[Bilimsel Haber] Harvard University-Ottoman and Turkish Studies Lecture Series

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website: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/360

Harvard University
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Program

presents a lecture series with
Professor Klaus KREISER (Cologne)

DISCOVERING ANATOLIA

The Turkish Discovery of Anatolia
November 13, 2006; 4:00 pm
Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South 050

Teaching Geography:
>From the Darulfunun to Dil ve Tarih-Cografya Fakultesi
November 14, 2006; 4:00 pm
CGIS, South 030

Troia and Turkish Hellenism
November 15, 2006; 6:00 pm
CGIS, South 050
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website: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/360
Harvard University
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Program

Sebeb-i Telif: A Symposium on Ottoman Primary Sources

November 16, 2006; Thursday
Sever Hall 213

9:00 Opening Remarks or Sebeb-i Teklif
Cemal Kafadar & Hakan Karateke

Session I; Chair: Cornell Fleischer
9:15 Baki Tezcan: The Multiple Faces of the One:
The Invocation Section of Ottoman Literary
Introductions as a Locus For the Central Argument
of the Text

9:55 Gottfried Hagen: Saintly Past, Contentious Present:
A Political Reading of the Vilayetname of Haci Bektas

10:35 Coffee Break

11:00 Ahmet Karamustafa
Extreme Makeover: Karakaszade's Rewrite of Vahidi's Menakib

Session II; Chair: Klaus Kreiser
2:00 Helga Anetshofer: Censoring Homoeroticism in
Old Anatolian Turkish Qabusname Translations

2:40 Selim Kuru: Literary Beginnings: Ottoman
Literary Biographies and Literature

3:20 Coffee Break

3:40 Asli Niyazioglu: Dreams and the Very Special
Dead: Atai's (d. 1635) Reasons for Composing his
Mesnevis

November 17, 2006; Friday
Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South 250

Session III; Chair: Ahmet Karamustafa
9:00 Cornell Fleischer: History Seen From Bursa
as Impetus, Before and After 1453: Introductions
of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami (d. 1455) and Lamii
Celebi (d. 1532)

9:40 Nicolas Vatin: Truth and Semi-truth in
Feridun's (d. 1583) Nuzhetu'l-esruri'l-ahbar der
sefer-i Sigetvar

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Klaus Kreiser: Did Abdurrahman Hibri Efendi
(d. 1676) Introduce the Genre 'Urban History' in
Ottoman Historiography?

Session IV; Chair: Nicolas Vatin
2:00 Cemal Kafadar: Why Does One Write? Why Does
One Ever Write? The Spin Zone Between the
Author's Secret (sirr) and his Lament (n�le)
(based on some humble texts)

2:40 Hakan Karateke: Reconstructing the
Collective Mindset of a Group of Scribes on the
Basis of Marginal Notes

3:20 Coffee Break

3:40 General discussion led by Ahmet Karamustafa & Cemal Kafadar