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

Date Range
2023-05-20 09:00:00 2023-05-20 17:00:00 Symposium in Honor of Jane Hathaway               PROGRAM9am - 9:30am | Coffee & Conversation9:30am - 9:45am | Opening Remarks9:45am - 11:15am | Panel I: Ottoman Towns, Cities, and Their ResidentsModerator: John J. CurryAyşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (New York University): Where did the City End? Urban Qizilbash in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireCharles Wilkins (Wake Forest University): Mullahs, Merchants, and Mystics: Kurdish Townspeople in Early Ottoman AleppoVefa Erginbaş (Providence College): Darülhadis Madrasahs and Ottoman Sunnitization: Preliminary RemarksPatrick Scharfe (Independent Scholar): “The Way of Judges”: An Arabic Dialogue Between the Qadi of Egypt and General Abdallah (Jacques) Menou11:15am - 11:45am | Coffee11:45am - 1:15pm | Panel II: Institutions, Cultures, and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireModerator: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-BrammerJohn J. Curry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): A Divergent Manuscript: What MS Ayasofya 3188 Tells Us about Presenting the Ming Dynasty to the Ottoman CourtSanja Kadrić (Independent Scholar): “Türk Üzerine Olan”: The First Stage of Janissary TrainingChris Whitehead (Ohio State University): A Kapı Kethüdası in Sultan Mehmed’s Court: Household Politics in the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652-1657Colin Murtha (Community College of Rhode Island): Sanctifying Disruption: Family Rebellion in the Siyer-i Nebi1:15pm - 2:30pm | Lunch2:30pm - 4:00pm | Panel III: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and AfterModerator: Yiğit AkınIsacar Bolaños (California State University, Long Beach): Official and Popular Responses to Pandemic Influenza in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1890-1893Yeliz Çavuş (University of Cincinnati): Clio’s Ottoman Children: Becoming a Historian During the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Periods, 1860s-1920sCatalina Hunt (University of Texas at Austin): Empire and Belonging in Late Ottoman Balkan BorderlandsYücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond): “Mecnun Seyyahlar”: Military Desertion as a Psychiatric Problem in the Ottoman First World War and Beyond4:00 pm - 4:15pm | Closing Remarks Organized by Yiğit Akın and Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-BrammerThe 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 America/New_York public
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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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