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Engin Bolat

@histlaw.bsky.social
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Historian cand. @Bilkent History, 19th century enjoyer, formerly in law school, TOBB ETU alumnus Music critic & pianist

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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'll publish a semi-academic/semi-formal essay on my blog (tomorrow) regarding benevolent ableism and I'd like you to check it, please, especially if you know me in person. I hope it explains why I've chosen a "marginal" image recently on my twitter/X account recently. My very best regards. E.
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Employment The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the field of Early Islamic History, with a primary focus on the period ca. 600–1300 CE. mesana.org/resources-an...
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Middle East Studies Association
The Department of Near Eastern Studies invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the field of Early Islamic History, with a primary focus on the period ca. 600–1300 CE
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
... but are proud of our position as Russia's second largest trading partner
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Cronologia @cronologia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ibn Abd al-Wahhab was born in Najd in 1703 and trained in Hanbali jurisprudence. He observed that some Muslims practiced saint veneration and shrine rituals, and called for a return to tawhid: strict monotheism. #IslamicReform #Tawhid
The name Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Diwani calligraphy
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gender Studies remains relevant, exhibit #2365
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bianet @bianet.org · 18/09/2026
🔻 İstanbul Barosu seçime gidiyor: Beş aday, iki ittifak 👉️ İstanbul Barosu, yeni başkanını ve yönetimini belirlemek üzere 24-25 Ekim 2026'da sandık başına gidecek. 68 bin 220 avukatın kayıtlı olduğu Baro seçimleri için adaylar ve ittifaklar açıklandı. 🗞️ Haber Ferhat Yaşar buff.ly/SyuyOaN
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İstanbul Barosu seçime gidiyor: Beş aday, iki ittifak
İstanbul Barosu, yeni başkanını ve yönetimini belirlemek üzere 24-25 Ekim 2026'da sandık başına gidecek. 68 bin 220 avukatın kayıtlı olduğu Baro seçimleri için adaylar ve ittifaklar açıklandı.
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's disappointing to see that when you point out some problems with some people, institutions and people turned these into gossips to discredit you. Just saying...
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bianet @bianet.org · 17/09/2026
🔻 Hukukçulardan LGBTİ+’lara gözaltı rehberi... 👉️ Şifre vermek zorunda değilsin 👉️ Avukat olmadan ifade verme 👉️ Unutma, sohbet sırasında söyleyeceğin her şey dosyana girecek 👉️ Yalnız değilsin, hakların var buff.ly/Kn9RebR
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Hukukçulardan LGBTİ+’lara gözaltı rehberi: "Şifre paylaşmayın, avukatsız ifade vermeyin"
İzmir’de faaliyet gösteren hukuk ve insan hakları örgütleri, son dönemde LGBTİ+’ların hedef gösterilmesine karşı ortak bir bilgilendirme rehberi yayımladı.
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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m delighted to share my first book, THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM, forthcoming from Oxford University Press on December 1, 2026. Catholicism did not simply survive the Age of Revolutions: it was remade by it. glaucoschettini.com/book/
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Dağhan Irak @daghanirak.com · 15/09/2026
böyle bir tuhaf söylem üretme şekli var. iktidarı eleştiremediğimiz konularda iktidarı eleştiremediği için muhalefeti eleştirerek söz söylemiş oluyoruz(?) ya da kendimiz sus pusken başkalarını sus pus olmakla eleştirerek sus pus olmaktan kurtulmuş oluyoruz(?)
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For all the theory that I read in grad school, the only theorists that I find really indispensable in my teaching are Weber, Said, and Bourdieu.
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The IASA @iasarabia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Conference : “Circulation of Knowledge in the Ottoman World: c. 1500-1900” 17–19/09/2026 Madrid (Archivo Histórico Nacional, CSIC c/Pinar 25, and Centro Cultural La Corrala) www.cchs.csic.es/es/event/int...
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First event of the Fall here at UC Davis! The Davis Palestine Film Series presents THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION, a film screening & panel discussion about refusing silence in the face of genocide in Palestine. 🍉 On campus at UC Davis Cruess Hall Theater, Sept 26 4pm. Admission is free and open to all.
