Conferences and Workshops
Northwestern University Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and
Boğaziçi University History Department
International Doctoral Workshop
Rectorate Conference Hall, (April 16-17, 2013) on
Modernization and Social Change
Tuesday, April 16 morning—Session 1
Discussion: Selçuk Esenbel-Meltem Toksöz
9.30-10.10 Fatma Öncel, "Modernization of Rural Economies: Proto-Industrialization in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Europe" commentator Juri Bottura
10.10-10.50 Juri Bottura, “Revisiting Brazil’s ‘Conservative Modernization:’ Reformist Ruralism and the Fate of the Brazilian Countryside” commentator Fatma Öncel
10.10-11.10 Coffee Break
11.10-11.50 Can Veyselgil, "Shared Vocabulary of Empires in the Age of Modernization: Late Ottoman Imperial Visions of Arab and African Provinces" commentator Nicholas Smith
12.00-13.30 Lunch at Kennedy Lodge
Discussion: Noemi Levy-Aksu, Meltem Toksöz
13.30-14.10 Nicholas Smith,”The modern history of the Somali pirates: piracy and colonialism in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.” Commentator Can Veyselgil
14.10-14.50 Alex Hobson, “Confronting the Failures of ‘Modernization:’ Two International Conferences and the Invention of Reagan’s War Against Terrorism, 1979-1986” commentator Yener Koç
14.50-15.30 Yener Koç, "Conflicts, Conciliations and Nationalism: The Ottoman State and Kurdish Bedirxan Pashazades" commentator Alex Hobson
16.00 Joel Mokyr, “Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth."
18.00 Welcome Reception, Kennedy Lodge
Wednesday, April 17
Discussion: Arzu Öztürkmen, Meltem Toksöz
9.30-10.10 Mneesha Gellman, “The Politics of Multiculturalism in Turkey: An Evolution of Rights.” Commentators Zeynep Küçükceran and Erdem Aydın
10.10-10.50 Erdem Aydın, "Modernizing an “archaic script”: Iranian-Ottoman exchanges on the Orthography Reform in the late Ottoman Empire"; commentator Mneesha Gellman
10.50-11.10 Coffee Break
11.10-11.50 Jamie Holeman, “Photography on Trial: Modern Technology and Social Change in 1850s-60s France”; commentators Saadet Özen and Yasemin Başaran
12.00-13.30 Lunch at Kennedy Lodge
Discussion: Vangelis Kechriotis, Arzu Öztürkmen
13.30-14.10 Saadet Özen, “As how it was displayed every year”: The Image of Abdul Hamid II in Public Space
commentator Jamie Holeman
14.10-14.50 Zeynep Küçükceran, "Limits of Modernization: The Case of Education in the Salonican Countryside"; commentator Juri Bottura
14.50-15.30 Yasemin Başaran, "Medicinal Leech: A case Study of Medical Transformation in the Ottoman Empire", commentator Mneesha Gellman
15.30-15.50 Coffee Break
Discussion: Meltem Toksöz, Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
15.50-16.30 Nilay Özlü, "Response to and Reflection of Modernization: Transformation of the Topkapı Palace"; commentator Sam Kling
Sam Kling, “Making a Modern City to Order: The Failure of Physical Planning and the Rise of Welfare Capitalism in Gary, 1906-1919.” Commentator Nilay Özlü
17.10-18.00 General discussion, Sarah Maza, Joel Mokyr, Ken Alder, Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
Dinner at a nearby restaurant
Thursday, April 18, 2013
15.00, Sarah Maza, "Anatomy of a Scandal: Violette Nozière, Paris 1933"
Rectorate Conference Hall
GRADUATE WORKSHOP
Friday, April 5, 2013, 10:00, Cultural Heritage Museum
Carol Gluck
Research and Method in History
SUBJECT INTO OBJECT
A WORKSHOP ON THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD
Thursday, May 24th 2012, Cultural Heritage Museum, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
PROGRAM
13:00 - 13:20 Mary Roberts (University of Sydney)
Affiliation, Proliferation, Riposte: Ottoman and Orientalist Photography
13:20 - 13:40 Ahmet Ersoy (Boğaziçi University)
The Empire’s New Clothes: Ethnography, Costume, and the Photographic Image
in the Late Ottoman Empire
13:40 - 14:00 Martina Baleva (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena)
The Empire Strikes Back: Image Battles in the Russo-Ottoman War, 1877-78
14:00 - 14:20 Kate Elizabeth Creasey (Bilgi University)
The Photographic State: The Hamidian Government's Uses of Photography,
1890-1905
Discussion
15:20 Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00 Saadet Özen (Boğaziçi University)
“At the spot where it was displayed every year.” The Image of
Abdulhamid II in Public Space
16:00 - 16:20 Ali Behdad (UCLA)
The Tourist, the Collector, and the Curator: The Life and Afterlives of Ottoman
