OTTOMAN TOPOLOGIES
SPATIAL EXPERIENCE IN AN EARLY MODERN EMPIRE AND BEYOND
Department of History, Stanford University
May 16-17, 2014
The conference brings together scholars of Ottoman history who have been working on space-related themes in dialogue with the spatial turn in social sciences and humanities. The papers discuss how men and women in the Ottoman world imagined, experienced, built, mapped, and administered space in early modern times and how we can understand these imaginers, movers, builders, geographers, and administrators. The conference includes a panel that considers new possibilities of digital technology in space-related historical studies.
Please direct any inquiries to vtroyans@stanford.edu.
Vladimir Troyansky
Ph.D. Candidate
Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History
Department of History, Stanford University
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
MAY 16, 2014 - Lane History Corner, 200-307
Introductory Remarks (8:45-9:00)
Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University), Space, Place, Territory and the Ottoman World
Keynote lecture (9:00-10:00)
Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University), The Politics of Space in Ottoman Historiography: Sacralization, Contestation, and Mulberries in the Middle
Panel I: Imagining Space (10:00-12:15)
Chair: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University)
Ahmet Karamustafa (University of Maryland), Sufi Paths and the Spatial Turn
Nicolas Trépanier (University of Mississippi), Landscape and the Subjective Experience of Place in Mediaeval Anatolia
Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College), How Big Was the Ottoman Empire in the 17th Century? Placing Ethnicity, Language and the State in an Armeno-Ottoman Manuscript from Kaffa (Feodopolis)
Selim Kuru (University of Washington), Poetic Cartographies, Urban Anxieties: Lâmi‘î Chelebi's 'Bursa Shehrengizi' Redux
Özer Ergenç (Bilkent University), Perception of Space in the Early Modern Ottoman World: "Vatan" and "Diyar-ı Aher" within the Triangular Context of "Memalik-i Mahruse", "Diyar-ı Acem" and "Frengistan”
Panel II: Mapping Space (1:15-3:15)
Chair: Martin Lewis (Stanford University)
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley), Rendering Ptolemy's Geography from Greek into Arabic at the Court of Mehmet the Conqueror: Ancient Toponyms
Karen Pinto (Gettysburg College), Ottomans Mediating Islamic Cartographic Space
Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan), Time, Space, and Politics in Ottoman Maps
Pinar Emiralioğlu (University of Pittsburg), The Ottoman Enlightenment: 'Geography' and Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century
Panel III: Building Space (3:45-5:45)
Chair: Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University)
Patricia Blessing (Stanford University), All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? Early Ottoman Architecture and Its Contemporaries in Eastern Anatolia
Aleksandar Sopov (Harvard University), Land Reclamation and Expansion of Agricultural Production in Ottoman Istanbul and Mamluk Cairo at the End of the Fifteenth and Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis), City and Landscape in the Ottoman Empire: Experiencing Architecture, Narrating Space in Aleppo
Shirine Hamadeh (Rice University), In and Out of Place: The Everyday Spaces of Istanbul’s Migrants, 1720-1840
MAY 17, 2014 - Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Panel IV: Experiencing Space (9:00-11:30)
Chair: Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University)
Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota), An Ottoman Humanist on the Long Road to Egypt: Space, Time and Belonging in Salih Celalzade's Tarih-i Misr al-Cedid
Helen Pfeifer (Princeton University), The Well-Mannered Domains: Adab and the Road to a Pan-Ottoman Sociability
Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University), Ottoman Horses on the Move - A Window into Ottoman-Mughal Relations
Sinem Arcak Casale (University of Minnesota), Qazvin to Istanbul: The Journey of a Safavid Prince through Imperial Eyes
Alan Mikhail (Yale University), Ottoman Iceland
Panel V: Administering Space (12:30-2:30)
Chair: Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University)
Himmet Taşkömür (Harvard University), Dividing the Empire to Rule: Juridical Space in the Early Modern Ottoman Legal Discourse and Practice
Will Smiley (Yale University), Ottoman Space, Empire, and International Law
Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Princeton University), Insularity and Empire: The Production of Space in Ottoman Cyprus
Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University), Money and Empire in the Sixteenth Century, The Spatial Dimension
Panel VI: Digitizing Space (3:00-5:00)
Chair: Zephyr Frank (Stanford University)
