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Looking forward to welcoming @ozanozavci1 to the Groningen HTIR today to learn about "The Great Game of Pandemics: Sanitary Internationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942" . As usual - all welcome! @FacultyofArtsUG
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My review of @ozanozavci1 's Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864.
A must-read for those interested in global history and the Middle East.
@MidEastPolicy
doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12775
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How reality and fiction merged on the misty bank of the Bosporus, as Istanbul became the theatre of operation for spies, diplomats and adventures in the long 20th century, as retold vividly by Enno Maessen for the @SecHistNetwork 👇
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My interview with @tonline on the world wars of disinformation then & now, the family resemblance betw. the Aperol Spritz version of today's European far-right parties & the Nazi Party, the 1st major Hitler film in 20 years, & what I owe my late father:👇
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👏Congratulations to Glenda Sluga for winning the Inaugural Book Prize, Australasian Association for European History with her book "The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon" 👇
Congratulations to Glenda Sluga, whose book The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon has won the Inaugural Book Prize, Australasian Association for European History (@historyANU).
Learn more about this panoramic book: hubs.ly/Q02z4jlp0
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New adventures! 🇧🇪🔜🇳🇱
Thrilled to announce I will be joining @ozanozavci1's ERC Consolidator Grant project “Fighting Pandemics from Below: Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942 [COOPERATION]” at @HumanitiesUU in September!
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Greatly looking forward to attending this fascinating workshop from @SecHistNetwork next week, with cutting edge scholarship on the making of nation states being presented by historians from @HumanitiesUU and @TrierUni! Registration details below 👇
Next week, SHN organises a seminar in Utrecht with three starting academics. During this seminar they will give a paper on their research on transnational state building in the 19th century. You can join this seminar in person or digital
Registrations: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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#OpenAccess
#Ottoman #Egypt #Muḥammad_Ali #NapoleonicWars #Mediterranean #ViennaOrder #Russian #Levant
#Commerce #MountLebanon
Dangerous Gifts
Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864
Ozan Ozavci
Oxford Univ Pr 2021
PDF🎯
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Herinnering: dinsdag 7 mei organiseren we de slotconferentie van ons onderzoeksproject ‘Blueprints of Hope’ (2016-2023) @UniUtrecht. We zien ernaar uit onze opgedane inzichten in de spannende beginfase van de Europese samenwerking te delen. Meld je nu aan! securityhistorynetwork.com/2…
On 7 May, we will present the results of our 'Blueprints of Hope' research project (2016-2023) on the origins of European integration. With @jorritstee, @beatricedegraaf, @PeterBenSmit et al. contributing and honouring the legacy of the late Prof Mathieu Segers. Please join us!
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📢📢 Publication Day! 🎊🎊
De la lumière à l'ombre is out today 👇👇
antipodes.ch/produit/de-la-l…
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@julia_seck @ozanozavci1 @erverdig 🎊🎉
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New TSN Lecture with Paolo Girardelli
Landscapes of the Eastern Question: Architecture and Power Balances in Istanbul
23 April 2024, 16:00 CET, Onsite and Online
Register here: turkeystudiesnetwork.org/202…
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On how the Ottoman Empire instituted passports,not only to facilitate but also to restrict the mobility of those targeted as „internal threats“ to the regime,which resonates with today‘s attempts to limit mobility,freedom of movement&migration- @ozanozavci1 for @SecHistNetwork 👇
🎙️🎙️New podcast episode! 🎙️🎙️
In our latest podcast, @ozanozavci1 welcomes Ilkay Yilmaz and together they discuss the security culture of the Ottoman Empire in the Hamidian Era (1876-1909)
open.spotify.com/episode/08q…
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📣We're hiring!📣
The Political History Section of @UniUtrecht's Department of History and Art History @HumanitiesUU is looking for a new lecturer in political history. Deadline for applications: 10 April 2024, more details here 👇uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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"A poor, arid, abandoned area, without a future".
Yet, Leopold II invested more than 2 million francs (around 10% of the Congo Free State's budget) annually to realize his Sudanese dream.
Want to know why? Join us on Thursday in Utrecht, Drift 23, Room 1.04, 16:00!
📢 Next Thursday @gerthuskens will join us in Utrecht for our next SHN-lecture! He will take us to the Congo-Upper Nile border of around 1900 to shed further light on the Belgian colonial ambitions.
More information about the event can be found here:
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Peculiar scene in the 1966 classic Khartoum:
Gordon Pasha (the ever-charming Charlton Heston) who initially refuses the proposal to evacuate the Sudan since he's under contract with Leopold II
More about this in next week's @SecHistNetwork lecture: securityhistorynetwork.com/2…
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This map featuring the Sudanese Bahr El Gazal region as part of the Congo Freestate looks a bit odd, doesn't it? 😲
Yet, this border was exactly what the British and Congolese authorities agreed upon in 1894.
Let me tell you all about in on March 14 in Utrecht! @SecHistNetwork
Do you want to know what the Sudanese dream of King Leopold II of Belgium was? Then join our lecture on 14 March where @gerthuskens will delve into Belgium's colonial ambitions at the Congo-Upper Nile Frontier
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"These security policies often ended up radicalising& agglomerating seditious actors in the shape of exile communities,[thus creating]a new European revolutionary culture"-@StefanoLissi for @SecHistNetwork on how security policy can backfire monumentally
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St. Andrew's Parliament Hall was abuzz with energy & new ideas swirling around during the discussion following @beatricedegraaf's keynote on ‘Radical Redemption: What Extremists Believe. A social-psychological/historical approach’ at @CSTPV's Workshop on Terrorism & Pol. Violence
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If either you are student contemplating to become a professional history, or you are interested in enlightened despotism, or you are curious about the seven lives of @AMikaberidze, between central Asia & the American South, this is the perfect @SecHistNetwork podcast for you: 👇
🎙️New podcast episode out!
Prof. @beatricedegraaf is joined by Professor @AMikaberidze and the discuss Mikerabidze's research on the Napoleonic Age, the legacy of Napoleon and the importance of transnational history
open.spotify.com/episode/0if…
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On the 8th of February, we will be hosting our next lecture. This time we are joined by Professor
@daviderodogno1 who is coming to discuss his latest book 'Night on Earth'.
📅8 February 2024
📌Academiegebouw, Utrecht
Don't forget to sign up: forms.gle/oR6oMQjNPkJdseH66




























