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The Well-Connected Domains: Ottoman History in a Transcultural Perspective - Workshop Programme

Saturday, 19 December 2009
Chair: Prof. HÜLYA CANBAKAL (Sabancı University, Istanbul)

10.15 - 10.25

Welcome address

10.25 - 10.45

Participants briefly introduce themselves

10.45 - 11.45

Panel 1
HENRY SHAPIRO (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Contrasting Justification for Imperial Power in the Histories of Kritovoulos of Imbros and Dursun Beğ
AYKUT MUSTAK (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Political Factions under Mehmed III (1595-1603)

11.45 - 12.00

Break

12.00 - 13.30

Panel 2
FABIAN STEININGER (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Ethnological Interest or Vision of the Archenemy?: European and Ottoman Dicourses of the Other as Reflected in the Works of Georg Christoph von Neitschitz and Evliya Çelebi
GÜLÇİN TUNALI-KOÇ (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Writing a History, Narrating an Im-age: Representation of Athens for the Eighteenth Century Ottoman Audience
HARUN KÜÇÜK (University of California, San Diego, USA), Enlightened visions of Turkish Philoso-phy from Samuel Schelwig to Jakob Brucker

13.30 - 14.45

Lunch

14.45 - 16.15

Panel 3
NUR SOBERS KHAN (University of Cambridge, UK), Reading Slaves in the sicils: Textual and Linguistic Analysis of the şeriyye sicilleri
TOBIAS GRAF (Heidelberg University, Germany), Ladislaus Mörth: An Unusual Renegade?
WILL SMILEY (University of Cambridge, UK), Negotiating Captivity and Desertion in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman-Russian Conflicts

16.15 - 16.30

Break

16.30 - 17.30

Panel 4
DENİZ ŞİMŞEK (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Dead or Alive: The World of Pierre-François Viguier
PASCAL FIRGES (Heidelberg University, Germany), The French Revolution in Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire: The British Perspective

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Chair: Prof. THOMAS MAISSEN (Heidelberg University, Germany)

11.00 - 12.30

Panel 5
Dr. WILLIAM O'REILLY (University of Cambridge, UK), Trade, Print and Religious Radicalism in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic and Mediterranean
CHRISTIAN ROTH (Heidelberg University, Germany), The Eighteenth-Century Aegean as a Theatre of Transcultural Flows
GÜLAY TULASOĞLU (Heidelberg University, Germany), A European Consul in the Ottoman Empire between Observation and Participation: Charles Blunt 'Their Majesties' Consul in Salonica on the Eve of the Tanzimat

12.30 - 13.45

Lunch

13.45 - 14.45

Panel 6
MAXIMILIAN HARTMUTH (Sabancı University, Istanbul), A Civic Initiative for the Founda-tion of a Museum in the Ottoman Province around 1850: A Multi-Sited History
MARLOES CORNELISSEN (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Museology as Cultivation of Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic

14.45 - 15.00

Break

15.00 - 16.30

Panel 7
GİZEM KAŞOTURACAK (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Missionary Schools in Late Nineteenth-Century Anatolia
ADAM MCCONNEL (Sabancı University, Istanbul), The Cultural Roots of Turkish-American Relations: Late Nineteenth-Century Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the U.S.
JOHN BURMAN (University of Cambridge, UK), The Question of a British-Ottoman Alliance, 1898-1908

16.30 - 16.45

Break

16.45 - 17.30

Conclusion
Key-note speaker: Prof. METIN KUNT (Sabancı University, Istanbul)

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