Activities

Centre of History and Culture

The Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre has shared its background with the general public by means of several activities undertaken since its foundation.

The Centre hosted the workshop entitled Archives and IT Solutions and organized by the European Association for Banking History in 24th-25th October in Istanbul, Turkey. Luís Felipe de Abreu Nunes (Banco de Portugal), Maria Guercio (Universitá degli Studi di Urbino) and Anders Perlinge (The Foundation for Economic History Research) formed the academic organization committee.

During the academic years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, the Centre was a meeting point between academicians, students and amateurs interested in economic history by means of Voyvoda Street Meetings.

Please click for the 2003 programme.

The Prize Competition for Research on History of Banking and Finance 2000, undertaken by the Centre up to now in collaboration with the European Association for Banking History and the Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, awarded the prizes in four categories in December 2001.

Please click for the competition related to the period 2002-2003.

The Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre organised, between the 26th September 2000-11th February 2001, the exhibition Banks Street from Ottoman Times to Today.

During the colloquium, entitled East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment Colloquium, and organised in 1999, in collaboration with the European Association for Banking History and under the partcipation of the Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Turkish and foreign bankers and academicians had the opportunity to discuss about commerce and monetarisation, public debt and investments in the Ottoman economy in the XIXth century.

The two exhibitions entitled The Paper Money from the Ottoman Period to our Days and Traces of History, conceived from the archival documents, welcomed, in Istanbul and Ankara, thousand visitors.