Colloque - When the center cannot hold: Modern Statehood, Global Islam, and the End of the Ottoman Caliphate”

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Organisé en partenariat avec le Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII), l'Université Koç et l'Université du Bosphore

3 March 2024 will mark the centenary of the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate by the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, and consequently of the institution of the Caliphate. We would like to use this centenary as an opportunity opportunity to organise a two-day conference, inviting researchers scholars working on the late Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey the Arab world, as well as West Africa, British India and South Africa, British India and South Asia, to explore the notion of the caliphate from the margins, both geographically and conceptually.

Détails

Date de l'événement	04/03/2024 9:30 am
Date de fin	04/03/2024 5:30 pm
Places	Illimitée
Inscrit.e.s	0
Date limite d'inscription	29/02/2024 12:00 pm
Lieu	IFEA

Programme

09:30-09:45 am	Coffee and reception of participants
09:45-10:00 am	Welcome and introductory remarks Philippe Bourmaud (IFEA) and Olof Heilo (SRII)
10:00-10:45 am	Keynote speech by Cemil Aydın (University of North Carolina) : Worldmaking and World breaking impact of the 1924 Caliphate Decision - Introduction Alexis Wick (Koc University)
10:45-11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 am	Panel 1 : An Undermined legacy Alp Eren Topal (Freie Universität Berlin) : The Caliphate in the 19th century Isa Blumi (Stockholms Universitet) : "Under the Frontpage Fold: European Calculations and the Quiet End of the Caliphate, 1908-1924” - Moderator: Dahlia Gubara (Koc University)
12:45-14:15	Lunch break
14:15-15:45	Panel 2 : Global traction Faridah Zaman (Oxford University) : ‘Republicanism Revived? Indian Reactions to the Abolition of the Caliphate’ Ammar el-Samar (former associate prof Damascus University\|Furat University) : “The abolition of the Caliphate and the Arab world” Martin van Bruinessen (Université d’Utrecht) : "The abolition of the Caliphate, secularization, and Kurdish nationalism" - Moderator: Jonas Svensson, Linnaeus University)
16:00-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-17:45	Panel 3: Domestic reckonings Nurullah Ardıç (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi) : From Istanbul to Hijaz and the Maghrib : Contestations over the Caliphate Fuat Öztürk (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) : Sebilürreşad and the Caliphate Fatma Eda Çelik (EPHE): "Revisiting the Abolition of the Caliphate: The Head of State Dilemma in 1920s Turkey"
17:45-18:00	Concluding remarks