Thursday, 13 March 2014:
14:00 – 14:10 Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul) & Zaur Gasimov (Orient-Institut Istanbul):
Welcome and introduction

14:10 – 14:30 Christoph Herzog (Universität Bamberg) & Richard Wittmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul):
The Istanbul Memories Project. Research opportunities and methodological issues with regard to ego documents of the Ottoman capital

14:30 – 15:15 Michał Połczyński (Georgetown University):
“We neither camp in tents, nor do we wander the steppes”: Polish-Lithuanian Tatars in the court of Kanunî Sultan Süleyman

15:15 – 16:00 Katarzyna Papież (IFEA/Université de Sorbonne, Paris):
Les femmes polonaises dans la Question d'Orient: (in)action

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:00 Paulina Dominik (University of Oxford):
Towards a reform of the Ottoman legal system: Comte Leon Ostroróg and his activities in the Young Turk period

17:00 – 17:45 Zaur Gasimov (Orient-Institut Istanbul):
Between Crimea, Warsaw and Istanbul: Cafer Seydahmet (1889-1960) as an entangled intellectual

17:45 – 18:00 Johann Strauss (Université de Strasbourg):
Comments

18:00 Reception

Friday, 14 March 2014:

10:00 A walk through historical Polish Istanbul, guided by Paulina Dominik
Meeting point: Taksim Square (in front of the Atatürk monument)