[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, Notre Dame, April 11-13, 2008

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Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop: Roundtable & Poster Sessions (with apologies
for those who might already have seen this)

Vassili has kindly invited me to join her as Co-Sponsor of the GLOW workshop
at Notre Dame, April 11-13, 2008. We already have a number of people
interested in presenting papers, but I have been thinking about a general
theme, and suggest two approaches to learning about work in progress in the
field.

1) Roundtable "Who was an Ottoman"

Each participant would contribute a portrait of his/her "favorite" or
"representative" Ottoman. Time period, gender, profession, ethnicity,
religion, national identity would be completely open, and of course they do
not have to be the lives of the rich and famous, just someone who is
considered or considers him/herself tied to the imperial system in some way.
The task of the presenter would only be to answer the question "Who was an
Ottoman" The aim of the session would be to come up with a definition that
answers the question, what one might call a taxonomy of imperial
subjecthood.

I would encourage Ottomanists as well as Europeanists with research
interests in the empire to join us at Notre Dame. Gottfried Hagen and Jane
Hathaway have already volunteered. We would ask participants to submit in
advance a brief biography and an initial list of references, but would not
require a formal paper. Presentations would be brief, and visual
representations most welcome.

2) Poster sessions for PhD students

We would also like to experiment with a poster session for graduate
students. We would have free-standing bulletin boards available for the
display of research in progress or close to completion. The rest is up to
participants. GLOW attendees would circulate the room, and hear from the
students at leisure about their work. The challenge is to make the research
visually comprehensible.

If you are interested in either of these proposals, please reply to either
or both of us with a paragraph description of your proposal.

Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster University <vaksan at mcmaster.ca> Vassiliki
Tsitsopoulou <vtsitsop at nd.edu>

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