Event poster for September 26 film screening and panel discussion of The Palestine Exception. The event takes place at UC Davis Cruess Theater on Saturday September 26, 4-6:30pm. This event is organized by the Davis Palestine Film Series with cosponsors Yolo for Palestinian Justice, Yolo Democratic Socialists, Davis Jews for Justice, the Davis Graduate, Veterinary, Medical, and Law Students for Palestine, Yolo Indivisible, UC Davis Young Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish Voice for Peace, and UC Davis Students for Justice on Palestine. Further updates at davispalestineseries.org. The poster is white, red, green, and black and features a still from the film depicting protestors at the New York City encampment in 2024, and a collection of red poppies in the upper left corner.
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bianet @bianet.org · 13/09/2026
🔻 "Ailem Güvende" operasyonuna tepki: LGBTİ+ haklarının kriminalize edilmesi kabul edilemez bianet.org/haber/ailem-...
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"Ailem Güvende" operasyonuna tepki: LGBTİ+ haklarının kriminalize edilmesi kabul edilemez
İnsan Hakları Savunucuları Dayanışma Ağı, “Ailem Güvende” soruşturması kapsamında LGBTİ+ örgütleri ve insan hakları savunucularına yönelik düzenlenen operasyonuna tepki gösterdi. Açıklamada, “İnsan…
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Joost Rekveld @joost-rekveld.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
There are many beautiful saz semaileri in makam Hüseyni, bit I don't quite understand why the one by Kemençeci Nikolaki (18?? - 1915) is not played more often. #kemençeciNikolaki #hüseynimakamı
A page of an old music publication, the title of the piece is given in the Ottoman script.
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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Latest episode, from last week 📢📢 Benjamin Fortna on “The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Publishing) 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/09/01/b...
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Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history
Turkey Book Talk #277 – Benjamin Fortna, professor of history at the University of Arizona, on “The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Pu…
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wonder if there's any bigger project considering the transatlantic passage from Levant to the 'new' world.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Letters Across the Sea: Gender, Weather, & Greek Shipping Networks in the Atlantic World, 1900–1930" by Dimitra Chrysoula Kardakari opens our series “Gender & Atlantic Ocean Environments,” co-edited w/ Written in the Waves journal for their special issue Soil & Sea niche-canada.org/2026/09/08/l...
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Letters Across the Sea: Gender, Weather, and Greek Shipping Networks in the Atlantic World, 1900–1930
Reading the letters of the Kulukundis family, shipowners from the island of Kasos, Greece, as environmental and gendered sources allows us to see the Atlantic not as a backdrop to the family story, bu...
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Proofs just arrived! Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written together with Alexander Bauer @sascha06.bsky.social (Mainz). - Stay tuned😊 #OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #EarlyModern
The image shows the first page of the Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written by Gül Şen and Alexander Bauer
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Jun Akiba @jun-naibzade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
論文 1875-78年ボスニア・ヘルツェゴヴィナの難民、反乱、人道主義 Manasek, Jared. "Philanthropy of Violence: Refugees, Rebellion and Humanitarianism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1875–78." Slavonic and East European Review 104, no. 3 (2026): 532-563. otmn muse.jhu.edu/article/1000...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The JHI Blog's newsletter is a great way to stay in the loop about updates and new scholarship from the blog and journal. Here's the latest installment, with information about the upcoming symposium, links to many un-paywalled journal articles, and so much more.
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JHI Blog Newsletter: September 2026
Catch up on new scholarship from the Blog & the Journal
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Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 A new season of History on the Edge begins! Join us on 16 September at 3 PM for a lecture by Wiktor Marzec: Irrevolution: Borderland Pathways and Regime Outcomes in the Successor States of the Romanov Empire, 1905–1921. #INZ #History
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This still gets me every time. Albert Camus' letter to a teacher after he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize.
19 November 1957

