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K. Mehmet Kentel

@kmkentel.bsky.social
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Urban environmental historian, Assistant Professor of History & Urban Studies @Leiden University, editor of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, writes & edits & curates www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffm…

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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Onur 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...
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Deadline 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...
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
yes we did! expect it to be published by Fall 2026 #envhist
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We 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/prize
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Prize — ICEHO
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social
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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Gaia 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
A photo of keynote speaker Giuliani on a very ornate platform with a PowerPoint slide showing a photo of a devastated Khan Yunis
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 31/07/2025
This 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.
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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ESEH 2025 Elections: Check out our candidates! – European Society for Environmental History
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Note 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.
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Ekrem İmamoğlu @ekremimamoglu.com · 08/05/2025
Birer 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.
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden 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...
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Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Artist 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...
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medyascope @medyascope.tv · 10/04/2025
Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı
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Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı - Medyascope
Murat Germen, yurtdışından eşiyle birlikte Türkiye'ye dönerken havalimanında gözaltına alındı. Germen, savcılıkta ifade verdikten sonra serbest kaldı.
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Murat Germen kent suçlarını kayıt altına alırken ona yer açan müze ve kültür kurumları bu hukuksuz gözaltına sessiz mi kalacak?
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Ayse Cavdar @aysecavdar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
bu ne be! gemi azıya aldılar iyice
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Onur Öncü @oencueonur.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Üniversite öğrencilerinin akademik boykotuna destek verdiği için tutuklanan akademisyen Levent Dölek hakkında tahliye kararı verildi. Günün tek güzel haberi bu.
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William Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Alarming 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"
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here'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
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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
JOB 🚨 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...
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Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher in Ottoman History
The 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...
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Useful 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.
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Very excited to be listening to our dear Reşat Kasaba in The Hague www.iss.nl/en/events/em... #menasky #history
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
www.mareonline.nl/en/backgroun...
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Don't let Urban Studies become the next victim of budget cuts
Now 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 />
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Darby 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.
list of banned keywords
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Jun 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...
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Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Döneminde İstanbul’un Enerji Ekonomisi
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies | Cilt: 6
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Are 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.
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Fellowship | Thijssen-Schoute Stichting
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency
Chart showing rapidly rising temperatures with 2024 the worst
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Global 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/
The New York Times Newsletter DealBook caption “How Much Would Buying Greenland Cost?” President-elect Donald Trump wants to buy the territory from Denmark, which says it’s not for sale. DealBook asked experts how they’d approach the deal.”
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Jun 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...
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Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#envhist #urbanhistory
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
For 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!
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A 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.
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Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books
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History 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
Procession of Christians in the Street. People and a few Ottoman Soldiers.
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I 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...
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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 + ...
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 + ...
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Tomorrow!
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Find out what happened to them and what kind of a historical imagination their destruction led to in this article: brill.com/view/journal...
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Kenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Send 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.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Dear 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.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happening in a few hours!
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Today, 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
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
next week! #envhist #envhum #urbanhist #urbanstudies
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#EnvHist job at the KTH in Stockholm!
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K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The 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.
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City 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...
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Yıldız Tar @yildiztar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Apaçık Radyo mobil uygulaması da çıktı. Merhaba Canım kayıtları da mevcut efenim. apacikradyo.com.tr/mobil-uygulama
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Mobil Uygulama
Apaçık Radyo canlı yayınına, podcast'lerine ve yazılı içeriklerine mobil uygulamalarımızdan erişebilirsiniz!
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bianet @bianet.org · 29/11/2024
Erdoğan’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...
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Erdoğan’a Filistin protestosu
TRT 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...
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