Gabriel Doyle – Missionaries and Muhacirs: A spatial perspective on the missionary management of refugees in Istanbul during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) – 23/5/2016
Dans le cadre du Séminaire « AMiMo working papers » Lundi 23 mai 2016 à 17h à l’IFEA Gabriel Doyle (EHESS) Missionaries and Muhacirs: A spatial perspective on the missionary management of refugees in Istanbul during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) This presentation is drawn from research completed for a Master’s degree at the EHESS in 2014-2015 under the supervision of Professor Nathalie Clayer. It will focus on the massive arrival of refugees in Istanbul during the Balkan Wars, and its consequences on the French-Catholic missionaries at work in the Ottoman capital. Based on missionary archives and the records of the Lazarist François-Xavier Lobry, Visiteur de Constantinople, the thesis aimed to study the spatial strategies of a French congregation. The analysis included constructions