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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations:<SPAN
class=961551612-21112007> </SPAN>Architecture, History and
Imagination</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>A Symposium organized by the Research Center for
Anatolian Civilizations, </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Koç University, Istanbul 8-9 December
2007</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>SATURDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2007</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>10:00 Opening Remarks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>10:15-11:15 Keynote Speech</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Fikret Yegül, Bathing Culture of
Anatolia</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Coffee Break</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>11:30-13:00 The Evolution of Baths in and outside
Anatolia </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Albrecht Berger, Baths in the Byzantine Age
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Lara Tohme, Between Balnea and Hammams: The
Bath-Complexes of Umayyad Syria</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Lunch Break</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>14:30-16:00 Seljuk and Early Ottoman
Baths</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Aysil Yavuz, The Baths of Anatolian Seljuk
Caravanserais</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Cigdem Kafescioglu, An Urban Monumental Type
Re-born: The Public Bath in Fifteenth-Century Istanbul</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Coffee Break</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>16:30-18:00 Ottoman Bathhouses in
Istanbul</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Nina Ergin, Bathing Business in Istanbul: A Case
Study of the Çemberlitas Hamami in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Ahmet Yasar, A Spatial and Social Topography of
Public Baths in Early Modern Istanbul</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>18:30 Reception</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>SUNDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2007</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>10:00-12:00 - Ottoman Bathhouses in the
Provinces</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Astrid Meier, Was There an Ottoman Bathing
Culture? Bathhouses in the Arab-Speaking Provinces </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Machiel Kiel, Some Little-Known Hamams and Mineral
Baths on the Balkans:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>An Introduction</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Eleni Kanetaki, Bathhouses in the Former Ottoman
Province of the Greek<SPAN class=961551612-21112007> </SPAN>Lands: A
Contribution to the Study of their History and Architecture</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Coffee Break</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>12:30-13:00 - Ottoman Bathhouses in Art and
Literature</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Günsel Renda, The Ottoman Bath Through the
Painter's Eyes</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Lunch</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>14:30-16:00 - Hamams in the Early Modern and
Modern Era Outside Anatolia </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Stephen P. Blake, Bathhouses in Mughal India and
Safavid Iran: Climate and Culture in Two Early Modern Islamic Empires
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Nebahat Avcioglu, Le Hammam in Paris: An
Haussmannian Project</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>16:00-16:45 Closing Remarks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>---------------</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Dr. Nina Ergin</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Instructor</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Department of History</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Koc University</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Istanbul</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>nergin@ku.edu.tr</FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>