Bilkent University
Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Talk Series
announces:

“Why Study Karamanlidika (Ottoman Literature written in the Greek Alphabet)”
Monday, 11 April 2016, 14:30-16:00
T-171 (Postgraduate Seminar Room)

by

Prof. Evangelia Balta
National Hellenic Research Foundation

Short Bio

Evangelia Balta (b. 1955) is a Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her interests focus on subjects related to Economic and Social History during the Ottoman period, as well as the culture of Greek Orthodox population of Anatolia. In addition to her commitment to various programmes in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, she has been invited to teach seminars for groups of graduate students by universities in Greece and abroad.

She is a founding member of the planning committee of Οἶνον ἱστορῶ (History of Wine), a scholarly group which has organized seven conferences on subjects related to wine and wine production (2000-2008). In addition to her commitment to various programs at the National Research Foundation, she has also served as a scholarly advisor for the Museum of Olive and Greek Olive Oil in Sparta (Greece), the Museum of Industrial Olive-Oil Production in Lesvos (Greece), and the Museums of Wine at the Ktima Hatzimihalis and the Ktima Gerovassiliou (Epanomi-Greece). She was academic supervisor for the restoration of the Kayakapi neighborhood (Project Kayakapi) in Ürgüp, Turkey (2003-2008).

Since 2008 she has organized three International Conferences on Karamanlidika Studies. She has conducted seminars on Karamanlidika Studies at the annual Intensive Summer School on Cunda Island organized by the Ottoman Studies Foundation (since 2010).

She was made an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (2013) and she was awarded the “Οrder of Merit (Liyakat Nişanı)” by the President of the Turkish Republic, Abdullah Gül (2014).

Books (only)

• Μουχατζηρναμέ – Muhacirnâme 
Karamanlı Muhacirler için Şiirin Sedası – Poetry’s Voice for the Karamanlidhes Refugees (Evangelia Balta-Aytek Soner Alpan), istos yayın, Istanbul 2016.
• Kouklia in Nineteenth Century Cyprus. On the Ruins of a once Glorious Paphos, The Isis Press, Istanbul, 2015 (co-authors Mustafa Oğuz and Ali Efdal Özkul).
• Population and Agricultural Production in Ottoman Morea, The Isis Press, Istanbul, 2015.
• Cultural Encounters in the Turkish-speaking Communities of the Late Ottoman Empire, edited by Evangelia Balta with the contribution of Mehmet Ölmez, The Isis Press, Istanbul 2014.
• Festschrift in Honor of Ioannis P. Theocharides, (eds) Evangelia Balta, Georgios Salakidis, Theoharis Stavrides, 2 vols, The Isis Press, Istanbul, 2014.
• Gerçi Rum İsek de, Rumca Bilmez, Türkçe Söyleriz Karamanlılar ve Karamanlıca Edebiyat Üzerine Araştırmalar, Türkiye İş Bankası, Kültür Yayınları, 2014.
• Exchange of Populations: Historiography and Refugee Memory, Istanbul, istos yayın, 2014. (The book was translated in Turkish: Nüfus Mübadelesi, Önsöz İlber Ortaylı, İstanbul, İnkilâp 2015).
• Miscellaneous Studies on the Karamanlidika Literary Tradition, Istanbul, The Isis Press, 2013.
• Histories of Ottoman Larnaca, (eds) Evangelia Balta – Theoharis Stavrides – Ioannis Theocharides, Istanbul, The Isis Press, 2012.
• Between Religion and Language: Turkish-Speaking Christians, Jews and Greek-Speaking Muslims and Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, (eds) Evangelia Balta and Mehmet Ölmez, Istanbul, Eren, 2011.
• Yücel Dağlı Anısına. “geldi Yücel, gitti Yücel, bir nefes gibi…” (eds) Evangelia Balta, Yorgos Dedes, Emin Nedret İşli, M.Sabri Koz, İstanbul, Turkuaz Yayınları, 2011.
• Reliques d’un Empire Ottoman. Eugène Dalleggio à la recherche de publications karamanlies, Textes recueillis, commentés et édités par Evangelia Balta, Istanbul, Les éditions Isis, 2011.
• Cries and Whispers in Karamanlidika Books, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Karamanlidika Studies (Nicosia, 11th–13th September 2008), (eds) Evangelia Balta and Matthias Kappler, Harrassowitz Verlag -Wiesbaden 2010.
• Beyond the Language Frontier: Studies on the Karamanlis and Karamanlidika Printing, Istanbul, Isis Press, 2010.
• Sinasos. Images and Narratives, Istanbul, Birzamanlar, 2009.
• Livâ-i Resmo: Tahrir Defteri (co-author Mustafa Oğuz), Ankara, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2009.
• Η οθωμανική απογραφή των Κυθήρων, 1715, Athens, ΙΝΕ/ΕΙΕ, 2009.
• Ürgüp / Prokopi. Photographs from the Archive of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 2004.
• Ottoman Studies and Archives in Greece, Analecta Isisiana LXX, The Isis Press, Istanbul 2003.
• Ελληνορθόδοξες κοινότητες της Καππαδοκίας, Ι. Περιφέρεια Προκοπίου. Πηγές στα Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους και στο Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών, Athens, Centre for Asia Minor Centre, 2001.
• Peuple et production. Pour une interprétation des sources ottomanes, Istanbul, Les éditions Isis, 1999.
• Problèmes et approches de l’histoire ottomane. Un itinéraire scientifique de Kayseri à Egriboz, Istanbul, Les éditions Isis, 1997.
• Les vakifs de Serrès et de sa région (XVe et XVIe s.). Un premier inventaire, Athènes, Fondation Nationale pour la Recherche Scientifique, 1995.
• La découverte de la Cappadoce au 19e siècle (co-author Ilas Anagnostakis), Istanbul Eren 1994.
• L’Eubée à la fin du XVe siècle. Économie et Population. Les registres de l’année 1474, Athènes, Archive of Euboean Studies, 1989.
• Karamanlidika. Bibliographie analytique d’ouvrages en langue turque en caractères grecs. XXe siècle, Athènes, Centre d’Études d’Asie Mineure, 1987.
• Karamanlidika. Bibliographie analytique d’ouvrages en langue turque en caractères grecs. Additions (1584-1900), Athènes, Centre d’Études d’Asie Mineure, 1987.

Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis participated in the 57th ISA Annual Convention in Atlanta in March 2016 and presented two papers one entitled “Turkey’s Middle East Policy Challenged:The Case of Egypt” on 16 March 2016 and one entitled “The Vanishing of the State? Repercussions for Establishing Peace in the Middle East” on 19 March 2016.

More information can be found at:

http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/Atlanta-2016