Abdulhamit Kırmızı (CAS Sofia): “An Empire of Officials: Christians in the Ottoman Bureaucracy” Abstract: During the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire underwent a massive process of state-building and expansion of state functions, creating tens of thousands of new government jobs. In this period of state reconstruction and bureaucratization, Christian officials' employment is an essential feature...

Dr Daša Ličen (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology ZRC SAZU) will give a talk on “Beyond nationalisms: The bourgeoisie of late Habsburg Trieste“ Time: 4-6 pm Venue: IOS Regensburg, Landshuter Str. 4/ R 017, 93047 Regensburg Abstract: In the second half of the 19th century, voluntary associations were inseparable from the lives of the bourgeoisie. Associations...

Our project leader, Prof Ger Duijzings will give a public lecture on Thursday, 23 February 2023, in Kosovo National Library in Prishtina, starting 1.30 pm: "If cars could walk: postsocialist streets between circulation and conviviality" Abstract: In this talk, Ger Duijzings will present some of the key ideas of a new volume edited with geographer Tauri...