Our department member Erdem Sönmez presented a paper entitled "Imagining the Past in the Age of Reform: Ottoman Historical Writing in the Nineteenth Century" at the annual meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) between 5-9 July 2021.

Our department member Erdem Sönmez presented a paper entitled "The Making of a Discipline: Institutionalization and Professionalization of History in the Ottoman Empire" at the Making of the Humanities Conference organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities between 20-22 September 2021.