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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4><BR>From: Nora Lafi </FONT><A
href="mailto:nora.lafi@cms.hu-berlin.de"><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>nora.lafi@cms.hu-berlin.de</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Subject: To attend in Berlin: Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar
2008-2009<BR>Date: October 22, 2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar
2008-2009<BR>ZMO-EUME<BR>Chaired by Prof. Ulrike Freitag and Dr. Nora
Lafi</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Annual Theme 2008-2009 : Daily life in Ottoman
Towns</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Twice a Month<BR>Mondays
17:00-19.00<BR><BR>Starting November 10, 2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>November 10, 2008: Ulrike Freitag and Nora
Lafi</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Introduction: Daily life in Ottoman Towns:
Historiographical Stakes and new Research Fields</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>November 24, 2008: Vangelis Kechriotis (Bogazici
University, Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe
2008/09): "Buy your bread on Saturday!" Aspects of Every Day Relations between
Christians and Muslims in Izmir during the Second Constitutional
Period"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>December 8, 2008: Feras Kremsty
(Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der<SPAN class=398092019-01112008>
</SPAN>Wissenschaften): "Daily Life Conflictuality in Ottoman Aleppo:
Confessional Communities, Petitions and Social Regulation"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>January 12, 2009: Cengiz Kirli (Bogazici
University, Istanbul): "News and Popular Opinions in Mid-nineteenth century
Ottoman Istanbul"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>January 26, 2009: Mohsen Shuman (Zaqaziq
University, Cairo): "Daily Life in ottoman Cairo: what Court Records Teach about
Labour, Neighbourhood and Family Relations"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>February 9, 2009: Johan Buessow (Research Centre
586 "Difference and Integration,"Universities of Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg):
"Street Politics in Damascus: Popular Unrest during the Period of Egyptian Rule,
1831-1840"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>February 16, 2009: Donald Quataert (State
University of New-York at<SPAN class=398092019-01112008> </SPAN>Binghamton): "An
Ottoman Rashemon and the Telling of History: the coalfield town of Eregli as
seen through a Corruption Court Case"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>March 2, 2009: Fatiha Loualich (Algiers
University): "Street life in Ottoman Algiers: Kinship, Property and Social
Order"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>March 16, 2009: Dalenda Largueche (Manouba
University, Tunis): "Women's Daily Life in Tunis 18 th -19th Century: Gender
Subordination and Justice Negociation"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>April 20, 2009: Johann Strauss (Marc Bloch
University, Strasbourg): "Linguistic Diversity and Every Day Life in Ottoman
Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>May 4, 2009: Selcuk Dursun (Istanbul, Fellow of
Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09): "Wood for Living
and Timber for Fraud: Everyday Politics of Corruption in Trabzon in the late
19th Century"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>May 18, 2009: Ismael Montana (Northern Illinois
University, Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe
2008/09): "Ethno-Religious Contours of West African Households in the Ottoman
Regency of Tunis, 1738-1860s ca."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>June 8, 2009: Christoph, Herzog (University of
Bamberg): "Trivia of Late Ottoman Daily Life"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>June 22, 2009: Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi:
Conclusion</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Venue:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Conference Hall<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Kirchweg 33<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>14129
Berlin-Nikolassee</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Participants are asked to register at the
following address: Dr. Nora Lafi nora.lafi@rz.hu-berlin.de Telefon (+49) (0) 30
80307- 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The seminar is part of the activities of the
Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and of 'Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the
Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions', a research field within 'Europe in the
Middle East – The Middle East in Europe' (EUME), a research program of the
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung,
and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>For more information please
visit:<BR><BR></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.zmo.de"><U><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN lang=EN><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>http://www.zmo.de</FONT></U></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><BR><A
href="http://www.eume-berlin.de"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#0000ff><SPAN lang=EN><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>http://www.eume-berlin.de</FONT></U></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><BR><A
href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mediter"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#0000ff><SPAN lang=EN><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mediter</FONT></U></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></P><SPAN
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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Presentation of the Seminar</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>What is the historical experience of cities in the
former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle
East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the
transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different
cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples
of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and
stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted,
and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society,
multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other
questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies,
with a specific focus on daily life issues. This seminar is supported by the
research program ‘Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe’ EUME
with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.</FONT></P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>