The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Happening now!

Tomorrow!

Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/j/97676602573

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...

The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../

If you missed today's W'OTSAp Friday session, you can now watch the recording on our Youtube Channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UVO...

Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.

Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

YouTube video by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association WOT'SAp Friday: “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean”

For those interested but unable to attend last week here is the video of our presentation for @andottoman.bsky.social about the book @onurinal.bsky.social @serpilatamaz.bsky.social and I edited in tribute to our mentor Linda Darling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9G_...

OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

This Friday👇

Join us this Friday!

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling.
To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us Friday at 12PM!

Join OTSA and Timur Hammond, Syracuse University, for a WOT'SAp Friday session on April 18, 2025, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" beginning at 12PM CST! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA and Timur Hammond, Syracuse University, for a WOT'SAp Friday session on April 18, 2025, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" beginning at 12PM CST! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Glad that our board was able to issue this statement.

OTSA has issued a statement on Academic Freedom. To read the full statement, please visit: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/news/

Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139

Middle East Studies Association Our letter expressing concern about Harvard University’s decision to remove Professor Cemal Kafadar and Associate Professor Rosie Bsheer as, respectively, director and associate director of the univer...

The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association endorses and supports the Middle East Studies Association's statement regarding the dismissals of the director and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. To read the full statement: mesana.org/advocacy/com...

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling.
To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

YouTube video by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association W'OTSAp Friday: “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey”

The recording of Feyza Burak- Adli's WOTSAp Friday event “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey” is available now! youtu.be/A_gXDWxkyq8?...

Join us this Friday beginning at 12PM via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Feyza Burak- Adli, Northwestern University, on Friday March 21, 2025, for WOTSAp Friday “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey”. To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA and Feyza Burak- Adli, Northwestern University, on Friday March 21, 2025, for WOTSAp Friday “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey”. To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us TODAY at 12PM via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Nora Fisher Onar, University of San Francisco, for a WOT'SAp Friday event titled “Contesting Pluralism(s): Islam, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey” on February 14, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom! To register please visit, northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...