University of Heidelberg

Thursday, 10 November 2011

09:30–10:40

PANEL 1: PERCEPTIONS

Chair: WILLIAM O'REILLY (University of Cambridge)

GÁBOR KÁRMÁN (University of Leipzig): Turks reconsidered: Jakab Nagy de Harsány’s changing image of the Ottoman

HENNING SIEVERT (University of Bonn): Post-Safavid Iran and Habsburg Austria as seen by Ottoman diplomats

11:00–12:45

PANEL 2: LEGAL IDENTITIES

Chair: EYAL GINIO (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

NUR SOBERS KHAN (University of Cambridge): Identity formation and legal categories of ethnicity (cins) in early modern Ottoman Istanbul

CHRISTIAN ROTH (Heidelberg University): Aspects of juridical integration of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire: Observations in the 18th century urban and rural Aegean

AYLİN BESİRYAN (European University Institute, Florence): The transcultural dimension of the Ottoman constitution

13:45–15:30

PANEL 3: MODERNISATION

Chair: FELIX KONRAD (University of Kiel)

GÜLAY TULASOĞLU (Heidelberg University): A British consul and local reforms in pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Salonica

SOTIRIOS DIMITRIADIS (University of London): Transforming a late Ottoman port-city: Salonica, 1876–1912

ŞEYDA BAŞLI (Mardin Artuklu University): The birth of the Ottoman novel beyond cultural and literary borders

16:15–17:45

Keynote Lecture

SURAIYA FAROQHI (İstanbul Bilgi University) : Trading between East and West: The Ottoman Empire of the early modern period

09:30–10:40

PANEL 4: HERITAGE

Chair: MICHAEL URSINUS (Heidelberg University)

KALLIOPE PAVLI (Panteion University, Athens): Constructing myths: Ottomans vs. Greek ancient monuments

PATRIZIA KERN (Heidelberg University): Neo-Ottomanism and museum space: Two case studies from Istanbul

11:00–12:45

PANEL 5: MARITIME TRADES

Chair: SURAIYA FAROQHI (İstanbul Bilgi University)

VIOREL PANAITE (University of Bucharest): Diplomatic and commercial linkages between the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe: A case study: French capitulations and consular jurisdiction in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries

JOSHUA WHITE (University of Michigan): An international incident: Piracy and diplomacy in a seventeenth-century Ottoman Mediterranean port

MICHAEL TALBOT (University of London): Defining maritime territoriality: British privateers and Ottoman privateer lines, c. 1690–c. 1790

13:45–15:30

PANEL 6: FRONTIERS

Chair: LINDA DARLING (University of Arizona)

MAXIMILIAN HARTMUTH (independent scholar, İstanbul): Toward a cultural topography of violence on the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier

ANTONIS HADJIKYRIACOU & DAPHNE LAPPA (Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, Nicosia): Exploring the conceptual boundaries of the concept of fluidity: Early modern ‘contact zones’ in the Adriatic and the Eastern Mediterranean

MORITZ DEUTSCHMANN (European University Institute, Florence): Christianity and the Russo-Iranian-Ottoman encounter in the Iranian province of Azerbajdzhan in the nineteenth century

16:00–17:10

PANEL 7: NETWORKS

Chair: HÜLYA CANBAKAL (Sabancı University, İstanbul)

TOBIAS GRAF (Heidelberg University): Renegades in the Ottoman Empire and their networks, c. 1580–1610: Some reflections

DOROTHE SOMMER (University of Sheffield): Freemasonry, interconfessional sociability, and the promotion of a new Syrian self-perception, c. 1860–1908

17:30–18:40

PANEL 8: STATECRAFT

Chair: ANTJE FLÜCHTER (Heidelberg University)

KAY JANKRIFT (University of Augsburg): The Ottoman hub: Jewish advisors and Western diplomats at the sultan’s court in the 16th century

LINDA DARLING (University of Arizona): Advice literature as a transcultural phenomenon

Saturday, 12 November, 2011

09:30–10:40

PANEL 9: REBELLIONS

Chair: MARKUS KOLLER (University of Bochum)

HÜLYA CANBAKAL (Sabancı University, İstanbul): The Age of Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: A provincial perspective

FELIX KONRAD (Kiel University): “Erâzil” and “canaille”: Ottoman and European perceptions of social unrest in the Patrona Halil rebellion of 1730

11:00–12:10

PANEL 10: FRENCH REVOLUTION

Chair: THOMAS MAISSEN (Heidelberg University)

PASCAL FIRGES (Heidelberg University): The French  Revolution in Istanbul, 1793–1795

HİMMET TAŞKÖMÜR (Harvard University): From great sedition to great revolution: Ottoman responses to the French Revolution

12:10–13:00

Concluding discussion