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The Fourth Meeting of the Western Ottomanists' Workshop UCLA
| Location: | California, United States |
| Workshop Date: | 2013-03-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2013-02-22 |
| Announcement ID: |
201683 |
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We are pleased to announce that the University of California, Los Angeles will host the fourth meeting of the Western Ottomanists' Workshop on March 1-2, 2013 (Friday and Saturday). WOW was founded in 2010 and has held meetings in Portland, OR (2010), Davis, CA (2011), and Walla Walla, WA (2012). For more information please visit http://faculty.unlv.edu/curryj5/WOW/WOWindex.html
This workshop will provide an opportunity for both current and future scholars to gather and discuss relevant issues within the field and present current research projects on the Ottoman history and culture. We are very pleased to announce that Professor Baki Tezcan will give the keynote address. There also will be several stimulating paper presentations. Please find our schedule bellow:
Start time for conference: 3:00 at UCLA, Royce room 306
Friday March 1, 2013
3:00 - 4:00 pm Keynote presentation: Baki Tezcan, University of California - Davis
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Revisiting Dominant Paradigms In Ottoman Economic History”
Discussant: Gabriel Piterberg –UCLA
Linda Darling, University of Arizona: “Revisiting the Timar System:Historiography and New Research.”
Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California - Riverside: Was there an “Ottoman Economic Mind?”
5:30 - 6:30 Round Table with Gabriel Piterberg,- UCLA: “Concerns about History and Theory.”
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Start time for conference: 9:00 at UCLA, Royce room 306
9:00am - 11:00am - Panel 1
Discussant: Nile Green - UCLA
Najwa al-Qattan, Loyola Marymont: “When Mothers Ate Their Children: Wartime Cannibalism and Other Transgressions of the Culinary Kind”
Murat Yildiz, University of California - Los Angeles: “The Institutionalization of Modern Sporting and Physical Education in late Ottoman Istanbul”
1:00 pm - 3:00pm - Panel 2
Discussant: Heather Ferguson - Claremont McKenna
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, University of Washington: “The Glance of Beauty: male-male interactions in narrating victory and defeat in the Baṭṭalnāme”
Georg Michels, University of California - Riverside: “We Rather Wish to Submit to You than the Germans”: Hungarians Seeking Ottoman Protection Against the Habsburgs (1661-76)”
3:30 - 5:00 - Panel 3
Discussant: James Gelvin - UCLA
Umit Firat Acikgoz, Rice University: “Questions on the Late Ottoman Urbanism and its Discourse: Cemal Pasha in Syria (1914-1917)”
Andrew Roberts, University of California - Riverside:“Bulgarian Migration and the Ottoman State: Re-conceptualizing State-Society Relations in the Pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Balkans”
5:00 - 6:00 - Closing Round Table Discussion
6:00 - 6:30 - Business Meeting
Conference ends
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