[Bilimsel Haber] Conference program: The Ottoman Empire and World War I -- Sarajevo, 16-20 May 2012

[Gonul Pultar]

From: M Hakan Yavuz <hakan.yavuz at poli-sci.utah.edu>



The Turkish Project at the University of Utah is organizing its third 
conference on "the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and World War One" in 
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on May 16-20, 2012.  The papers from the 
first conference on the 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman War and its Consequences 
has been edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Peter Sluglett  and published as 
War and Diplomacy: The 1977-78 War and the Treaty of Berlin (Salt lake 
City: University of Utah Press, 2012). The papers from the second 
conference on the Balkan War is being edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa 
Blumi (War and Nationalism: The 1912-13 War and the Political 
Implication (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, in press). This 
third conference will also be published by the University of Utah Press. 
If you have any question, please write to M. Hakan Yavuz 
(hakan.yavuz at utah.edu)

for the program of the conference see -
   http://www.poli-sci.utah.edu/turkish/pdf/SarajevoProgram.pdfTurkish 
studies project conference iii

The Ottoman Empire and World War I

16-19 may 2012
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosniak Institute <http://www.bosnjackiinstitut.ba>
and Hollywood Hotel <http://www.hotel-hollywood.com.ba/index_en.htm>


Wednesday, 16 May

6:00-8:30

Reception and the Keynote Lectures Bosniak Institute - Adil 
Zulfikarpašić Foundation <www.bosnjackiinstitut.ba>
Mula Mustafa Bašeskije 21

Norman Stone, (Bilkent University), "…"

Zafer Toprak, (Boğaziçi University), "The Balkan Defeat, the Question of 
Identity and the Great War."

Discussant: Hasan Kayalı (UC-San Diago).


Thursday, May 17

Hollywood Hotel
Ulica Dr. Mustafa Pintola broj 23 (387)(0)33773100


8:20-10:20 AM

Panel 1: The Origins of WWI and the Ottoman Road to War

Shoghig Mikaelian and Norrin M. Ripsman, (Corcordia University, 
Montreal, Canada) "Structural Changes and the Origins of World War I."

Sean McMeekin, (Bilkent University), "Inside the Doomsday Machine: the 
Great Powers on the Eve of 1914."

Altay Cengizer, (Ambassador, Dublin, Ireland), "The Policies of the 
Entente Powers towards the Ottoman Empire."

Serhat Güvenç, (Kadir Has University), "A Tale of Two Dreadnoughts: The 
British Seizure of Reşadiye and Sultan Osman and the Ottoman Decision 
for War in 1914."


Gün Kut, (Boğaziçi University), "The Black Sea Raid of 29 October 1914 
as a Foreign Policy Decision: Collusion or Necessity?


10:30-12:30


Panel 2: Ideas, Ideologies and Structure vs. Agency


Behlül Özkan, (Marmara University), "From Imperial to National Vatan: 
Young Turks Between Ottomanism, Islamism, and pan-Turanism."

M. Sait Özervarlı, (Yildiz Teknik Universitesi), "Intellectual Debates 
among Modern Ottomans during the Constitutional and World War I Periods."

Ahmet Seyhun, (Winnipeg University), "Ottoman Empire on the eve of the 
First World War: the competing Ideologies and the political struggle on 
the twilight of the empire."

Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, (University of Utah), "Imperial Borders, Equal 
Citizens: Social Mobility in the Center and Periphery and Ottoman 
Nationalism (?)"

Mehmet Arısan, (Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi), "The World War One and 
The Emergence of a Troubled Modernity."

Lunch
12:35-1:35


1:40-3:40

Panel 3: The European Powers and World War I

Steven Lobell, (University of Utah, USA) "Back Door to Victory: 
Britain’s Second Front and the War Against the Ottoman Empire and Germany."

Carl Bethke, (University of Tübingen, Germany), "German Foreign Policy 
and Balkan Muslims in World War I."

Ferenc Pollmann, "The `Ottoman Facor’ of the Austro-Hungarian Balkan 
Policy Before and During the Great Wars."

Francesco Caccamo, (University of Chieti), "The Ottoman Question at the 
Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)."


3:50-5:50

Panel 4: Ottoman Propaganda and War Efforts

Y. Doğan Çetinkaya (Istanbul University) "Propaganda and Nationalization 
of the Masses in the Ottoman Empire during and after the Balkan Wars."

Eyal Ginio (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Landscape of 
Modernity", War and Propaganda in Ottoman Writing during WWI: Presenting 
the Military Fronts in the Harb Mecmuası."

Bilge Seçkin Çetinkaya (Boğaziçi University), "Staging War: The Ottoman 
Public Opinion in the World War I and Theater."

