Updated programme out now (click here!)
This is an opportunity to combine a fascinating event of lectures and workshop discussions with a visit to the region. On Saturday 27 August 2022 there is an optional trip to the historic city of Mostar with its important landmarks on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The lovely Islamic revival building of the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo, venue of TIOL2
Keynote Speakers
Jason Goodwin, historian and bestselling author of a series of novels set in the Ottoman Empire, the acclaimed Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (Vintage 1999), and several non-fiction works, including the award-winning travelogue through Eastern Europe On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul (Chatto & Windus 1993).
Dr Dženita Karić, postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, specialising in Muslim pilgrimage, and author of Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy (forthcoming, EUP 2022).
Registration is still open. For registration form, accommodation and info on the excursion to Mostar please see Important Documents below.
For email enquiries about the Seminar, please contact: ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com, or, alternatively, please contact: Dr Ines Asceric-Todd at: ines.asceric-todd@ed.ac.uk or Dr Aid Smajic at: aid.smajic@fin.unsa.ba.
Important Documents
Excursion to Mostar and additional accommodation information
Extra nights can be booked by emailing ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com, but are payable in person on the first day of conference (please see Excursion to Mostar and additional accommodation information above)
