Introduction
The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies supports research into the history, literature and culture of the Ottoman Empire.
It seeks to encourage knowledge and understanding of a major Muslim empire with large European and Mediterranean territories, and to assist scholars from many disciplines in exploring connections between their own work and Ottoman studies. It is the only research centre devoted purely to Ottoman Studies in the UK and Western Europe and has an international profile. The Skilliter Centre, which has no political affiliations or agenda, is administered by Newnham College, Cambridge, and receives support from a legacy from Dr. Susan Skilliter, formerly University Lecturer in Turkish. The Director is Dr. Kate Fleet.
News
- The next conference at the Skilliter Centre, "Reconsidering Colonialism", will be held from Friday 5th to Saturday 6th February 2010. The programme can be found here.
- A conference on The Ottomans and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was held at the Skilliter Centre from Friday 3rd to Saturday 4th July, 2009. The programme can be found here.
- You can learn details of other recent events at the Centre, including the one-day graduate conference with members of the research project "Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire", which forms part of the University of Heidelberg's "Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows", here. You can read about the undergraduate trip to Ankara in March 2009 here.
- From 2010, Dr. Fleet will be editing a major new journal in Turkish studies, Turkish Historical Review, which will be published by Brill.
- The Skilliter Centre's 2009 newsletter is now available online. You can view it here.
- Applications are now open for the 2010 Moody-Stuart Scholarships in Turkish Studies, which are open to registered Ph.D. students of Cambridge University. Find out more and download the application form here.
- The library's cataloguing project has now ended. You can learn more about the project here.
Last updated: 13 November 2009
