Description
Long before it became a flashpoint in today’s geopolitics, Crimea was the site of one of the 19th century’s most consequential wars. This event revisits the Crimean War — a clash of empires, religion, and ambition that saw Britain and the Ottoman Empire allied against an expansionist Russia.
While Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade remain in public memory, the war’s deeper geopolitical legacy is often forgotten.
What does this earlier conflict reveal about imperial rivalry, the shaping of Europe, and the long shadow Crimea casts over today’s war in Ukraine?
About the Speakers
Dr. Maya Petrovich Dr. Maya Petrovich
Dr. Maya Petrovich specialises in the global history of Eurasian empires, particularly the interactions between the Islamic world and South Asia. She holds degrees from Hamburg, Columbia and Princeton. For five years, she was an associate researcher and a tutor at Oxford University with the ERC Nomadic Empires Project.
Currently she is the holder of the Yunus Emre Professorship in Turkish Culture at Trinity College Dublin. She has also trained in Germany as a psychotherapist and a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. She has published several academic articles and two books of poetry in her first language, Bosnian, and she is currently working on a multi-volume novel about Bronze Age Egypt and Canaan.
Saeed Khan
Saeed Khan is a cultural historian and commentator based at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches in the departments of History and Global Studies. His academic expertise includes Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Islamic political thought, and transnational identities. Alongside his academic work, he is a frequent analyst for international media outlets. Saeed is the founder of the Center for the Study of Trans-Atlantic Diasporas, a policy institute focused on ethnic and immigrant communities in North America and Europe.
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