University of Heidelberg

10.00-11.30

Panel 1

Evangelos Katafylis, Christian-Muslim contacts and interrelations in the 14th century through the epistle of Gregory Palamas. 

Tobias Graf, Studying renegades as agents of cultural flows and their role in the Ottoman state, c. 1580-1610.

11.30-12.00

Break

12.00-13.30

Panel 2

Christian Roth, The eighteenth-century Aegean as a theatre of transcultural flows.

Will Smiley, Ottoman-Russian cultural flows through captivity in the eighteenth century.

13.30-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.00

Panel 3

Nur Sobers Khan, Slaves as agents of cultural and technical exchange in mid-16th century Istanbul.

15.00-15.30

Break

15.30-16.00

Panel 4

John Burman, Bridging an uncrossable divide: British diplomacy in Istanbul at the turn of the twentieth century.