Project Launch
Project Launch took place at the UCL, Wilkins Building, Haldane Room on 2nd December, 2022. Details here.
Conferences
Academic Workshops
The workshops below, organised by team members, brought together various scholars to work on their articles towards publication.
26 March, 2025. “IGP Writing workshop with Dr David Henig” London, UCL, IGP.
22 May, 2023. “Historicising the future, political imaginations and Rethinking Historical narratives” BRAC University Institute of Governance and Development.Dhaka. Hybrid
21 October, 2022. “Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South: A Roundtable on Methodology, Agency, and Care” London, UCL, IGP.
17 May, 2022. Imaginative Encounters: Turkish Neo-Ottomanist Dreams in Macedonia and the Muslim Minorities. Skopje/Hybrid
20 January, 2022. “Heritage in The Margins: Forgetting, Remembering Rewriting” Online
20 February, 2022. “Islam, Critique, and the Canon” Online
22 November ,2021. “Islamic Politics and the Imaginative: Intangibility and Critique” Online
20 November, 2021. “Incommensurability and Responsibility in Anthropology’s Academic Freedom: Perils and Obscurities”. Roundtable/Workshop, AAA. Hybrid
Takhayyul Seminars
2025
20th January 2025. Seminar by Aslı Zengin on her book, “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the (Un)Making of an Urban World”. Details here.
29th January 2025. Seminar by Elise Burton on "Turkey at the Genetic Crossroads". Recording here.
27th March 2025. Seminar by Deniz Yonucu on “Abolition in Practice: World-Building and Political Imaginaries in Racialized Urban Spaces of Turkey”. Details here.
19th May 2025. Seminar by Gündüz Vassaf on "Imagining Turkey". Recording here.
2024
18th January 2024. Seminar at Edinburgh University by Sertaç Sehlikoglu on “Inheritance without the Heritage: The Fig Trees and the Ecological Effects of Imaginative Attachments to Fetih (Conquest)”. Details here.
22nd January 2024. Seminar by Ayşe Zararakol on "Thinking Differently about the World: Before the West". Recording here.
31st January 2024. Seminar at Goldsmiths University, London, by Sertaç Sehlikoglu on “Inheritance without the Heritage: The Fig Trees and the Ecological Effects of Imaginative Attachments to Fetih (Conquest)”. Details here.
16th May 2024. Seminar by Alice Wilson on her book “Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman”. Details here.
17th May 2024. Seminar by Nazan Üstündağon on her book “The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement.” Details here.
24th May 2024. Discussion panel by Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Mashuq Kurt, and Humeria Iqtidar following the release of their new special issue: ‘Islam, Critique, and the Canon’. Details here.
30th May 2024. Seminar by Charlotte Al-Khalili, on her book “Waiting For The Revolution To End: Syrian displacement, time & subjectivity”. Details here.
6th June 2024. Seminar by Kusha Sefat on his book “Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran”. Details here.
28th June 2024. Seminar by Ozge Samanci on "Imagining Turkey through cartoons". Recording here.
8th November 2024. Seminar by Ioanna Sitaridou on "Imagining Turkey through Romeyka". Recording here.
19th November 2024. Presentation series by Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Yu Qiu. Lecture 1: “Methodological Crisis in Anthropology”. Details here.
21st November 2024. Presentation series by Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Yu Qiu. Lecture 2: “Anthropological Thinking and Critical Epistemologies”. Details here.
22nd November 2024. Presentation series by Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Yu Qiu. Lecture 3: “Alternative Methodological Experiments”. Details here.
28th November 2024. Seminar by Charis Boutieri on “Beyond Words: Non-Dialogical Public Reason in (Post) Revolutionary Tunisia”. Details here.
2023
13th March 2023. Seminar by Aslı Zengin, Omar Al-Gazzi & Sumrin Kalia on "Global Precarities in the Aftermath of Earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria". Recording here.
9th May 2023. Seminar by Cemil Aydin on "Re-imagining Turkey and the Idea of the Muslim World". Recording here.
