Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't want to make civic arguments about history. I don't want to make instrumentalist arguments about history. I want engineers to understand my discipline is rigorous too and if not I want to be able to make fun of them forever because no historian ever built a bridge that broke in the wind. 1372968
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelOnur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🥁 @kmkentel.bsky.social and I have a new book coming out very soon! “Istanbul Unbound” will be the inaugural volume in the new series Transregional Middle Easts from @uofupress.bsky.social 🥂 Thanks to support from @fwf-at.bsky.social it will be fully Open Access 🎊 uofupress.com/books/istanb... 0148
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Deadline for Yavuz Sezer Memorial Prize for the history of architecture and the urban environment in the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey is extended! New deadline is September 15. www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prize...ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org 022
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025yes we did! expect it to be published by Fall 2026 #envhist 080
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 08/07/2025We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prizeiceho.orgPrize — ICEHO 02512
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social 06227
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelEline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Gaia Giuliani’s Keynote “Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. For a postcolonial critique of violent bio- and necropolitics” #ESEH2025 Giuliani is not shying away from topics like Palestine and Ukraine. People left the room when she started talking about Palestine and showed this slide 4132
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 31/07/2025This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace. It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate. They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told. 8131661323
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025eseh.org/eseh-2025-el...eseh.orgESEH 2025 Elections: Check out our candidates! – European Society for Environmental History 000
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Note that the “free speech on campus” people like Friedersdorf, Chait, Weiss, still blame this on “the excesses of woke.” Not a one - to my knowledge - has admitted they were actually wrong. 311970463
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelEkrem İmamoğlu @ekremimamoglu.com · 08/05/2025Birer birer eksileceğimizi sandınız ama biz milyon milyon büyüyoruz! Bu kadar kolay mı sanıyorsunuz? Bu şahsi bir mesele diye mi düşünüyorsunuz? Bu büyük bir milletin yürüyüşüdür. Elinizden geleni ardınıza koymayın. Artık korku duvarları yıkıldı. 11753771342
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...universiteitleiden.nlHistorical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialismLeiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two... 010
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelJennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Artist Murat German has been released from custody after giving his statement to the prosecutor. The arrest warrant for him appears to have been issued due to his support for economic boycotts organized by the political opposition. Source: bsky.app/profile/birg... 022
Reposted by K. Mehmet Kentelmedyascope @medyascope.tv · 10/04/2025Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldımedyascope.tvGözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı - MedyascopeMurat Germen, yurtdışından eşiyle birlikte Türkiye'ye dönerken havalimanında gözaltına alındı. Germen, savcılıkta ifade verdikten sonra serbest kaldı. 1316
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Murat Germen kent suçlarını kayıt altına alırken ona yer açan müze ve kültür kurumları bu hukuksuz gözaltına sessiz mi kalacak? 0124
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelAyse Cavdar @aysecavdar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025bu ne be! gemi azıya aldılar iyice 1154
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelOnur Öncü @oencueonur.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Üniversite öğrencilerinin akademik boykotuna destek verdiği için tutuklanan akademisyen Levent Dölek hakkında tahliye kararı verildi. Günün tek güzel haberi bu. 114417
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelWilliam Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Alarming new anti-LGBT+ law planned in Turkey. Includes jail for people found guilty of “publicly encouraging, praising or inciting behaviour or attitudes contrary to biological sex... and general morality” President Erdogan today again vowed measures against what he calls "perverted movements" 11212
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Here's a little glimpse into what we read in my Urban History and Development Research Seminar, part of the graduation semester of BA Urban Studies. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social 030
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelOnur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025JOB 🚨 4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History at the Amsterdam School for Historical Studies. The position is part of the “Daily Bread: A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests” project ⤵️ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...werkenbij.uva.nlVacancy — Postdoctoral researcher in Ottoman HistoryThe Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History for four years (0.9 FTE). This position is part of the project Daily Br... 002
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelAlexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Useful for Canada too, in this absurd moment. Faire du social: invest in universities, community health, research and development, reconciliation, creative arts and journalism. Welcome refugees. 121
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Very excited to be listening to our dear Reşat Kasaba in The Hague www.iss.nl/en/events/em... #menasky #history 050
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025www.mareonline.nl/en/backgroun...mareonline.nlDon't let Urban Studies become the next victim of budget cutsNow that study programmes in English are in the crosshairs, Urban Studies students are fearing for the worst. Their interdisciplinary bachelor should not dissapear, Anouk Moritz writes. <br /> 020
