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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you a researcher, artist, or public intellectual seeking time and space to work on an independent project? HIAS invites you to apply for the HIAS Fellowship Program 2028–2029!! Deadline: February 1, 2027. Learn more and apply: ➡ lnkd.in/ggPSrUFa

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very excited and honored to welcome scholars from around the world to @uni-hamburg.de for a two-day conference to discuss politics and society in early republican Turkey: “Entrenchment and Experiment: Situating Authoritarian Turkey in the 1930s and 1940s.”

A poster for a conference at the University of Hamburg entitled Entrenchment and Experiment. A photo from 1930s Turkey is the main visual element. Below that is information about the conference, including an abstract and list of participants.

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Anyone in Basel today with two hours to spare for the Caucasus is welcome to attend my lecture at 4 p.m. (in English): "The Postwar Republics of the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and a Few Others You've (Probably) Never Heard of." Details: dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles...

A poster for a lecture in Basel, Switzerland, entitled "The Postwar Republics of the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and a Few Others You've (Probably) Never Heard Of." It includes the flags of several Caucasian republics.

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

In case you missed it: We’re hosting a conference on authoritarianism in 1930s-1940s Turkey this October—entitled “Entrenchment and Experiment.” You still have a few days left to apply (Jan 16)! For more information: www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/aktuel...

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hamburg Üniversitesi’nde lisans/yüksek lisans dersleri verecek bir Türkçe/Osmanlıca öğretmeni arıyoruz! Bu alanda tecrübeniz varsa ve Almancanız en az B2 seviyesindeyse 27 Ocak’a kadar başvurabilirsiniz. Bilgi almak / başvurmak için: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Ausschreibung

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New calls for applications to several fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions — Alevi studies in Leipzig (apply by 30 Nov) — and environmental/agricultural history of Turkey in Basel (apply by 8 Dec). gtot.org/en/job-oppor...

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Job opportunities – GTOT

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Professor @vhtroyansky.bsky.social is bringing his award-winning book, Empire of Refugees, to Hamburg! Excited to organize his lecture and to invite all interested to attend: Th. 26 June 2025 at 16:15, Lecture Hall K, @uni-hamburg.de.

Informational poster for the lecture of Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky at the University of Hamburg, 26 June 2025.

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Alex Balistreri @balistrerialex.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This article took me to unexpected places! Ostensibly about a Swiss sociologist in Turkey in the 1930s, it touches on global right-wing ideologies, the nature of Kemalism, and the politics of experts in the early republic. Open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social 32:2. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

‘Foreign experts brought to the Ministry of Economy, at a meeting’. The photo appears to depict the visit of American Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein to Ankara in November 1930 (personal collection of the author).

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