Dr. Cumhur Bekar, a member of our department, was awarded the David Walker Memorial Visiting Fellowship in Early Modern History granted by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. As part of this fellowship, Dr. Bekar will conduct research on the manuscript MS. Rawl. Or. 33 at the Bodleian Library.

Professor Selim Ferruh Adalı, faculty member and department chair of the History Department at ASBÜ, co-translated the new book ‘Sumerian-Babylonian Epic of the Flood and Creation,’ which was published by Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları as part of the Hasan Âli Yücel Classics Series.

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.