21st June 2023. Seminar by Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Zişan Köker & Hazal Aydın on "Imagining Turkey". Recording here.
11th July 2023. Seminar at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, by Sertaç Sehlikoglu on “Genealogy, Critique, and Decolonisation: Ibn Khaldun and Moving Beyond Filling the Gaps”. Details here.
18th July 2023. Seminar by Maria Todorova on "Imagining Turkey from the Balkans". Recording here.
6th November 2023. Seminar at Concordia University, Montreal, by Sertaç Sehlikoglu on “Inheritance without the Heritage: The Fig Trees and the Ecological Effects of Imaginative Attachments to Fetih (Conquest)”. Details here.
7th November 2023. Seminar at McGill University by Sertaç Sehlikoglu on “Genealogy, Critique, and Decolonization: Ibn Khaldun and Moving Beyond Filling the Gaps”. Details here.
23rd November 2023. Seminar at the University of Cambridge by Fatemeh Sadeghi on “The Future’s Pasts: Consecration and Redemptive Aspirations in Contemporary Iran”. Details here.
2022
7th October 2022. Seminar by Fatemeh Sadeghi, Sumrin Kalia, Yuan He, Alaa Shehabi & Rumeysa Camdereli on "Women, Life, Freedom: Iran Uprising". Recording here.
13th November 2022. Seminar by Sumrin Kalia, Quratulain Bakhteari, Balach Khan Khoso, Ali Anwar Qureshi, Habib Mazari & Mahwish Chaudry on "Climate and Care during Pakistani Floods". Recording here.
16th December 2022. Seminar by Nazan Üstündağ, Özlem Göner & Sardar Saadi on "Narratives and Realities of Violence on the War in the Middle East". Recording here.
2021
19 January 2021. Seminar by Jeremy Walton on '"Remembrance of Ottoman Times Past and the Politics of the Balkan Present: Notes on Ferhadija Mosque and Maškovića Caravanserai" Details here.
24 February 2021. Seminar by Samuli Schielke on “The migrant dream of stability” Details here.
17th March 2021. Seminar by Sima Shakhsari on “Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender and Sexuality in weblogistan” Details here.
28th April 2021. Seminar by Niloofar Haeri on her book ‘Say What Your Heart , Woman, Prayer and Poetry in Iran’ Details here.
19th May 2021. Seminar by Alice Elliot on her book ‘The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco’ Details here.
2nd June 2021. Seminar by Elora Shehabuddin on her book “Sisters in the Mirror” Details here.
2020
15 October 2020. Seminar by Darryl Li on his book “The Universal Enemy”. Details here.
Artistic Events
January 13th to March 24th, 2023: Imperial Threads Workshop Series, led by Artist-in-Residence Laurelie Rae. Details here.
June 15th, 2023: Artist-in-Residence: Open Studio Event by Laurelie Rae.
June 8th, 2023: Meet The Artist-in-Residence: Laurelie Rae.
Dr Sadeghi and Dr Sehlikoglu co-organised a biweekly Book Proposal workshop for early-career scholars and the members of the TAKHAYYUL Team. It was held bi-weekly on Fridays for two hours: 11:00 – 13.00 UK time from 28 January until 25 March, 2022.
• Session 1: 28 January 2022: Introduction: What is a book proposal? Why this book and not any other books? Selling points: how the book might answer existing questions.
• Session 2: 11 February 2022: The title of the book and its significance, how to choose a suitable title, and how to frame our ideas.
• Session 3: 25 February 2022: Main questions and problems, significance of the subject.
• Session 4: 11 March 2022: Potential readers, methodology.
• Session 5: 25 March 2022: Division of chapters, concluding remarks.
Reading Groups
Book Proposal Writing Workshop
The reading groups run on a weekly basis open to post graduate and post-PhD scholars. The geographical focus of the topics rotate bi-weekly and discussants are encouraged to publish their reviews on their selected platform.
Iran, Religion, Prosperity (2020) Convened by Fatemeh Sadeghi
Dreams (2022) Convened by Sumrin Kalia