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Please note changed dates and locations for the conference.
Day 1 - Friday, November 18, 2022
Location: Outside Young Research Library
4:15-5:30 PM Panel: Ottoman Legal and Administrative Structures || Chair: John Curry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Ismail Noyan (Simon Fraser University), Mecelle as the Product of Global Islamic Networks || Discussant: Jun Akiba (University of Tokyo | Zoom)
Madonna Aoun Ghazal (UCLA), Women in the Shari’ah Court of Beirut: 1875-1914 || Discussant: Samy Ayoub (University of Texas at Austin | Zoom)
Daniel Ohanian (UCLA) If There Was No Millet System, What Was There? || Discussant: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley)
5:30-5.45 PM Break
5:45-6.45 PM Panel: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Identities Beyond the Millet System || Chair: James Gelvin (UCLA)
Bedros Torosian (UC Irvine), A Living Imperial Space for a “White” Nation-Race: Ottomanism, Eugenics, and the Quest for a Decentralized Armenian Fatherland || Discussant: Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)
Hilal Tümer (UC Berkeley/ Zoom), Aegean in Flux: A Study on the Moreot Migrants in the Nineteenth Century | | Discussant: Isacar Bolaños (California State University Long Beach)
Day 2 - Saturday, November 19 2022
Location: University of Southern California (University of Southern California) — SOS 250 (Social Sciences Building Room 250)
8-8:30 AM Registration
8:30-10:10 AM Panel: Ottoman Language, Literature, and Carnivals || Chair: Selim Kuru (University of Washington)
Jennifer Manoukian (UCLA), Turkish as an Ottoman-Armenian Prestige Language || Discussant: Nir Shafir (UC San Diego | Zoom)
İpek Şahinler (University of Texas at Austin) Queer Ottoman-Turkish Literature || Discussant: Selim Kuru (University of Washington)
Nora Bairamian (UCLA) Assessing the Development of Armenian Nationalism in the Ottoman Borderlands Through the Genre of the Short Story || Discussant: Dzovinar Derderian (UC Berkeley)
Naz Vardar (Simon Fraser University) Gender and Transgression in Apokries and Baklahorani Festivities in Late-Ottoman Istanbul || Discussant: Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University | Zoom)
10:10-10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM-12:10 PM Panel: Vampires, Converts, and Financiers in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire || Chair: Adam Sabra (UC Santa Barbara)
Zehra Ilhan (UC Davis), Ottoman Women’s Piety Under Construction: The Emergence of ‘‘Husband-Centered’’ Religiosity in Early Modern Ottoman Manuscripts || Discussant: Adam Sabra (UC Santa Barbara)
Christopher Whitehead (The Ohio State University) Financiers at Court during the Minority of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-56) || Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona)
Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa (University of Washington) The Law of the Other: Converts and Gentiles in the Eyes of Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Rabbis || Discussant: Jacob Max Daniels (Stanford University)
Hüseyin Göcen (UC Davis) Morbid questions and vampires of plague: Vampire cases from provincial jurisconsults’ fatwa collections in early modern Ottoman Empire || Discussant: James Grehan (Portland State University | Zoom)
12:10-1:10 PM Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 PM Lunchtime Roundtable on Manuscripts in SoCal || Chair: Luke Yarbrough (UCLA)
Ali Anooshahr (UC Davis | Zoom)
Gwendolyn Collaço (Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Zoom)
Sohaib Baig (UCLA Library)
Luke Yarbrough (UCLA)
2:15-2:30 PM Break
2:30-4:00 PM Panel: Race and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire: Sephardic Jews, Afro-Turks, Greek-Turkish Population Exchange || Chair: Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington)
Rachel Smith (UCLA), Space, Race, and Capital: An Examination of Ottoman Sephardic Travel Literature || Discussant: Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington)
Oluwamayowa Willoughby (Cornell University), Afro Turkik Plots: Agriculture, Labor and the Politics of Racialization from the 19th Century Ottoman Empire to Post Ottoman Contemporary Turkey || Discussant: Baki Tezcan (UC Davis)
Kaleb Herman Adney (UCLA), The Political Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: Sephardic Jews, Commercial Speculation, and the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange || Discussant: Nora Barakat (Stanford University | Zoom)
3:50-4:05 PM Break
4:05PM-4:45 PM Heather Ferguson (Claremont McKenna College): Professionalization Workshop
4:50PM-5:15 PM Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA), Closing Remarks
5:15PM-5:45 PM Discussion of Sebouh’s Pre-Circulated Closing Speech among Keynote Panelists; comments by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley), Sarah Stein (UCLA), Baki Tezcan (UC Davis)
5:45-6:05 PM Q&A / Open Up Discussion to General Audience
6:10-7:00 pm Ottoman Music Lecture and Demonstration – Münir Beken (UCLA Ethnomusicology), Mikey Aboutboul (Musician) and Ian Price (Musician)