (25 July).

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Reminder:
Today is the last day to apply

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INTERESTED IN HISTORY?

The Department of History is now accepting applications for Masters and Ph.D. Programs

Application Deadline:
15 May 2025

Date of Interview:
13 June 2025

For more information please check the following link: https://t.co/PSjc9ubDbs or link in bio.

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The finalized program for the Bilkent History Graduate Symposium (May 7–8, 2025) is now available!
We look forward to welcoming you at Bilkent University for two days of academic exchange.

For details: [email protected]

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…check the link in our bio.

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SEMINAR

Turning Over a New Leaf:
The Evolution of Environmental History in Türkiye

by
Faisal Husain, Penn State University

Date: 17 April 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30

For more details about the seminar please visit our website or…

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PUBLICATION

Evangelia Balta of the Department of History published her new book. 

"KARAMANLIDIKA STUDIES: between the Greek and Ottoman Literary Legacy"