MAY 2- Documentary Film Screening and Discussion

Antoine The Fortunate: One Man at the Crossroads of Empires

Discussants: Film director Prof. Nefin Dinç (James Madison University), and Prof. Edhem Eldem (Columbia University).

Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies invites you for a screening of the documentary Antoine the Fortunate, followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Prof. Nefin Dinç, and historian Prof. Edhem Eldem.

Antoine the Fortunate tells the story of Antoine Köpe, a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire born in 1897 in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing from Köpe’s private memoirs and a remarkable, previously unseen archive, the film captures the survival and resilience of a man and his family during the most turbulent years of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of modern Turkey.

Event Details:

️Date: Friday, May 2

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Schermerhorn Hall, room 612, Columbia University

This event is free and open to the public.

Registration is required for campus access. Non-Columbia guests must register by April 30 to receive a campus access code.

Register here: bit.ly/SSCNefinDinc