Faculty members of participating units are invited to attend the 2023 Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW).
13th Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW)
April 28-29, 2023
SFU Harbour Centre Policy Room 2270
555 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC
Keynote lectures
Elyse Semerdjian (Whitman College): “The Body as Archive: A Feminist Intervention in Armenian Genocide Studies”
Richard Antaramian (USC): “Ottoman Historiography through Armenian Eyes”
To register for the keynote lectures or full workshop, please email Prof. Thomas Kuehn from your university email account with your full name, position, and affiliation.
The Organizers would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous financial support of this event:
Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Department of History
Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS)
Office of the Vice-President Academic
Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
The Drs Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady Endowment in Iranian Studies
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies
Department of World Languages and Literatures (WLL)
Urban Studies Program
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of British Columbia (UBC)
UBC Anthropology
UBC Asian Studies
UBC Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies (CENES)
UBC Centre for European Studies
UBC History
UBC Middle East Studies (MES)
UBC Public Humanities Hub