[Discussion] Conference: "Royal Courts and Capitals", Sabancı U
niversity, October 14-16
Onur İnal
oinal@ku.edu.tr
Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:56:57 +0300
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Sabanci University will be hosting the "Royal Courts and Capitals" =
conference in Istanbul on October 14-16. The conference will be realized =
as part of the COST Action "Tributary Empires Compared: Romans, Mughals =
and Ottomans in the Pre-Industrial World From Antiquity Till the =
Transition to Modernity". "Tributary Empires Compared" is a four-year =
project which aims to produce a better understanding of classical =
tributary empires and the problems relating to segmented, loosely =
integrated and partly overlapping forms of power and authority, through =
the establishment of a European network for the comparative study of the =
Roman, Ottoman, Mughal and related empires. "Royal Courts and Capitals" =
conference brings together scholars working in different disciplines to =
explore and share the latest research on imperial courts. The =
proceedings will be published in the future.
Conference Organizers:
Metin Kunt (Sabanci): mkunt@sabanciuniv.edu
Tulay Artan (Sabanci): tulay@sabanciuniv.edu
Jeroen Duindam (Utrecht): jeroen.duindam@let.uu.nl
For further information please contact Tulay Artan
Royal Courts and Capitals, 14-16 October 2005
Sabanci University, Istanbul
14 OCTOBER
Friday Morning
Opening Metin Kunt / Jeroen Duindam 9.00-10.00
Session I 10.30-12.00 Variants of Dynastic Power
Metin Kunt (Sabanci) "How to become a sultan"
Walter Scheidel (Stanford/Graz) "Towards a comparative study of =
monarchical succession and dynastic stability"
Robert Frost (Aberdeen) "Court, power and ritual in Poland-Lithuania =
under the Vasa dynasty, 1587-1668"
Friday afternoon
Session II 13.30-15.30 Households and Bureaucracies: "state" and =
"court"
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (The British School at Rome) "The Roman imperial =
court: seen and unseen in the performance of power"
Peter Bang (Copenhagen) "Court and State in the Roman World"
Hugh Kennedy (St Andrews) "Women and power in the early Abbasi court"
Session II 16.00-17.30 Households and Bureaucracies: "state" and =
"court"
Jeroen Duindam (Utrecht) "Households and state bureaucracies: status, =
influence, and decision-making in Vienna and Versailles"
Toby Osborne (Durham) "A shadow of a prince: diplomats embodying =
princes in early modern court ceremonial"
15 OCTOBER
Saturday morning
Session III 9.00-12.30 Household Organization: Structures and Practices
Mia Rodriguez Salgado (LSEP) "Microcosm of empire or Castilian enclave? =
The court of Philip II of Spain"
Maria-Antonietta Visceglia (Rome) "The Pope's Household (XIV- XVII =
centuries) (court personnel)"
Tulay Artan (Sabanci) "The grandvizier's 'new' household on parade: =
refashioning bureaucracy at the 1720 Circumcision Festival ?"
Paul Magdalino (St Andrews/Koc) "Court and Capital in Byzantium"
Saturday afternoon
Session IV 13.30-15.30 Courts as Meeting Places and Centres of Elite =
Integration
Rosamond McKitterick (Newnham Cambridge) "The itinerant Frankish royal =
court in the reign of Charlemagne"
Janos Bak (CEU, Budapest/Sabanc=FD) "Court and courtiers in the medieval =
kingdom of Hungary"
Jonathan Shepard (Oxford) "Young Barbarians at Court"
Session V 16.00-17.30 Courts as Conspicuous Centres: Legitimation and =
Display, I
Ebba Koch (Vienna) "Court Ceremonial and architecture as statements of =
Mughal rulership"
Michael Rogers (London) "Ottoman Regalia"
16 OCTOBER
Sunday morning
Session VI 9.00-10.30 Courts as Conspicuous Centres: Legitimation and =
Display, II
=DDsenbike Togan (METU-Ankara) "Tang court (7th c.) assigns a place to =
history and historians"
Amira Bennison (Cambridge) "The Qur'an of 'Uthman: The transformation =
of Cordoban Umayyad Ceremonial at the Almohad court in Marrakesh?"
