2025
6 May 2025 – University of Cambridge – Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography
Onur Engin – Echoes on the Map: Unveiling the Auditory History of Late Ottoman Istanbul through Digital Cartography Link
26 February 2025 – University of Glasgow – Royal Musical Association Research Colloquium
Jacob Olley – Salih Bey’s Sonometer: Acoustics and Revolution in Fin-de-Siècle Istanbul
9–11 January 2025 – University of Aberdeen – Royal Musical Association and British Forum for Ethnomusicology Research Students’ Conference
Jacob Olley – From Palestine to Trinidad: British Imperial Networks and the Historiography of Ethnomusicology (Keynote address)
2024
17–26 October 2024 – Society for Ethnomusicology Virtual Annual Meeting
Jacob Olley – Comparative Musicology and Race Science Beyond the West: The Case of Mahmut Ragıp Gazimihal
8-11 October 2024 – Humboldt University of Berlin – Mus.A Symposium 2024
Onur Engin – Ottoman Discographies: Sonic Representations of Cultural Exchange
7–8 October 2024 – University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna – The Legacy of Komitas from Historical and Contemporary Research Perspectives
Jacob Olley – Armenian Music, Print Capitalism, and Transimperial Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century
23–26 September 2024 – Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum, Palermo – 15th ICTMD Mediterranean Music Study Group Symposium
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz – Mediatic Inscriptions of Sonic Technologies: Physical Scriptory Reduction and Sonic Expansion as Body Phenomenology in Ottoman Jewish Sound
19–20 September 2024 – Royal Academy of Letters, Histories, and Antiquities, Stockholm – Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Music: Calling Disciplinary Distinctions into Question
Jacob Olley – Comparative Musicology Beyond the West: The Case of Mahmut Ragıp Gazimihal
12–13 July 2024 – University College Dublin – Artistic Residency: A Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Anwerbestopp
Nazan Maksudyan – Aestheticization of Migration in an Age of Decolonization: Berliner Künstlerprogramm and Artistic Representations of Migrant Subjectivities in West Berlin in the 1970s
11–13 July 2024 – University of Cambridge, Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies
Onur Engin – Sonic Glorification: Cannons as Diplomatic Objects of Gift-Giving
10–12 July 2024 – Durham University – The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal
Jacob Olley – Dikran Chukhajean and “National Opera” in the Late Ottoman Empire
3–5 July 2024 – Humboldt Forum, Berlin – Cosmopolitan, International, Global: Music, Archives, and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963
Nazan Maksudyan – Decolonization of Migration in Divided Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm and Artistic Representations of Migrant Subjectivities in the 1970s
12 June 2024 – Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne – Ringvorlesung. Zwischen Istanbul und Köln
Jacob Olley – Music and Science in the Borderlands of Empire: Comparative Musicology between Berlin and Istanbul, c. 1900–1940
7 April 2024 – Institute for Sacred Music, Yale University, New Haven – On Joy and Sorrow: Music Making in Muslim Lands
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz – Inscribing Sephardi Interventions with Sound and Silence in Ottoman Jerusalem
26–27 March 2024 – Yad Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem – 300 Year Commemoration of the HIDA
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz – Transitions, Traces, and Intellectual Transmission: The HIDA and Sound
15–16 February 2024 – Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin – Sound, Text, and Context
Onur Engin – An Auditory Take on the Magazine of Antique Weapons’ Display Strategies
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz – Le grain de la voix judéo-espagnole: pensée pure, son, immanence
14 February 2024 – Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge – Narratives of the Nineteenth Century Seminar Series
Jacob Olley – Letters from the City: Urban Noise, Legibility, and the Ottoman Flâneur
11 February 2024 – SOAS, University of London – Yallah: Judeo-Arabic Music Conference
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz – Inscriptions of Sonic Mikdashia: Notebooks, Alphabets, Divine Names and Voice
2023
7 December 2023 – University of Manchester – Music Department Seminar Series
Jacob Olley – Operatic Civilization in Ottoman Istanbul (roundtable contribution)
1 December 2023 – University of Cambridge – Middle East & Central Asia Music Forum
Onur Engin – The Cultural Impact of the Early Phonographs in the Ottoman Empire
23 November 2023 – FernUniversität, Frankfurt – Digital Hermeneutics II
Onur Engin – A Quantitative Textual Analysis of Travelers’ Accounts in Late Ottoman Istanbul
19 November 2023 – Institut Universitaire Elie Wiesel, Paris – Les langues judéo-espagnoles
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz – Le grain de la voix judéo-espagnole: voix, chant, sonorités au début du 20ème siècle
6–9 July 2023 – Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Caen – RSVP 2023
Onur Engin – From Illustration to Photography: Late Ottoman Istanbul in the ILN (1842-1922)
22–23 June 2023 – King’s College London – Sounding Modernism
Onur Engin – The Cannon Shots of Late Ottoman Istanbul
Nazan Maksudyan – Aurality and Temporality in Modernizing Ottoman Cities
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