[Bilimsel Haber] Conference on History from a Global Perspective (Istanbul Bilgi University, March 6 - 8, 2009)

[Onur Inal]

HISTORY FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
HOMAGE TO FARUK TABAK'S SCHOLARSHIP
 
Istanbul Bilgi University, March 6 - 8, 2009
 
CONFERENCE
(Dolapdere Campus)
 
March 6, Friday
 
18:00 Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, "Geopolitics and the
World-Economy: A Crisis of Transformation"

SYMPOSIUM
(santralistanbul Campus)
 
March 7, Saturday
 
09:30 Opening

Ihsan Bilgin, Istanbul Bilgi University
Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
 
09:45-12:30  The Making of a Scholar
 
Chair, Sibel Bozdogan, Istanbul Bilgi University and Harvard University

Resat Kasaba, University of Washington, "An Architect turned Sociologist:
Faruk Tabak's Intellectual Itineraries"
Çaglar Keyder, Binghamton University and Bogaziçi University, "World-economy
and Agrarian Transformations"
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, "A Geohistorical Autumn: The
Mediterranean, Braudel, and World-Systems Analysis"
Faruk Tabak with Ravi Arvind Palat, Binghamton University, "Historical
Context of Anti-Systemic Movements in Continental Asia: Changes in Monetary
Flows and Production Processes, 1815-1873"
 
14:00-16:00 Studying Regions

Chair: Mete Tunçay, Istanbul Bilgi University

Timothy Beach, Georgetown University, "The Environmental History of Kinet
Höyük, Hatay, Turkey"
Scott N. Redford, Georgetown University, "Archaeology and the Medieval
Mediterranean Economy"
John McNeill, Georgetown University, "The Waning of the Mediterranean and
the Waxing of the Pindos Montane Region (Northwestern Greece), 1550-1870"
William G. Martin, Binghamton University, "The Waning of Southern Africa?
World-Economies, Hegemonies, and Regional Formation, 1870-2070"
 
16:30-18:30 Studying Euro-Asia
 
Chair: Ahmet Tonak, Istanbul Bilgi University
 
Ariel Salzmann, Queen's University, "The Tulip as Synecdoche: Ecology and
State-Formation in Euro-Asia during the Long Eighteenth Century"
Sevket Pamuk, London School of Economics and Bogaziçi University, "Ottoman
State Finances in Comparative European Perspective, 1500-1800"
Tarik Yousef, Dubai School of Government, "Egypt and Globalization,
1813-1890"
Sylvia Önder, Georgetown University, "American Influences on the Turkish
Black Sea Coast: From Corn and Beans through Peace Corps and Cold War"
 
March 8, Sunday
 
09:30-11:30 Thinking about labor and other agents of change
 
Chair: Alan Duben, Istanbul Bilgi University

Torry D. Dickinson, Kansas State University, "Gender, Race, and the Global
Labor Force: Faruk Tabak's Analysis of the Transition"
Deniz Yükseker, Koç University, "The Sun-Lit Domains: Informality and
Braudel's Market Economy"
Hale Decdeli, Freie Universität Berlin, "Migration and Trade Union
Solidarity in the Federal Republic of Germany"
Zafer Yenal, Bogaziçi University, "Reading the ambiguities of nationalism
through cookbooks"