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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Institute for Mediterranean Studies
(Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas) announces its 7th International
Symposium "Halcyon Days in Crete" to be held at its premises in Rethymno, Crete
(Greece) in 9-11 January 2008. For more information please contact: Antonis
Anastasopoulos (anastasopoulos@phl.uoc.gr), Elias Kolovos (kolovos@phl.uoc.gr),
Marinos Sariyannis (marinos_sar@yahoo.com) or
halcyon7@ims.forth.gr<BR><BR>Halcyon Days in Crete VII<BR><BR>Political
Initiatives ‘From the Bottom Up’ in the Ottoman Empire<BR><BR>A
Symposium<BR>Rethymno, 9-11 January 2009<BR><BR>Symposiarch: Suraiya
Faroqhi<BR>Friday, January 9<BR><BR>Chair: Elizabeth A.
Zachariadou<BR>17:00-17:15 Addresses<BR>17:15-18:00 Suraiya Faroqhi (Istanbul),
Artisans and Political Action in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries<BR>18:15-18:35 Break<BR><BR>Chair: Gyorgy Hazai<BR>18:35-18:55 Bogac
Ergene (Vermont), The Pitfalls of Writing Ottoman Legal History from the ‘Bottom
Up’<BR>19:10-19:30 Antonis Anastasopoulos (Rethymno), The Ottomans and Civil
Society<BR><BR>Saturday, January 10<BR>Chair: John C. Alexander<BR>9:30-9:50
Onur Yildirim (Ankara), Rethinking the Student Rebellions of the Sixteenth
Century: The Case of Bursa<BR>10:05-10:25 Andreas Lyberatos (Rethymno),
“Celebis” and Guildsmen in pre-Tanzimat Plovdiv: Breaking Through the Orthodox
Ancien Regime<BR>10:40-11:00 Break<BR><BR>11:00-11:20 Dimitris Kastritsis (St
Andrews), The Revolt of Þeyh Bedreddin in the Context of the Ottoman Civil War
of 1402-13<BR>11:35-11:55 Eyal Ginio (Jerusalem), Coping with Decline: The
Political Responses of the Jewish Community to the Eighteenth-Century Crisis in
Salonica<BR>12:10-12:30 Evthymios Papataxiarchis (Mytilene), Petitions as
Vehicle and Object of Political Reconfigurations: The Microhistory of a 'Tax
Revolt' in Early Tanzimat Ayvalýk<BR><BR><BR>Chair: Nicolas Vatin<BR>16:30-16:50
Baki Tezcan (Davis), Who Gets to Write History? Contemporary Texts on the
Regicide of Osman II and Their Impact on Ottoman Historiography<BR>17:05-17:25
Marinos Sariyannis (Rethymno), The Kadizadeli Movement as a Social and Political
Phenomenon: The Rise of a ‘Mercantile Ethic’?<BR>17:40-18:00
Break<BR>18:00-18:20 Hulya Canbakal (Istanbul), Consensus and Consent in Urban
Public Life (17th-18th Centuries)<BR>18:35-18:55 Leslie Peirce (New York),
Talking Back to Oppression: The Celali Hasan and the People of Harput,
1632<BR><BR>Sunday, January 11<BR>Chair: Leslie Peirce<BR>9:30-9:50 Rossitsa
Gradeva (Sofia), From the Bottom Up and Back Again, Until Who Knows When…: Legal
Procedures for the Repairs and Reconstruction of Non-Muslim Houses of Worship
(Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries)<BR>10:05-10:25 Sophia Laiou (Corfu),
Political Processes on the Island of Samos Prior to the Greek War of
Independence and the Reaction of the Sublime Porte<BR>10:40-11:00
Break<BR>11:00-11:20 Eleni Gara (Mytilene), Between Local Exigencies and
Imperial Priorities: Possibilities and Limitations of Collective Action in the
Seventeenth-Century Balkans<BR>11:35-11:55 Elias Kolovos (Rethymno), Riot in the
Village: Some Cases of Peasant Protest around Ottoman Salonica<BR>12:10-12:30
Dimitris Papastamatiou (Thessaloniki), The Conduct of a Regional Crisis and the
Appeal to State Intervention by the Regional Elites in the Peloponnese: The Case
of Musa Aga’s Heirs<BR><BR>Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi<BR>16:30-16:50 Nicolas Vatin
(Paris), Comment disparut le cimetiere de Kasýmpasa (1582-1592). Un difficile
arbitrage du sultan entre ses sujets juifs et musulmans<BR>17:05-17:25 Svetlana
Ivanova (Sofia), The Ottoman Decrees Up in Istanbul and What the Rumeli Subject
Perceived at the Bottom (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) <BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>17:40-18:00 Break<BR>18:00-18:20 Aysel Danaci Yildiz
(Istanbul), The May 1807 Rebellion as a Social Movement<BR>18:35-18:55 Cemal
Kafadar (Harvard), The Question of ‘The End of Ideology’ during the Celali
Era<BR>19:10-19:45 Concluding Remarks, Discussion and Farewell<BR><BR>Organising
Committee<BR>Antonis Anastasopoulos (University of Crete / Institute for
Mediterranean Studies) Thanassis Kalpaxis (University of Crete / Institute for
Mediterranean Studies)<BR>Elias Kolovos (University of Crete / Institute for
Mediterranean Studies)<BR>Marinos Sariyannis (Institute for Mediterranean
Studies)<BR><BR>The Symposium received support from:<BR>The Academy of
Athens<BR><BR>Under the aegis of:<BR>Municipality of Rethymno<BR>Prefecture of
Rethymno<BR><BR>The sessions will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean
Studies, at the junction of Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou str., in the old
town of Rethymno.</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>