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Program

June 3, Thursday

15:00-16:00, Vefa Hall          

Registration 

16:00-16:15, Vefa Hall          

Opening Speech by Gökhan Çetinsaya, President of İstanbul Şehir University

16:15- 17:00, Vefa Hall

Keynote Speech: Ottoman Mediterranean: Boundaries, Phenomena and Approaches

İdris Bostan, Faculty of Letters, İstanbul University

17.00-18.30, Vefa Hall          

Panel 1:       Peaceful Interactions vs. Violent Encounters      

                        Chair: Lewis Johnson, Bahçeşehir University

-The Clash of ‘Rum’ and ‘Frenk’ : The Interaction of the Orthodox and the Catholics on the Aegean Islands and Its Reflection in the Ottoman Capital (mid 17^th-mid-18^th centuries),  Elif Bayraktar Tellan

-Mediterranean Renaissances: Italian-Ottoman Cultural Exchange, Monique O’Connell

-The Ottoman Renaissance or the Revival of the Mediterranean Ecumene, Céline Dauverd

DINNER

June 4, Friday

9:00- 11:00, Vefa Hall

Panel 2: Mediterranean Histories: Myth or Reality

                           Chair:  Ali Çaksu, Fatih University

-Lydia Herakleidai Hanedanlığı’nın Kuruluşu: Mitoloji mi Tarih mi?  Muzaffer Demir

-Akdeniz Dünyasında Mitler ve İktidar, Zeliha Etöz

-Myths and Realities: An Outsider’s View of Turkey, Jennifer Michaels

- Mitlerin ve Gerçeklerin Dünyasında Midilli Adasına Sürgünler: Osmanlının Yersiz Yurtsuzları, Güner Doğan

-Socrates and the Seven Sages, Geoffrey Bowe

9:00-11:00, Zeyrek Hall

Panel 3: Archaeological Readings: Urban and Suburban Legends within the Mediterranean 'Poliad' Vocation

               Chair:  Suna Çağaptay, Bahçeşehir University

-The Minoans, the Ottomans, and the British: Eastern Mediterranean as an Imperial Space, Elektra Kostopoulou

-Erik Sjöqvist, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Frederick Whitling

-Looting and Loosing the Cultural Heritage of Cyprus, Marc Fehlmann

COFFEE BREAK

11:30- 13:00, Zeyrek Hall

Documentary Film: “The Visual Ethnography of a Dig”

Aslı Giray and Wilbert `Skip` Norman

LUNCH

14:00- 16:00, Vefa Hall

Panel 4: Mapping the Mediterranean: Soft Centres and Shifting Borders

                           Chair: Meltem Toksöz, Boğaziçi University

-Croatian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Political Meeting Point: Phenomenon of the Triple Frontier Area in Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Maps, Mirela Slukan Altic

-The Eastern Connection of the Mediterranean Sea to the Surrounding Sea in the Cartographic Heritage of the al -Balkhī School: Antique Exaggeration or Real Trade Routes?  Imants Lavins

-The Adriatic Revolutionized: Coping with the French Revolution, Kahraman Şakul

 -Ortaçağ Arap Kaynaklarında 'Bilâd-ı Rûm' ve Komşuları, İbrahim Gök  

-Ege'de Türk-İtalyan Hububat Ticareti (13.-14. Yüzyıllar), Serdar Çavuşdere

14:00-16:00 , Zeyrek Hall

Panel 5: Oral Histories and Fabulous Memories

                           Chair: Elif Çelebi, İstanbul Şehir University

-“Get the News from the Child”: Childhood Memories of Turkish Cypriots 1930-50s, Mesude Atay and Özlem Çaykent

-Home, Displacement and Identity: An Analysis on Cypriot Women Narratives, Hanife Aliefendioğlu

-Children’s Perception of Nationalist Iconography in the Tenth Anniversary Celebrations of the Turkish Republic, Melis Süloş

COFFEE BREAK

16:30- 18:30, Vefa Hall

Panel 6: Mediterraneanism in Contemporary Context

              Chair: Jim Kusch, Eastern Mediterranean University

-Towards a “New” Mediterranean-System: Between Totalization and Dispersion, Philippe Barbé

