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H-Turk International Conference: Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War (1914-18), 8-12 April 2014, Istanbul Bilgi University Santralistanbul Campus

Discussion published by Vangelis Kechriotis on Sunday, April 6, 2014

Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War (1914-18)

International Conference

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, the History Foundation and Orient- Institut Istanbul will be holding an international conference between April 8-12

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the First World War, one of the founding experiences of the 20th century, the conference aims to review the principles on which our knowledge of the subject is based and to bring together new research into the Ottoman Empire’s experience of the First World War -- grounded in the new understanding of military history that has developed over the past 30 years. It will feature more than 70paper presentations in 20 sessions.

The conference will feature leading scholars such as Benjamin Fortna, Christina Koulouri, Elisabeth Thompson, Engin Akarlı, Eyal Ginio, Fikret Adanır, Fuat Dündar, Hamit Bozarslan, Hans-Lukas Kieser, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Holly Shissler, Margaret Anderson, Mete Tunçay, Mustafa Aksakal, Nathalie Clayer, Oliver Janz, Salim Tamari, Selçuk Esenbel, Şevket Pamuk, Taner Akçam and Wolfgang Gust. It will begin with opening talks at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 9, and close with a concluding panel between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 12.

On the evening of April 8 the German Consulate General will hold a closed reception for conference participants, at which Eric-Jan Zürcher will give a talk. In addition, the second of the Thyssen Lectures, a series scheduled to be held over a four-year period, will be given by Professor Jay Winter on Tuesday April 10 between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

The conference, which is also being supported by Boğaziçi University, the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA), Istanbul Bilgi University, Sabancı University and Istanbul Şehir University, will feature a number of side events: On Monday, April 7, a workshop entitled “Teaching the First World War in High School: Examples from France and Turkey”, organized by the History Foundation and the IFEA, will be held at the French Culture Center. On the evening of April 9, the exhibition “Open Spaces: The First World War” will be opened at the Tobacco Warehouse (Tütün Deposu). On Thursday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. there will be a discussion entitled “History and Fiction” at Boğaziçi University’s Albert Long Hall. On the afternoon of Saturday, April 12, there will be a documentary theater performance entitled “Repressed and Forgotten”, organized by the Goethe Institute, at the German War Cemetery in Tarabya. And on Sunday, April 13, at Saint Pulcherie High School the History Foundation, in collaboration with a number of different high schools, will hold an event titled “Youths Discuss the First World War: World War I in the Textbooks of Different Countries.”

Citation: Vangelis Kechriotis. International Conference: Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War (1914-18), 8-12 April 2014, Istanbul Bilgi University Santralistanbul Campus. H-Turk. 04-07-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/20885/international-conference-not-all-quiet-ottoman-fronts-neglected Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Turk

For details, please visit www.ottomanfronts1914-1918.org

All events at the conference will feature simultaneous translation.

Program

Istanbul, April 8 – 12, 2014

İstanbul, 8 – 12 Nisan, 2014

Organization / Organizasyon

Bülent Bilmez, İstanbul Bilgi University/ Tarih Vakfı

Evangelos Kechriotis, Boğaziçi University

Raoul Motika, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Işık Tamdoğan, IFEA

Alexandre Toumarkine, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Conference Coordinators / Konferans Koordinatörleri

Gülayşe Öcal-Schiwek, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Ozan Torun, Tarih Vakfı

Assistants / Asistanlar

Swantje Claus, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Lennart Hoelscher, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Ziya Kaygusuz, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Organizing Committee / Organizasyon Komitesi

Mehmet Ö. Alkan, Istanbul University

Mehmet Beşikçi, Yıldız Technical University

Bülent Bilmez, İstanbul Bilgi University/ Tarih Vakfı

Doğan Çetinkaya, Istanbul University

Evangelos Kechriotis, Boğaziçi University

Abdulhamit Kırmızı, Istanbul Şehir University

Erol Köroğlu, Boğaziçi University

Raoul Motika, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Oktay Özel, Bilkent University

Akşin Somel, Sabancı University

Işık Tamdoğan, IFEA

Alexandre Toumarkine, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Academic Advisory Board / Akademik Danışma Kurulu

Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahim Abu-Husayn, American University of Beirut

Prof. Dr. Fikret Adanır, Ruhr Universität Bochum / Sabancı University

Prof. Dr. Engin Akarlı, İstanbul Şehir University

Prof. Dr. Nathalie Clayer, CETOBAC

Dr. Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser, Universität Zürich

Prof. Dr. Christina Koulouri, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Prof. Dr. Gerd Krumeich, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Şevket Pamuk, London School of Economics / Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Thompson, University of Virginia

Prof. Dr. Zafer Toprak, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Prof. Dr. Mete Tunçay, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi

Prof. Dr. Jay M. Winter, Yale University

Prof. Dr. Erik J. Zürcher, Leiden University

CONFERENCE VENUES / MEKÂNLAR

TUESDAY, April 8 / SALI, 8 Nisan

Opening reception

19:00

Kaisersaal, German Consulate General

İnönü Caddesi No.: 10

Gümüşsuyu, Beyoğlu 34437 Istanbul

WEDNESDAY, April 9 / ÇARŞAMBA, 9 Nisan

Venue of the CONFERENCE

The conference will be held at the santralistanbul campus of İstanbul Bilgi University.

The panels will take place on the 4th floor of ÇSM.

Santralistanbul

Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santrali

Kazım Karabekir Cad. No.: 2

Eyüp 34060 Istanbul

Opening of the exhibition Open Spaces

19:30

DEPO / Tütün Deposu

Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No.: 12

Tophane 34425 İstanbul

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +90 212 292 39 56

THURSDAY, April 10 / PERŞEMBE, 10 Nisan

Cihan Harbi Bağlamında Tarih, Temsiliyet ve Sinema [History, Representation and Cinema in the Context of the Great War]

19:30

Boğaziçi University

Albert Long Hall

Bebek 34342 İstanbul

Phone: +90 212 359 54 00

FRIDAY, April 11 / CUMA, 11 Nisan

Reception by the French Embassy

20:00

Palais de France – Fransız Sarayı

Nuru Ziya Sokak

Beyoğlu 34433 İstanbul

SATURDAY, April 12 / CUMARTESI, 12 Nisan

Documentary theatre and cocktail in the Summer Residency of the German Ambassador, Tarabya

14:00 – 18:00

Tarabya Alman Büyükelçiliği Yazlık Rezidansı,

Askeri Mezarlık Yeniköy Cad. No.: 88 Tarabya

Lunch and coffee breaks / Öğle yemeği ve kahve arası

Tea and coffee refreshments are free for all participants.

On the campus are several dining and refreshment venues where lunch or snacks are served. Invited speakers will find lunch vouchers for Wednesday and Friday in their conference folders for the restaurant “Papaz” located next to the Conference building.

Transportation / Ulaşım

In the morning and evening there will be a shuttle service between Larespark Hotel Taksim and the conference venues for the invited speakers/panel chairs.

WEDNESDAY, April 9 / ÇARŞAMBA, 9 Nisan

8:45 – Transfer from the Larespark Hotel to the conference venue

(İstanbul Bilgi University).

19:00 – Transfer from the conference venue (İstanbul Bilgi University) to the Larespark Hotel with a stopover at the Tütün Deposu, Tophane.

THURSDAY, April 10 / PERŞEMBE, 10 Nisan

8:15 – Transfer from the Larespark Hotel to the conference venue (İstanbul Bilgi University).

19:00 – Transfer from the conference venue (İstanbul Bilgi University) to the Larespark Hotel.

In case you would like to participate at the public discussion (in Turkish, no translation) with Turkish authors / filmmakers at Boğaziçi University we are ready to organize the transportation for you. Please contact us.

Friday, April 11/ CUMA, 11 Nisan

8:15 – Transfer from the Larespark Hotel to the conference venue (İstanbul Bilgi University).

19:00 – Transfer from the conference venue (İstanbul Bilgi University) to the Palais de France, with a short stopover at the Larespark Hotel.

Saturday, April 12/ CUMARTESI, 12 Nisan

08:15 – Transfer from the Larespark Hotel to the conference venue (İstanbul Bilgi University).

13:00 – Boat trip along the Bosphorus to Tarabya (with business lunch).

PROGRAM

MONDAY, April 7 / PAZARTESI, 7 Nisan

09:00 – 18:00

WORKSHOP

Lise’de I. Dünya Savaşı’nı Öğretmek. Fransa-Türkiye. – Enseigner la Première Guerre mondiale au lycée. France-Turquie.

With the participation of Ozan Arslan, Mehmet Beşikçi, Laurence de Cock, Frédéric Gérard, Loubna Lamrhari, Eddy Lioret, Pınar Dost-Niyego, Oktay Özel, Hasan Tahsin Özkaya, Jean-François Pérouse, Frédéric Rousseau, Işık Tamdoğan, Alexandre Toumarkine, Özgür Türesay, Şerife Ziylan.

French – Turkish simultaneous translation

Organized by IFEA & Tarih Vakfı

Location: Fransız Kültür Merkezi, İstiklal cad. No.: 4, Taksim

TUESDAY, April 8 / SALI, 8 Nisan

19:00

OPENING RECEPTION

Welcome

Jutta WOLKE, Consul General of Germany, Istanbul

Bülent BİLMEZ, Tarih Vakfı

Raoul MOTIKA, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Lecture

Erik-Jan ZÜRCHER: What is Different About the Ottoman War?

Reception

Location: German Consulate General, Kaisersaal

WEDNESDAY, April 9 / ÇARŞAMBA, 9 Nisan

09:30 – 10:30 – Salon 403-404

OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Remzi SANVER (Rector, İstanbul Bilgi University)

Bülent BİLMEZ (Chairman, Tarih Vakfı)

Raoul MOTIKA (Director, Orient-Institut Istanbul)

10:30 – 12:30

PANEL 1A: Salon 403-404

Forced Migration in Western Anatolia: Socio-Economic, Legal and Ideological Aspects (Chair: Fikret ADANIR)

10:30 – 11:00

Pınar ŞENIŞIK: Forced Migration in Western Anatolia in the Late Ottoman Empire: From “Ideal Neighbor” to “Intransigent Enemy”

11:00 – 11:30

Emre EROL: Preparing for the First World War: Forced Migration as a Tool of ‘Demographic Warfare’ in the Pre-War Western Anatolia

11:30 – 12:00

Ayşe OZİL: In the Villages of Western Anatolia during the First World War: Forced Migration, Economic Boycott and Orthodox Christian Communities

12:00 – 12:30

Ronald Grigor SUNY: Difference and Deportation: Strategy and Perception in the Young Turks’ Policies toward Non-Muslims in World War

PANEL 1B: Salon 401-402

The Politics of Food in Wartime: Local, Imperial and International Contexts (Chair: Mustafa AKSAKAL)

10:30 – 11:00

Mustafa AKSAKAL: Food as a Strategy and Weapon

11:00 – 11:30

Elizabeth THOMPSON: Wartime Food Crisis and the Demise of Liberalism

11:30 – 12:00

Chris GRATIEN: Economy, Ecology, and War in the Ottoman Provinces

12:00 – 12:30

Discussant: Şükrü HANİOĞLU

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH / ÖĞLE YEMEĞI

WEDNESDAY, April 9 / ÇARŞAMBA, 9 Nisan

14:00 – 16:00

PANEL 2A: Salon 403-404

Demographic Warfare in the Ottoman Empire (1914-1922): From Imperial Perspectives to Regional Dimensions (Chair: Hans-Lukas KIESER)

14:00 – 14:30

Fuat DÜNDAR: Ottoman Addendum of the World War I: The Demographic Reasons of the Continuation of the War in the post-Ottoman Space

14:30 – 15:00

Nikos SIGALAS: Violence on/and within Civil Populations during World War I in the Ottoman Empire: the Case of the Orthodox Christians of the Canık Vilayeti

15:00 – 15:30

Mekki ULUDAĞ: Cihan Harbi’ne Yerelden Bakmak; Hazro, Silvan, Muş Hattında Harbin Genel Seyri ve Nüfus Hareketleri [Viewing the Great War from a Local Perspective: the Course of the War and Population Movements at Hazro, Silvan, Muş Front]