Dr. York Norman "Beyond Jihad: Celâl Nuri and Alexander Helphand-Parvus 
on the Ottoman-German Alliance."

Nurullah Ardıç (Sehir University,Turkey), "World War I and the Caliphate."


6:00-8:15

Panel 5: Ottoman Empire in the midst of the War

Feroz Ahmad, (Yeditepe University), "The Dilemmas of Young Turk Policy 
during the l914-1918 War."

Yücel Yiğit, (Balikesir University), "The Activities of Teşkilât-ı 
Mahsusa in the Middle East During the First World War."

Senadin Musabegović, (Sarajevo University), "The Body in the First World 
War."

Aydın İdil, (Manas University, Kyrgyzstan), "The Last War of Enver Pasa."

Mehmet Ö. Alkan,  (Istanbul  University),  "The  First World War, 
Education and Textbooks during the Second Constitutional Period in the 
Ottoman Empire"

Joseph A. Kéchichian, (Peperdine University), "How did the 1912-1913 
Balkan Wars radicalize the CUP? An Assessment."


Dinner
8:20-10:30


Friday, 18 May

8:20-10:20 AM

Panel 6: Human Scenes of Warfare

Hakan Özoğlu, "Political and Human Landscapes of Anatolia from the View 
of American Diplomats after World War I."

Aliye Mataracı (International Sarajevo University), "Trading in the 
Shadow of Wars in a Doomed Empire."

Mehmet Beşikçi (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Istanbul), "When a Military 
Problem Became a Social Issue: Desertions and Deserters in the Ottoman 
Empire in World War I."

Justin McCarthy, (University of Louisville), "Borders and Population 
Movement Through Maps."

Yücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond), "A Missing Paradigm in the 
Ottoman Great War? The Little Mehmed and War Neuroses."


10:30-12:30

Panel 7: The Policies of the CUP: Armenian-Turkish Debate I

John Reed (University of Utah) "Modern Counterinsurgency Doctrine and 
the Ottoman- Armenian Population Reconcentration of 1915-1916"

Ayhan Aktar (Bilgi University, Turkey), "Looking at War from Diyarbekir: 
Deportations, Massacres, Power Clashes and New Alliances among the local 
elites, 1914 – 1919."

Tal Buenos (University of Utah), "Beyond Complicity: British 
Responsibility for the Massacres of Armenians in World War I."

Abdülhamit Kırmızı (Istanbul Şehir University), "Provincial Politics in 
Eastern Anatolia on the eve of the WWI."

Yektan Türkyılmaz, "Precarious alliances and incendiary opportunities: 
Politics of war in Van Province on the eve of the great catastrophe, 
July – November 1914."


Lunch
12:35-1:35


1:40-3:40

Panel 8: War Plans in Eastern Europe

Valerie McGuire, (New York University), "Renewing Colonial Projects of 
Ottoman territories in/after World War One: Italian Colonial Governance 
in the Dodecanese Archipelago."

Tamara Scheer, (Andrássy University Budapest) "A reason to break the 
Rules of Law? The Habsburg’s Occupation policy towards Balkan Muslims 
during World War I."

Tetsuya Sahara (Meiji University), "Secret Collaboration between the 
IMRO and the Ottoman Special Force on the Eve of First World War."

Olsi Jazexhi (European University, Florance), "Osmanlis, Epirotes and 
Albanians: Identity Transformations in Post-Ottoman Albania."


3:50-5:50

Panel 9: Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire

Francesco Mazzucotelli, (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 
Italy), "From Ottoman Lebanon to the French Mandate: Continuity and 
Invention of a Nation."

Hasan Kayalı, (UC-San Diego), "Ottoman and German Imperial Objectives in 
Syria during World War I: Synergies and Strains behind the Front Lines."

Peter Sluglett, (Middle East Institute, National University of 
Singapore), "Arabs and Ottomans before and after World War One: Attempts 
at a Reassessment."

Orçun Can Okan, (Boğaziçi University) "Narrating Experiences of the 
World War I: Formation of Arab Perspectives on the WWI through narration 
in Memoirs."

Recep Boztemur (ODTU) "The Arab Revolt within the WW I: Arab Nationalism 
and the Formation of the New-Arab State-System."


6:00-8:00

Panel 10: The Balkans before and during WWI

Emine Tonta Ak, "Ottoman Relations with Austria and Serbia Prior to WWI 
(1908-1914)."

Dušan T. Bataković, (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of 
Sciences and Arts Belgrade), "Serbia, the Kosovo Albanians and the 
coming of the First Balkan War."

