[Bilimsel Haber] Centenary of the Young Turk Revolution (1908): The Young Turk Era, as Experienced in Palestine [x-H-TURK]

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From: <yuval at uchicago.edu>

Dear Friends,

I would like to bring to your attention the plan of the conference that 
Dr. Eyal Ginio and me are organizing in Jerusalem at the Hebrew 
University and the Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute on July 2-3 to 
commemorate the centenary of the Young Turk Revolution and in honor of 
Prof. Haim Gerber's retirement.

Best,

Yuval Ben-Bassat

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Centenary of the Young Turk Revolution (1908): The Young
Turk Era as Experienced in Palestine

International Conference in Honor of Prof. Haim Gerber¹s
Retirement

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi
Institute, July 2-3, 2008


Wednesday, July 2nd 2008

Maiersdorf House, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount
Scopus Campus

18:00-18:30 Gathering and Reception

18:30-20:00 Opening Session

Chair: Rachel Milstein, Head of the Institute of Asian and
African Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Opening Remarks:

Israel Bartal, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem

Uri Bialer, Head of the Center for the Research of Eretz-
Israel and its Peoples, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute

Elie Podeh, Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle
Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Eyal Ginio, The Forum for Turkish Studies, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem

     Prof. Haim Gerber's Contribution to Ottoman Studies

Keynote Address: Erik Jan Zurcher (Director of the
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)

     The Young Turk Mind


Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 12 Abravanel st., Rehavia,
Jerusalem

09:00-10:45 The Young Turks and their "mission
             civilisatrice" in Palestine

Chair: Jacob M. Landau (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

David Kushner (University of Haifa)
     The Young Turk Revolution: Continuity or Change?

Johann Bussow (Free University, Berlin, Institute for
Islamic Studies)

     Al-Awlad wa'l-Hurriyya: Childhood and Youth in
     Palestinian Public Life, 1908-1914

Yasemin Avci (Pamukkale University)

     The Public Works Scheme Devised by the Young Turk Regime
     for the Cities of Jerusalem and Jaffa (1908-1914)


10:45-11:15 Break


11:15-13:00 The Young Turks: The Question of Citizenship and
             Minorities

Chair: Ehud Toledano (Tel Aviv University)

Bedross Der Matossian (Columbia University)

     Ecclesiastical Politics and "The Question of Jerusalem"
     after the Young Turk Revolution: The Case of Jews,
     Armenians, and Greeks

Necati Alkan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

     The Young Turks and the Baha'is in Palestine

Michelle Campos (University of Florida)

     Making Citizens, Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman
     Palestine


13:00-14:30 Break and Lunch


14:30-16:15 The Young Turks Era as Reflected in Local
             Politics

Chair: Ran Aaronsohn (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Mahmud Yazbak (University of Haifa)

     Parliamentary Elections in Palestine of 1912

Butrus Abu-Manneh (University of Haifa)

     Arab Intellectuals' Reaction to the Young Turk Revolution

Abigail Jacobson (Tel-Aviv University and Herzliya
Interdisciplinary Center)

     Jews Writing in Arabic: Shimon Moyal, Nissim Malul and the
     Mixed Palestinian/Eretz Israeli Locale


16:15-16:30 Break


16:30-18:30 The Young Turks and the Zionist Movement*

*The panel will be conducted in Hebrew except for Louis
Fishman's presentation

Chair: Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Louis Fishman (CUNY, Brooklyn College)

     Zionism as a Jewish Question: the Debate in Istanbul

Eliezer Tauber (Bar-Ilan University)

     The Capture of the NILI Underground: The Turkish Version

Yaron Ben-Naeh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

     The Zionist Struggle as Reflected in the Ladino Press
     after 1908

Ruth Kark and Nadav Solomonovich (The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)

     The Young Turks Revolution and the Responses among
     Palestine¹s Jewry



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H-LEVANT Editor


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