Name: John-Paul Ghobrial

Events this person is speaking at:

Friday 31 January 2020

Stories of Survival: The Lives and Afterlives of Eastern Christian Manuscripts in the Early Modern World
Date: 31 January 2020, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker s: John-Paul Ghobrial, Dr Celeste Gianni, Dr Feras Krimsti, Rosie Maxton, Lucy Parker (Lincoln College, University of Oxford), Dr Vevian Zaki (University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Level 2, Visiting Scholars' Centre (VSC)
Organisers: Professor Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College and 15cBOOKTRADE), Dr Alexandra Franklin (Univ of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 February 2024

Special Event: Roundtable Discussion of Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, in conversation with Professor Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)
Date: 6 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), John-Paul Ghobrial, Abigail Green, Giuseppe Marcocci, Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Joan Thirsk Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 March 2024

Roundtable Discussion of Mooring the Global Archive, in conversation with Professor Martin Dusinberre, Zurich
Date: 7 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Jennifer Altehenger, John-Paul Ghobrial, Catherine Holmes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Jessica Fernandez Lara de Harada
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 25 April 2017

Ecclesiology and Politics between East and West
Date: 25 April 2017, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Rainolds Room
Organisers: Vivien Prigent (CNRS-MFO), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 25 January 2024

‘A Syrian diasporic private archive: the Mishaqa family collection’
Date: 25 January 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 February 2024

‘Calendars, hats and buttons: Marking authority, identity and time among Eastern Catholics at the end of the Ottoman Empire’
Date: 1 February 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Anaïs Massot (Leiden and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 February 2024

‘Bridging and branding the Holy Lands: Arabs from Greater Syria and Palestine in Europe (1900s-1950s)’
Date: 8 February 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Professor Karène Sanchez Summerer (Groningen)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 February 2024

‘Daheshism, a religious movement for golden-age Beirut’
Date: 22 February 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 February 2024

‘The moving business: people smugglers, agents, and the work of Ottoman migration, c.1890-1914’
Date: 29 February 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Professor Andrew Arsan (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 March 2024

Roundtable Discussion of Mooring the Global Archive, in conversation with Professor Martin Dusinberre, Zurich
Date: 7 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Jennifer Altehenger, John-Paul Ghobrial, Catherine Holmes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Jessica Fernandez Lara de Harada
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024

The Sultan of New York: An Ottoman Armenian in Nineteenth-Century America
Date: 23 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Nora Lessersohn (Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 October 2024

Peasants, migrant workers, survivors and perpetual exiles: Ottoman Armenians
Date: 24 October 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Talin Suciyan (Ludwig Maximilian)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 November 2024

Changing subjects: Ottoman belonging in Armenian refugee print culture
Date: 7 November 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 November 2024

Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024

The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
Date: 5 December 2024, 11:15 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Vazken Davidian
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA