The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is pleased to publish this schedule for our conference, to be held October 9-11 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are thankful to the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University for sponsoring this year's conference.
Thursday, October 8: Pre-Conference Event in Ingraham Hall 206
4:00pm Hakan Kırımlı, "The Crimean Tatars: Between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine." A talk in the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies.
Friday, October 9: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
9am-10:45am: Welcome, breakfast, and plenaries in Pyle Center, Room 205
11am-1pm: Session 1
Panel 1: Social Histories of the Late Ottoman Fiscal Crisis
Pyle Center Room 225
Chair & Discussant
Daniel Stolz, Kemal H. Karpat Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presentations:
“Silt, Infrastructure, and the Ottoman Roots of Austerity in the Gediz Delta”
Önder Eren Akgül, Northwestern University
“Financial Control over Production: The OPDA and the Regulation of Ottoman Sericulture”
Emre Can Dağlıoğlu, Stanford University
“Ottoman Extraction: Family, Army, and Austerity in the Late 19th Century”
Kate Dannies, Miami University
“The Sultan’s Lands and the Social and Ecological Transformation of the Aleppan Countryside”
Elizabeth R. Williams, UMass Lowell
Panel 2: Constructing Urban Space and Imaginaries in the Ottoman World, c. 1600-1900: Narratives, Places, and People
Pyle Center Room 226
Organizer: Ege Gutay, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Selim Sırrı Kuru, University of Washington
Presentations:
“Holy Fools and the Urban Experience in Early Modern Istanbul”
Berkin Hızlan, University of Washington
“Stirring up the Prose: Evliyā Çelebi’s Reconceptualization of the Şehrengīz Genre in the Seyāḥatnāme”
Özge Işık, Boğaziçi University
“Urban Landscape and Spatial Transformations in the Waterfront of 19th Century Smyrna”
Ege Gutay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1pm-2pm: Lunch in the Wisconsin Idea Lounge, Pyle Center (lower level)
2pm-4pm: Session 2
Panel 3: Making of Borderlands: Mobility, Violence, and Resistance in the Late Ottoman Empire
Pyle Center Room 225
Organizer: Sahika Karatepe SUNY Binghamton
Discussant: Onder Eren Akgul Northwestern University
Presentations
“Exploitation and Resistance: Revolutionary Movements and Communal Solidarity in the Bardizag Region of the Ottoman Empire”Sahika Karatepe SUNY Binghamton
“‘Fukara-yı Hüccac (Destitute Pilgrims)’ in the Hejaz: The Politics of Destitution in the Age of Cholera (1890-1914)”
Turan Bayram, SUNY Binghamton
“The Crisis of Geopolitical Accumulation: Contesting and (Un)Making the Late Ottoman Borderlands”
Deniz Ali Uyan, SUNY Binghamton
“The Politics of Refugee Return and Sectarian State-Making in the Ottoman-Russian Borderlands, 1898-1902”
Erdem Ilter, Stanford University
Panel 4: Materiality and Identity In The Ottoman World
Pyle Center Room 226
Organizer: Lynda Carroll, SUNY Binghamton
Presentations
“East and West at the border of the Ottoman Empire: Brăila fortress (18th – beginning of 19th century)”
Niculina Dinu, Museum of Brăila „Carol I”
“The Finest of Cups and Sacred Jugs: Household Material Culture and Identity in Ottoman Ayazmend”
Lynda Carroll, SUNY Binghamton University and Cortland College
“Ambivalent politics of memory and heritage in 20th century Romania: From the Hagi Prodan House to The Merchant House of the 18th and 19th centuries Museum”
Roxana Coman, PhD Independent Scholar
4:30pm-5:30pm: Special Collections exhibit tour: meet in lobby of Pyle Center at 4:20pm to walk over to Memorial Library
Saturday, October 10: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
8:30am-9:30am breakfast available at the Pyle Center (second floor)
9:30am-11:30am Session 3
Panel 5: Late Ottoman Novels and the Archival Imaginary: Translation, Gender/Sexuality, and World-Building PART I
Pyle Center Room 225
Organizers: Erdağ Göknar, Duke University
Nefise Kahraman, University of Toronto
Presentations:
“Translating Ambiguity: Toward a Queer Ottoman-Turkish Literary Archive”
İpek Şahinler, University of Texas-Austin
“Translating Across Time: The Multi-Stage Translation of Fatma Aliye’s Levayih-i Hayat into English”
Nefise Kahraman, University of Toronto“Detecting Desire in Late Ottoman Galata: Crime Fiction and Sexualized Ethnography in Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Petri the Slasher: Terror of Galata”
Erdağ Göknar, Duke University
Panel 6: Contested Legalities and Political Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire
Pyle Center Room 226
Discussant: Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Florida State University
Presentations:
“Local Economies of the Rhodopean Villages in the Ottoman-Bulgarian Borderland (1878-1912)”
Canan Balkan, Sabancı University
“‘A Name which Does Not Exist’: Jurisdictional Ambiguity in the Administration of Miri Land in 1890s Jerusalem”
Dorian Bon, Princeton University
“Disciplining Justice: The Ottoman Judiciary During the Tanzimat Era”