15:30 – 16:00

Namık Kemal DİNÇ: 1916 Kürt Tehciri ve Kürt Mülteciler Meselesi [The 1916 Kurdish Forced Migration and Kurdish Refugees Question]

PANEL 2B: Salon 401-402

Violence and Resilience in Arab and Armenian Experiences of the Great War(Chair: Heghnar WATENPAUGH)

14:00 – 14:30

Seda ALTUĞ: Memories of Violence in Syria during World War I

14:30 – 15:00

Melanie SCHULZE TANIELIAN: Gender and the Politics of Wartime Relief in Ottoman Beirut (1914-1918)

15:00 – 15:30

Lerna EKMEKÇİOĞLU: The Politics of Abduction and the Politics of Rescue: Armenian Women and their Children during and after the War

15:30 – 16:00

Heghnar WATENPAUGH: Art, Heritage and the Armenian Genocide: A Medieval Manuscript’s Fate during the War

Discussant: Elizabeth THOMPSON

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK / KAHVE ARASI

WEDNESDAY, April 9 / ÇARŞAMBA, 9 Nisan

16:30 – 18:30

PANEL 3A: Salon 403-404

Intelligence, Spies and Irregular Warfare (Chair: Abdul Rahim ABU-HUSAYN)

16:30 – 17:00

Yeliz Cengay BALOĞLU: “The Turk Must Go”: British-Zionist Relations and the Role of Jewish

NILI Spies in the Fall of the Ottoman Front in Palestine

17:00 – 17:30

Polat SAFİ: Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa ne değildir? [What was Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa? What was it not?]

17:30 – 18:00

Kate DANNIES: Alexander Aaronsohn between the Yishuv, the Ottomans and the Allies, 1914-1917

18:00 – 18:30

Kadir KON: Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa’nın 1915 Yılında “Umur-ı Şarkiyye İdaresi”ne Dönüşmesinde Alman Etkisi [The Impact of Germans in the Transformation of “Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa” to “Umur-ı Şarkiyye ‹daresi” in 1915]

PANEL 3B: Salon 401-402

Bringing the Periphery back to the Center (Chair: Erik-J. ZÜRCHER)

16:30 – 17:00

Serhan AFACAN: From Guests to Semi-Citizens: Ajams (Persians) Living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War

17:00 – 17:30

Selçuk ESENBEL: Friends on Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar in the Great War: Japanese and Ottoman Turkish Relations in the First World War

17:30 – 18:00

Amany S. SOLIMAN: The Impact of Gallipoli Campaign on Alexandria-Egypt 1915-1916

18:00 – 18:30

Bjarne S. BENDTSEN: Scandinavians/Danes in the Gallipoli Campaign

19:30 – 21:00

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION

1914/2014 Schlachtfeld Erinnerung – Open Spaces

1914/2014 Anıların Muharebe Meydanı – Open Spaces

Visitors will have the opportunity to discover various perspectives regarding the history of the Great War via different objects, photos and texts.

Location: Tütün Deposu, Tophane

Organized by Goethe-Institut Istanbul

THURSDAY, April 10 / PERŞEMBE, 10 Nisan

09:00 – 10:30

PANEL 4A: Salon 403-404

The Social and Economic Perspectives: Between State Policy and Unheard Voices (Chair: Şevket PAMUK)

09:00 – 09:30

Yiğit AKIN: Screwing the Bolts as tight as Possible: The First World War and Ottoman Rural Society

09:30 – 10:00

Kemal ARI: Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı Devleti’nde Göç Ettirilen Gayrimüslimlerden Kalan Emlake İlişkin Uygulamalar [Policies Regarding Non-Muslim Property left Behind due to Forced Migration During World War One in the Ottoman Empire]

10:00 – 10:30

Murat METİNSOY: Reconsidering Historiography of World War I in Turkey: Writing Ordinary People’s Voices and Experiences on the Ottoman Home Front

PANEL 4B: Salon 401-402

Individuality, Textuality and Autobiography in Wartimes (Chair: Zafer TOPRAK)

09:00 – 09:30

Ayşegül ARGİT: To Agitate and Reorganize. Exchange between Max von Oppenheim and Shakib Arslan in the Face of World War I

