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“Exploring the ‘Other’: Margaret Hasluck and the Ottoman Gypsies”, a lecture presented in the conference “Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia”, University of Wales, Gregynog, 3-6 November 2001.
“Muslim Merchants in the Ottoman Balkans”, a lecture presented at the conference “The Ottoman Merchants”, Cambridge University, 20-24 March 2002.
“Turkish Historical Studies in Israel”, a lecture presented at the conference “The Project ‘Turk’ Symposium”, Ankara, 28-31 March 2002.
“Local Communities and their Sacred Sites: Neighbourhood Mosques in Ottoman Salonica”, a lecture presented at the conference “A Saint Belongs to the Whole World: Social and Cultural Uses of Sacred Spaces in the Orthodox and Ottoman Worlds (16th to the 19th Centuries)”, Bikbeck College, University of London, 8 June 2002.
“Contested Spaces, Uneasy Cohabitation: Jews, Christians and Muslims in 18th Century Salonica” – a lecture presented at the conference “Social and Cultural History of the Jews on the Eastern Adriatic Coast”, Dubrovnik (Croatia), 18-21 August 2002.
“General Conscription and the Invention of Ottoman Identity: The Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Army during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)”, a lecture presented at the conference “The Balkans: Mapping Identities (18th-21st C.)”, Sofia, 18-20 October 2002.
“Neither Muslims nor Zimmis: The Gypsies in the Ottoman Balkans”, a lecture presented at the conference “The Roma: A Minority in Europe – Historical, Social and Cultural Perspectives”, Tel Aviv University, 1-4 December 2002.
“Marginalités et zones dangereuses dans la ville ottomane: l’example de Salonique au 18e siècle”, a series of four conferences given at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes – Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris, 15 January -15 February 2003.
“The Kadi’s Prison: Apostates and Converts in an Ottoman Port-City”, a lecture presented at the conference “Central Europe and the Mediterranean – 6th Annual Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association”, Central European University, Budapest, 28-31 May 2003.
“Ottoman History”, a series of 2 conferences given at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Greece, 19-23 October 2003.
“From ‘Loyal Ottoman Soldiers’ to ‘Treacherous Non-Muslims’: Ottoman Representations of Christian Soldiers during the Balkan Wars (1912-13)”, A lecture presented at the conference “The Historiography of Religious Minorities in Nineteenth Century Middle East”, University of Haifa, 2 May 2004.
“Propagandizing Success in Times of Catastrophe: The Hamidiye Battleship during the Balkan Wars”, a lecture presented at the 16th CIEPO [International Committee of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies] conference, Warsaw University, 14-19 June 2004.
“Presenting Palestine to Ottoman Soldiers during WWI: Glances from the Harb Mecmuası”, a lecture presented at the conference “The Turks and Palestine: a 1000 Years of Relations”, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 22-24 June 2004.
“Transmitting the Agony of a besieged Population: Edirne (Adrianople) in Ottoman Propaganda during the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913”, a lecture presented at the conference “Metropolitan Catastrophes: Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations in the Era of Total War”, The Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London), 12-13 July 2004.
”Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)”, a lecture presented on 15 February 2005 at the seminar “Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires Since 1848”, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, RI.
“Perceiving French Presence in the Levant: French Subjects in the 18th Century Ottoman Salonica as Seen by Local Sources", a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 1-4 June 2005.
“La montangne comme "zone dangereuse": un aperçu de la Salonique Ottomane”, a lecture presented at the Table ronde no. 6 “Le monde de l’itinérance - La mobilité des personnes en Méditerranée à l’époque moderne: Procédures de contrôle et documents d’identification”, IFEA, Istanbul, 16-18 June 2005.
“The Balkan Wars (1912-13) and Socio-Cultural Changes: Searching for Sources”, a paper given in the workshop of the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, 2 December 2005.
“Constructing a Symbol of Defeat and National Rejuvenation: Edirne (Adrianople) in Ottoman Propaganda and Writing during the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference on Borderands/Grenzländer in 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Universität Tübingen, 12-14 May 2006.
“Reconstructing Internal Boundaries: the Non-Muslims and the 'National Economy' following the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference on Competing Networks: Greek and Other Commercial Houses in the Mediterranean during the Long Nineteenth century, university of Haifa, 5-7 June 2006.
“The Shifting of Ottoman Identities during the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference on Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkan and its Regional Context, Belgrade, 27-30 September 2006.
“Port Cities as an imagined Battlefield: The Boycott of 1913”, a paper presented at the workshop “The Late Ottoman Port Cities and their Inhabitants: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders”, The 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Florence and Moontecatini Terme, 2-25 March 2007.
