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Posts tagged as “Turkey”

A Brief History of the African Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

In collaboration with Albertinum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and the Goethe-Institut New York, Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar is happy to invite you to a lecture by Zavier Wingham, the first in a series of events devoted to exploring black identity in Central Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Held within the framework of the Goethe-Institut’s extended program for the exhibition 1 Million Roses…

An Evening of Mediterranean and Balkan Music

Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Kane Mathis (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on Saturday night in Rhodes. The crossover of melodies includes Turkish, Greek, Judeo-español, Balkan and Mediterranean as well as liturgical hymns – Piyutim -from the Synagogue…

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE by Iver B. Neumann

Join us for a talk with Iver B. Neumann, incoming Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, on the book he co-authored, The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE (Cambridge University Press, June 2018). Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international…

Lecture: Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy w/ Sarah-Neel Smith

Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith will discuss Turkey’s art world of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Abby Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II.