Early Modern Ottoman Studies Conference (EMOS)
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27 June 2024 / Thursday
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Opening Remarks: Mehmet Kuru (Sabancı University) Günhan Börekçi (Central European University) Kayhan Orbay (Middle East Technical University) |
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| 10:00 – 10:45 | Keynote Speaker: Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University) “The Eighteenth Century in Ottoman Economic Historiography” |
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
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Section 1 |
Section 2 |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 | Panel 1: Wealth and Status in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire |
Panel 2: Crossing Lines and Forging Fortunes: |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Panel 3: State, Law and Public Finance | Panel 4: Commerce and Connectivity: Exploring Ottoman Economic Interactions |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Panel 5: Merchants and Commerce | Panel 6: Environment and Economy |
11:00 – 12:30
Section 1 (KCC 01)
Panel 1: Wealth and Status in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University)
Metin M. Coşgel (University of Connecticut); Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale University); Emre Özer (Medeniyet University): “Intergenerational Mobility in Ottoman Istanbul: Evidence from Court Records”
Gürer Karagedikli (Middle East Technical University); Coşkun Tuncer (University College of London): “Urban wealth inequality in the Ottoman Empire, 1650-1870”
Choon Hwee Koh (University of California, Los Angeles); Coşkun Tuncer (University College of London): “The Ottoman Post Station: A Quantitative Study”
Yasin Arslantaş (Anadolu University); Leonard Kukiç (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Land Ownership and Inequality in Ottoman Bosnia”
Section 2 (KCC 02)
Panel 2: Crossing Lines and Forging Fortunes: Economies of Violence in the Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands
Chair: Gökhan Toka (Medeniyet University)
Rana Münteha Aldemir (Central European University): “Captivity and Career Transformation on Ottoman-Habsburg Borders in the Seventeenth Century”
Ahmet Demirel (Central European University): “Dil Almak ve Baş Kesmek”: Land Grants and Promotions for Valor and Comradely Behavior in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Warfare”
Lawson Pace (Central European University): “Border Warfare and Patronage in Taʿlīḳīzāde’s Şehnāmes”
—Lunch—
14:00 – 15:30
Section 1 (KCC 01)
Panel 3: State, Law and Public Finance
Chair: Gürer Karagedikli (Middle East Technical University)
Osman Onur Genç (Hacettepe University): “Egyptian Fiscal Dynamics: The Role of Kushufiyyah in Irsaliyyah Revenues During the 18th Century”
Ayşegül Çimen (Marmara University): “Making a Revenue of Unclaimed Property: The Law and Function of the Beytülmal in the Sixteenth Century”
Gökhan Toka (Medeniyet University): “Redefining Tax Collection: The Role of Bills of Exchange Networks in the Second Half of 18th Century Cyprus”
Linda Darling (University of Arizona): “Syrian Finances in the Sixteenth Century: A Study in Provincial Budgets”
Section 2 (KCC 02)
Panel 4: Commerce and Connectivity: Exploring Ottoman Economic Interactions
Chair: Pınar Ceylan (Ghent University)
Tamer Güven (Abant İzzet Baysal University): “Testing of the Ottoman Empire’s Performance between West and East in the Great Divergence Debate”
Pınar Ceylan (Ghent University); Kıvanç Karaman (Boğaziçi University); Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University): “Market Integration in Eastern Mediterranean and Europe from the Sixteenth Century until World War I”
Furkan Elmas (Koç University): “Monetization Processes and Changing Societal Relations in Bursa, 1740-1800”
Sophia Laiou (Ionian University): “Ottoman Greek Entrepreneurs in Istanbul in the beginning of the 19th century”
16:00 – 17:30
Section 1 (KCC 01)
Panel 5: Merchants and Commerce
Chair: İklil Selçuk (Özyeğin University)
Benan Kazdağlı (Boğaziçi University): “An Ottoman Merchant Guild: Istanbul’s Grain Merchants in the 18th Century”
Fariba Zarinebaf (University of California): “Iranian Tuccar and the Silk Trade in the Eighteenth Century.”
