Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)

The following seminars will take place at 11:15 on Thursdays in the Old Common Room, Balliol College, unless otherwise noted. Coffee and tea are available from 11:00, and all are welcome for an informal lunch afterwards in the Hall at Balliol College.
Convener: Professor John-Paul Ghobrial.

This seminar is supported by funding from the European Research Council Consolidator Grant, Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East (2021-2026), under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant number 101001717).
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Timing: Thursdays at 11:15
Organising department: Faculty of History

Talks:

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The Sultan of New York: An Ottoman Armenian in Nineteenth-Century America
Date: 23 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
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

Editors: Belinda Clark, Alexia Lewis