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Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop
Saturday-Sunday, April 18-19, 2009
168 Dulles Hall,
230 W. 17th Ave.
Organizer
Jane Hathaway,
Department of History
Overview
The Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop was launched in 2005 as a more intimate and intensive supplement to the Middle East Studies Association meeting. It encourages exchange among scholars of the history, art, architecture, and folklore of the Ottoman Empire from the Great Lakes region and beyond. Emphasis is on intensive discussion of pre-circulated papers.
Since its inaugural meeting at Northwestern University in March 2005, GLOW has met every spring (after initially meeting twice in 2005) at a major Midwestern institution. Past hosts have been (in order) Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Toronto, University of Michigan, and University of Notre Dame. Given Ohio State's strength in Ottoman studies, we expect a rich and rewarding program in 2009.
Participants
Yiğit Akın, The Ohio State University
Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
Angela Andersen, The Ohio State University
Frank Castiglione, University of Michigan
Kenneth Cuno, University of Illinois-Urbana
John Curry, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Emine Evered, Michigan State University
Özgen Felek, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati
Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University, Chicago
Daniel Goffman, DePaul University, Chicago
Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan
Jane Hathaway, The Ohio State University
Douglas Howard, Calvin College
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine University
Rudi Paul Lindner, University of Michigan
Ethan L. Menchinger, University of Michigan
Margaret L. Meriwether, Denison University
Veysel Şimşek, McMaster University
Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou, University of Notre Dame
Sam White, Oberlin College
Charles Wilkins, Wake Forest University
Stefan Winter, Université du Québec à Montréal
Seçil Yılmaz, Bosphorus University/New York University
Robert Zens, LeMoyne College
Conference Program
Saturday, April 18, 2009
9-10:30 a.m. -- State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire
Chair: Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
Emine Evered, Michigan State University
"Visualizing the Empire: Mapping Late Ottoman Education"
Seçil Yılmaz, Boğaziçi University/New York University
"Syphilis in Late 19th-Century Ottoman Anatolia"
10:30-11 a.m. – Coffee Break
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. -- New Methodologies
Chair: Kenneth Cuno, University of Illinois
Sam White, Oberlin College
"Prospects for Ottoman Environmental History"
Angela Andersen, The Ohio State University
"Architecture as Historical Text: An Examination of Methodological
Approaches through Anatolian Case Studies"
12:30-1:30 p.m. -- Lunch Break
1:30-4 p.m. Roundtable: Who was an Ottoman?
Moderator: Jane Hathaway, The Ohio State University
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine University
"Kemal Reis and Piri Reis Sail the Bahr-i Rūm: Turks in the
Mediterranean Sea"
Charles Wilkins, Wake Forest University
"Ibn al-Hanbali (1502/3-63 C.E.) and the Ottoman Incorporation
of Aleppo"
Stefan Winter, Université du Québec à Montréal
"The State and Tribe Formation in the Ottoman Empire"
Robert Zens, LeMoyne College
"The Wife of Pasvanoğlu Osman Pasha"
Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
"Reflections on Wearing Hats and Turning Turk"
4-4:30 p.m. -- Coffee Break
4:30-6 p.m. -- Social and Legal Issues in the Late Ottoman Empire
Chair: Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan
Yiğit Akın, The Ohio State University
"Everyday Politics and People on the Ottoman Home Front during the
First World War"
Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois
"Keeping Women at Home: Colonialism and Islamic Family Law in the
Ottoman Lands and Beyond"
Sunday, April 19, 2009
9-11 a.m. -- Piety, Propriety, and Religious Boundaries in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine University
Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan
"The Boundaries of Propriety: Regulating Speech in 17th-Century
Ottoman Society"
John Curry, University of Nevada–Las Vegas
"The Challenge of the Early Halveti Silsile: Assessing the Work of the
Ottoman Hagiographer Mahmud Cemaleddin Hulvi"
Özgen Felek, University of Michigan
"Sainthood and the Legitimization of Rulership in the
Kitābu'l-Manāmāt"
11 a.m.-12 p.m. -- Wrap-up
Sponsors
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Middle East Studies Center, Department of History, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Department of Comparative Studies
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Jane Hathaway
Professor of History
The Ohio State University
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