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.

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.