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Interested scholars are invited to attend the conference, "Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World," to be held at the Ottoman Bank Convention Center in Istanbul, October 19-21, 2005. Please contact Andrew Cayton or Dan Goffman (e-mail addresses provided below) for more information.
The program is as follows:
Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World
October 19-21, 2005
Program
Wednesday, October 19
1:00 – 3:30 Welcome (various supporters of the event)
Introduction – Daniel Goffman and Drew Cayton
Session one: workshop Mechanisms of Empire
Edhem Eldem
Carla Pestana
4:00 – 6:00 Session two: paper panel Empire
Barbara Fuchs, “Rivalry and Rhetoric”
Claire Norton, “The Diplomatic sub-text of the two Ottoman Nagykanizsa
Fethnames”
Derin Terzio lu, "Islamic Puritanism in Service of the Empire: the Kadizadeli movement revisited"
Daniel J. Vitkus, “Imperial Modeling: Or How the English Learned From Ottoman Imperialism”
Ariel Salzman, Chair
Thursday, October 20
10:00 – 12:00 Session three: paper panel Imperial Exotica
Benjamin Schmidt, paper title needed, on Embellished Books
Cernal Kafadar, paper title needed, on Exotic Consumables
Richard Kagan, paper title needed, on Ethnographic Detail on Early Maps
Palmira Brummett, Chair
1:30 – 3:30 Session four: workshopDiscovery and Observation
Giancarlo Casale
Karen Kupperman
Robert Dankoff
Jane Merritt
4:00 – 6:00 Session five: paper panelTextual Representation
Nabil Al-Tikriti, “Osman on the Mind: Tomasso Campanella’s Utopian Vision”
François Furstenberg, “Atlantic/Ottoman Contact and Anglo-American Political Identities”
Elizabeth A. Horodowich, “Armchair Travelers and Venetian Constructions”
Natalie Rothman, “Istanbul for Beginners: An Ottoman Venetian Manuscript”
Alan Taylor, Chair
Friday, October 21
9:30 – 11:00 Session six: paper panelNegotiation of Cultural Difference
Eric R. Dursteler, “Venetian and Ottoman Sociability in Early Modern Constantinople”
Viorel Panaite, "Anglo-French Rivalries in the Mediterranean. The Evidence of an Ottoman Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale (late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries)"
Fariba Zarinebaf, “Intercommunal Life in 18th Century Istanbul” Daniel Usner, Chair
11:30 – 1:00 Session seven: Workshop Women in Court
Cornelia Dayton
Leslie Peirce
2:00 – 3:30 Concluding session: Summary
Natalie Zemon Davis
Selim Deringil
Gordon Wood
Selçuk Esenbel, Chair
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