09:30 – 10:00

Snezhana DIMITROVA: All Quiet on the Front: War, Trauma, and Microarchive. Example of the Great War Bulgarian Soldiers’ War Writings’

10:00 – 10:30

Christoph K. NEUMANN: Orientalist Poetics, Autobiographical Fiction, and History Defying Words: Sarkiz Torossian Inscribing Himself into World War I

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK / KAHVE ARASI

11:00 – 12:30 – Salon 403-404

THYSSEN LECTURE II

Frank SUDER, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Raoul MOTIKA, Orient-Institut Istanbul

Introduction: Suraiya FAROQHI, İstanbul Bilgi University

Jay WINTER: Understanding the First World War: A Transnational Moment in Historical Study

Moderator: Bülent BILMEZ, İstanbul Bilgi University

12:30 – 14:00 RECEPTION

THURSDAY, April 10 / PERŞEMBE, 10 Nisan

14:00 – 16:00

PANEL 5A: Salon 403-404

Propaganda: Uses and Failures (Chair: Christina KOULOURI)

14:00 – 14:30

Özde ÇELİKTEMEL THOMEN: Cinema and Propaganda during the First World War

14:30 – 15:00

Salim TAMARI: War Photography as a Tool of Ottoman Propaganda: The Work of Khalil Raad in the Palestine Front during WWI

15:00 – 15:30

Fatih TIĞLI: Bir Propaganda Aracı Olarak Sultan V.Mehmed Reşad’ın Çanakkale Gazeli ve Hakkında Değerlendirmeler [Mehmed V. Reşad’s Ghazal (Ode) as a Propaganda Tool: Çanakkale Ghazal and its Evaluation]

15:30 – 16:00

Gizem TONGO: The Ottoman Society of Painters during the First World War

PANEL 5B: Salon 401-402

Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, Orphans and Female Labor (Chair: Işık TAMDOĞAN)

14:00 – 14:30

Zeynep KUTLUATA: Analyzing Armenian Mothers’ Petitions during World War I as a Gendered Practice of Citizenship

14:30 – 15:00

Elif Mahir METİNSOY: Ordinary Ottoman Women during World War I: The Response of Soldiers’ Families to the War Mobilization

15:00 – 15:30

Sabine MANGOLD-WILL: A Different Kind of „Asienkämpfer“: German Women at the Ottoman

Fronts during World War One

15:30 – 16:00

Nazan MAKSUDYAN: The First Generation of Turkish Gastarbeiter?: Refugee Ottoman Orphans in Germany during the First World War

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK / KAHVE ARASI

THURSDAY, April 10 / PERŞEMBE, 10 Nisan

16:30 – 18:30

PANEL 6A: Salon 403-404

Strategy and Social Structure - A Look at the Experience of the Great War and its Effects on Social Norms and Ethno-confessional Identity (Chair: Holly SHISSLER)

16:30 – 17:00

Yaşar Tolga CORA: ‘An Absolute Odyssey’: Experiences of Kalust Sumerian as an Ottoman- Armenian Officer on the Caucasian Front during World War I

17:00 – 17:30

Ayşe POLAT: Religio-Moral Censorship of the Press in post-WWI Istanbul

17:30 – 18:00

Holly SHISSLER: To Whom Should she Appeal: Resimli Ay and the Problem of Missing Persons, Widows, and Orphans in the Postwar-World War I Period

18:00 – 18:30

Erol ÜLKER: Towards a Military-Financial Complex in the Late Ottoman Empire: Directorate- General of Military Railways and Ports, 1914-1918

PANEL 6B: Salon 401-402

Visuality of War in Propaganda (Chair: Mehmet BEŞİKÇİ)

16:30 – 17:00

Issam NASSAR: Photographing the Great War in Palestine and Sinai

17:00 – 17:30

Manfred KERRY: The Alliance between the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary from the Perspective of the Picture Coverage of the Imperial War Ministry and its Media Attention

17:30 – 18:00

Alexander WILL: A Failure of German Political Intelligence: The Turko-German Expedition to Egypt of 1914/15 Revisited

18:00 – 18:30

Discussant: Irvin Cemil SCHICK

19:30 / 20:00

Cihan Harbi Bağlamında Tarih, Temsiliyet ve Sinema

[History, Representation and Cinema in the Context of the Great War] (in Turkish, no translation!)