Miroslav Svirčević, (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of 
Sciences and Arts Belgrade),

Fikret Karčić, (Sarajevo University), "Jihad Fatwa in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina."

Dilsen Ince, (Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi), "Internal Security Issues in 
the Western Anatolia During the First World War."


Dinner
8:20-10:30


8:20-10:20

Saturday, 19 May

Panel 11: Balkan Historiographies

Amila Kasumović, (Sarajevo University), "Police control over the 
movement and activities of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
during the First World war."

Dalibor Jovanovski, (University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia), 
"Continuation of Injustice-Macedonian Historiography about the First 
World War."

Edin Radušić, (Sarajevo University), "The Creation of the Serbian or 
Yugoslav State – Historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina and World War I."

Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu, (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey) "World War I 
in the Current History Textbooks of the Balkan States."


10:30-12:30

Panel 12. Armenian-Turkish Debate II

Garabet Moumjian, (UCLA, USA), "Unraveling Reality from Propaganda: 
CUP-ARF Relations (1909-1914); The ARF 1914 Decision in Erzerum; the 
Ensuing ARF-CUP Negotiations and the Final Rupture; the Formation of the 
Armenian Volunteer Units ."

Ramazan Erhan Güllü (Istanbul University), "The Relations between the 
Ottoman State and the Armenian Patriarchate during World War I."

Oya Gözel, (Middle East Technical University), "The impact of World War 
I on the social and economic life of Kayseri."

Sevtap Demirci (Bogazici Universitesi, Turkey), "Armenian Question or 
Eastern Question."

Kemal Çiçek, (Turkish Historical Society), ""Hamdolsun canımız sağdır": 
Letters from Armenian Deportees in Aleppo."


Lunch
12:35-1:35


1:40-3:40

Panel 13: Ottoman Minorities during WWI

İbrahim Ethem Atnur, "Russian-Kurdish Alliance Before the World War I."

Bülent Özdemir, (Balikesir University), "Leaving Urmiya, Dunsterforce 
and Hush-hush Push Mission: A Puzzling Story of the Nestorians in the 
Great War."

Pamela Dorn Sezgin (Gainesville State College), "Greeks, Jews, and 
Armenians:  A Comparative Analysis of Non-Muslim Minorities and Nascent 
Nationalisms in the Late Ottoman Empire during World War I"

Christopher Gunn (Florida State University) "Getting Away with Murder: 
Nemesis, The Secret Army and the Justice Commandos, 1921-1984."

Ermin Sinanović, (United States Naval Academy), "Pan-Islamism and the 
Longing for Palestine: The Fall of the Ottomans and the Emergence of the 
Pivotal Muslim Issues in the 20th Century and beyond."


3:50-5:50

Panel 14 : Caucasus and Russia

Georgy Chochiev (Senior Research Fellow, North Ossetian Institute for 
Humanitarian and Social Studies, Vladikavkaz, Russia), 
"Caucasus-Oriented Activities of the Ottoman Circassians during and 
after the First World War."

Holly Shissler, (University of Chicago), "Community Rights, National 
Identity, Imperial Citizenship, and Nation-State: The  Politics and 
Experience of "Awakening"  in a Landscape of Revolution and Collapse."

Mustafa Tanrıverdi (Istanbul University) "Russian Military Presence in 
the Caucasus before the First World One"

Bayram Kodaman, (Manas University, Kyrgyzstan), "The Causes of Urkun: 
The Genocide of 1916."

Roza Abdykulova, (Manas University, Kyrgyzstan), "The Consequences of 
Urkun: The Genocide of 1916."


6:00-8:00

Panel 15: Memories of the War and the Post-War Formations

Kezban Acar,  "Constantinople/Istanbul in early 1920s in White Memoirs 
and Russian Sources."

Serpil Atamaz (TOBB, Ankara), "World War I Through the Eyes of Women."

Asbed Kotchikian, (Bentley University), One City, Two Nations: Tbilisi, 
World War I and the Making of Independent Georgia and Armenia."

Preston Hughes, (Utah State University), "The lnstitution of 
Atatürkçülük and Its Influence upon the Development of Democracy in Turkey."

Gencer Özcan and Özüm Arzık (Bilgi University), "The Haunting Memories 
of the Great War: The Gallipoli Victory Commemorations in Turkey."

Conclusion: Mujeeb R. Khan and Hakan Yavuz


Organized by the Turkish Studies Project of the University of Utah (M. 
Hakan Yavuz), University of Sarajevo (Edin Radusic and Amir Duranovic), 
Yildiz Teknik University of Istanbul (Mehmet Hacisalihoglu).

Co-sponsored by the Turkish Historical Society and the Bosniak Institute 
- Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation,