[Bilimsel Haber] Conf. CFP: Ottoman-European Exchanges in Commerce, Finance and Culture, c.1450-c.1914, 28-29 March 2011, Cambridge, UK

[Gonul Pultar]

Ottoman-European Exchanges in Commerce, Finance and Culture, c.1450-c.1914

Despite the resurgence of interest in Christian-Muslim relations in the 
last decade or so, historians have paid far less attention to the 
commercial exchanges between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. 
The relative paucity of rigorous comparative historical studies, which 
place the fiscal and financial institutions within their respective 
political cultures, territorial realities, and societal frameworks, 
makes it difficult to judge how far the Ottoman experience differs 
significantly from that of their European neighbours, especially insofar 
as the Ottomans, with their cosmopolitan metropolis, and their Balkan, 
Anatolian, Near Eastern and North African holdings, were the first of 
the great European overseas colonial powers. Our goal is to draw 
together modern scholarship on these themes, with the hopes of 
encouraging further comparative studies, while articulating a new 
consensus about the range and depth of commercial, financial and even 
cultural exchange. We would welcome papers from established scholars and 
especially new researchers. Some postgraduate bursaries will be 
available. Proposals of no more than 500 words should be submitted to 
ottoman.european at gmail.com and the deadline for submissions is 1 
November 2010. Prospective participants are encouraged to contact the 
organisers to register interest before submitting a full proposal.

Dates: 28-29 March 2011

Conference Organisers: D’Maris Coffman and William O’Reilly

Venue: Winton Centre for Financial History, Newnham College, Cambridge

Deadlines:
call for papers: 1 November 2010;
registration: 15 February 2011

Website: http://www.centreforfinancialhistory.org/Ottoman/
	

Dr D'Maris Coffman
Winton Centre for Financial History
Newnham College,
Cambridge, CB39DF
Email: ddc22 at cam.ac.uk