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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I will also give a talk about immigration from the Balkans to Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s, as part of my new book project on global Muslim refugee migration, at @upenn.edu Middle East Center on Thursday, Sep 17 at 5:30 p.m. Many thanks to Prof. Paul Cobb. If you are around, please join us! (2)

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking forward to spending time in Philly this week! I will talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Villanova University's Center for Arab and Islamic Studies on Wednesday, Sep 16 at 2 p.m. Many thanks to Prof. Samer Abboud and Dina Baslan for organizing the event. (1)

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I will be giving two talks on my first book and new book project in Berlin on Thursday, July 9. All are most warmly welcome to join. 2–4 pm, Book talk at @zmo-berlin.bsky.social: Empire of Refugees Many thanks to Dr. Ergün Özgür and Dr. Kai Kresse for hosting. www.zmo.de/en/events/em... (1)

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Kitabımın Türkçe baskısı bugün çıktı: Muhacirler İmparatorluğu! İletişim Yayınları'na @iletisim.com.tr çok minnettarım. Muhteşem çevirisi için Renan Akman'a çok teşekkür ederim. iletisim.com.tr/kitap/muhaci... (1)

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

neither Ottoman nor a mullah; his name was not Ahmed, and he had never conducted hajj. This article is a microhistory that follows Hajji Ahmed on his journey in tsarist Turkestan, the Khanate of Khoqand, and the Emirate of Bukhara in the 1870s. (2)

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Very much looking forward to speaking about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Yale this Thursday! If you are nearby, please stop by. (And we'll also rally that day!) Many thanks to Yale's Council on Middle East Studies and the brilliant Eda Pepi for hosting.

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Very excited to talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) this Wed, Mar 12. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in the Netherlands. Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This roundtable article builds on my first book, Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), and offers a glimpse into my second book project on hijra, or Muslim refugee migration, across Eurasia in the modern era. (2) www.sup.org/books/middle...

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Friends and colleagues heading to #ASEEES24 in Boston, join us on Sat, Nov 23, at 12:00 pm, for the book discussion — EMPIRE OF REFUGEES (Stanford, 2024). Themes: migration, the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, Islam. convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/a...

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Dear digital attendees of our very virtual MESA annual meeting, please join us on Wed, Nov 13, at 2:30–4:30 pm EST, for a sparkling panel on immigration in early republican Turkey, feat. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Gözde Emen Gökatalay, Ellinor Morack, and Sarah Shields! #MESA2024

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Book talk at the Anglo-Turkish Society. Mon, Oct 7, at 6:00 p.m. BST.

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Book talk at the University of Edinburgh. Mon, Sep 30, at 5:15 p.m. BST. Many thanks to the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. llc.ed.ac.uk/islamic-midd...

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Dear UK colleagues and friends, I will be giving several virtual talks about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024). Zoom in! Sep 30 — University of Edinburgh Oct 2 — University College London Oct 7 — Anglo-Turkish Society Oct 28 — King's College London More details below.

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

My first book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (February 2024), is available for preorder! Stanford University Press is running a 30% off sitewide sale through the end of February 2024! www.sup.org/books/title/...

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

My new article, “Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia’s Pan-Islamic Panic,” has been published by Slavic Review. For years, I have been searching for Muslim refugees’ letters exchanged across the Russo-Ottoman border in the 1850s–1914. doi.org/10.1017/slr.... (1)

Kabardian (eastern Circassian) Princess Gushasukh (in Ottoman Anatolia) to Prince Bekmurza Atazhukin (in tsarist Kabarda). Source: Central State Archive of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia, f. 12, op. 8, d. 27, l. 9ob (November 18, 1866)

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Happy to share my new article on the attempted return of the North Caucasian diaspora in the Middle East to its homeland within the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation since the 1960s, published in Kritika. doi.org/10.1353/kri....

This map, published by the Turkish-Circassian journal Kamçı in 1970, introduces the convoluted political geography of the Soviet North Caucasus (plus Abkhazia and South Ossetia) to the North Caucasian diaspora in Turkey.

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