Please note this schedule is subject to change at any time.
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 211 Dickinson Hall
1 - 1:15 pm | Welcome & Introduction
- Molly Greene, Princeton University
- Constantine Theodoridis, Princeton University
1:15 - 2 pm | Keynote Address
- Seçil Yılmaz, University of Pennsylvania | "Common Secrets: Translating Medical Knowledge and Love in the Late Ottoman Empire"
2 - 2:15 pm | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
2:15 - 4:15 pm | Panel 1 | Juristic figurations and the sicil vision
- Sefer Korkmaz, Istanbul University | “The Fuqahāʾ Network in the Early Years of Ottoman Rule in Egypt and the Dilemma of Opposition”
- Arif Erbil, Brown University | “Translation and Transformation: Juristic Language and Ottoman Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century”
- Sultan Toprak Oker, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | “From Grapes to Gains: Taxing Alcohol Networks in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul”
- Metin Coşgel & Emre Özer, University of Connecticut | “Gender, Religion, and Networks in Ottoman Istanbul: Evidence from Court Records”
- Chair: Molly Greene, Princeton University
4:15 - 4:30 pm | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
4:30 - 6:30 pm | Panel 2 | Trans-imperial encounters
- Mehmet Emin Gulecyuz, University of Chicago | “Molla Fenārī in Mamluk Lands (15th c.)”
- Mehmet Kuru, Sabancı University | “The Trans-Mediterranean Family of Hasan Agha and Anton Çelebi (17th c.)”
- Ellen M. Nye, Harvard University | “Money on Trial: The Localization of Global Coinage in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
- Camilla Pletuhina-Tonev, Princeton University | “Negotiating Confession and Imperial Subjecthood: the Serbian Church between the Early Modern Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian Empires”
- Chair: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, New York University
Saturday, October 28, 2023 | 211 Dickinson Hall
9:30 am - 12 pm | Panel 3 | Provincial and central elites in the long duree
- Christopher Whitehead, Ohio State University | “From Akhaltsikhe to Istanbul: Ottoman-Georgian Elite Networks in the Seventeenth Century”
- Zoe Griffith, Baruch College, CUNY | “The Egypt Merchants as Imperial Intermediaries: governing commercial and social networks in the Ottoman Mediterranean”
- Youssef Ben Ismail, Columbia University | “Ottoman Autonomy: Provincial Representation and Imperial Governance in the Ottoman Maghrib”
- Veysel Şimşek, McGill University | “Political-Military Elite Networks During the Reign of Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839)”
- Ümit Kurt, University of Newcastle, New South Wales | “The CUP Party in the Provinces: Political and Social Networks in the Late Ottoman Empire”
- Chair: Emin Lelic, Salisbury University
12 - 1 pm | Lunch
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
1 - 3:30 pm | Panel 4 | Knowledge networks in the late Ottoman Empire
- Yeliz Cavus, University of Cincinnati | “Unveiling Global Historical Professionalism: Late Ottoman Historians and the Politics of Networking”
- Omer Topal, Princeton University | “Ottoman Taymiyyanism: The Ālūsī Family’s Imperial Networks”
- Johannes Makar, Harvard University | “Toward a Networked History of Coptic Reformism in Late Ottoman Egypt (ca. 1850-1900)”
- Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth University | “Morality, (Un)Employment, and the Networks of Mekteb-i Mulkiye (1890-1914)”
- Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University | “Orange and Black Ties: The Dodge Family, Princeton, and the American University of Beirut”
- Chair: Seçil Yılmaz, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 - 3:45 pm | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Panel 5 | Mobility and the infrastructure of Ottoman modernity
- Emine Esra Nalbant, SUNY Binghamton | “Nineteenth Century Ottoman Lighthouses: The Making of a Maritime Infrastructure Network”
- Zavier Wingham, New York University | “In the Schisms of Enslavement and Manumission: Ottoman Misafirhane for Africans in the 1880s”
- Cevat Dargin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | “Roadlessness: Ottoman Modernity Navigating Uncharted Dersim”
- Chair: Constantine Theodoridis, Princeton University
5:15 - 5:30 pm | Closing Remarks
5:30 - 6 pm | Planning for 2024