Symposium in Honor of Jane Hathaway

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May 20, 2023

9:00AM - 5:00PM

The Blackwell Inn, Executive Board Room, 102 Pfahl Conference Center

Add to Calendar 2023-05-20 09:00:00 2023-05-20 17:00:00 Symposium in Honor of Jane Hathaway Registration PROGRAM (Download a copy of the program.) 9am - 9:30am | Coffee & Conversation 9:30am - 9:45am | Opening Remarks 9:45am - 11:15am | Panel I: Ottoman Towns, Cities, and Their Residents Moderator: John J. Curry Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (New York University): Where did the City End? Urban Qizilbash in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Charles Wilkins (Wake Forest University): Mullahs, Merchants, and Mystics: Kurdish Townspeople in Early Ottoman Aleppo Vefa Erginbaş (Providence College): Darülhadis Madrasahs and Ottoman Sunnitization: Preliminary Remarks Patrick Scharfe (Independent Scholar): “The Way of Judges”: An Arabic Dialogue Between the Qadi of Egypt and General Abdallah (Jacques) Menou 11:15am - 11:45am | Coffee 11:45am - 1:15pm | Panel II: Institutions, Cultures, and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Moderator: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer John J. Curry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): A Divergent Manuscript: What MS Ayasofya 3188 Tells Us about Presenting the Ming Dynasty to the Ottoman Court Sanja Kadrić (Independent Scholar): “Türk Üzerine Olan”: The First Stage of Janissary Training Chris Whitehead (Ohio State University): A Kapı Kethüdası in Sultan Mehmed’s Court: Household Politics in the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652-1657 Colin Murtha (Community College of Rhode Island): Sanctifying Disruption: Family Rebellion in the Siyer-i Nebi 1:15pm - 2:30pm | Lunch 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Panel III: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and After Moderator: Yiğit Akın Isacar Bolaños (California State University, Long Beach): Official and Popular Responses to Pandemic Influenza in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1890-1893 Yeliz Çavuş (University of Cincinnati): Clio’s Ottoman Children: Becoming a Historian During the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Periods, 1860s-1920s Catalina Hunt (University of Texas at Austin): Empire and Belonging in Late Ottoman Balkan Borderlands Yücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond): “Mecnun Seyyahlar”: Military Desertion as a Psychiatric Problem in the Ottoman First World War and Beyond 4:00 pm - 4:15pm | Closing Remarks Organized by Yiğit Akın and Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer The symposium is sponsored by Ohio State Energy Partners. We are grateful to Mr. Serdar Tüfekçi for his friendship and support for Ottoman and Turkish history. We also thank the Department of History and the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures for their administrative support. The Blackwell Inn, Executive Board Room, 102 Pfahl Conference Center OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2023-05-20 09:00:00 2023-05-20 17:00:00 Symposium in Honor of Jane Hathaway                           Registration   PROGRAM (Download a copy of the program.) 9am - 9:30am | Coffee & Conversation 9:30am - 9:45am | Opening Remarks 9:45am - 11:15am | Panel I: Ottoman Towns, Cities, and Their Residents Moderator: John J. Curry Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (New York University): Where did the City End? Urban Qizilbash in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Charles Wilkins (Wake Forest University): Mullahs, Merchants, and Mystics: Kurdish Townspeople in Early Ottoman Aleppo Vefa Erginbaş (Providence College): Darülhadis Madrasahs and Ottoman Sunnitization: Preliminary Remarks Patrick Scharfe (Independent Scholar): “The Way of Judges”: An Arabic Dialogue Between the Qadi of Egypt and General Abdallah (Jacques) Menou 11:15am - 11:45am | Coffee 11:45am - 1:15pm | Panel II: Institutions, Cultures, and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Moderator: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer John J. Curry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): A Divergent Manuscript: What MS Ayasofya 3188 Tells Us about Presenting the Ming Dynasty to the Ottoman Court Sanja Kadrić (Independent Scholar): “Türk Üzerine Olan”: The First Stage of Janissary Training Chris Whitehead (Ohio State University): A Kapı Kethüdası in Sultan Mehmed’s Court: Household Politics in the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652-1657 Colin Murtha (Community College of Rhode Island): Sanctifying Disruption: Family Rebellion in the Siyer-i Nebi 1:15pm - 2:30pm | Lunch 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Panel III: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and After Moderator: Yiğit Akın Isacar Bolaños (California State University, Long Beach): Official and Popular Responses to Pandemic Influenza in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1890-1893 Yeliz Çavuş (University of Cincinnati): Clio’s Ottoman Children: Becoming a Historian During the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Periods, 1860s-1920s Catalina Hunt (University of Texas at Austin): Empire and Belonging in Late Ottoman Balkan Borderlands Yücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond): “Mecnun Seyyahlar”: Military Desertion as a Psychiatric Problem in the Ottoman First World War and Beyond 4:00 pm - 4:15pm | Closing Remarks   Organized by Yiğit Akın and Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer The symposium is sponsored by Ohio State Energy Partners. We are grateful to Mr. Serdar Tüfekçi for his friendship and support for Ottoman and Turkish history. We also thank the Department of History and the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures for their administrative support. The Blackwell Inn, Executive Board Room, 102 Pfahl Conference Center Department of History history@osu.edu America/New_York public

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Registration

PROGRAM

(Download a copy of the program.)

9am - 9:30am | Coffee & Conversation

9:30am - 9:45am | Opening Remarks

9:45am - 11:15am | Panel I: Ottoman Towns, Cities, and Their Residents

Moderator: John J. Curry

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (New York University): Where did the City End? Urban Qizilbash in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Charles Wilkins (Wake Forest University): Mullahs, Merchants, and Mystics: Kurdish Townspeople in Early Ottoman Aleppo
Vefa Erginbaş (Providence College): Darülhadis Madrasahs and Ottoman Sunnitization: Preliminary Remarks
Patrick Scharfe (Independent Scholar): “The Way of Judges”: An Arabic Dialogue Between the Qadi of Egypt and General Abdallah (Jacques) Menou

11:15am - 11:45am | Coffee

11:45am - 1:15pm | Panel II: Institutions, Cultures, and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Moderator: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

John J. Curry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): A Divergent Manuscript: What MS Ayasofya 3188 Tells Us about Presenting the Ming Dynasty to the Ottoman Court
Sanja Kadrić (Independent Scholar): “Türk Üzerine Olan”: The First Stage of Janissary Training
Chris Whitehead (Ohio State University): A Kapı Kethüdası in Sultan Mehmed’s Court: Household Politics in the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652-1657
Colin Murtha (Community College of Rhode Island): Sanctifying Disruption: Family Rebellion in the Siyer-i Nebi

1:15pm - 2:30pm | Lunch

2:30pm - 4:00pm | Panel III: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and After

Moderator: Yiğit Akın

Isacar Bolaños (California State University, Long Beach): Official and Popular Responses to Pandemic Influenza in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1890-1893
Yeliz Çavuş (University of Cincinnati): Clio’s Ottoman Children: Becoming a Historian During the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Periods, 1860s-1920s
Catalina Hunt (University of Texas at Austin): Empire and Belonging in Late Ottoman Balkan Borderlands
Yücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond): “Mecnun Seyyahlar”: Military Desertion as a Psychiatric Problem in the Ottoman First World War and Beyond

4:00 pm - 4:15pm | Closing Remarks

Organized by Yiğit Akın and Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

The symposium is sponsored by Ohio State Energy Partners. We are grateful to Mr. Serdar Tüfekçi for his friendship and support for Ottoman and Turkish history. We also thank the Department of History and the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures for their administrative support.

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