Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe is now available in paperback. Plus take advantage of @stanfordpress.bsky.social Valentine’s Day Sale for a few more days.
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🗃️ #menasky #ottoman #bosniaandherzegovina #bosnia #muslims #austriahungary

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Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Community & Trainings

📣 ✊ We are uniting with labor unions across New Jersey hosting a series of in-person trainings to fight back against the increased presence of ICE in our communities and rising authoritarianism. Join us in your community! Dinner will be provided.
RSVP: https://loom.ly/FunAZhk

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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them”

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Concert: https://www.viewcy.com/event/terennm__classical

Concert this Friday!
#newyorkcity
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YouTube video by C-SPAN Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development

Skimming is the new reading ☠️☠️☠️
“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have … right at the time when we need our kids to be sharper than we are.”
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath Senate testimony

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We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026. The workshop brings together scholars of Ottoman Studies at all career stages and from across disciplines. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. Call for Papers Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: maowrutgers2026@gmail.com Join us for two days of engaging discussion and collaboration in Newark, NJ!

We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026.

Call for Papers
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: maowrutgers2026@gmail.com
#menasky #skystorians🗃️ #ottoman

You find yourself reading a book about the afterlife of Ottoman Europe, something you never thought about before, just because you read a post on Bluesky.
And find it quite interesting as well.
Please keep sharing your work!

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public universities 🙌

Screenshot of the review text

Hvala Amer Maslo na prikazu moje knjige, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe; Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju
Many thanks to Amer Maslo for the review of my book in Contributions to Oriental Philology
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#Balkansky #Mena #Ottoman

this year. 😳

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The Royal Game of Ur from the British Museum

Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Title of the review The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina by Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular (review) Michael Robert Hickok Histoire sociale / Social History Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc. Volume 58, Numéro/Number 119, Mai/May 2025 pp. 201-203 10.1353/his.2025.a971523

Many thanks to Michael Hickok for his review of my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina in Histoire sociale / Social History @hssh1968.bsky.social

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🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky

These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students

AAUP Report Defends Shared Governance Amid Political Attacks In a report released Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors outlines its case for shared governance at colleges and universities as state legislatures increasingly seek to constrai...

“Without an independent & sufficiently representative faculty body to oversee the curriculum & faculty status, an institution may fragment or fall victim to the latest fashionable notion proposed by a centralized administration, politicized board or legislature."

Read more about our new report👇

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A bee on top of flowers.

Fuchsia Water Lilly; reflection of a building in a pond.

Autumn in #NYC

Congratulations!

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sending thoughts and prayers to the many academics who supported the Biden-led crackdown of Gaza student protests in spring 2024

#areastudies #academicsky

🎶 THE NAME IS MAMDANI. M-A-M-D-A-N-I 🎶

“Dress for the job you want”

Six days left, NYC!