OTTOMAN TOPOLOGIES
SPATIAL EXPERIENCE IN AN EARLY MODERN EMPIRE AND BEYOND
Stanford University
Department of History
May 16-17, 2014
Sponsors
Department of History, Office of Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Dean’s Office - School of Humanities and Sciences, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford Humanities Center, Department of Religious Studies, Spatial History Project, Mediterranean Studies Forum, Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshop, Eurasian Empires Workshop, Department of Art and Art History, Archaeology Center, Program on Urban Studies, Sephardic Studies Project, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Global Studies Division, Arab Studies Table, Hoover Institution.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
MAY 16 - Lane History Corner (Building 200), room 307
Introductory Remarks (8:45-9:00)
Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University),
Space, Place and 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 (10:00-12:00)
Chair: Paula Findlen (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 (Feodosia)
Selim Kuru (University of Washington)
Poetic Cartographies, Urban Anxieties: Lâmi’î Chelebi's 'Bursa Shehrengizi' Redux
Lunch Break (12:00-1:00)
Panel II: Mapping Space (1:00-3:00)
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
Coffee Break (3:00-3:30)
Panel III: Building Space (3:30-5:30)
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
Reception at the Hoover Institution (6:00-7:30)
MAY 17 - Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Panel IV: Experiencing Space (9:30-11:30)
Chair: Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University)
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”
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
Alan Mikhail (Yale University)
Ottoman Iceland
Lunch Break (11:30-12:30)
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
Coffee Break (2:30-3:00)
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)
Chair: Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago)
Concluding Remarks (6:00-6:20)
Kären Wigen (Stanford University)
Sponsors:
Department of History, Office of Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Dean’s Office - School of Humanities and Sciences, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford Humanities Center, Department of Religious Studies, Spatial History Project, Mediterranean Studies Forum, Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshop, Eurasian Empires Workshop, Department of Art and Art History, Archaeology Center, Program on Urban Studies, Sephardic Studies Project, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Global Studies Division, Hoover Institution.
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