"Living Empire: Ottoman Identities in Transition 1700-1850".
McMaster University 20-22 April, 2012, Hamilton, Canada – Participant List
NAME
LOCATION/INSTITUTION
PAPER TITLE
Virginia Aksan
McMaster University, Canada
Organizer
Palmira Brummett
Brown University, USA
Frank Castiglione
University of Michigan, USA
Discussant
Tolga Esmer
Central European University,
Hungary
“The Violent Confessions of an Ottoman Irregular: SelfRepresentation, Narrative Strategies, and Ottoman
Interpretive Communities at the Turn of the
Nineteenth Century”
[email protected]
Rossitsa Gradeva
American University in Bulgaria,
Sofia
"Vidin at the time of Osman Pazvantoğlu: The Complex
Interaction of the Faiths at the Frontier of Ottoman
Space and Time"
[email protected]
Antonis
Hadjikyriacou
Association for Historical
Dialogue and Research, Cyprus
"Insular Space and Center-Province Interactions: Local
Intermediaries in late-18th Century Cyprus"
[email protected]
Gottfried Hagen
University of Michigan, USA
Tobias Heinzelmann
Orientalisches Seminar,
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Christine IsomVerhaaren
Benedictine University, Chicago,
USA
“You Say ‘Classical,’ I Say ‘Imperial,’ Let’s Call the
Whole Thing Off: Empire, Individual, And Encounter in
1700.”
Discussant
“ 'Biographies' of Books and the Life of Their Readers in
the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries”
“Who was an Ottoman in the Naval Forces of the
Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Centuries? Was
there Room in Rum for Corsairs?”
e-mail address
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"Living Empire: Ottoman Identities in Transition 1700-1850".
McMaster University 20-22 April, 2012, Hamilton, Canada – Participant List
Seyfi Kenan
İslâm Araştırmaları Merkezi
(İSAM), Istanbul, Turkey
“Behiç Efendi and the Role of His Lâyiha/Report in the
Transition from the Ancient Regime to the New Order
During the Selim III’s Rule”
[email protected]
Julia Landweber
Montclair State University, USA
“Venetian Vagabonds and Furious Frenchmen:
National and Cosmopolitan Impulses among Europeans
in Galata”
[email protected]
Ethan Menchinger
University of Michigan, USA
“The Chronicler Ahmed Vâsıf on Agency, Causality, and
a Reformist Philosophy of History”
[email protected]
Murat Cem Mengüç
Seton Hall University, USA
Victor Ostapchuk
“Expressions of Turkic Identity in the Early Ottoman
Histories”
[email protected]
University of Toronto, Canada
Organizer
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James Reilly
University of Toronto, Canada
“A View from Homs ca.1700”
[email protected]
Orlin Sabev
Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia
“Portrait and Self-Portrait: An Eighteenth-Century
Hungarian-Born Ottoman Muslim’s Self-Narrative”
[email protected]
Dana Sajdi
Boston College, USA
“In Other Worlds? The Geographical Visions of 18Century Syrian Chroniclers”
[email protected]
Kent Schull
University of Memphis, USA
Will Smiley
Cambridge University, UK
Discussant
[email protected]
“Captivity and Claims of Identity in the Russo-Ottoman
Wars of the Selimian Era”
[email protected]
"Living Empire: Ottoman Identities in Transition 1700-1850".
McMaster University 20-22 April, 2012, Hamilton, Canada – Participant List
“Sultan Abdülmecid's 1846 Tour of Rumelia and the
Trope of Love”
Darin Stephanov
University of Memphis, USA
Kahraman Şakul
City University of Istanbul,
Turkey
“Zihni İsmail Pasha: An Amateurish Inventor of the Late
18th Century”
[email protected]
Veysel Şimşek
McMaster University, Canada
Organizer; “The making of the first Little Mehmeds: Life
and death in the Ottoman regular army, 1826-53”
[email protected]
Steve Tamari
Southern Illinois University, USA
“Early Modern Manifestations of Cultural Regionalism
in Geographical Syria”
[email protected]
Fatma Sel Turhan
Yunus Emre Institute, Turkey
“The Rebellious Kapudan of Bosnia: Hüseyin Kapudan”
[email protected]
Charles Wilkins
Wake Forest University, USA
“Ahmad Efendi Tahazada (d. 1773): Urban Notable of
Ottoman Aleppo”
[email protected]
Ali Yaycıoğlu
Stanford University, USA
“Mal Canın Yongasıdır”: Property, Life and Empire in
the Ottoman World
[email protected]
Fatih Yeşil
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Gültekin Yıldız
Istanbul University, Turkey
Robert Zens
LeMoyne College, USA
“How to be(come) an Ottoman at the end of the
Eighteenth century”
[email protected]
[email protected]
“Who were the Bashibozuks?: Irregular Warriors as the
Contractual Special Forces of Ottoman Regular Army
(1826-1876)”
[email protected]
"Depicting The Age Of Ayan Through Creative
Nonfiction"
[email protected]