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20 CIÉPO Symposium University of Crete Foundation for Research and Technology Department of History Hellas and Archaeology Institute for Mediterranean Studies 20th CIÉPO Symposium New Trends in Ottoman Studies Rethymno, Crete, Greece 27 June – 1 July 2012 Organised in collaboration with the Region of Crete, Regional Unit of Rethymno, and the Municipality of Rethymno Organising Committee Honorary Committee Gülsün Aksoy-Aivali Prof. Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont (Honorary President, CIÉPO) Antonis Anastasopoulos Prof. Vassilis Demetriades (Honorary Researcher, IMS/FORTH) Elias Kolovos Prof. Costas Fotakis (President, FORTH) Marinos Sariyannis Prof. Christos Hadziiossif (Director, IMS/FORTH) Prof. Katerina Kopaka (Dean, School of Letters, University of Crete) Ms Maria Lioni (Regional Vice Governor of Crete, Rethymno) Symposium Secretariat Mr Giorgis Marinakis (Mayor of Rethymno) Eleni Sfakianaki Ass. Prof. Socrates Petmezas (Chair, Department of History and Archaeology, Katerina Stathi University of Crete) Prof. Euripides G. Stephanou (Rector, University of Crete) Prof. Michael Ursinus (President, CIÉPO) Technical Support Prof. Elizabeth A. Zachariadou (Honorary Researcher, IMS/FORTH) Alexandros Maridakis Symposium Assistants Marilena Bali Angeliki Garidi Michalis Georgellis Despoina Giannakaki Myrsini Kavalari Georgia Korontzi Alexandra Kriti Christos Kyriakopoulos Giannis Lambrakis Iordanis Panagiotidis Stelios Parlamas Stamatia Partsafa Ioanna Petroulidi Milan Prodanović Panagiota Sfyridaki 2 Symposium Programme Wednesday 27 June 2012 10.00- Room 12 11.00 Registration 11.00- Room B 11.30 Addresses Room B Chair: Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont 11.30- 12.30 Inaugural keynote lecture Elizabeth A. Zachariadou ‘Revisiting Early Ottoman History’ 12.30- Guided tour at rare book exhibition on the Ottoman Empire at the Library of the University of Crete 13.00 13.00- Lunch break 14.30 3 Wednesday 27 June 2012 Room 1 Chair: Henning Sievert Room 9 Room 3 Room 7 Room 5 Chair: Phokion Panel: Chair: Carter V. Findley Chair: Vangelis Kechriotis Chair: Selda Alp Kotzageorgis Peripheries Utilising the Centre: Questions of Early Modernization and Order in Sanat, Kültür ve İdeoloji Memoirs and Historical Imperial and Local Politics in Modernity and Periodization the Urban Context Narratives Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire Özlem Kumrular Boris Stojkovski Johann Büssow Xeyirbey Qasimov Roger Deal ‘Disguise as a Means of Safe ‘Mahmoud Tercüman ‘The Anaza Bedouins and the ‘Doğu Anadolu Bölgesindeki ‘Celestin Bonnin and the Travel and Survival in the comme une source pour Ottoman State during the 19th At ve Koç Heykelli Mezar Creation of a Modern Ottoman Empire in the l’histoire médiévale Century’ Taşları’ Ottoman Police Force’ 14.30- Modern Age’ hongroise’ 16.00 Astrid Meier Yasir Yılmaz Eunjeong Yi Safi Avcı & Yasemin Avcı Nurcin İleri ‘Villagers, Kadıaskers, ‘“Let’s Go Get Our Uniforms ‘Atpazari Seyyid Osman in ‘Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda ‘Maintenance or Subversion Şeyhülislams and the Sultan: at St. Gotthard!”: Decision- the Political Turmoil of the Kamusal Alan Düzenlemeleri of Order: