In English
Closed to the public
Organisers :
Seda Altuğ, Koç University & IFEA/INALCO
Yaşar Tolga Cora, Boğaziçi University
Tommaso Stefini, Sabancı University
Naz Yücel, Independant Researcher
Speakers:
| Peter Hill | Northumbria University |
| Nora Barakat | Stanford University |
| Pınar Odabaşı | University of Akron |
| Nathaniel Moses | Harvard University |
| Nada Moumtaz | University of Toronto |
| Pelin Tığlay | Bağımsız Araştırmacı |
| Deren Ertaş | Harvard University |
| Camille Cole | Illinois State University |
| Elizabeth Williams | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| Masato Tanaka | Universität Heidelberg |
| Joan Chaker | Harvard University |
| Metin Coşgel | University of Connecticut |
| Yara Saqfalhait | Columbia University |
| Can Büyükvardar | Universität Heidelberg |
| Ellen Nye | Purdue University |
| Others participants, OPE members | |
| Varak Ketsamanian | American University of Beirut |
| Murat Bozluolcay | University of Chicago |
| Ellis Garey | Brown University |
Ottoman Political Economies (OPE) Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun ekonomik, hukuki ve sosyal tarihlerini araştırmaya yoğunlaşan akademisyenleri bir araya getiren bir ağdır. İlk olarak 2020 yılında, Covid-19 pandemisi devam ederken ulusötesi ve disiplinlerarası bilgi alışverişinin devamlılığını sağlamak amacıyla sanal bir iş birliği ortamı olarak kuruldu. OPE ağı, o zamandan bu yana birçok çevrimiçi oturum ve üç ayrı yüz yüze toplantı düzenleyerek bu alt alana yoğunlaşmış akademisyenleri sanal ve fiziksel olarak bir araya getirdi. 30 Haziran ve 1 Temmuz’da İstanbul’da gerçekleşecek bu toplantı, bu çalışma grubunun dördüncü yüz yüze toplantısı olacaktır. Bu etkinlik IFEA, ANAMED, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul ve Dr. Peter Hill’in desteği ile gerçekleşecektir.
The Ottoman Political Economies (OPE) is a network that brings together scholars focused on the economic, legal, and social histories of the Ottoman Empire. It was first established in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a virtual medium of collaboration to enable the continuity of transnational and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Since then, the OPE network has hosted numerous online sessions and three separate in-person meetings, bringing scholars immersed in this subfield virtually and physically together. The meeting to be held in Istanbul on June 30 and July 1 will be the fourth in-person gathering of this working group. This event will take place with the support of IFEA, ANAMED, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and Dr. Peter Hill.
June 30th (Venue: IFEA)
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Welcome and Introduction
10:30 am – 12:15 pm: Session 1
Transition to Capitalism: Demography, Money, and Fiscal Reform
Moderator: Tommaso Stefini, Sabancı University
| Pelin Tığlay | Independent Scholar | Tracing the Ottoman Demographic Transition: Modeling the Age Distribution of Bursa (1500-1840) |
| Ellen Nye | Purdue University | Currency Transition: The Use of Foreign Coins in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire |
| Can Büyükvardar | Heidelberg University | Managing Pluralism: Ambiguity and Fiscal Reform at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century |
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm – 3:30 pm: Session 2
Court Records as Sources in Ottoman Political Economies
Moderator: Ellis Garey, Brown University
| Nada Moumtaz | University of Toronto | Legal fictions: Truth and Evidence in Beirut’s Ottoman Court |
| Metin Coşgel | University of Connecticut | Intergenerational Mobility in Ottoman Istanbul: Evidence from Court Records |
| Nora Barakat | Stanford University | Trade, Property Relations and Codified Law in Late Ottoman Gaza: A View from the Regular Court |
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm: Session 3
Fields to Markets: Agrarian Production, Trade, and Surplus Extraction
Moderator: Seda Altuğ, Koç University and IFEA/INALCO
| Camille Cole | Illinois State University | The City Unbound: Dates and Geographies of Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Basra |
| Elizabeth Williams | University of Massachusetts Lowell | The Sultan’s Lands in Aleppo and Syria |
| Yara Saqfalhait | Columbia University | The Architecture of the Ottoman Customs Bureaucracy (1860-1917) |
July 1st (Venue: ANAMED)
10:30 am – 12:45 pm: Session 4
Carbon, Hydraulic, and Animal Power
Moderator: Naz Yücel, Independent Scholar
| Deren Ertaş | Harvard University | Leveraging Scarcity: The Politics of Charcoal and Firewood Provisioning to the Keban & Ergani Mines, 1725-1775 |
| Nathaniel Moses | Harvard University | Good Works: Making Hydraulic Infrastructure in Late Ottoman Najaf and Karbala |
| Joan Chaker | Harvard University | Capitalism in the Countryside: A Collective Biography of the Muleteers of Mount Lebanon over the Nineteenth Century |
| Önder Eren Akgül | Northwestern University | Ecological Fears of Global Capital, the Gediz Riverbed Alteration, and Austere Infrastructure in the Late Ottoman Empire |
12:45 pm – 2:15 pm: Lunch
2:15 pm – 4:30 pm: Session 5
Empire, Crisis, and Sovereignty
Moderator: Yaşar Tolga Cora, Boğaziçi University
| Peter Hill | Northumbria University | The Syrian rebellions against Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, 1834-1840 |
| Masato Tanaka | Heidelberg University | The Crisis of 1907 and the Reform Movements in Ottoman Lebanon: Class and Communal Anxiety in the Age of Financial Precarity |
| Pınar Odabaşı | University of Akron | Edirne during World War I: Borders and Belonging at the End of Empire |
| Kate Dannies | Miami University in Ohio | Women Surviving World War I: Disaster, Crisis, and Social Reproduction in Wartime Istanbul |
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm: OPE Business Meeting
Other OPE Members who will be present: Varak Ketsemanian (American University of Beirut), Murat Bozluolcay (University of Chicago)