NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
From millet communities to minorities: Greek Orthodox in the Ottoman Empire / Turkey and Muslims in Greece, 1830s - 1939
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Amphitheatre “I. Drakopoulos”, Central Building, University of Athens 30 Panepistimiou Ave.
PROGRAMME
9.30 Opening address Kostas Gavroglou
Transition process from ethno-religious to national communities
Session A
Chair:
Paraskevas Konortas
10.00 – 10.20
Keynote lecture: Benjamin Fortna, The Ottoman Empire and after: from a state of ‘Nations’ to ‘Nation-states’ .
10.20 – 10.40
Stefanos Katsikas, Millet legacies in a national environment: political elites and Muslim communities in Greece, 1830s – 1923.
10.40 – 11.00
Athanasia Anagnostopoulou, The process of hellenization of the Rum milleti in Anatolia, 19th century-1923.
11.00 – 11.20
Efi Kanner, Who is who in the (Greek?) Orthodox community of Istanbul: poverty, wealth and power construction from the Reform Era to World War I.
11.20 – 11.40
DISCUSSION
11.40 – 12.00
BREAK
Session Â
Chair:
Benjamin Fortna
12.00 – 12.20
Paraskevas Konortas, Nationalist infiltrations in Ottoman Thrace (ca. 1850 -1910): the case of the kaza of Gumuljina.
12.20 – 12.40
Michalis N. Michael, The formation of a Greek national leadership of the Rum milleti in Cyprus during the second half of the 19th century.
12.40 – 13.00 Kostantinos T si t s el i k i s , Muslim communities in Greece after the Treaty of Athens (1913-1923): between the millet and the nation.
13.00 – 13.30 DISCUSSION
13.30 – 15.00 BREAK
The post - Lausanne national minorities building process
Session C
Chair:
Ayhan Aktar
15.00 – 15.20
Samim Akgonul, Ankara Agreement of 1930 and the Muslim-Turkish minority of Western Thrace: reconciliation or instrumentalization ?
15.20 – 15.40
Elcin Macar, The policies of Turkey towards the Ecumenical Patriarchate: the Single-Party Era (1923- 1945).
15.40 – 16.00
Dimitris Kamouzis, A minority in a state of flux: Greek communal education in Istanbul, 1923-1930.
16.00 – 16.20
DISCUSSION
16.20 – 16.40
BREAK
Session D
Chair:
Athanasia Anagnostopoulou
16.40 – 17.00
Ayhan Aktar, Tax me to the end of my life: an analysis of an anti-minority tax legislation, 1942-43.
17.00 – 17.20
Eleftheria K. Manta, The incorporation of the Chams into the Greek state: cultural and ethnological aspects.
17.20 – 17.40
DISCUSSION
17.40 – 18.15
BREAK
18. 15 – 19.15 ROUND TABLE
Coordinator: Athanasia Anagnostopoulou
Introduction: Alexandre Popovic
Participants: Paraskevas Konortas, Samim Akgonul, Benjamin Fortna
19.15 End of the Conference
Organising Committee
Head of the Organising Committee
Paraskevas Konortas
Members: Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis
With the kind support of
John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation
PARTICIPANTS
Akgonul Samim, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France.
Aktar Ayhan, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
Anagnostopoulou Athanasia, Department of History and Political Science, Panteion University of Athens, Greece.
Fortna Benjamin, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom.
Gavroglou Kostas, Department of the Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Kamouzis Dimitris, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King’s College London, United Kingdom.
Kanner Efi, Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Katsikas Stefanos, Department of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom.
Konortas Paraskevas, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Macar Elcin, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Y.ld.z
Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Manta Eleftheria, Institute of Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Michael Michalis, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus.
Popovic Alexandre, Department of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, EHESS, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Tsitselikis Kostantinos, Department of Balkan, Slavonic and Oriental Studies,
University of Macedonia, Greece.
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