Aysel Yıldız (Foundation for Research & Technology, Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.)): “Franchised Trade of the Lower Danube: An Attempt on the Identities and Business Partnerships of Licensed Local Muslim Merchants and the Istanbul-Based Oligopoly of Kapan Merchants”
Tommaso Stefini (Sabancı University): “Venetian powers of attorney as a source for Ottoman commercial history in the early modern period”
Section 2 (KCC 02)
Panel 6: Environment and Economy
Chair: Onur Usta (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
Reda Zafer Rafei (Texas Tech University): “The Urban Agricultural Economy of Ottoman Tripoli (Tarāblus al-Shām) and its Impact on Gender Dynamics: A New Perspective”
Stefan Stojadinovic (Istanbul University): “Riciculture, Economy and the Environment in the Niš Region in the 16th Century”
Robert Zens (Le Moyne College): “The Political and Economic Impact of the Lake Fissure Eruption (1783-84) on the Ottoman Empire”
Deren Ertaş (Harvard University): “The Provisioning of Charcoal to the Keban and Ergani Mines in the Eighteenth Century”
28 June 2024 / Friday
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Section 1 |
Section 2 |
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| 09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 7: Çiftlik Debate Revisited II: New Findings and New Questions (Part 1) |
Panel 8: Franciscans in the Early Modern Ottoman World |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 – 12:45 | Panel 9: Çiftlik Debate Revisited II: New Findings and New Questions (Part 2) |
Panel 10: Ottoman Households and Networks in Action: New Sources and Approaches |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Panel 11: Crossroads of Power and Performance: Exploring Dynamics in Ottoman Society and Warfare |
Panel 12: Legal Frameworks and Social Realities: Ottoman Perspectives |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Round Table “The Ottoman Empire in the Great Divergence Debate” |
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09:30 – 11:00
Section 1 (KCC 01)
Panel 7: ‘Çiftlik Debate’ Revisited II: New Findings and New Questions (Part 1)
Chair: Fatma Öncel (Bahçeşehir University)
Mehmet Ali Çelik (University of California, Davis): “Peasant indebtedness and Çiftlik Formation in the Seventeenth Century Karaferye (Veria)”
Evgenia Kermeli (Hacettepe University): “Towards a typology of the çiftlik holding: 17th to 19th centuries”
Anıl Aşkın (Brown University): “Peasant (Im)Mobility and Unregistered Landed Estates in Niğde (1740-1790)”
Section 2 (KCC 02)
Panel 8: Franciscans in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Chair: Tommaso Stefini (Sabancı University)
Megan C. Armstrong (McMaster University): “Spanish Friars on the Move: Alms-Collecting and information gathering in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean”
Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre University): “The St. Saviour Monastery in Jerusalem and its participation in local economic networks (17th century)”
Manuel Capomaccio (Roma Tre University): “Harmony and Dissonance: Exploring the Interplay between the Franciscan Custody of The Holy Land and the Jerusalem Sharia Court in the 17th Century”
Emese Muntan (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “The Economies of Franciscan Church Ownership in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Slavonia”
11:30 – 12:45
Section 1 (KCC 01)
Panel 9: ‘Çiftlik Debate’ Revisited II: New Findings and New Questions (Part 2)
Chair: Mehmet Ali Çelik (University of California, Davis)
Bedirhan Laçin (Sabahattin Zaim University): “On the Legal Status and Labor Forms of the Reaya in the Landed-Estates of Çelikpaşazades in the Hamid District (1780-1845)”
Fatma Öncel (Bahçeşehir University): “Meclis-i Meşveret (Advisory Council) and the Çiftlik Debate in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Canay Şahin (Yıldız Technical University): “Origins, Status and Ethnic Distribution of Tenancy in the 19th Century Çiftliks of Canik (1830s-1880s)”
Section 2 (KCC 02)
Panel 10: Ottoman Households and Networks in Action: New Sources and Approaches
Chair: Christopher Whitehead (Ohio State University)
Günhan Börekçi (Central European University): “Bosnian Boys in Solidarity: Exploring Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname as a Source for Historical Network Research in Early Modern Ottoman Studies”
İsmail Emre Pamuk (Istanbul University): “Grand Vizieral Networks and Political Economy: Some Documentary Evidence Concerning the Practice of Admission Payment”
Fatma Süheyla İslamoğlu (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University): “Intertwined Households and Networks in a Prince’s Palace”
—Lunch—
14:00 – 15:30
Section 1 (KCC 01)
Panel 11: Crossroads of Power and Performance: Exploring Dynamics in Ottoman Society and Warfare
Chair: Marloes Cornelissen Aydemir (Sabancı University)
Zeynep Yelçe (Sabancı University); Ela Bozok (European University Institute): “Gossip, Rumors, and Facts: The Year 1524”
M. Fatih Torun (Indiana University): “Absolutist Displays: Ottoman sûr-ı hümâyun versus French grande fête”
Daria A. Kovaleva (Harvard University): “Ottoman Acting Companies in the Long Seventeenth Century”
Barbaros Köksal (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Cultures of Military Violence Against Prisoners of War and Slaves”
Section 2 (KCC 02)
Panel 12: Legal Frameworks and Social Realities: Ottoman Perspectives
Chair: Evgenia Kermeli (Hacettepe University)
Onur Usta (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University): “Favoritism and Bribery in Ottoman Society in the Sixteenth Century: Limits of the Justice and Moral Economy”
Christopher Whitehead (Ohio State University): “Kickbacks, Bribery, and Extortion in 17th-Century Ottoman Tax Farming”
Fahd Kasumovic (University of Sarajevo): “Serving the Sultan and (Dis)obeying the Law: State Capacity and Timar-Holders in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Bosnia”
Metin Coşgel (University of Connecticut); Emre Özer (Medeniyet University): “Social Networks in Ottoman Istanbul”
16:00 – 18:00
Round Table: “The Ottoman Empire in the Great Divergence Debate”
Moderator:
Evgenia Kermeli (Hacettepe University)
Discussants:
Kıvanç Karaman (Boğaziçi University)
Linda Darling (The University of Arizona)
Metin Coşgel (University of Connecticut)
Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University)
Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University)