Graduate Colloquium in Ottoman Studies
September 26, 2020
organized by
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies George Mason University
&
The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies Marmara University
Online Venue:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/98115414757?pwd=akkybnNmY3lPMGlnWUdxODNKNEVhdz09
Contact: istanbulcolloquium@gmail.com
Presenters
Duygu Yıldırım, Stanford University
Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi, Marmara University
Peyman Eshaghi, Free University of Berlin
Semih Gökaltay, University of California
Tamer Güven, Istanbul University
Ümmügülsüm Kurukol, SOAS, University of London
Discussants
Aslıhan Gürbüzel, McGill University
Deniz Kılınçoğlu, University of Gottingen
Himmet Taşkömür, Harvard University
Nir Shafir, University of California, San Diego
Seyfi Kenan, Marmara University
Yaşar Tolga Cora, Boğaziçi University
Program
13:30-14:00 (GMT +3) | Opening Remarks
Session 1
14:00 – 14:40 (GMT +3)
Peyman Eshaghi, Free University of Berlin
An Unexplored Mine of Wealth: Persian Hajj Travelogues as Productive Primary Sources in the Ottoman Studies
Discussant: Nir Shafir (University of California, San Diego)
14:40 – 15:20 (GMT +3)
Ümmügülsüm Kurukol, SOAS, University of London
Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travelers, by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times
Discussant: Himmet Taşkömür (Harvard University)
Session 2
15:30 – 16:10 (GMT +3)
Duygu Yıldırım, Stanford University
Exotic in the Orient: Medicinal Sensibility in the Age of Globalization
Discussant: Aslıhan Gürbüzel (McGill University)
16:10 – 16:50 (GMT +3)
Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi, Marmara University
Including new citizens: the education of speech/hearing impaired children in the Late Ottoman Empire
Discussant: Seyfi Kenan (Marmara University)
Session 3
17:00 – 17:40 (GMT +3)
Tamer Güven, Istanbul University
Did the Ottomans Import the Low Wages of the British in the 19th Century? An Examination on Ottoman Textile Factories
Discussant: Deniz Kılınçoğlu (The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Gottingen)
17:40 – 18:20 (GMT +3)
Semih Gökaltay, University of California
Well-represented Domains? Reconsidering the Ottoman Participation in the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)
Discussant: Yaşar Tolga Cora (Boğaziçi University)
18:20-19:00 (GMT +3) : Closing remarks and general discussion