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Mobility and Globalisation
Around the Ottoman Mediterranean 

Capitalism, Transportation, and Political Ideologies in historical context 

Ottoman State as a Mediterranean State? 

"A Mediterranean State? Transport Routes and the Ottoman Mediterranean," at the Panel “The 'Sick Man' of the Global Turn: The Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth Century Mediterranean”, The Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History on “Critical Global Histories:  Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions” to be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden, September 10-12, 2025.

Transport Revolution, Capitalism, Democracy

“A Transport Revolution Unfolding? Transport Capitalism and Democratisation in Late Ottoman Era,” The 58th Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Virtual, November 11-16, 2024.

Transportation, Political Ideologies, Religion and Secularism 
  • Transportation, Roads and Political Ideologies: Legacies of Globalisation, Transportation and Capitalism in Late Ottoman Era," BRISMES, 1-3 July 2024, Lancaster University, UK.
  • “Transport Technologies and Pan-Ideologies: Connecting the Interior in Ottoman Territories in Global Context (1850-1910),” MESA, 2 November 2023, in the section "Ottoman Social and Environmental Engineering in the Long Nineteenth Century," Montreal, CA.
  • “Roads, Transport Revolution, and Late Ottoman and Qajar Era Religious Roots of Secularism in the 1920s Turkey,” International Conference “Culture, Infrastructure, Mobility,” 9 October 2023, Sofia University, Bulgaria.
Politics of Energy 

  • “‘The petrol-gas that we know’: Ottoman Encounter with Cars and Negotiating Globalisation,” World History Congress, 22-24 June 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, US. 

Politics of Motoring and Mobility 
  • “Driving Through the Ottoman Lands: The Ban on Cars and the Ottoman Negotiation of Globalisation,” Writing Global History: Perspectives from the South Workshop, organised by South Asia Global History Network, 12-14 January 2023 (virtual).
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