[Bilimsel Haber] To attend in Istanbul: Diversity of Identities

[Onur Inal]

“Istanbul” – “Kushta” – “Constantinople”: Diversity of Identities and
Personal Narratives in the Ottoman Capital (1830-1900)

- An International Conference -

German Consulate General Istanbul
Kaisersaal

October 14 - 15, 2010

Please note: Prior registration is required for attending the conference.
Please register via e-mail no later than October 11, oiist at oidmg.org

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, 14 October

9:00-9:30 Greeting by Raoul Motika, Director of the Orient-Institut
Istanbul Conference Opening, Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann:
Istanbul as a space of multi-cultural biographies?
Section 1, Chair: Miltos Pechlivanos
9:30-10:00 Himmet Taşkömür:
Identity, participation and self-discovery: travels of Arab
intellectuals to Istanbul from the Levant and Egypt during the
Hamidian era
10:00-10:30 Kent Schull:
Amalgamated observations: American impressions of nineteenth century
Constantinople and its peoples
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Section 2, Chair: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele
11:00-11:30 Evgenia Kermeli:
Ninentheenth century Istanbul through the eyes of a zimmi
11:30-12:00 Miltos Pechlivanos:
M. Gedeon and the memoria of the Greek-Ottoman identity
12:00-12:30 Vangelis Kechriotis:
A passage to national modernity: Constantinople in the 1880s and the
novel/travelogue ‘My Journey' by Ioannis Psycharis
12:30-14:00 Lunch

Section 3, Chair: Steven Richmond
14:00-14:30 Nora Seni:
The correspondence of an office clerk at the Camondo Bank in Istanbul
(ca. 1860-1870)
14:30-15:00 Rifat Bali:
Jewish life in Istanbul in the first decades of the twentieth century:
Nissim Benezra and
his memoirs
15:00-15:30 Yaron Ben-Naeh:
Istanbul Jews in European eyes: Ludwig August Frankel on his way to Jerusalem
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

Section 4, Chair: Kent Schull
16:00-16:30
Darin Stephanov:
‘Bulgar milleti nedir?’ Syncretic and fluctuating forms of belonging
in mid-nineteenth
century Istanbul
16:30-17:00
Malek Sharif:
Istanbul, sweet and bitter: Depictions of an Arab Teenager in 1914 and 1916.

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19:00-19:45
Keynote Address:
Murat Belge:
Tanzimat’ın Istanbul’a getirdikleri [“What the Tanzimat brought to Istanbul”]
- English translation will be provided -
- Refreshments served -


Friday, 15 October

9:00-9:30

Section 5, Chair: Klaus Kreiser
Börte Sagaster:
Istanbul: some turn-of-the-century views from the Imperial Harem
9:30-10:00 Barbara Kellner-Heinkele:
‘Lachende Gärten, artige Moscheen.’ Istanbul's architectural fabric in
the eyes of nineteenth century German globetrotters
10:00-10:30 Malte Fuhrmann:
Wanderlust, follies, and self-inflicted misfortunes: female
entertainment workers from
Central Europe in Constantinople and the Levant
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30

Section 6, Chair: Johann Strauss
Akşin Somel:
Ottoman impressions on Germans in late nineteenth century Constantinople
11:30-12:00 Rachel Goshgarian:
A stroll through the quarters of Constantinople: sketches of the city
as seen through the eyes of the great satirist Hagop Baronian
12:00-12:30 Aylin Koçunyan: