The Power of Connections Interpersonal Networks and Agency in the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Europe
Tübingen, Germany, 27–28 September 2017
Annual Conference of the Working Group “Ottoman Europe”
Venue
University of Tübingen, Theologicum (Faculty of Theology), Liebermeister Straße 12, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Seminar Room 12 (2nd floor, Room 223)
Hosts
Institute for Modern History, University of Tübingen
Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen
Historical Institute, Gießen University
organized by Prof. Dr. Lejla Demiri (Tübingen), Dr. Tobias P. Graf (Tübingen), and Ayşegül Argıt, MA (Heidelberg)
Programme
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
14:30–15:00 Registration and tea/coffee
15:00–15:15 Welcome and introduction
15:15–16:15 Panel 1: Scholarly Networks
Chair: Lejla Demiri (Tübingen)
M. Sait Özervarlı (Istanbul), Study Circles, Scholar Invitations, and Text Competitions: Building Scholarly Networks in the Early Ottoman Period
Asim Zubčević (Sarajevo), Books and Their Owners in Ottoman Sarajevo, 1762–1828
16:15–16:30 Tea/coffee break
16:30–17:30 Panel 2: Networks in Pursuance of Religion and Ethics
Chair: Erdal Toprakyaran (Tübingen) Ines Aščerić-Todd (Edinburgh), Sufis, Artisans and Traders: Ottoman
Guilds as Economic, Social and Spiritual Networks
Fatih Ermiş (Tübingen), The Construction of Ottoman Ethics: From the Nicomachean Ethics to Akhlaq-i Alai
17:30–17:45 Tea/coffee break
17:45–18:45 Panel 3: Political Mobilization
Chair: Denise Klein (Mainz) Ayşegül Argıt (Heidelberg), Press, Politics, and Mobilization in Istanbul,
1908–1914
Johann Büssow (Tübingen), Social and Political Networks in Late Ottoman Gaza
Dinner 20:00
Thursday, 28 September 2017
9:30–11:00 Panel 4: Between War and Peace
Chair: Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg, to be confirmed) Tobias Graf (Tübingen), Reconstructing Intelligence Networks: The
Example of Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in Istanbul, c. 1575–1583 Nikolas Pissis (Berlin), The Greek Spies of Muscovy in the Ottoman Empire,
1640–1660
Andreas Helmedach (Berlin/Bochum), Between Venice and the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Violence in Dalmatia
11:00–11:15 Tea/coffee break
11:15–12:45 Panel 5: Commerce and Trade
Chair: Ayşegül Argıt (Heidelberg) Evelyn Korsch (Venice/Erfurt), Global Networks and Multi-Layered
Agency of an Armenian Merchant Banker Family
Gülay Tulasoğlu (Ankara), The Katipzade Family between Trade and Politics
Anna Vlachopoulou (Munich), Networking as a Business Strategy in the “Long 19th Century”
12:45–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:30 Panel 6: Connecting the Localities and the Imperial Centre
Chair: Stefan Rohdewald (Gießen) Uroš Dakić (Belgrade), Sokollu Mehmed Pasha’s Kinship Network in the
Serbian Orthodox Church
Henning Sievert (Berne/Heidelberg), Brokerage in the Well-Connected Domains
15:30–15:45 Tea/coffee break
15:45–16:45 Panel 7: The Ottoman’s Empire’s Tributaries
Chair: Philip Hahn (Tübingen) Daniel Ursprung (Zurich), Christians Acting as Ottomans: Wallachia's
Seventeenth-Century Elites as Agents of Ottomanization
Konrad Petrovszky (Vienna), When Networks Fail: The Case of the Phanariot Iordaki Stavraki
16:45–17:00 Tea/coffee break
17:00–17:45 Concluding discussion
Chair and commentary: Renate Dürr (Tübingen)
18:00–19:00 Organizational meeting of the Working Group “Ottoman Europe”
Contact: Dr. Tobias Graf tobias-peter.graf@uni-tuebingen.de
Conference Report: Aysegül Argit, in: H-Mediterranean, December 11, 2017