Thursday, 10 May
9:45-10:15 Welcome, Registration
10:15-13:00
Introduction: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler
Nora Lafi (ZMO): Comparative Migration Studies in the Ottoman Urban
Panorama
Session 1: Regulation of Migrations by the State and the City
Discussant: Andreas Helmedach (Braunschweig)
Christoph Herzog (Orient Institute Istanbul): Migration and the State: on
Ottoman Regulations Concerning Migration since the Age of Mahmud II
Dilek Akyalçýn-Kaya (EHESS Paris/Istanbul): Immigration to the Ottoman
Lands: the Case of Salonica in the Late Nineteenth Century
13:00-14:30 Lunch at ZMO
14:30-16:30
Session 2: Migration, Urban Governance and the Role of Itinerant Labour in
Comparative Perspective
Discussant: Dana Sajdi (Fellow of EUME/ZMO)
Tetsuya Sahara (Meiji University Tokyo): The Ottoman City Council and the
Beginning of the Modernization of Urban Space in the Balkans
Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris I Sorbonne): Access to Urban Notability for
Migrants in Early Modern Marseilles
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18:00
Irene Fatsea (University of Thessaly, Volos/Athens): Builders
and Craftsmen in the Founding Phase of Modern Athens: the Illuminating
Role of the Building Contract
Friday, 11 May
10:00-13:00
Session 3: The Stranger in the City: Unwanted Immigrants
Discussant: Zafer Yenal (Fellow of EUME/ZMO)
Florea Ioncioaia (University of Iaþi): Foreigners in Town: Urban
Immigration and Local Attitudes in the Romanian Principalities at the
Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1830-1859)
Florian Riedler (ZMO): Armenian Labour Migration to Istanbul and the
Migration Crisis of the 1890s
Malte Fuhrmann (ZMO): North-to-South Migration in the Imperial Era:
Workers and Vagabonds between Vienna and Constantinople
13:00-14:30 Lunch at ZMO
14:30-16:30
Session 4: Emigration: Transgression and Transcontinental Space
Discussant: Johann Büssow (FU Berlin)
Malek Sharif (Orient Institute Istanbul/Bonn): Emigration from Late
Ottoman Beirut
Andreas Pflitsch (ZfL): Literature and Migration: the Beginnings of Modern
Arabic Literature between Beirut, Poltova, New-York and Cairo
16:30-16:45: coffee break
16:45-18:00: Conclusion: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi,
Florian Riedler
Final Discussion