H. Fatih Öyük, Princeton University
“Road Construction, Obligatory Labor, and the Making of Legality in the Tanzimat State”
Deniz Yüce, University of Wisconsin
12:00pm-1:15pm: Plenary session and lunch: Legacies of Kemal H. Karpat, with keynote from Prof. Hakan Kırımlı, sponsored by the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies, Pyle Center AT&T Lounge
1:30-3:30pm Session 4
Panel 7: Late Ottoman Novels and the Archival Imaginary: Translation, Gender/Sexuality, and World-Building PART II
Pyle Center Room 225
Organizers: Erdağ Göknar, Duke University
Nefise Kahraman, University of Toronto
Presentations:
“The Eunuch as Mirror: Politics, Sex, and the Documentary Imagination in Late Ottoman Erotic Fiction”
Burcu Karahan, Stanford University
“Recovering from the Archive: Rethinking Ottoman Turkish Erotic Fiction in the Time of Translation”
Müge Özoğlu, Utrecht University
“Thinking Alongside the Mediterranean World: Slavery, Patriotism, and World Literature in Zafer Hanım’s Aşk-ı Vatan”
C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç University
Panel 8: Knowledge, Sovereignty, and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republic
Pyle Center Room 226
Organizer: Muhammet Topal, University of Arizona
Presentations:
“The Rise and Fall of Universal History: Curriculum Regulation and the Fabrication of the Imperial Subject in the Hamidian Empire”
Muhammet Topal, University of Arizona
“An Inter-Imperial Borderland: Sovereignty, Ecology, and Transregional Networks in Late Ottoman Yemen”
Yiğit Bayman, University of Arizona
“Rewriting Time: The Influence of the Ottoman Script on Spatiotemporal Cognition in Historical and Modern Contexts”
Onur Can Öz, University of Arizona
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-6pm Session 5
Panel 9: Nature, Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Ottoman Empire
Pyle Center Room 225
Organizer: Zozan Pehlivan, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Presentations:
“Against Gout: Courtly Health, Chemical Therapeutics, and Trans-Imperial Exchange in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean World”
Fikri Çicek, United States Naval Academy
“What’s in a name? Visual botanical translations between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
Duygu Yildirim, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“A Shared Landscape: Subsistence Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Diyarbakır”
Faisal Husain, The Pennsylvania State University.
“Vaccine Empire: Vaccination and Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire”
Zozan Pehlivan, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Panel 10: Digital Humanities Developments and the Future of Ottoman & Turkish Studies
Pyle Center Room 226
Organizers: Kent Schull, SUNY Binghamton
Sibel Karakoç, SUNY BinghamtonPresentations:
“Istanbul by Neighborhoods, Numbers and Names: the İstanΠόλις digital
Collaborative”
Christine Philliou, University of California-Berkeley
“From Ottoman Archives to Digital Archives: Artificial Intelligence, Accessibility, and the Future of Ottoman Historical Research”
Kent Schull, SUNY Binghamton
Sibel Karakoç, SUNY Binghamton
“Reading the Language of the Conquerors: Handwritten Text Recognition for Chagatai Turkish”
Jonathan McCollum, Independent Scholar
“Müteferriqa and the Case for Product-Driven Digital Humanities in Ottoman Studies”
C. Ozan Ceyhan, Müteferriqa
6pm-8pm: Dinner Reception and Awards Ceremony sponsored by the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, Pyle Center Alumni Lounge
Sunday, October 11 Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue
9am-11am Session 6
Panel 11: Revisiting Ottoman Historiography: Sources, Methods, and Narratives
Fluno Center Room 201
Discussant: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University
Presentations:
“‘I Am Shah Ismail!’: Archives, Categories, and the Making of Ottoman-Safavid Histories”
Ayse Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, New York University
“The Wafāʾiyya Thesis Revisited: Rethinking the Origins of Anatolian Popular Islam”
Rıza Yıldırım, University of Vienna
“Fifteen Years On: An Assessment of the Confessionalization Debate in Ottoman History”
Vefa Erginbaş, Providence College
“Ottoman Political Thought and the Siyasetname Regime”
Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University
Panel 12: Mobility and Belonging at the End of Ottoman Empire
Fluno Center Room 203
Discussant: Kent Schull, SUNY Binghamton
Presentations:
“Negotiating Mobility and Belonging: Mehmed Cavid Bey and the Transimperial Ottoman World”
Ayşe Köse Badur, IFEA Istanbul
“Armenians in the Thracian Borderlands: Governing Mobility and Limits of Belonging during ‘long’ World War I”
Pınar Odabaşı Taşcı, University of Akron
“In a Liminal World: Harem Eunuchs and the Politics of Belonging Between Empire and Republic”
Ezgi Çakmak, Towson University
“Mobility, Diversity and Class Politics in Post-Ottoman Space: La Federation balkanique (1924-1932)”
Pelin Tığlay, Panteion University
Coffee and snacks will be available on the second floor of the Fluno Center from 8:00am-11:00am.