“The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the Shifting of Ottoman Identities”, a paper presented at the final conference on Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires since 1848, The Herder Institute, Marburg, 17-20 May 2007.
“Between the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the 'Third Balkan War' of the ྖs: The Elusive Memory of the Balkans in Arabic Writing”, a paper presented at the workshop Absent Spheres, Silent Voices: Recovering Untold Histories, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 27-31 May 2007.
“The Balkan Wars as a Turning Point in the Late Ottoman Period”, a paper presented at the 12t International Scientific Military History Conference Devoted to the 95th Anniversary from the Beginning of the Balkan Wars 1912-1913, G.S. Rakovski Defense and Staff College, General Staff of the Bulgarian Army, Sofia, 2-5 October 2007.
“The End of the Spirit': The Balkan wars and the Marginalization of the Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire”, a paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association's 41st annual meeting in Montreal, 17-21 November 2007. Also was invited to serve as the discussant on the panel “Ottoman Cyprus”.
“The Jewish Community of Eighteenth-Century Salonica: Glances from the Sicil Records”. Ομάδα για της Μελέτητη Ιστορίας των Εβραίων της Ελλάδας, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 8-9 February 2008.
“Representations and the Use of Violence in Ottoman Courts: The Case of Eighteenth-Century Salonica”, a paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association's 42nd annual meeting in Washington, D.C., 22-25 November 2008.
“Coping with Decline: The Political Responses of the Jewish Community to the Eighteenth-century Crisis in Salonica”, a paper presented at the Halcyon Days in Crete VII: Political Initiatives “From the Bottom Up” in the Ottoman Empire, Rethymno (Greece), 9-11 January 2009.
“Local Communities and their Sacred Sites: Neighborhood Places of Worship in Ottoman Salonica”, a paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association's 42nd annual meeting in Boston, 21-24 November 2009.
“Exploring the Shared Ottoman Legacy in Arab Writing: The Place of the Balkans”, a paper presented at the workshop “Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary Mediterranean: The Middle East and the Balkans Compared”, The 11th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Florence and Montecatini Terme (Italy), 24-27 March 2010.
“A Vanquished Nation: The Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the Shaping of the Ottoman Culture of Defeat”, a seminar given in the UCD Centre for War Studies, University College of Dublin, 3 December 2010.
“A Murder in Istanbul: The Torlakyan Trial (Istanbul, 1921)”, a paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association's 43rd annual meeting in San Diego, 18-21 November 2010. Also was invited to serve as the discussant on the panel “Slaves, Renegades, and Concubines: The Intersection between Captivity and Conversion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”.
“Making Sense of the Defeat in the Balkan Wars: Voices from the Arab Provinces”, a paper presented at the workshop “Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the Balkan Wars”, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 4-7 May 2011.
“Empowering Children to Lead Change: Children's Literature and Press during the Balkan Wars, 1912-13”, a paper presented at the conference “Turkish-Italian and Balkan Wars in the Disintegration Process of the Ottoman Empire”, The Turkish Historical Society and Ege Üniversitesi, Izmir, 16-18 May 2011.
“Presenting French Colonialism to Ottoman Audience: The Afrika Delili (The “Guide to Africa)”, a paper presented at the conference “37th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society”, University of Toronto, 2-4 June 2011.
Invited to serve as a respondent to the panels in the workshop “Well-Connected Domains: Intersections of Asia and Europe in the Ottoman Empire”, University of Heidelberg, 10-12 November 2011.
“War, Citizenship and Minorities: The Balkan Wars as a Watershed in The Late Ottoman Period”, a paper presented at the workshop “Wars Before the War, 1911-1914”, UCD Centre for War Studies, University College of Dublin, 25-26 November 2011.
“Integrating Middle Eastern 'Jewish' Studies'”, a roundtable conveyed at the Middle East Studies Association's 44th annual meeting in Washington, D.C, 1-5 December 2011.
Invited to serve as a respondent to the panels in the workshop “The Imperial Center in Ottoman-Armenian Personal Memoirs (19th-20th Centuries)”, University of Bamberg, Germany, 16 December 2011.
Invited to serve as a respondent to the panels in the workshop “The Imperial Center in Ottoman-Greek Personal Memoirs (19th-20th Centuries)”, Orient-Institut, Istanbul, 22 April 2012.
“Being a Minority in a Total War: the Jewish Community of Kırkkilise (Kırklareli) during the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference “The Centenary of the Balkan Wars”, Istanbul Grand Cevahir Hotel Convention Center, 11-13 May 2012.
