[Bilimsel Haber] Princeton University Summer Workshop on "The Greek Experience Under Ottoman Rule", Santorini, June 22-25, 2007

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/

Dear colleagues,

Below please find the announcement for our Summer Workshop on "The Greek
Experience Under Ottoman Rule" to be held in Santorini, June 22-25,
2007.

Kindly bring this opportunity to the attention of interested graduate
students and recent Ph.D.s who are eligible to apply.

Thank you.

Dimitri Gondicas
Executive Director
Program in Hellenic Studies
Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/


"The Greek Experience Under Ottoman Rule"

Summer Workshop

Santorini, June 22-25, 2007

In the last ten years Greece has emerged as a center of writing on the
Ottoman Empire.  A new generation of Greek scholars, some trained
abroad, some trained in Greece, have produced an impressive body of
literature that engages not only the history of the Greek communities in
the Ottoman Empire, but some of the most fundamental issues in Ottoman
history. Whereas the pioneers of an earlier generation had to stand in
splendid, but lonely, isolation, now a sufficiently large cohort has
developed, such that one can speak of a community of scholars working in
Greece on Ottoman history. This workshop is designed to bring together
recent Ph.D.s and graduate students who are working in Greece on Ottoman
history, together with a small group of graduate students and
early-career scholars from Turkey, Europe and the United States.

The workshop will focus on the experience of the Greeks under Ottoman
rule. Prospective participants are encouraged to consider additional
frameworks for their topic, beyond the Ottoman context. In accordance
with recent trends in history writing, such as transnational and
international history, presenters might want to think about the scale of
their work. Are they telling a local, a regional, or even a
transnational or international story? And what are the connections among
and across these levels? At a future date, the Progam in Hellenic
Studies at Princeton University hopes to host a conference on a regional
approach to Ottoman history. Such an approach poses the question of the
relationship between the political boundaries of the Ottoman Empire and
historic or geographic regions (however defined) in the Balkans, the
eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and beyond.

Organizing Committee:  Molly Greene (Princeton University), Heath Lowry
(Princeton University), Andreas Lyberatos (Princeton University), Eleni
Gara (University of the Aegean), Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)

Participants: Graduate students (at dissertation stage) or recent Ph.D.s
(no more than three years since date of award of the doctorate) who do
not hold tenure or tenure-track positions. To be eligible to apply,
candidates must fulfill one or more of the following criteria:
(a) Ph.D. degree or dissertation-in-progress at a university in Greece
or Cyprus; (b) B.A. degree awarded by a university in Greece or Cyprus;
(c) dissertation-in-progress or recent Ph.D. degree (from any
institution outside of Greece or Cyprus), with a focus on Greeks in the
Ottoman Empire.

Research languages required: Ottoman Turkish and Greek.

All local expenses will be covered by the Program in Hellenic Studies.

Application (in English, via e-mail, with attachments): (a) cover letter
and statement of interest; (b) one-page proposal for a 30-minute
presentation on some aspect of work-in-progress; (c) curriculum vitae;
(d) confidential recommendation letter sent directly by dissertation
advisor or other academic supervisor to: gondicas at princeton.edu

Deadline for submission of applications:  April 15, 2007.

All correspondence should be addressed to: gondicas at princeton.edu