"Empire’s Province Into National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire"
This two-day event convenes recent scholarship and works-in-progress on the transformation of Ottoman province centers into national capitals/cities during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the broader transformations in the region, such as Aleppo, Athens, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Kars and Khartoum. This event will be the final meeting in the series Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen have been running since 2015 with a grant from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, a consortium of universities and colleges in the central New York region.
Online, see Zoom details below.
Program:
March 14: Keynote
6:00 PM: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis). "Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: Writing Urban History in Aleppo from Empire to Nation State"
March 15: Conference
9:00 AM: Welcome and Introduction. Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen
9:10 AM: PANEL 1: NORTH
Ecem Sarıçayır (Cornell University). "Discourse of Architecture and Hygiene on the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands"
Peter Christensen (University of Rochester). "Turanism and the Ottoman Architectural Legacy in Austria-Hungary"
H. Şükrü Ihcak (University of Crete). "Revolutionary Athens through Ottoman Eyes. New Evidence from the Ottoman State Archives:
10:20 AM: PANEL 2: SOUTH
Mohamed Elshahed (Independent Scholar and Curator)." Architects and Identity in Egypt and the End of Ottoman Cosmopolitanism"
Esra Akcan (Cornell University)." After the 'Last Ottoman Generation': Sudan at Colonial and Postcolonial Crossroads"
11:10 AM PANEL 3: EAST
Caecilia Pieri (French Institute of the Near-East). "Following Ottoman Modernity in Iraq: Architectural Themes and Variations (1870-1950)"
Lydia Harrington (Boston University) "'The hands of the compassionate': The Damascus Vocational School and Imperial Patronage at the End of the Ottoman Empire."
11:55 AM: Response: Sibel Bozdogan (Boston University) followed by Q&A
12:45 PM Conclusion
March 14 Keynote: Zoom Meeting ID: 977 3892 6633. Passcode: 440727
March 15 Conference: Zoom Meeting ID: 944 1852 3367 Passcode: 670795
Image: Varian Derounilm (photographer), Suq al-Hibal in the Bazaar of Aleppo, c.1925
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