Aleksandar Shopov

Yeni Bāġçe and the Agricultural Transformation of Istanbul During the Reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512)

November 14, 2024 Harvard University (Aga Khan Program Lecture Series)

Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula

November 15, 2023 Harvard University

Growing the Ottoman Capital: Apocalyptical Narratives, Urbanism, and the Rise of the Bostans after 1453

March 2, 2023 Chicago University

Planting Mallow for the End of Times: Agriculture and the Rebuilding of Konstantiniyye

November 10, 2022 Harvard University

A Green-Colored Leaf Called Tabaġa: The Earliest Ottoman Inquiries into an American Plant

July 7, 2022 Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin)

Urban Cultures of Flower Breeding in Ottoman Istanbul

June 15, 2022 University of Vienna

Grafting Knowledge and Knowledge of Grafting in Ottoman Literature and Agricultural Science 1500-1700

February 24, 2021 Sabanci University (Istanbul)

From Morocco to Egypt to Istanbul: An Alternate History of the Spread of Tobacco

October 15, 2018 Ludwig Maximilian University-Munich

Buying Soap and Selling Wheat: Farm Inventories from a Mid Sixteenth-Century Farm Estate Near Istanbul

April 9, 2018 Bonn University

Urban Farming and Leasing in Early Modern Istanbul

February 26, 2018 Sabanci University (Istanbul)

A Green-Colored Leaf Called Tabaġa: The Early Histories of Tobacco and other American Plants in Western Africa and the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean

February 1, 2018 New York University

Selective Breeding and Bioprospecting: The Untold Story of Ottoman Science, Economy and Politics

June 8, 2011 Orient-Institute and Bilgi University (Istanbul)