Policing the Police Resolving a Water Conflict in Making, Intentionality, and Late 17th Century: An ve Anıtsal Çalışmalar (1840- at Turn-of-the-20th-Century the Environment of Ottoman “Grand Strategy” in Early Arabic Sufi Text’s Potential 1917)’ Istanbul’ Damascus, 1670-1720’ Modern Europe Revisited’ as a Historical Source’ Duygu Aysal Cin Gülçin Tunalı Koç Henning Sievert ‘Modernization, Urban Eleni Gara Danuta Chmielowska ‘“Seseya”: Representation ‘Tripolitanians, Cyrenaicans Development and ‘Violence in the Early ‘Giritli Osmanlı of Theseus by the Ottoman and their Empire: Political Electrification in the Modern Ottoman Empire and Ressamlarından Kazım Mufti of Athens in the Strategies and Networks in Ottoman Empire: Examples its Social Meanings’ Kavur Şahsiyeti ve Eserleri’ Beginning of the 18th Ottoman Africa’ from the Electricity Projects Century’ of Istanbul and Thessaloniki’ 4 Wednesday 27 June 2012 Svetlana Kirillina Özer Ergenç & Nil Tekgül Avner Wishnitzer ‘Defining the Confessional Fulya Düvenci Karakoç and Ethnic Plurality of the ‘“Ideal/Role Model” Defined ‘Lifting the Veil of Darkness: 14.30- ‘1900 Yılı Başlarında Ottoman Society: for the Ottoman Individuals Nightlife and Nocturnal 16.00 Osmanlı Beyrut’unda Pilgrimage of Monastic and its Change throughout Order in the Late Ottoman Kültürel Yaşam’ Priest Leontii to the Holy Time’ Empire’ Land of Christianity (1763- 1766)’ 16.00- Coffee break 16.30 Room 1 Chair: Hikari Egawa Room 7 Room 9 Room 3 Panel: Chair: Özer Ergenç Chair: A. Nükhet Adıyeke Chair: Eugenia Kermeli Room 5 The Importance of Chair: Eleni Gara Interdisciplinary Research Arşiv Kaynaklarına Göre Panel: Panel: Connecting Historical, Sosyo-Ekonomik Yeni Kaynaklar ve Yeni The Orthodox Patriarchates Women in the Ottoman Anthropological, Information, Tarih/Socio-Economic Yaklaşımlarla Osmanlı as Ottoman Institutions: 15th Empire and Engineering Sciences History in the Light of Egemenliği’nde Girit ve to 18th Centuries Based on the Case Study of Archival Sources Sonrası 16.30- Spatial-Temporal GIS 18.00 (DiMSIS-EX) Application Shigeru Kakumoto, İlhan Şahin, Hikari Egawa, Yoshio Kajitani, & Halit Saim Çağrı Kocakaplan Ramazan Kubilay Eugenia Kermeli Nuri Adıyeke Edith Ambros ‘Osmanlı Mukataa ‘The Ulema and the ‘17. ve 18. Yüzyıllarda ‘Collaborative Research of ‘How Secluded was the Sisteminde Emanet ve Patriarch: Accommodation Kadı Sicillerine Göre History and Information Ottoman Woman in Public?’ İltizam Uygulamaları: and Conflict’ Resmo Manastır Vakıfları’ Science: Difference of İstanbul Gümrüğü Örneği’ Recovery Procedure after the Earthquake Disaster Based on Each Culture’ 5 Wednesday 27 June 2012 Koji Yoshikawa, Yoshio Kajitani, Shigeru Kakumoto, Michinori Hatayama, & Mahito Usui Daria Kovaleva Phokion Kotzageorgis Filiz Yaşar ‘An Introduction of the ‘Experienced Diplomat, A. Nükhet Adıyeke ‘Socio-Economic Aspects of Skilled Bohçacı, or ‘Osmanlı Kırsalında İki Spatial-Temporal GIS ‘18. Yüzyılda Girit’te ‘DiMSIS-EX’ and Its a Tax: The Metropolitans’ Professional Witch? On the Kaynak İncelemesi: nd Cizye Uygulaması ve Application for the Recovery and Bishops’ Pişkeş (2 Half Nature of Jewish Women’s Notariaka ve İlam (Sakız th Toplumsal Etkileri’ and Restoration Process after of the 17 Century)’ Presence