Owen Doonan (California State University, Northridge), The Hinterland of Sinop in the Context of Black Sea Empires: A Comparative Perspective
Victor Ostapchuk (University of Toronto), Tracking the Movements of Masses throughout Ottoman Space: The Views from Non-narrative Documents and Their Value for Spatial History
Amy Singer (Tel Aviv University), Where IS Edirne? Situating an Ottoman City in the Time-Space Continuum
Hakan Karateke (University of Chicago), Mapping Ottoman Inscriptions
General Discussion (5:00-6:00)
Concluding Remarks (6:00-6:20)
Kären Wigen (Stanford University)
Keynote lecture (9:00-10:00)
Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University), The Politics of Space in Ottoman Historiography: Sacralization, Contestation, and Mulberries in the Middle
Panel I: Imagining Space (10:00-12:15)
Chair: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University)
Ahmet Karamustafa (University of Maryland), Sufi Paths and the Spatial Turn
Nicolas Trépanier (University of Mississippi), Landscape and the Subjective Experience of Place in Mediaeval Anatolia
Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College), How Big Was the Ottoman Empire in the 17th Century? Placing Ethnicity, Language and the State in an Armeno-Ottoman Manuscript from Kaffa (Feodopolis)
Selim Kuru (University of Washington), Poetic Cartographies, Urban Anxieties: Lâmi‘î Chelebi's 'Bursa Shehrengizi' Redux
Özer Ergenç (Bilkent University), Perception of Space in the Early Modern Ottoman World: "Vatan" and "Diyar-ı Aher" within the Triangular Context of "Memalik-i Mahruse", "Diyar-ı Acem" and "Frengistan”
Panel II: Mapping Space (1:15-3:15)
Chair: Martin Lewis (Stanford University)
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley), Rendering Ptolemy's Geography from Greek into Arabic at the Court of Mehmet the Conqueror: Ancient Toponyms
Karen Pinto (Gettysburg College), Ottomans Mediating Islamic Cartographic Space
Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan), Time, Space, and Politics in Ottoman Maps
Pinar Emiralioğlu (University of Pittsburg), The Ottoman Enlightenment: 'Geography' and Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century
Panel III: Building Space (3:45-5:45)
Chair: Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University)
Patricia Blessing (Stanford University), All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? Early Ottoman Architecture and Its Contemporaries in Eastern Anatolia
Aleksandar Sopov (Harvard University), Land Reclamation and Expansion of Agricultural Production in Ottoman Istanbul and Mamluk Cairo at the End of the Fifteenth and Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis), City and Landscape in the Ottoman Empire: Experiencing Architecture, Narrating Space in Aleppo
Shirine Hamadeh (Rice University), In and Out of Place: The Everyday Spaces of Istanbul’s Migrants, 1720-1840
MAY 17, 2014 - Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Panel IV: Experiencing Space (9:00-11:30)
Chair: Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University)
Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota), An Ottoman Humanist on the Long Road to Egypt: Space, Time and Belonging in Salih Celalzade's Tarih-i Misr al-Cedid
Helen Pfeifer (Princeton University), The Well-Mannered Domains: Adab and the Road to a Pan-Ottoman Sociability
Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University), Ottoman Horses on the Move - A Window into Ottoman-Mughal Relations
Sinem Arcak Casale (University of Minnesota), Qazvin to Istanbul: The Journey of a Safavid Prince through Imperial Eyes
Alan Mikhail (Yale University), Ottoman Iceland
Panel V: Administering Space (12:30-2:30)
Chair: Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University)
Himmet Taşkömür (Harvard University), Dividing the Empire to Rule: Juridical Space in the Early Modern Ottoman Legal Discourse and Practice
Will Smiley (Yale University), Ottoman Space, Empire, and International Law
Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Princeton University), Insularity and Empire: The Production of Space in Ottoman Cyprus
Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University), Money and Empire in the Sixteenth Century, The Spatial Dimension
Panel VI: Digitizing Space (3:00-5:00)
Chair: Zephyr Frank (Stanford University)
Owen Doonan (California State University, Northridge), The Hinterland of Sinop in the Context of Black Sea Empires: A Comparative Perspective
Victor Ostapchuk (University of Toronto), Tracking the Movements of Masses throughout Ottoman Space: The Views from Non-narrative Documents and Their Value for Spatial History
Amy Singer (Tel Aviv University), Where IS Edirne? Situating an Ottoman City in the Time-Space Continuum
Hakan Karateke (University of Chicago), Mapping Ottoman Inscriptions
General Discussion (5:00-6:00)
Concluding Remarks (6:00-6:20)
Kären Wigen (Stanford University)
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