مؤتمر : الطبولوجيات العثمانية: التجربة المكانية في بواكير امبراطورية حديثة وماورائها

Conference: Ottoman Topologies – Spatial experience in an early modern empire and beyond
at Stanford Univesrity, Department of History May 16-17, 2014

The Department of History at Stanford University will host a conference entitled “Ottoman Topologies: Spatial Experience in an Early Modern Empire and Beyond” on May 16 and 17, 2014. The conference will bring together scholars of Ottoman history who have been working on space-related themes in dialogue with the spatial turn in social sciences and humanities. The papers will discuss how men and women in the Ottoman world imagined, experienced, built, mapped, and administered space in early modern times and how we can understand these imaginers, movers, builders, geographers, and administrators. The conference will also include a panel that considers new possibilities of digital technology in space-related historical studies.

PROGRAM

MAY 16

Introductory Remarks (9:00-9:15)

Ali Yaycioglu (Stanford University)
Space, Place and Territory: The Ottoman World and the Spatial Turn

Keynote lecture (9:20-10:00)

Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University)
The Politics of Space in Ottoman Historiography: Sacralization, Contestation, and Mulberries in the Middle

Imagining Space (10:00-12:00)

Chair: Shahzad Bashir (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 (Feodopolis)
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”