Era Photography
16:20 - 16:40 Christopher Pinney (UC London)
From "Major" to "Minor": Late Ottoman Albums and the Universal Claims of
Photography
Discussion
Final Comments
Alevi - Bektashi Communities in the Ottoman Realm: Sources, Paradigms and Historiography
13-15 December, 2011 Boğaziçi University Rectorate Conference Hall
Panelists:
Ahmet Karamustafa, Washington University in St. Louis
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, College of William and Mary
Sara Nur Yıldız, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Mark Soileau, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi
Cornell Fleischer, University of Chicago
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University
Vural Genç, İstanbul Üniversitesi
Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California Riverside
Ferenc Csirkés, University of Chicago
Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University
Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, University of Oxford
Mahir Polat, İstanbul Üniversitesi
Frances Trix, Indiana University
Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
İbrahim Kaya Şahin, Tulane University
Derin Terzioğlu, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Erdal Küçükyalçın, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Alişan Akpınar, İstanbul Üniversitesi
Markus Dressler, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Ulaş Özdemir, Yıldız Üniversitesi
Erdal Gezik, Independent Researcher, Holland
A Conference in Memory of H. H. Günhan Danışman
"Aspects of Technology and Urbanism in Ottoman Lands"
October 8, 2011, 9:00-17:00 Boğaziçi University Rectorate Conference Hall
Participants:
Günhan Börekçi
Afife Batur
Seda Kulay Say
Meryem Müzeyyen Fındıkgil
Mehmet Özdoğan
Katie Johnson
Zülküf Yılmaz
Salim Aydüz
Hadi Özbal
Mustafa Kaçar
Kahraman Şakul
Tuncay Zorlu
Workshop on Ottoman Gardens and Garden Culture
Saturday, September 17, 2011 Cultural Heritage Museum
Participants:
Fikret Yılmaz, Dokuz Eylül University
Aleksandar Sopov, Harvard University
Sussan Babaie, Ludwig Maximilian University
Camille Robin, Institut d'urbanisme de Paris
Suraiya Faroqhi, Bilgi University
Deniz Çalış-Kural, Bilgi University
Shirine Hamadeh, Rice University
Marlee Schaefers, Cambridge University
Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University
Mark Mazower (Colombia University)
Giuseppe Mazzini, Karl Marx and Rendel Cremer Exploring the History of 19th Century Internationalism
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 13:00 Rectorate Conference Hall
Dana Sajdi (Boston Colloge)
"The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th Century Levant-An Exposition of a book-in-progress"
Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 16:00 Kriton Curi
International Workshop
IT, Society and Culture in Turkey and Japan
March 12-13 2010 Cultural Heritage Museum
Workshop
Bonded by Exile: Traugott Fuchs and the German Emigré Scholars and Artists of the Second World WarDecember 17-18 2007 Rectorate Conference Hall
Konstantina Andrianopoulou
Ph D. candidate, Department of History and Political Sciences, Panteion University, AthensSocial Policy and National Mission: Little Ethnomartyrs in the Christian Orthodox Community of Istanbul During the First World War
24 October, 2007 15:00 Demir Demirgil Hall, South Campus, Boğaziçi University
M. Erdem Kabadayı (Bilgi Üniversitesi,Tarih Bölümü)
“Feshane-i Amire’nin Dindaş, Soydaş ve Hemşeri İlişkileri”9.10.2007, 14:00 Kriton Curi Salonu, Güney Kampüs
Professor Harry Harootunian (New York University Department of History and East Asian Studies )
Overcoming Japan: Reflections on Producing America’s JapanMay 24, 2007 15:00 Rectorate Conference Hall
Conference
Performance and Performers in the Eastern Mediterranean: 11th-18th CenturiesBoğaziçi University June 7-9, 2007
Workshop on “Japan and Pan-Asianism: Past, Present, Future”
May 17, 2007; 10:00-17:00 Cultural Heritage Museum, Boğazici University
Participants:
Prof. Matsumoto Kenichi, Reitaku University
Prof. Takafumi Matsui, University of Tokyo
Dr. Akira Matsunaga, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Prof. Brij Tankha, University of Delhi
Prof. Selcuk Esenbel, Bogazici University
Assoc. Prof. Ibrahim Ozturk, Marmara University
Assist. Prof. Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Erdal Kucukyalcin, Secretary General, Japanese Studies Association
Dr. Merthan Dundar, Ankara University