[Bilimsel Haber] Western Ottoman Studies Workshop

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Fariba Zarinebaf <faribaz at ucr.edu>


Western Ottoman Studies Workshop (WOW)

We are writing to announce the establishment of the Western Workshop in 
Ottoman Studies. This workshop series is in continuation with Great 
Lakes Ottoman Studies Working Group (GLOW) which Fariba Zarinebaf, 
Daniel Goffman, and Linda Darling founded in Chicago in 2005 and which 
has had a number of successful meetings: Northwestern University (2005), 
DePaul University (2005), University of Toronto (2006), University of 
Michigan (2007), University of Notre Dame (2008), and Ohio State 
University (2009).

The purpose of these workshops is to offer Ottomanists in the West (both 
faculty and graduate students) the chance to get together, present work 
in progress, mentor new scholars, and engage in broad dialogue with each 
other and with interested colleagues in other fields and disciplines in 
an informal and welcoming environment. The West offers unique 
opportunities for comparative and interdisciplinary workshops with a 
strong tradition of UC World History, the Mediterranean Research Group, 
and UC Economic History group.  The recent UC World History and MRG 
conference at UCR (Encounters in the Mediterranean) in May 2010 
demonstrated how useful it is to establish links with these groups and 
foster intellectual exchange across fields of study. We hope that like 
GLOW, WOW will stimulate an ongoing dialogue across the field and with 
other researchers.

James Grehan will organize the first WOW at Portland State University in 
Fall (October 30)  2010 and Baki Tezcan will be organizing the next WOW 
at UC-Davis in Spring (April 8-9) 2011. The goal is not to sponsor major 
conferences but inexpensive meetings with plenty of dialogue and 
discussion. Please contact one of the organizers at the address below if 
you are planning to attend one of the upcoming workshops.


Fariba Zarinebaf (UC-Riverside): faribaz at ucr.edu
Linda Darling (University of Arizona): ldarling at u.arizona.edu
Baki Tezcan (UC-Davis): btezcan at ucdavis.edu
James Grehan (Portland State University): grehanjp at pdx.edu

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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS FOR THE FALL WORKSHOP

Patrick Adamiak, UC-San Diego
"The Shaping of National Memory in Turkey and the Balkans:  the 1914 
Carnegie Report"

John Curry, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
"China or Cathay?  The Ottoman Geographer Katib Çelebi's Interpretation 
of the Ming Dynasty"

Lela Gibson, UCLA
"Ottoman Diplomatic Missions in Vienna, 1790-1810"

Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgraduate School
"Beyond Istanbul's Laz Underworld:  Ottoman Paramilitarism and the 
Origins of the Turkish Mafia"

Thomas Keuhn, Simon Fraser University
"'We Know Nothing About Yemen!'  Governance and the Politics of 
Knowledge Production in Late Ottoman Arabia, 1872-1919"

Malissa Taylor, UC-Berkeley
The Warrior Poets of Seventeenth-Century Damascus"


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS FOR THE SPRING WORKSHOP

Murat Dağlı, UC-Berkeley
"A Critique of 'Pragmatism' as a Conceptual Category in the Study of the 
Ottoman Empire"

Linda Darling, University of Arizona
"The Ottomans as an Empire, and the Effects of Change"

Selim Kuru, University of Washington
"The Making of a Literary Tradition:  The Literature of Rum"

Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College
"The Development of Judayda, Aleppo's Armenian Quarter"

David Stenner, UC-Davis
"Moroccan-Ottoman Relations in the Late Sixteenth Century as Reflected 
in a Diplomatic Travelogue"

Melanie Tanielian, UC-Berkeley
"Local and Ottoman Relief Efforts in Mt. Lebanon During World War I"

Fariba Zarinebaf, UC-Riverside
"Imperial Borderlands: Azerbaijan between the Safavid and Ottoman Empires"




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Fariba Zarinebaf
Associate Professor of History
University of California at Riverside
900 University Ave.
1212 HMNSS BLDG.
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel. 951-827-5401 EXT. 21786
Fax. 951-827-5299
faribaz at ucr.edu