-Union for Mediterranean: A Contemporary Attempt at Reviving the Mediterranean Spirit, Akça Ataç

-Avrupalı Değil; Akdenizli – İmgesel Konumlandırmada Akdenizlilik, Z. Nilüfer Nahya

-Turkey and the Mediterranean: History, Identity and Foreign Policy, Muzaffer Şenel

June 5 Saturday

9:00-11:00, Zeyrek Hall

Panel 7: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern English Imagination, 1550-1800

                           Chair: William Spates, Eastern Mediterranean University

- An Atomy of an Ottomite: Ottoman Others on the Early Modern English Stage, William Spates

-Understanding the Western Imaginary: French and English Travel Painters, Neslihan Binatlı Hekimoğlu

- Aaron and Othello: Shakespeare’s Representation of the Self and Other, Amin Momeni

-Ottoman Women: Object or Subject, Şefik Hüseyin

9:00-11:00, Vefa Hall

Panel 8: The Contestation of Identities: Gender, Ethnic, Regional

                           Chair: Ebru Kayaalp, İstanbul Şehir University

-To be Turk: Gender Image with Its Policy of Presentation among the Young Men in Western Macedonia, Anna Irmina Zadrożna

-Myth of Matriarchy/Myth of Patriarchy – The Key for Understanding the Sworn Virgins Phenomenon?, Jelka Vince Pallua

-Histories, Myths, and Tourism in the Eastern Mediterranean: The (Re)Rebranding of Antakya, Sarah Shields

-Elsewhere Myths and Dreams: Mediterranean as (Cultural) Paradigm, Gabriele Proglio

COFFEE BREAK

11:30- 13:00, Vefa Hall

Panel 9: Literature and Art of the Mediterranean

                           Chair: Fatih Altuğ, İstanbul Şehir University

-Literary Byzantium; Mythicized Discontentment, Amani Bahman

-Mediterranean and Its Peculiarities in Persian Literature, Ali Reza Nabiloo

-ARS APODEMICA and Its Reflections on the 17^th Century English Travel Accounts about Mediterranean, Hikmet Nazlı Pişkin

11:30- 13:00, Zeyrek Hall

Panel 10: Byzantium and Post Byzantine Mediterranean

                             Chair: Abdulhamit Kırmızı, İstanbul Şehir University

-Myths and Superstitions in the Late Byzantine Mediterranean, Ermioni Karachaliou

-Slavic Mediterranean: Myth or Reality?  Rozmeri Basic

- ‘Betwixt the Greeks and the Saracens”: Coins and Coinage in Cyprus in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries, Luca Zavagno 

LUNCH

14:00-16:00, Vefa Hall

Panel 11: Mediterranean as the “Ottoman Territorial Sea”: A World of Islands

                             Chair: Mehmet Genç, İstanbul Şehir University

-Challenging Authority, Transforming Politics: A New Perspective on the Muslim and non-Muslim Experiences in Ottoman Crete, 1896-1897, Pınar Şenışık

- Sixteenth-Century Views on the Necessity to Conquer Rhodes, N. Zeynep Yelçe

-İskenderiye-İstanbul Deniz Ticaret Güzergâhının Güvenliği İçin Alınan Tedbirler (18. Yüzyılın İlk Çeyreğinde),  Yusuf Aydın

-Osmanlı Akdeniz’inde Girit’e Dair Mitler ve Gerçekler, A. Nükhet Adıyeke and Nuri Adıyeke

-Değişen Halkları ve Dönüşen Ekonomisiyle Kadim Bir Akdeniz Kenti: Foça, Engin Berber

14:00-16:00, Zeyrek Hall

Panel 12: Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean

                     Chair: Claudio Azzaro, University of Salerno

-l'Adriatico e l'Europa oriental, Biagio Di Salvio 

-La chiesa di Roma e le chiese del mediterraneo orientale, Giuseppe Maria Viscardi

-La società di mutuo soccorso italo-turca di Istanbul, Erminio Fonzo

-L'Italia e l'Europa orientale nelle carte della relazione Baldissera, Annamaria Giarletta

-Italian Foreign Policy toward the Meditarranean-Interwar Period, Hazal Pabuççular

COFFEE BREAK

16:30-18:00, Zeyrek Hall

Panel 13: Closing Remarks