Dear Monsieur Germain,

I let the commotion around me these days subside a bit before speaking to you from the bottom of my heart. I have just been given far too great an honor, one I neither sought nor solicited. But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching and example, none of all this would have happened. I don’t make too much of this sort of honor. But at least it gives me the opportunity to tell you what you have been and still are for me, and to assure you that your efforts, your work, and the generous heart you put into it still live in one of your little schoolboys who, despite the years, has never stopped being your grateful pupil. I embrace you with all my heart.

Albert Camus
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Go Turkey though!
Chart from The Economist showing average PISA test scores for selected countries in 2015 and 2025. Only Turkey shows an improvement
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Baháʼí History @bahaihistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
September 7. On this date in 1871, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, the Ottoman Grand Vizier behind the decision to exile Bahá'u'lláh and his companions from Edirne to Acre, died." onthisdateinbahaihistory.blogspot.com/2021/09/sept...
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September 7. On this date in 1871, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, the Ottoman Grand Vizier behind the decision to exile Bahá'u'lláh and his companions from Edirne to Acre, died. In August 1868, Bahá'u'lláh ha...
September 7. On this date in 1871,   Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha , the Ottoman Grand Vizier behind the decision to exile Bahá'u'lláh and his com...
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Funny to me that Bartlet has a copy of Foucault's Society Must be Defended on his bookshelf
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's frustrating to see that some Turkish nationalists still read the events of 6-7 September 1955 as part of actions against "filthy" bourgeoisie. It's clearly a terrible milestone for Istanbul's multicultural existence.
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oedemography.bsky.social @oedemography.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Explore our new and improved search feature, designed to make discovering historical records easier than ever. Search for a specific location or individual by entering a first name, family name, occupation, or even information related to a disability.
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Ottoman Empire Demography - Research Portal
Ottoman Demographic, Social and Family History Research Group at Binghamton University
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way.” www.ft.com/content/bdb3...
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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Latest episode 📚📚 Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history. The conversation is based on his new book "The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Publishing) Listen below 👇🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/09/01/b...
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Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history
Turkey Book Talk #277 – Benjamin Fortna, professor of history at the University of Arizona, on “The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Pu…
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Piotr Kuligowski and Bartłomiej Błesznowski: "Beyond the Revolutionary Motto? Three Polish Accounts of Fraternity in the Long Nineteenth Century." Read it here on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @pkuligowski.bsky.social
A quote from the article: "In a society lacking a modern discourse of political sovereignty and national cohesion (Polish territory had been split into three parts, each under the imperial rule of a different neighboring power), fraternity was a central ideal of popular movements demanding national liberation."
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Random question... Is it common for global historians to know about digital humanities tools such as SPSS, Gephi and computational tools like Phyton? (Btw, I know how to use) I'm on a project right now and I might "call" for collaborations inside and outside of Turkey.
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Random question... Is it common for global historians to know about digital humanities tools such as SPSS, Gephi and computational tools like Phyton? (Btw, I know how to use) I'm on a project right now and I might "call" for collaborations inside and outside of Turkey.
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#Employment The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Cuneiform Cultures, tenure track. mesana.org/resources-an...
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Middle East Studies Association
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Cuneiform Cultures, tenure track.
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Fabian Baumann @fabianbaumann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Grading papers 2020: "Another wrong comma, another typo, another awkward sentence... 🙄🙄🙄" Grading papers 2026: "Another wrong comma, another typo, another awkward sentence... Aww, they wrote it all by themselves!"
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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 24/08/2026
McGill researchers develop a more efficient way to identify when AI responses may need human review: mcgill.ca/x/5ur IA : une approche plus efficace pour déterminer si une intervention humaine s’impose : mcgill.ca/x/5uH
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McGill researchers develop a more efficient way to identify when AI responses may need human review
McGill University researchers have developed a more energy-efficient method of building AI systems that are better at measuring – and indicating – their own uncertainty. This will help users determine...
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Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Delighted to announce that my new article, “Tipu and the Tabur: South Asian Influence on Ottoman Military Reform,” has just been published in CSSAAME! I argue that an embassy from Tipu Sultan of Mysore catalyzed the first steps toward the Ottoman Nizam-ı Cedid reforms.
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Tipu and the Tabur: South Asian Influence on Ottoman Military Reform
Abstract. This article examines connections and influences between Muslim polities across the Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century through the legacy of an embassy sent by Tipu Sultan of Mysore to t...
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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I sought to collect some evidence on Ottoman materialism in the final chapter of my last book academic.oup.com/book/61617/c...
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Nature Enchanted and Disenchanted
Abstract. This chapter explores the ways in which the field of natural sciences—that is, the portion of the world that was considered understandable and co
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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Whatever one's shortcomings or mistakes are, nobody should have suffered such lack of compassion, and denial of grace and dignity. It's hard not to feel we all have failed here.
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📷 An #Armenian Church in #Sivas (Central Anatolia), 1900 (Colorized Photo)
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Is there anyone with an experience and broader access to French diplomatic archives?
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For some unknown reason Amasya/Turkey (the city I grew up in) grabbed attention from tourists from all over the world since the late 2010s. Will it become a "future Cappadocia"?
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Hatice Yıldız @hyildizhistorian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.dukeupress.edu/on-being-inc...
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Very happy that my chapter was Nilab Saeedi's choice for the summer "What we're reading" post of the JHI blog! www.jhiblog.org/2026/07/22/w... www.jhiblog.org/2026/07/22/w...
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Is there anyone with an experience and broader access to French diplomatic archives?
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are pleased to conclude our series Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia on 24 June: Will Sumits (Orient-Institute Istanbul), 5 pm From Manuscript to Microphone Followed at 6:30 pm by an evening concert with the Tuna Quartet. orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Tchavdar Marinov's article on Macedonia is the last article in the polylingual nationalisms special issue that Alexander Maxwell and I edited.
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“We Are All In Macedonia Born Polyglots”: Multilingual Awakeners and Supranational Patriots In Late Ottoman Macedonia (From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Balkan Wars)
The article explores the relationship between multilingualism and nationalism in late Ottoman Macedonia. Focusing on the Slavic-speaking population, the study shows how Macedonian intellectuals dev...
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I know I shouldn't complain but here's a thing that bothers me a lot. Whenever a scholar decides to publish his/her PhD thesis as a book, the relevant thesis suddenly evaporates. Then, researchers cannot access that thesis until it emerges as a book.
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Özgür Özel @ozgurozelresmi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Onlar yolun sonunda, biz yolun başındayız! Safımız milletle birdir. Millet bizimle beraberdir.
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