Six centuries of Polish-Ottoman encounters in Istanbul: Identities, trajectories and intellectual transfers
An international and intedisciplinary workshop in conjunction with the « Istanbul memories » research project
13-14 March
Orient-Institut Istanbul

Thursday, 13 March 2014:
14:00 – 14:10 Richard Wittmann (Orient-lnstitut Istanbul) & Zaur Gasimov (Orient-Institut Istanbul):
Welcome and introduction
14:10 – 14:30 Christoph Herzog (Universität Bamberg) & Richard Wittmann (Orient-lnstitut Istanbul):
The Istanbul Memories Project. Research opportunities and methodological issues with regard to ego documents of the Ottoman capital
14:30 – 15:15 Michal Polczynski (Georgetown University):
« We neither camp in tents, nor do we wander the steppes »: Polish-Lithuanian Tatars in the court of Kanunî Sultan Süleyman
15:15 – 16:00 Katarzyna Papiez (IFEA/Université de Sorbonne, Paris):
Les femmes polonaises dans la Question d’Orient: (in)action
14:10 – 14:30 Christoph Herzog (Universität Bamberg) & Richard Wittmann (Orient-lnstitut Istanbul):
The Istanbul Memories Project. Research opportunities and methodological issues with regard to ego documents of the Ottoman capital
14:30 – 15:15 Michal Polczynski (Georgetown University):
« We neither camp in tents, nor do we wander the steppes »: Polish-Lithuanian Tatars in the court of Kanunî Sultan Süleyman
15:15 – 16:00 Katarzyna Papiez (IFEA/Université de Sorbonne, Paris):
Les femmes polonaises dans la Question d’Orient: (in)action
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:00 Paulina Dominik (University of Oxford):
Towards a reform of the Ottoman legal system: Comte Leon Ostroróg and his activities in the Young Turk period
17:00 – 17:45 Zaur Gasimov (Orient-lnstitut Istanbul):
Between Crimea, Warsaw and Istanbul: Cafer Seydahmet (1889-1960) as an entangled intellectual
17:45 18:00 Johann Strauss (Université de Strasbourg):
Towards a reform of the Ottoman legal system: Comte Leon Ostroróg and his activities in the Young Turk period
17:00 – 17:45 Zaur Gasimov (Orient-lnstitut Istanbul):
Between Crimea, Warsaw and Istanbul: Cafer Seydahmet (1889-1960) as an entangled intellectual
17:45 18:00 Johann Strauss (Université de Strasbourg):
Comments
18:00 Reception
Friday. 14 March 2014:
10:00 A walk through historical Polish Istanbul, guided by Paulina Dominik
Meeting point: Taksim Square (in front of the Atatürk monument)

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Susam Sokak 16 – 18 D.8 – 34433 Cihangir – Istanbul
Tel: +90 – 212 – 293 60 67

e-mail: oiist@oidmg.org
http://oiist.org