Friday, September 10, 2021, 12 noon (EDT) / 9 am (PDT) / 7 pm (Greece & Turkey)

45 min conversation, followed by Q&A The meeting will be livestreamed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/w17NWrWgeco.

This event is co-organized with the Eastern Mediterranean Studies Initiative at the

University of California, Berkeley.

Zoom Meeting Registration Link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqfu-hpzstGtJubZ3zH8VJys4wgnrHcCey

Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities:

Muslim Financial and Political Networks

in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Chair

YANNIS SPYROPOULOS

(Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno)

W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?

Participants

İrfan Kokdaş (İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Univ.) Mehmet Mert Sunar (Medeniyet Univ.) Aysel Yıldız (IMS/FORTH)

JaNet, funded by the European Research Council and run by Yannis Spyropoulos, investigates the

economic and sociopolitical role of the Janissaries in the 18th and early 19th centuries through their

examination as a complex of interconnected networks in the ‘extended

Mediterranean’ (including major Black Sea and Danubian ports). https://janet.ims.forth.gr/

Jean-Baptiste van Mour, Een soldaat van de Janitsaren