Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future: Historiography of the Ottoman Empire
Friday, October 30, 2009:
IMU, Distinguished Alumni Room
Schedule of Lectures
9:15-9:20 am Opening Remarks [Dr. H. Erdem Çipa, Indiana University & Dr. Emine Fetvaci, Boston University]
9:20-10:00 am The "Tales of Sultan Mehmed" (Ahval-i Sultan Mehmed) in the Context of Ottoman Historiography [Dr. Dimitris Kastritsis, University of St. Andrews, Scotland]
10:00-10:40 am Conversion to Islam, Ottoman Historiography, and the Changing Notions of Ottomanness in the 15th and 16th Centuries [Dr. Tijana Krstic, Central European University, Penn State University]
10:40-11:20 am Histories in Verse: Ottoman Imperialism and its Supporters in Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul [Dr. Ebru Turan, Fordham University]
11:20-12:00 pm Falling through the Cracks of Patronage: The Lost Prose Sehname of Tasköprüzade Kemaleddin [Dr. Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis]
12:00-2:00 pm lunch break
2:00-2:40 pm From Adam to Süleyman: Visual Representations of Authority and Leadership in Arif's Sahname-yi Al-i Osman [Sinem Eryilmaz, University of Chicago]
2:40-3:20 pm History and the Ottoman World View: Reading a mid 16th-Century Veneto-Ottoman Mappamundi as an Historical Text [Dr. Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota]
3:20-4:00 pm How to Read Celalzade's Histories? Narrative, Ideology and Historiography in the Works of Celalzade Mustafa [Dr. Kaya Sahin, Tulane University]
4:00-4:40 pm The Challenge of Periodization: New Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Historiography [Dr. Hakan Karateke, University of Chicago]
Dr. H. Erdem Çipa
Assistant Professor of Ottoman History
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Indiana University
1011 East 3rd St.
Goodbody Hall 331
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 856-4394
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