21 June 2018
19:00 Opening Talk
Valeska Huber (Freie Universität Berlin)
Channels of Communication: Connections and their Limits in the Suez Canal Region 1869-1914
22 June 2018
10:00 Words of Welcome / Introduction
Melike Sahinol (Orient-Institut Istanbul), Manuel Borutta (Ruhr University Bochum), Malte Fuhrmann (Istanbul Bilgi University)
10:30 Avenues of Exploration in the Study of Mediterranean Interaction in History
Chair: Esther Möller (UniBw Munich / Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz)
Nora Lafi (Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Mediterranean Migration in Longue Durée Perspective
Murat Daglı (Istanbul Bilgi University)
From Early-Modern to Modern: Where is the Mediterranean in Ottoman Historiography?
12:30 Lunch Break
14:30 Late Ottoman Landscapes and Entanglements
Chair: Christian Saßmannshausen (Freie Universität Berlin)
Paolo Giradelli (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul)
Migrating Eastward at the Threshold of Modernity. Perspectives on the Italian - Ottoman Contact beyond the Trading Paradigm
C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University, Istanbul)
Theorizing the Mediterranean via Late Ottoman Travel Writings
Ilay Örs Romain (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Cosmopolitan Enclaves Compared: Notes on Some Cultural Geographies in Istanbul
Matthew Ghazarian (Columbia University, New York / Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Communal Boundaries in the Ottoman East
17:00 Walking Tour
Malte Fuhrmann (Istanbul Bilgi University, European Institute)
Sykae-Galata-Pera: A Port District as Site of Otherness
23 June 2018
10:00 Moving, Being Moved, or Stranded around the Mediterranean
Chair: Jasmin Daam (University of Kassel)
Veruschka Wagner (Turkish-German University, Istanbul / SPP Transottomanica)
Slaves of the Black Sea Region in Istanbul. Spatial and Social Mobility in the 17th Century
Nicole Immig (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul)
World War I and the Mediterranean: Some Thoughts on a New Research Field
Daniel Tödt (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Stranded in Marseille. Mediterranean Immobility and African Seafarers during World War II
12:30 Lunch Break
14:30 Flows and Blockages of Trans-Mediterranean Networks
Chair: Fernando Esposito (Tübingen University)
Funda Soysal (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul)
Galata going Global: The Istanbul Stock Exchange and 1895 South African Gold Mining Speculation
Andreas Guidi (EHESS, Paris / Humboldt University, Berlin)
Translocal Networks on the Margins of International Law: Arms, Drugs, and Human Trafficking in the Mediterranean Region, 1870-1945
Alexis Rappas (Koç University, Istanbul)
Building Interimperial Borders in the Eastern Mediterranean: Britain, Italy and France, 1920-1939
17:00 Final Discussion
18:00 Leisurely Stroll through Old Istanbul
24 June 2018
10:00 Planning of Upcoming Network Workshops (meet at hotel)
Register with Didem Balatliogullari <didem.balatliogullari@bilgi.edu.tr>