Daniel Ursprung, Abteilung für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Zürich
Thursday, June 10, 2021
14:00 (12:00 UTC) Greeting, Opening – Introduction
14.30 – 16.00 – Moderation: Dr. Konrad Petrovszky (Vienna)
- Sundar Henny (Bern): A new Nebuchadnezzar? The Ottoman conquest of the Holy Land as reflected in European pilgrimage accounts
- Huseyin Yilmaz (Fairfax VA): Early modern intellectual encounters and knowledge production in Istanbul: Katip Celebi’s cosmopolitan circle and synthesis of information
- Nikolas Pissis (Berlin): Ottoman Greek Elites and the Mediation of Russian-Ottoman exchange (17th and early 18th centuries)
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 – Moderation: Daniel Ursprung (Zurich)
- Kenan Tekin (Cambridge, MA): Genealogies of early modern Ottoman conception of science
- Giorgio Ennas (Florence): “Dualising” the Ottoman society. Mirroring the east-west contraposition within the Ottoman social structure
- N. Zeynep Yelçe/Ela Bozok (Istanbul, Florence): Gossip, rumors, and facts: The year 1521
18:00 – 18:10 Short Break
18:10 – 18:30 Organizational Meeting of the Research Group "The Ottoman Europe: Methods and Perspectives of Early Modern Studies on Southeast Europe" – open to anyone interested
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Friday, June 11, 2021
Start: 14:00 (12:00 UTC)
14:00 – 15:30 – Moderation: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald (Leipzig)
- Dennis Dierks (Jena) & Barbara Henning (Mainz): How to track down, capture and map out knowledge on the move in a Transottoman perspective? - Recent findings and open questions
- Barbara Henning (Mainz): Descendants of the Prophet and their privileges as a topic in Ottoman political thought: Legacies and late-Ottoman re-interpretations
- Dennis Dierks (Jena): Is there something like Transottoman intellectual history? The example of peripheral Muslim reformism
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Moderation: Prof. Dr. Markus Koller (Bochum)
- Elke Katharina Wittich (Hannover): „Pathosformeln“ of other People - Graphics for the Imprinting of pictorial Memories in mid-16th Century
- Lara Mehling (Zurich): The irony of imperial decorative styles: The role of diversity in the production of unified cultural identities
17:00 – 17:30 Break
17.30 – 19.00 Moderation: Prof. Dr. Nada Boškovska (Zürich)
- Eva Asboth (Wien): Preparing the “Oriental Europe” for Habsburg’s expansion. Felix Kanitz and the Viennese scientific circle as spatial knowledge producers on the Balkans in the 19th century
- Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik (Graz): The European Republic of Letters and the Ottoman Empire: Knowledge Transfer and Networks of Knowledge in the Age of the Enlightenment
- Nikos Magouliotis (Zurich): “The authentic Greek village-house of the northern regions”: Nationalization and folklorization of Ottoman residential architecture in Greece
19.00 – 19.30
- Final Discussion, Concluding Remarks
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