Via Militaris, Orta Kol, Orient Express, Autoput. Transformations of a Route

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Via Militaris, Orta Kol, Orient Express, Autoput. Transformations of a Route ‒ 11 November 2016 Humboldt Universität Berlin, Main Building, Room 2249a Organised by Nenad Stefanov (HU Berlin) and Florian Riedler (ZMO) 9:30-10:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Topic “Orta Kol” FLORIAN RIEDLER and NENAD STEFANOV Idea and Concept of the Project “Phantom-Borders” HANNES GRANDITS (HU Berlin) and NORA LAFI (ZMO) 10:00-11:00 Key Notes Chair: HANNES GRANDITS Lines of Communication across Regions and Epochs: Conceptual Thoughts in a „Transottoman“ Context STEFAN ROHDEWALD (Justus Liebig Universität Giessen) Communities and Communication in Plovdiv in the 1870s to 1890s: Living with Boundaries DOBRINKA PARUŠEVA (Plovdivski Universitet Paijsij Hilendarski) 11:00-11:15 Coffee-Break 11:15-13:00 Panel 1 Chair: ANDREAS HELMEDACH (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Via Diagonalis/Via Traiana in the Middle Ages VLADIMIR ALEKSIĆ (Univerzitet u Nišu) Transforming the Landscape of the Constantinople (Tsarigrad) Road: Ottoman Derbents along the Dragoman–Niš Route and their Impact on Social Mobility and Identity in the 15th and 16th centuries TATJANA KATIĆ (Istorijski Institut Beograd) Marking Imperial Territory: Ottoman Caravanserais along the Orta Kol Robin Wimmel (TU Berlin) 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 Panel 2 Chair: NENAD STEFANOV The Orta Kol as Mental Map and Historical Region FLORIAN RIEDLER (ZMO) Defining the Limits of the Railroads: Enclosure and Built Environment on the Oriental Railway ŞAHIKA KARATEPE (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İstanbul) 15:30-15:45 Coffee Break 15:45-16:45 Panel 3 Chair: FLORIAN RIEDLER Routes and Boundaries: Small Places between Periphery and Communication Lines: Caribrod/Dimitrovgrad from the 1880s to the 1980s NENAD STEFANOV (HU Berlin) “A Road of Destiny”: The Guest Workers’ Route as an Example for Practices of Mobilty and International Transport Policy MANFRED PFAFFENTHALER (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) 16:45-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:00 Concluding Discussion .

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