The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History cordially invites you to a Book Talk by Dr. Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht University) on Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021) with the participation of Glenda Sluga (European University Institute), Cengiz Kırlı (Boğaziçi University) and Aimee M. Genell (University of West Georgia) on Thursday, April 14 at 6 pm (Istanbul time) via Zoom.

Please contact cananblkn@gmail.com to register for the seminar.

Bio:

Dr. Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBaC, UMR 8032) in Paris. Following the completion of his ERC-funded monograph titled Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford University Press, 2021), he's currently finalizing his third monograph (provisionally titled The Secrets of Pera, under contract with Bloomsbury, 2022) that looks into the two Istanbul embassies of the Scottish diplomat Sir Robert Liston. In this book, he discusses the intimate connections between capitulations and peace-making at the turn of the nineteenth century. In addition to these, Ozavci is co-convener of the Lausanne Project and the Security History Network.

Dr. Ozan Ozavci, Utrecht Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. En son kitabı, Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864, 2021 yılında Oxford Üniversitesi Yayınları tarafından yayımlandı. Ozavci'nin bir sonraki kitabı, The Secrets of Pera, Iskoc diplomat Sir Robert Liston'in ondokuzuncu yüzyıl başındaki İstanbul elçiliklerini inceleyecek. Dr. Ozavci, aynı zamanda, The Lausanne Project ve The Security History Network'ün kurucu yöneticiliğini yapmaktadır.