Conference in June 14-15 at Shehir University: the Syrian Lands During the Great War

H-Turk Conference in June 14-15 at Shehir University: The Syrian Lands during the Great War

Discussion published by Talha Cicek on Wednesday, June 11, 2014

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: THE SYRIAN LANDS DURING THE GREAT WAR: The Fourth Army Region

June 14-15, 2014, Istanbul Şehir University

June 14, 2014

Opening Speeches, 10:00-11:00

Coffee Break: 11:00-11:30

Panel I: DJEMAL PASHA AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT: 11:30-12:30

Chair: Engin D. Akarlı

M. Talha Çiçek, “The Myth of the CUP Triumvirate: the formation of the Unionist Factions and their Impact in Syria during the Great War”

Ahmet Tetik, “The Ottoman Authors on Djemal Pasha in Syria”

Lunch Break: 12:30-14:00

AFTERNOON SESSION

Panel II: PROMOTING MUSLIM UNITY, 14:00-1600

Chair: Abdulhamit Kırmızı

Salim Tamari, "Muhammad Kurd Ali, and Cemal Pasha's Mobilization of the Syrian Intelligentsia against Arab Seperatism"

Ayhan Aktar, “A Military Propaganda Tour Organized by Djemal Pasha: The Arab literati’s Visit to Gallipoli front, 18-23 October 1915”

Issam Nassar, “Photographing the Fourth Ottoman Army on the Palestine-Egypt Front”

June 15, 2014

Panel III: THE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT AND ZIONISM, 9:30-10:30

Chair: Ayhan Aktar

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Hilmar Kaiser, “The Ottoman Government and Zionists in Palestine at the Beginning of World War I”

Roberto Mazza, “'We will treat you as we did with the Armenians': Djemal Pasha, Zionism and the alleged expulsion of the Jews from Jaffa”

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00

Panel IV: FAMINE, STRATEGIES, AND THE GREAT WAR, 11:00-12:00

Chair: Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

Najwa al-Qattan, “The Syrian War at Home: The Famine, A Family History”

Elizabeth Williams, “The Wartime Economy of Bilad al-Sham: A View from the Interior”

LUNCH Break: 12:00-13:30

Panel IV: ARMENIAN DEPORTEES IN THE FOURTH ARMY REGION, 13:30-15:00

Chair: M. Talha Çicek

Hilmar Kaiser, “The Mission of Shukru Bey and the Aleppo Conference of November 1915”

Ishkhan Chiftjian “Relations between Djemal Pasha and the Armenian Church Leadership”

Coffee Break: 15:00-15:30

FINAL DISCUSSION ROUNTABLE, 15:30-17:00