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The Ottoman World of Sports with Murat C. Yildiz
This talk reconsiders the history of late Ottoman Istanbul and its lived urban space through a
focus on modern sports. “Sports enthusiasts” from a plethora of ethnoreligious backgrounds
living in the imperial capital created the Ottoman world of sports, a gendered civic project that
promoted gymnastics, athletics, and team sports, namely football (soccer), as educational,
moral, and leisure activities for young men from an expanding middle class. This talk explores
how exercising in schools, working out at the sports club, competing on the pitch, and narrating
physical fitness in the columns of periodicals served as sites of encounter between Muslims,
Christians, and Jews that facilitated the cultivation of shared experiences, norms,
and embodied knowledge for an entire generation of Istanbulites. Mapping the ways in which
educators, experts, athletes, and students engaged a global physical movement, created a
multilingual civic vision of exercise, and treated sports as a site for ethnoreligious mobilization,…
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Faculty Friday Work in Progress Presentation - Middle East Center
A Middle East Center Faculty Friday Work in Progress presentation featuring affiliate faculty Rawad Wehbe - Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures.
"Recharging Liminality: Identifying Arabic Poetry's Other Mukhadram Moment".
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Going Global Career Panel
Joins us as we bring together panelists to highlight global careers, international experiences, and language skills and discuss how those skills and experiences can benefit you in the workplace.
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM.
Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
Day After Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
University Closure Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025.
Christmas Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
University Closure Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, December 26, 2025.
New Year's Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 19, 2026.