Workshop: “Cross-Cultural Encounters in Anatolia between the Byzantines, Persians and Ottomans,” Keynote Speaker: İlber Ortaylı, Panel: Mehmet Kalpaklı, Ali Kalirad (University of Tehran), Luca Zavagno, UNAM Conference Hall, 2:30PM December 7 (EN)

“CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN ANATOLIA BETWEEN THE BYZANTINES, PERSIANS AND OTTOMANS”

Keynote Speaker: İlber Ortaylı – Cross Cultural Encounters in Anatolia

Panel:
Mehmet Kalpaklı (Bilkent University)
Caravans of Love on the Roads of Anatolia, from Tabriz to Venice.

Ali Kalirad (University of Tehran)
The Heir of Xerxes or Alexander’s Successor? The Portraits of Mehmed
the Conqueror in Two Persian and Greek Chronicles

Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University)
City Encounters in Byzantine Anatolia between Late Antiquity and the
Early Middle Ages

7 December, h. 14.30

UNAM Conference Hall Bilkent University, Main Campus
 
The workshop will be in English.
Tea and coffee will be served after the conference.