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF 1112738886
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652769415654
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelJun Akiba @jun-naibzade.bsky.social · 22/01/2025論文 オスマン帝国末期イスタンブルのエネルギー経済 Tok, Alaaddin. “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Döneminde İstanbul’un Enerji Ekonomisi”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 6, Aralık (Aralık 2024): 31-50. otmn dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...dergipark.org.trOsmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Döneminde İstanbul’un Enerji EkonomisiYILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies | Cilt: 6 051
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelNadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Are you an early modernist & working on the History of Ideas? There is an exciting 3-month new fellowship for an ECR who wants to do research in Amsterdam in 2026: thijssen-schoute.nl/fellowship/ It comes with a stipend of €2000 per month & a workplace at @huygensknaw.bsky.social Deadline: May 15th.thijssen-schoute.nlFellowship | Thijssen-Schoute Stichting 02218
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/01/20252024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency 15944421671
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelHolly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/ 615363
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelJun Akiba @jun-naibzade.bsky.social · 11/01/2025論文 上野雅由樹「イスタンブルを浄化する:ギリシア独立革命、人口調査、非ムスリム宗教権威」 Ueno, Masayuki. “Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2025. OA otmn doi.org/10.1017/S001...doi.orgPurifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Ca...Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 184
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025For a 1st year method course in Urban Studies, I will assign some excerpts from Ray Williams' The Country and the City. Any recommendations for specific chaps? I'm considering the 1st (Country and City) and the last (Cities and Countries), but if you tried others that worked well, let me know pls! 000
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025A new year, and a new volume of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies! The online version is open access: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli... And the print version will soon be available, too. 121
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelMark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books 18423
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelHistory Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 23/12/2024■ Christmas Celebration of Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Christmas Procession in #Bethlehem the Place Where the Virgin Mary Gave Birth to Jesus (pbuh) (Palestine), 1900 #history #palestine #christmas 112924
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I wrote a review of Görkem Akgöz's impressive book, In de Shadow of War and Empire, for @urbanhistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgGörkem Akgöz, In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey. Studies in the Social History of the Global South. Leiden: Brill, 2024. xvii + ...Görkem Akgöz, In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey. Studies in the Social History of the Global South. Leiden: Brill, 2024. xvii + ... 022
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Find out what happened to them and what kind of a historical imagination their destruction led to in this article: brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 041
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelKenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Send us your paper proposals on James Baldwin's Istanbul! I'm happy to be a co-convener of this year's Keyman Modern Turkish Studies conference alongside İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu. We're looking forward to a great conference in Istanbul with the support of Sabancı University. 01415
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth. 21623124
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelBenjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Happening in a few hours! 011
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelThe White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Today, we and three of our journals are stopping activity on Twitter and making BlueSky our main home for short form social media. If you'd like to follow three great HSS journals with an environmental slant – as well as a few of our editors and partners! – try our starter pack: go.bsky.app/RFN2hTw 0105
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024next week! #envhist #envhum #urbanhist #urbanstudies 086
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024#EnvHist job at the KTH in Stockholm! 02019
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The fourth edition of the Yavuz Sezer Memorial Lectures will take place in the ANAMED auditorium in Istanbul, with Elizabeth Key Fowden. So sorry to be missing it, but so happy that we continue to celebrate the life and work of Yavuz with such a successful series.en.iae.org.trCity of Sages: Ottomanizing Early Modern Athens<p>In her talk, Elizabeth Key Fowden examines Athens' multi-layered historical identity known as the "City of Sages" in Syriac, Armenian, Iranian, Arab and Ottoman sources, as well as the pre-nineteen... 030
Reposted by K. Mehmet KentelYıldız Tar @yildiztar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Apaçık Radyo mobil uygulaması da çıktı. Merhaba Canım kayıtları da mevcut efenim. apacikradyo.com.tr/mobil-uygulamaapacikradyo.com.trMobil UygulamaApaçık Radyo canlı yayınına, podcast'lerine ve yazılı içeriklerine mobil uygulamalarımızdan erişebilirsiniz! 01510
Reposted by K. Mehmet Kentelbianet @bianet.org · 29/11/2024Erdoğan’a Filistin protestosu 📍TRT World Forum'daki konuşması sırasında Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "Gemiler Gazze'ye bomba taşıyor" sözleriyle protesto edildi. bianet.org/haber/erdoga...bianet.orgErdoğan’a Filistin protestosuTRT World Forum'daki konuşması sırasında Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "Gemiler Gazze'ye bomba taşıyor" sözleriyle protesto edildi. Erdoğan eylemcilere "Siyonistlerin dili, ağzı olmayın" diye yan... 095