Session VII 11.00-13.00 General Evaluation & Discussion
Philip Mansel (Society for Court Studies, London) "Dynastic Matters"
Greg Woolf (St Andrews) "Government and Administration"
Peter Burke (Cambridge) "Ceremonies and Representation"
Sunday afternoon
Palace and museum visits for non-members
Zeynep Yelce
Sabanci University
<zeynepy@su.sabanciuniv.edu>
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and Ottomans in the Pre-Industrial World From Antiquity Till the =
Transition to=20
Modernity". "Tributary Empires Compared" is a four-year project which =
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produce a better understanding of classical tributary empires and =
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problems relating to segmented, loosely integrated and partly =
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comparative study of the Roman, Ottoman, Mughal and related empires. =
"Royal=20
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Organizers:<BR>Metin Kunt (Sabanci): <A=20
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Capitals, 14-16 October 2005<BR>Sabanci University, =
Istanbul<BR><BR>14=20
OCTOBER<BR>Friday Morning<BR>Opening Metin Kunt / Jeroen Duindam=20
9.00-10.00<BR><BR>Session I 10.30-12.00 Variants of Dynastic =
Power<BR>Metin Kunt=20
(Sabanci) "How to become a sultan"<BR>Walter Scheidel=20
(Stanford/Graz) "Towards a comparative study of monarchical =
succession and=20
dynastic stability"<BR>Robert Frost (Aberdeen) "Court, power and =
ritual in=20
Poland-Lithuania under the Vasa dynasty, 1587-1668"<BR><BR>Friday=20
afternoon<BR>Session II 13.30-15.30 Households and Bureaucracies: =
"state"=20
and "court"<BR>Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (The British School at Rome) =
"The=20
Roman imperial court: seen and unseen in the performance of =
power"<BR>Peter Bang=20
(Copenhagen) "Court and State in the Roman World"<BR>Hugh Kennedy =
(St=20
Andrews) "Women and power in the early Abbasi court"<BR><BR>Session II=20
16.00-17.30 Households and Bureaucracies: "state" and =
"court"</DIV>
<DIV align=3Djustify>Jeroen Duindam (Utrecht) "Households and =
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bureaucracies: status, influence, and decision-making in Vienna and=20
Versailles"<BR>Toby Osborne (Durham) "A shadow of a prince: =
diplomats=20
embodying princes in early modern court ceremonial"<BR><BR>15=20
OCTOBER<BR>Saturday morning<BR>Session III 9.00-12.30 Household=20
Organization: Structures and Practices<BR>Mia Rodriguez Salgado =
(LSEP) =20
"Microcosm of empire or Castilian enclave? The court of Philip II of=20
Spain"<BR>Maria-Antonietta Visceglia (Rome) "The Pope's Household =
(XIV-=20
XVII centuries) (court personnel)"<BR>Tulay Artan (Sabanci) "The =
grandvizier's=20
'new' household on parade: refashioning bureaucracy at the 1720 =
Circumcision=20
Festival ?"<BR>Paul Magdalino (St Andrews/Koc) "Court and Capital in=20
Byzantium"<BR><BR>Saturday afternoon<BR>Session IV 13.30-15.30 =
Courts as=20
Meeting Places and Centres of Elite Integration<BR>Rosamond =
McKitterick =20
(Newnham Cambridge) "The itinerant Frankish royal court in the reign of=20
Charlemagne"<BR>Janos Bak (CEU, Budapest/Sabanc=FD) "Court and courtiers =
in the=20
medieval kingdom of Hungary"<BR>Jonathan Shepard (Oxford) "Young =
Barbarians at=20
Court"<BR><BR>Session V 16.00-17.30 Courts as Conspicuous Centres: =
Legitimation and Display, I<BR>Ebba Koch (Vienna) "Court Ceremonial and=20
architecture as statements of Mughal rulership"<BR>Michael Rogers =
(London) =20
"Ottoman Regalia"<BR><BR>16 OCTOBER<BR>Sunday morning<BR>Session =
VI =20
9.00-10.30 Courts as Conspicuous Centres: Legitimation and Display,=20
II<BR>=DDsenbike Togan (METU-Ankara) "Tang court (7th c.) assigns a =
place to=20
history and historians"<BR>Amira Bennison (Cambridge) "The Qur'an =
of=20
'Uthman: The transformation of Cordoban Umayyad Ceremonial at the =
Almohad court=20
in Marrakesh?"<BR><BR>Session VII 11.00-13.00 General Evaluation =
&=20
Discussion<BR>Philip Mansel (Society for Court Studies, London) =
"Dynastic=20
Matters"<BR>Greg Woolf (St Andrews) "Government and=20
Administration"<BR>Peter Burke (Cambridge) "Ceremonies and=20
Representation"<BR><BR>Sunday afternoon<BR>Palace and museum visits for=20
non-members<BR><BR>Zeynep Yelce<BR>Sabanci University<BR><<A=20
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