Department of History

Boğaziçi University

Graduate Student Workshop

May 18, 2016 Wednesday

9:30-18:00

Cultural Heritage Museum

Program

9:30 Opening

10:00 – 11:30 ON REPRESENTATION AND CIRCULATION

Moderator: Arzu Öztürkmen

Sinan As, “Gender, Identity and Patronage in Medieval Islamic Anatolia: The Case of Mama Khatun”

Kiraz Perinçek Karavit, “Supernatural Creatures in Sogdian Tombs Unearthed in China”

Ayşe Tek Başaran, “Networks of Illicit printing: Individual Verses of the Qur'an Circulating in Istanbul in the Tanzimat Era”

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 ON ECONOMIC HISTORY Moderator: Yücel Terzibaşoğlu

Zeynep Küçükceran, “Production and Production Relations in Bursa, Mihaliç, Kırmastı”

Fatma Öncel, “Agrarian Relations and Estate Agriculture in Ottoman Thessaly (1780s – 1880s)”

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30 – 16:00 ON CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ENCOUNTERS

Moderator: Noémi Lévy-Aksu

Nilay Özlü, “Collecting and Display in the Ottoman Court: From Hazine to Müze”

Beste Yıldırım, “Built the Heritage, Culture and the Nation: the Architectural Historiography of Ali Saim Ülgen (1913-1963)”

Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, “Writing the Present, Reading the Past: Land Walls of Istanbul as a Site of Encounter in the Second Half of the 19th Century”

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 ON STATE AND DIPLOMATIC HISTORY

Moderator: Yavuz Aykan

Aytaç Demirci, “The Question of Liability: “Whose side are you on?” “

Nihad Dostovic, “Two Ahidnâme Given to Republic of Ragusa: Comparison of Ahidnâme of Murad II from 1442 and Ahidnâme of Osman II from 1618”

Funda Soysal, “The Boer War, Ottoman Empire, and a Petition to the British Embassy”