Dear Colleagues,
The 11th Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW), organized by the Department of History and the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at California State University-Sacramento, will be held virtually on April 2-3, 2021. Below you can find the program and the links to register for the event. Please contact Serpil Atamaz (atamaztopcu@csus.edu) for questions.
THE 11th WESTERN OTTOMANISTS’ WORKSHOP
California State University, Sacramento
April 2-3, 2021
1st Day: April 2, 2021 Friday
Keynote Speech 1:30-3:00 PM (PST)
Linda Darling (University of Arizona): “Justice and Ottoman Political Thought”
Panel 1 3:30-5:00 PM (PST)
Discussant: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley)
Gülay Tulasoğlu: The Son of İzmir’s Richest Man in the Mediterranean Trade in the Beginning of the 19th Century: Katipzade Mehmed Efendi
Kaleb Herman Adney (UCLA): “To Acquire the Amount Agreed Upon” — The Transformation of Macedonian Credit and the Politicization of Tobacco (c. 1874-1889 CE)
2nd Day: April 3, 2021 Saturday
Panel 2 9:00-10:30 AM (PST)
Discussant: Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside)
Dilyara Agisheva (Georgetown University): Knowledge Networks: Crimean ‘Ulemâ and the Ottoman Learning Establishment from the 15th Century until the Early Years of the Russian Annexation of the Crimean Peninsula
Merve Tekgürler (Stanford University): Recounting News, Gathering Information: Ottoman Experiences of Eastern Europe in the Time of the Polish Partitions (1772-1795)
Panel 3 11:00-12:30 PM (PST)
Discussant: James Grehan (Portland State University)
Mustafa Emre Günaydı (Iowa State University): At the Crossroads of Disaster and Opportunity: Ecologies of Centralization in Ottoman Baghdad, 1828-1831
İsmail Noyan (Simon Fraser University): Rifa’a Rafi al-Tahtawi’s Travel to Paris and His Ideas’ Travel to Istanbul
Panel 4 2:00-3:30 PM (PST)
Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona)
Baki Tezcan (UC Davis): The Three Conversions of İbrahim Müteferrika: Risale-i İslamiye, Niyazi Berkes, and Mahmud Esad Coşan
Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside): The Battle for Silk: Rethinking Ottoman-Safavid Encounters on Their Borderlands
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