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 Artukulu 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
Friday, 11 November, 2011
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