in the Ottoman Adası Örneği)’ Large Disasters in Düzce City: Royal Palace’ Construction of the New Residential Area and Traffic Network’ 16.30- Takahiro Tomita Elif Bayraktar Tellan 18.00 ‘“As It Is Clearly Expressed Ceyda Karamürsel & Shigeru Kakumoto Onur Yıldırım Mehmet Ali Demirbaş in their Berats”: An ‘“My Name is Şirin Kadın, ‘Development Policy and & Seven Agir ‘Gayr-ı Menkul Satışında Interpretation of the my Craft, Slaver”: The Social Changes in a Suburban ‘Gedik: Asset Ownership and Şuf’a (Önalım) Hakkının Transformation of the World of Slave Women in Area of Mongolia: Application th Labor Relations in Early Kullanımı: Kandiye Patriarchate of Istanbul in the the Late 19 -Century th of DiMSIS-EX to 19 -Century Istanbul’ Örneği’ Light of Patriarchal Berats in Ottoman Empire’ Anthropological Research’ th the 18 Century’ Maria Kosugi Hasan Çolak & Shigeru Kakumoto ‘Centralisation of the Birten Çelik Tomoki Okawara Patriarchates of Antioch, Melike Kara ‘Qur’anic Manuscript Data on ‘The Women Guards at the ‘Migration Movements and Jerusalem, and Alexandria in ‘Kuzey Afrika’da Girit Computer: A Case of Service of the Ottoman British-Ottoman Diplomatic Istanbul: Testimony of the Müslümanları’ Applying DiMSIS-EX to th Customs’ Relations’ Patriarchal Berats of the 18 Historical Studies’ Century’ 6 Thursday 28 June 2012 Room 3 Room 9 Room 1 Chair: Mahmoud Yazbak Room 5 Room 7 Chair: Bülent Özdemir Chair: M. Metin Hülagü Chair: John C. Alexander Chair: İlhan Şahin Collective Identities, Panel: Panel: Nationalism and Foreign Salonica and its District in Taşrada Sosyo-Ekonomik The Great War and the End Osmanlı Devleti’nin Sürgün Pressure in the Late Ottoman the Ottoman Era Yaşam Konuları of the Ottoman Empire: Politikası ve Akdeniz Adaları Empire Aspects of World War I Phokion Kotzageorgis Andreas Lyberatos Bülent Özdemir M. Metin Hülagü & Demetris Papastamatiou Güçlü Tülüveli ‘Proto-Globalization and ‘The Heart of the War: The ‘Osmanlı Devleti’nde Sürgün ‘Economic and Social ‘17. Yüzyıl Trabzon’unda National Politicization in Strategic Importance of the Cezasının Hukuki Boyutu ve Hierarchies within an Urban Ekonomik İlişkiler Late Ottoman Thrace: The Mediterranean Basin for the Akdeniz Adalarının Sürgünler Context: The Case of Bağlamında Müslüman- Case of Stenimahos Powers during WW I and Açısından Önemi’ Thessaloniki in the 18th Gayrimüslim İlişkileri’ (İstanimaka)’ the Dardanelles Campaign’ Century’ 9.30- Gülbadi Alan Yüksel Nizamoğlu Milena B. Methodieva Eirini Kalogeropoulou 11.00 ‘Osmanlı Devlet Memurları ve H. Veli Aydın ‘Büyük Savaş’ta III. ‘The Young Turks and the ‘A Village Micro-Economy Aydınlarının Sürgünlerinde ‘18. Yüzyılda Selanik’te Para Ordu’nun İleri Harekatı ve Muslim Reform Movement in the Hinterland of Selanik Akdeniz Adalarının Yeri ve Vakıfları ve Kredi İşlemleri’ İstihbarat Faaliyetlerinin in Bulgaria, 1895-1908’ between 1770 and 1845’ Önemi’ Rolü’ Mathieu Jestin Ömer Kılıç Deniz Güner Nilüfer Hatemi ‘Le consul Charles Guys et la Zübeyde Güneş Yağcı ‘Kırım Hanlarının Osmanlıda ‘Birinci Dünya Savaşı ‘The Assassination of the question de la protection ‘Ege Kıyısında Bir Osmanlı Sürgün Günleri (Akdeniz Sırasında Osmanlı Russian Consul at Mitrovica,
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