“'Landscape of Modernity': War and Propaganda in Ottoman Writing during WWI”, a paper presented at the conference “the Ottoman Empire and World War Sarajevo, 16-19 May 2012.
“The Jewish Community of Eighteenth-Century Salonica: Glances from the sicil Records”, a paper presented at the workshop “The Jews of Salonica in the Modern Period”, The International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, 25-26 June 2012.
“Networks of Immigration to Ottoman Salonica”, a paper presented at the 20th Conference of the International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIEPO), University of Crete, Rethymno (Greece), 27 June-1 July 2012.
“Charity and Nationalism in the Home Front: Jewish Philanthropy during the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference “The Balkan Wars of 1912/13: Experience, Perception, Remembrance”, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, 11-13 October 2012.
“Integrating through the Past: Writing History in Ladino in Salonica during the Interwar Period”, a paper presented at the conference “Thessaloniki: a City in Transition, 1912-2012”, Thessaloniki, 18-21 October 2012.
“The Shaping of a Levantine Community: Ottoman Perceptions of European Presence in 18th-Century Salonica”, The Bucharest Forum, Bucharest, 23-25 May 2013.
“Debating the Nation in Court: The Torlakyan Trial (Istanbul, 1921)”, a paper presented at the 4th Turkish Studies Project of the University of Utah Conference “The Caucasus at Imperial Twilight: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Nation Building (1870s-1920s)”, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 5-8 June 2013.
“Celebrating the Rejuvenation of the Nation: National Holidays under the Young Turk Regime”, a paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association's 46th annual meeting in New Orleans, 10-13 October 2013.
“Negotiating Identities during a Time of War: The Judeo-Spanish Press in the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the symposium “The Ottoman Cataclysm: Its Beginnings”, University of Basel, 17-19 October 2013.
“Marginalization through Administrative Practice: The Gypsies in the Ottoman Balkans”, an invited speaker to the seminar “La transnationalité des Roms (Tsiganes) en question: aspects méthodologiques et théoriques”, La Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 8 April 2014.
Member of the academic advisory board and chair of the panel “The Experiences of Officers and Soldiers on Ottoman Fronts during WWI”, in the conference “Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-1918”, Bilgi University, Istanbul, 8-11 April 2014.
“Ottoman Jerusalem in WWI: Imperial and Local Perceptions”, a paper presented at the conference “100th Anniversary of World War One and Today's Middle East”, Metropolitan University of Prague, 16 May 2014.
“Reflecting on their own Experiences, Reflecting in the Empire: Ottoman Officers' Writing on the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference “Imperial Experts and their Autobiographical Practices: The Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires in Comparison (Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries)”, Historisches Kolleg, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, 20-23 July 2014.
“Ottoman Legacies in the Balkans and the Middle East”, a keynote lecture presented at the conference “Balkan – Nahost Express: Symposion anlässlich des 60: Geburrstages von Karl Kaser”, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Institut für Geschichte, Graz, 6 November 2014.
“Ottoman POWs' Writings on the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the panel on “The Balkan Wars and Its Aftermath: A Centennial Perspective”, The Middle East Studies Association's 48th annual meeting in Washington D.C., 22-25 November 2014.
With Dr. William Mulligan (University College Dublin), “Europe on the Brink? The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913.” A co-presentation given in the Maynooth Centre for Eurasian Studies Seminar Series, 2014-2015, Maynooth University, Ireland, 10 February 2015.
“Enduring the Shift from an Empire to a Nation-State: the Case of the Jewish Community of Kavala”, a paper presented at the conference “Jewish Communities between East and West, 15th-20th Centuries: economy, Society, Politics, Culture”, University of Ioannina, 21-23 May 2015.
“What went Wrong? The Dreyfus Affair in the Eyes of the Judeo-Spanish Press of the Ottoman Empire”, a paper presented at the panel on “Culture et politique dans l'empire Ottoman à l'époque de 'Affaire Dreyfus”, Congrés de GIS Moyen-Orient et Mondes Musulmans, INALCO, Paris, 6-9 July 2015.
”Greeks and Jews in eighteenth-Century Salonica: The Perspective of the Local Muslim Court”, a lecture presented at the seminar of the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, 13 October 2015.
”Boycott and expulsion: The Retracing of Communal Borders in Dimetoka following the Balkan Wars”, a paper presented at the conference “A civilization Destroyed: The wealth of Non-Muslims in the Late Ottoman Period and the early Republic Era”, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 10-21 November 2015.