Friday, October 17, 2008
9.30 - 10.30 Introduction: Nora Lafi and Christian Sassmannshausen
10.30 - 11.00 Panel Discussion:
The Sijill in Perspective: A Framework for Discussion
11.00 - 11.15 break
11.15 - 12.45 Representativeness, Authenticity, and Use of the Court
James Reilly (University of Toronto): Selective Vision in the Hama Sijills
Stefan Knost (Orient Institute Beirut): Who Went to Court in Late 18th century Aleppo? The Ottoman mahkama and the Application of Law
12.45 - 14.15 lunch
14.15 - 15.45 Constructing Social Hierarchies: The Labeling and
(Self-)Representation of Individuals
Claudia Gazzini (University of Oxford): Away from Court but in the Registers:
How Emancipated Slaves and Libyan Women are Represented in the Sijillat of Tripoli, Libya.
Will Hanley (Florida State University): Personal Identification and its
Communication in Late Nineteenth Century Egyptian Legal Records
15.45 - 16.00 break
16.00 - 17.00 Round Table Discussion:
Social Markers and Hierarchies in Perspective: Opportunities and Limitations tations of the Sijills
Chair: Hassan Mwakimako (ZMO)
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9.30 - 11.00 Legal Practice, Record Keeping, and
Translating Judicial Proceedings Bogac Ergene (University of Vermont): Why did Ummu Gulsum Go to Court? Ottoman Legal Practice Between History and Anthropology
Iris Agmon (Ben-Gurion University): Practicing New Recording Methods, Jaffa,1876
11.00 - 11.15 break
11.15 - 12.45 Integrating Social Groups and the Formation of Power Relations
Abdul-Karim Rafeq (The College of William & Mary): Religious Integration in the Syrian Guilds. Revealed in the Court Records (16th - 19th Centuries)
Richard van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam): Court Records, Waqfs, and the Formation of Power
12.45 - 14.15 lunch
14.15 - 15.15 Round Table Discussion:
Transmission of Popular Legal Knowledge, Judicial Consultation and Strategy
Chair: Gudrun Krämer (Free University Berlin)
15.15 - 15.30 break
15.30 - 17.00 Being a non-Muslim at Court: Negotiating Legal Autonomy
Richard Wittmann (Orient Institute Istanbul): The Qadi, the Chief Rabbi, and the Wife of the Jewish Notable: Social and Judicial Complexities in Late 17th Century Istanbul
Rossitsa Gradeva (American University in Bulgaria): The Qadi Court Records on Restoration of non-Muslim Houses of Worship: Sofia, Vidin and Ruscuk (late 17th-early 18th centuries)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
10.00 - 10.45 Approaching the Sijill from the Edge of the Empire
Selma Zecevic (York University): '/Hogetto fatto da Ahmet Efendi Kadi di Mostaro/...': Archiving Ottoman Court Documents in the Turkish Chancellery of the Republic of Dubrovnik
10.45 - 11.30 Round Table Discussion:
The Challenge of Legal Fiction
Chair: Astrid Meier (University of Zurich)
11.30.11.45 break
11.45 - 12.45 Round Table and Final Discussion:
Transregional Comparison and Future Research Avenues
Venues:
Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
(Center for Modern Oriental Studes)
Kirchweg 33
14129 Berlin
and
Freie Universität Berlin / Institut für Islamwissenschaft
(Free University Berlin / Institute for Islamic Studies)
Altensteinstraße. 40
14195 Berlin