Chaire sécable de l’IISMM-EHESS 25-26 | Professeur invité : Ümit Kurt (The University of Newcastle, Australia)

Ümit Kurt is a historian of the modern Middle East. His research is on the social, cultural, and economic history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic in the 19th and 20^th. He completed his dissertation in the Department of History at Clark University in 2016. He has then held several postdoctoral positions at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and the Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Armenian Studies Program at California State University (CSU) Fresno. Currently, he is a DECRA/ARC Fellow in the School of Humanities, Creative Ind. and Social Sciences (History) at the University of Newcastle. His recent book, The Armenians of Aintab, has been the recipient of the Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies, Honorable Mention Book Prize by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA), and PROSE Award Finalist in the World History category, the Association of American Publishers in 2022. He is also the co-author of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn, 2015). His forthcoming book, “Biographies of Violence: The Perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide” will be published by Cornell University Press in 2026. His current research is about the role of the madrasa students in political opposition in the 19^th century Ottoman Empire.

Ümit Kurtwill take part of the Visiting Professors Program designed by EHESS, on proposal of Emmanuel Szurek (EHESS, CETOBAC)

Lectures

The Ecumenical Empire: Marginal Bodies and Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Late Ottoman Empire

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Expériences de l’espace, espaces de l’expérience dans les sociétés (post-)ottomane” UE210, animé par Nathalie Clayer et Andreas Guidi – lien

• Mardi 10 mars 2026 de 10h30 à 12h30 – Salle A602, EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

Softa and Yafta: Revisiting Power, Protests and Massacres in the Late Ottoman Empire

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Sociologie historique et politique de la violence au Moyen-Orient” UE166 animé par Hamit Bozarslan – lien

• Lundi 16 mars 2026 de 10h30 à 12h30 – salle 25-A – Norbert-Elias, EHESS, 2 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

Entitled Killers and the Regime of Impunity: Paramilitarism in the Ottoman-Turkish Context

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Études kurdes : héritages, terrains, débats” UE214, animé par Adnan Çelik, Lucie Drechselová et Özgür Sevgi Göral – lien 

• Jeudi 19 mars 2026 de 12h30 à 14h30 – Salle A602, EHESS, 2 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

Genocide as Patriotic Work Ethic: A Critical Reading of Mustafa Reşat’s Memoirs

Dans le cadre du séminaire “La trace et le tracé. Ce qui reste, ce qu’on fait de l’extermination des Arméniens (fin XIX^e siècle à nos jours)” UE42, animé par Anouche Kunth et Emmanuel Szurek – lien

• Mardi 24 mars 2026 de 12h30 à 14h30 – Salle A602, EHESS, 2 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

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