[Bilimsel Haber] International Workshop: Migration and Urban Institutions in the Late Ottoman Reform Period, May 10-11, 2007, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin

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To attend in Berlin: Migration and Urban Institutions

International Workshop:
Migration and Urban Institutions in the Late Ottoman Reform Period
May 10-11, 2007
Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin

Programme:
Thursday, 10 May

9:45-10:15 Welcome, Registration
10:15-13:00

Introduction: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler
Nora Lafi (ZMO): Comparative Migration Studies in the Ottoman Urban
Panorama
Session 1: Regulation of Migrations by the State and the City
Discussant: Andreas Helmedach (Braunschweig)
Christoph Herzog (Orient Institute Istanbul): Migration and the State:
on Ottoman Regulations Concerning Migration since the Age of Mahmud II
Dilek Akyalçýn-Kaya (EHESS Paris/Istanbul): Immigration to the Ottoman
Lands: the Case of Salonica in the Late Nineteenth Century

13:00-14:30 Lunch at ZMO

14:30-16:30

Session 2: Migration, Urban Governance and the Role of Itinerant Labour
in Comparative Perspective
Discussant: Dana Sajdi (Fellow of EUME/ZMO)
Tetsuya Sahara (Meiji University Tokyo): The Ottoman City Council and
the Beginning of the Modernization of Urban Space in the Balkans
Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris I Sorbonne): Access to Urban Notability for
Migrants in Early Modern Marseilles

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18:00

Irene Fatsea (University of Thessaly, Volos/Athens): Builders and
Craftsmen in the Founding Phase of Modern Athens: the Illuminating Role
of the Building Contract

Friday, 11 May

10:00-13:00

Session 3: The Stranger in the City: Unwanted Immigrants
Discussant: Zafer Yenal (Fellow of EUME/ZMO)
Florea Ioncioaia (University of Iaþi): Foreigners in Town: Urban
Immigration and Local Attitudes in the Romanian Principalities at the
Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1830-1859)
Florian Riedler (ZMO): Armenian Labour Migration to Istanbul and the
Migration Crisis of the 1890s
Malte Fuhrmann (ZMO): North-to-South Migration in the Imperial Era:
Workers and Vagabonds between Vienna and Constantinople

13:00-14:30 Lunch at ZMO
14:30-16:30

Session 4: Emigration: Transgression and Transcontinental Space
Discussant: Johann Büssow (FU Berlin)
Malek Sharif (Orient Institute Istanbul/Bonn): Emigration from Late
Ottoman Beirut
Andreas Pflitsch (ZfL): Literature and Migration: the Beginnings of
Modern Arabic Literature between Beirut, Poltova, New-York and Cairo

16:30-16:45: coffee break
16:45-18:00: Conclusion: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi,
Florian Riedler

Final Discussion
Venue: ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany
S-Bahn 1 or 7: Nikolassee
More info:
http://www.zmo.de