WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2017
14:30–15:00
Registration
15:00–15:15
Welcome and introduction
15:15–16:15
PANEL 1: SCHOLARLY NETWORKS
Chair: Lejla Demiri (Tübingen)
M. Sait Özervarlı (Istanbul), Study Circles, Scholar Invitations, and Text Competitions: Building Scholarly Networks in the Early Ottoman Period
Asim Zubčević (Sarajevo), Books and Their Owners in Ottoman Sarajevo, 1762–1828
16:30–17:30
PANEL 2: NETWORKS IN PURSUANCE OF RELIGION AND ETHICS
Chair: Erdal Toprakyaran (Tübingen)
Ines Aščerić-Todd (Edinburgh), Sufis, Artisans and Traders: Ottoman Guilds as Economic, Social and Spiritual Networks
Fatih Ermiş (Tübingen), The Construction of Ottoman Ethics: From the Nicomachean Ethics to Akhlaq-i Alai
17:45–18:45 PANEL 3: POLITICAL MOBILIZATION
Chair: Denise Klein (Mainz)
Ayşegül Argıt (Heidelberg), Press, Politics, and Mobilization in Istanbul, 1908–1914
Johann Büssow (Tübingen), Social and Political Networks in Late Ottoman Gaza
THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2017
9:30–11:00
PANEL 4: BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE
Chair: Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg, to be confirmed)
Tobias Graf (Tübingen), Reconstructing Intelligence Networks: The Example of Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in Istanbul, c. 1575–1583
Nikolas Pissis (Berlin), The Greek Spies of Muscovy in the Ottoman Empire, 1640–1660
Andreas Helmedach (Berlin/Bochum), Between Venice and the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Violence in Dalmatia
11:15–12:45
PANEL 5: COMMERCE AND TRADE
Chair: Ayşegül Argıt (Heidelberg)
Evelyn Korsch (Venice/Erfurt), Global Networks and Multi-Layered Agency of an Armenian Merchant Banker Family
Gülay Tulasoğlu (Ankara), The Katipzade Family between Trade and Politics
Anna Vlachopoulou (Munich), Networking as a Business Strategy in the "Long 19th Century"
14:30–15:30
PANEL 6: CONNECTING THE LOCALITIES AND THE IMPERIAL CENTRE
Chair: Stefan Rohdewald (Gießen)
Uroš Dakić (Belgrade), Sokollu Mehmed Pasha's Kinship Network in the Serbian Orthodox Church
Henning Sievert (Berne/Heidelberg), Brokerage in the Well-Connected Domains
15:45–16:45
PANEL 7: THE OTTOMAN’S EMPIRE'S TRIBUTARIES
Chair: Philip Hahn (Tübingen)
Daniel Ursprung (Zurich), Christians Acting as Ottomans: Wallachia's Seventeenth-Century Elites as Agents of Ottomanization
Konrad Petrovszky (Vienna), When Networks Fail: The Case of the Phanariot Iordaki Stavraki
17:00–17:45
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
Chair and commentary: Renate Dürr (Tübingen)
18:00–19:00
Organizational meeting of the Working Group "Ottoman Europe" (Arbeitskreis "Das osmanische Europa", http://www.osmanisches-europa.de)