Near and Middle East Section, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Senior Lecturer in Turkish

Centre for Ottoman Studies

Advisory Board Member

Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)

Member

London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

Member

Name:

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Email address:

gd5@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0)20 7898 4344

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

424

Academic Support Hours:

ON CAMPUS Tuesday 3-5pm; ONLINE see full Bio

Biography

Office hours: on campus Tuesday 3-5pm; or online by appointment via Google calendar.

Language and literature; history

Programmes Convened

• BA Turkish (2018)
• BA Turkish and ... (2018)
• BA Turkish and ... (2019)
• Certificate in Turkish (2020)
• Certificate in Turkish (2020)
• Certificate in Turkish (2021)
• Certificate in Turkish (2022)
• Certificate in Turkish Studies (2019)
• Certificate in Turkish Studies (2020)
• Certificate in Turkish Studies (2021)
• Certificate in Turkish Studies (2022)
• MA ... and Intensive Language (Turkish) (2019)
• MA ... and Intensive Language (Turkish) (2020)
• MA Middle Eastern Studies (2021)
• MA Middle Eastern Studies (2022)
• MA Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages (2021)
• MA Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages (2022)
• MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies (2018)
• MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies (2019)
• MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies (2020)
• MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages (2018)
• MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages (2019)
• MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages (2020)
• MA... and Intensive Language (Turkish) (2021)
• MA... and Intensive Language (Turkish) (2022)

Modules Taught

• Advanced Translation (Turkish)
• Classical Ottoman Texts
• Classical Ottoman Texts (PG)
• Cultures of Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia I: Basic Terms and Concepts
• Dissertation in Turkish Studies
• Extended Essay in Turkish Studies (A)
• Extended Essay in Turkish Studies (B)
• Literatures of the Islamic Near and Middle East
• Ottoman Turkish Language (PG)
• Ottoman Turkish Language A
• Practical Translation English into Turkish
• Practical Translation Turkish to English
• Practical Translation Turkish to English (PG)
• The Middle East in Ten Issues
• Turkey: Continuity and Change I (1908-1945)
• Turkey: Continuity and Change II (1945-2023)
• Turkish 1 A
• Turkish 1 B
• Turkish 2 A (PG)
• Turkish 2 A (UG)
• Turkish 2 B (PG)
• Turkish 3
• Turkish 3 (PG)
• Twentieth Century Turkish Literature

PhD Students supervised

• Senem Gökel, Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries
• Taylan Gungor, The mercantile experience of Ottoman Pera in the century after 1453
• Ummugulsum Kurukol, Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.

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Available for

• TV
• Radio
• Press
• Briefings
• Special Study Programmes
• Short Term Consultancy
• Long Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

• Global
• Near and Middle East

Country Expertise

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Greece
• Macedonia
• Turkey

Languages

Authored Books

Dedes, Yorgos (2007) The Ascensions of Felicity and Sources of Nobility: An English Translation of Su'udi's Metali' ul-Sa'adet. Barcelona: Moleiro.

Articles

Balta, Evangelia and Dedes, Yorgos (2014) 'Holding the sceptre of superiority in the Propontis? Late Ottoman Triglia/Trilye.'. Journal of Turkish studies = Türklük bilgisi araştırmaları, (42), pp 1-63.

Rona, Bengisu and Dedes, Yorgos (2007) 'Languages in Contact: Greek Loanwords in Turkish'. Journal of Turkish Studies, (31) 2, pp 169-208.

Dedes, Yorgos (2007) 'Lugat-i rumiye: A Turkish-Greek Versified Glossary from the Late Ottoman Period: Serious Learning or a Bit of Fun on the Side?'. Journal of Turkish Studies, (31) 1, pp 237-280.

Book Chapters

Dedes, Yorgos (2016) 'Bursa'. In: Wallace, David, (ed.), Europe. A literary history 1348-1418. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 331-346.

Dedes, Yorgos (2011) 'Blame it on the Turko-Romnioi (Turkish Rums) A Muslim Cretan song on the abolition of the Janissaries.'. In: Balta, Evangelia and Ölmez, Mehmet, (eds.), Between Religion and Language: Turkish-Speaking Christians, Jews and Greek-Speaking Muslims and Catholics in the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul: Eren, pp 321-376.

Dedes, Yorgos (2005) 'Süleyman Çelebi's Mevlid: Text, Performance and Muslim-Christian Dialogue'. In: Kut, G. and Buyyukkarci Yilmaz, F., (eds.), Uygurlardan Osmanlıya. Istanbul: Simurg, pp 305-349.

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