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<P>TANGLED EMPIRES - HUMANITARIANISM AND THE LAST OTTOMAN CENTURY: A
CONFERENCE</P>
<P>Date: November 02, 2007, All Day Event</P>
<P>Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513</P>
<P>Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Abel
Vargas by sending email to <av2223@columbia.edu>.</P>
<P>Dear colleagues,</P>
<P>Those of you in the New York area, please join us for a workshop this </P>
<P>Friday, November 2nd:</P>
<P>TANGLED EMPIRES - HUMANITARIANISM AND THE LAST OTTOMAN CENTURY: A WORKSHOP
513 Fayerweather Hall Columbia University 1180 Amsterdam Ave., New York</P>
<P>Schedule:</P>
<P>9:30-10:00 Coffee</P>
<P>10:00 Welcome/Introduction</P>
<P>Session 1: Humanitarianism from the Inside Out: Ottoman Reforms; </P>
<P>Chair: Leslie Peirce (NYU)</P>
<P>10:15 Milena Methodieva (Princeton University), Title TBA</P>
<P>11:00 New Imperial Departures: British abolitionism and identity formation
</P>
<P>in late 19th-century Ottoman Egypt; Diane Robinson-Dunn (Detroit Mercy U.)
12:00-1:30 Lunch</P>
<P>Session 2: Humanitarianism and International Orders; </P>
<P>Chair: Rashid Khalidi (Columbia)</P>
<P>1:30 A Slavophilic Crusade or Civic Development?: The Russian Civilian </P>
<P>Affairs Administration for Occupied Bulgaria, 1877-78; Peter Holquist (U. of
Pennsylania) 2:30 Who Gets to Be a People?: Reconfiguring the Ottoman Empire in
the </P>
<P>King-Crane Commission Report of 1919; Leonard Smith (Oberlin College)
3:30-4:30 Roundtable discussion (with presenters, Mark Mazower, Rashid Khalidi,
Leslie Peirce) and closing remarks 4:30 Reception </P>
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