Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies Symposium

The Late Ottoman Empire: A Discussion of History and Historiography

Symposium featuring University of Toronto graduate students

Chair: Milena Methodieva (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations)

Panel 1: Society, Imagination, and Communities (2 pm – 3:30 pm)

Katarina Kojić
Time Traveling in Bosnia: The Evolution of Bosnia Under Ottoman Rule

Ola Alanqar
Coexistence Through Craft: The Social Life of Sufi Lodges and Ottoman Calligraphy in the Late Ottoman Empire

Onur Çezik
Seeing the Balkans Otherwise: Reimagining Communal, Transgenerational, and Underseen Histories in Ottoman Macedonia

Daphne Berberyan
Schooling an Empire: Education in the Late Ottoman Period

Coffee break 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Panel 2: Identities, Possibilities, and Critical Junctures (3:45 pm – 5 pm)

Daston Babakan
Constitutional Belonging: Identity, Nationalism, and Democratic Ideals in a Multiethnic Empire

Pano Fotiadis
The Turning Point From Empire to Nation? The Balkan Wars in Ottoman Historiography

Sadra Emami
Lawrence, Legends, and Land: Analyzing the Historiography of the Arab Revolt

* See the event poster: SOTS_grad_student_2025.pdf