Public discussion with: Sema KAYGUSUZ, yazar

Alphan EŞELI, yönetmen

Cüneyt CEBENOYAN, sinema eleştirmeni/yazarı

Ahmet KUYAŞ, tarihçi

Moderator: Erol KÖROĞLU

Location: Albert Long Hall, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

FRIDAY, April 11 / CUMA, 11 Nisan

09:00 – 10:30

PANEL 7A: Salon 403-404

Germany, Colonialism and the Armenian Genocide (Chair: Taner AKÇAM)

09:00 – 09:30

Wolfgang GUST: Germany’s Intentions in Turkey during World War I and the Armenian Genocide

09:30 – 10:00

Eric D. WEITZ: From Africa to Anatolia: German Military Strategy and Population Removals

10:00 – 10:30

Discussant: Margaret ANDERSON

PANEL 7B: Salon 401-402

“Crime” and Punishment: Prisons and Prisoners of War (Chair: Salim TAMARI)

09:00 – 09:30

Hesna Begüm ÖZEL: Remembrance of the Great War by Turkish Prisoners of War

09:30 – 10:00

Abdelwahab SHAKER: Ottoman prisoners of War in Egypt during the First World War

10:00 – 10:30

Tülin UYGUR: Rusya’daki Malul Türk Savaş Esirlerinin İsveç Kızılhaçı Yardımıyla İsveç Üzerinden Mübadelesi

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK / KAHVE ARASI

11:00 – 12:30 – Salon 403-404

Keynote Lecture: Mete TUNÇAY: Termination of the Ottoman Empire with the World War

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH / ÖĞLE YEMEĞİ

14:00 – 16:00

PANEL 8A: Salon 403-404

Wartime Perception, Post-War Representation and Memory (Chair: Engin Deniz AKARLI)

14:00 – 14:30

Ayhan AKTAR: A Righteous Ottoman Local Governor (Kaymakam) during the Armenian Deportations in 1915: Hüseyin Nesimi Bey (1868 - 1915)

14:30 – 15:00

Jonathan BLACK: Uncertain Allies, Formidable Enemies: The Image of Arabs and Turks in British War Art, 1917-21

15:00 – 15:30

David LEUPOLD: The Question of Loyalty and the Great War – Portrait of a Turkophone Cilician- Armenian State Officer

15:30 – 16:00

Suzan Meryem KALAYCI: Colonizing of the Mind: Representation of WWI in Turkish Museums and War Memorials

FRIDAY, April 11 / CUMA, 11 Nisan

14:00 – 16:00

PANEL 8B: Salon 401-402

The Experience of Officers and Soldiers on Ottoman Fronts during WWI (Chair: Eyal GINIO)

14:00 – 14:30

Ozan ARSLAN: Experiencing the Great War in the Caucasus: A Comparison of Accounts of the Combatants and Observers

14:30 – 15:00

Mustafa GENCER: Çanakkale Cephesi ve Almanya [The Çanakkale Front and Germany]

15:00 – 15:30

Martin STROHMEIER: Siege, Mutiny and Surrender: Medina in World War I

15:30 – 16:00

Oliver STEIN: War as a Journey - German Soldiers’ Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1918

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK / KAHVE ARASI

16:30 – 18:00

PANEL 9A: Salon 403-404

Religious and Ethnic Minorities in the Armies of Allied and Central Powers(Chair: Hamit BOZARSLAN)

16:30 – 17:00

Emmanuelle CRONIER: Feeding the Indian Army in Mesopotamia and France: Cultural and Political Stakes

17:00 – 17:30

Julie D’ANDURAIN: The Black Force during the WWI: Genesis of the Concept and Practices

17:30 – 18:00

Cloé DRIEU: Colonial Disorders in Turkistan’s Wartime: the Revolts of 1916 Against The Formation of Labour Battalions and their Consequences

PANEL 9B: Salon 401-402

Converting and Conflicting Ideologies in Wartime (Chair: Mete TUNÇAY)

16:30 – 17:00

Candan BADEM: Kars, Ardahan and Batum during World War I

17:00 – 17:30

Juliette HONVAULT: Fighting with the Ottomans: The Islamic Cause in Yemen during World War I

17:30 – 18:00

Vügar İMANBEYLİ: Between Tsarism and Ottomans: Russian Muslims in the Writings of M. E.

Resulzade during the First World War

FRIDAY, April 11 / CUMA, 11 Nisan

18:00 – 18:45 – Salon 403-404

Presentation of the Online Encyclopedia of the First World War

By Elizabeth THOMPSON & Mustafa AKSAKAL

20:00

Reception by the French Embassy

Location: Palais de France

SATURDAY, April 12 / CUMARTESI, 12 Nisan

09:00 – 10:30

PANEL 10A: Salon 403-404

Representing the Ottoman World War: Cultural Diplomacy, Memory and Remembrance (Chair: Benjamin FORTNA)

09:00 – 09:30

Fabian STREMMEL: Fostering a better Understanding between the Ottomans and the Germans? German Cultural Diplomacy in the Wartime Levant

09:30 – 10:00

Pheroze UNWALLA: Remembrance of the Çanakkale Savaşları in the Early Turkish Republic

10:00 – 10:30

Philipp WIRTZ: Personal Experiences of the First World War in Turkish Autobiographies

PANEL 10B: Salon 401-402

Conflict, Entertainment and Urban Memory in Imperial Cosmopolitan Cities (1914-1922) (Chair: Christoph K. NEUMANN)

09:00 – 09:30

Andreas BOUROUTIS: Behind the Front Line: Germans and Turks in Thessaloniki, 1914 – 1915

09:30 – 10:00

D. J. MACARTHUR-SEAL: Punters and Policemen: British Soldiers and the Nightlife Boom in Thessaloniki, Alexandria, and Istanbul, 1914-1923

10:00 – 10:30

Carole WOODALL: Transnational Constantinople: Ragtime, Modernity, and World War One

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK / KAHVE ARASI

SATURDAY, April 12 / CUMARTESI, 12 Nisan

11:00 – 12:30 – Salon 403-404

Panel Discussion

Researching the Great War: New Perspectives on the Ottoman Fronts from the Distance of a Hundred Years

Participants: Fikret ADANIR, Hamit BOZARSLAN, Alexandre TOUMARKINE, Elizabeth THOMPSON

Moderator: Oktay ÖZEL

12:30 – 12:45 – Salon 403-404

Closing of the Conference

Raoul Motika (Director, Orient-Institut Istanbul)

Bülent Bilmez (Chairman, Tarih Vakfı)

13:00 – 14:00 BOAT TRIP TO TARABYA AND LUNCH

(from Sütlüçe Pier, Bus service from Bilgi University)

14:00 – 18:00

Documentary Theatre / Belgesel Tiyatro Performansı

Suppressed and Forgotten / Bastırılmış ve Unutulmuş

(With simultaneous translation in three languages: English, Turkish, German)

Together with local partners, the film director Hans-Werner Kroesinger and the filmmaker Regine Dura have investigated numerous places related to the First World War. By doing this they found many connections with today’s Turkey. Outcome of this research process is a documentary theatre play that reveals national perspectives on history and bridges the hundred years between 1914 and 2014.

14:00 – 15:00 Introduction

15:00 – 16:00 Performance

16:00 – 17:00 Discussion

Organized by: Goethe-Institut Istanbul

Location: German Military Cemetery, Tarabya

17:00 – 18:00

Cocktail / Kokteyl

Location: Summer Residency of the German Ambassador, Tarabya

Pre-registration required / Kayıt gerekir

SUNDAY, April 13 / PAZAR, 13 Nisan

11:00 – 16:30

WORKSHOP

Gençler 1. Dünya Savaşı’nı Tartışıyor: Farklı Ülkelerin Ders Kitaplarında Cihan Harbi

Organized by Tarih Vakfı and participating schools

Location: Saint Pulcherie Lisesi Oditoryumu

Only in Turkish, no translation!