Thursday April 7th 2022
13:00 Welcome
14:00–14:30 Introduction
14:30–15:30 Eleni Kefala St. Andrews
Strangers No More: Constantinople, Tenochtitlán, and the Trauma of the Conquest
16:00–19:00 Narratives of Conquest
Christopher Markiewicz Birmingham
Constantinople, Conquest, and the Order of the World in Ottoman
Historical Writing
Stefan Rinke Berlin
Bernal Díaz del Castillo and the Fall of the Great City of Tenochtitlan: A Tale of Inevitability
Sources: Tursun Bey, Aşıkpaşazade / Las Casas, Díaz del Castillo
Friday April 8th 2022
9:00–12:00 Narratives of Loss and Destruction
Aslıhan Akışık Istanbul
Forging an Ottoman Hellenism in the Aftermath of 1453: Kritoboulos and George Amiroutzes
Richard Herzog Marburg
Understanding Nahua Temporalities and Cosmogony through the Works of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl
Sources: Doukas, Kritoboulos, Chalko kondyles / Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Sahagún
14:00–17:00 Narratives of the Neighbors
Philip Bockholt Leipzig
A Turning Point in History? The Fall of Constantinople from the Perspective of the Islamic East
Antje Gunsenheimer Bonn
The Conquest as traumatic experience, described by colonial Yucatec Maya authors
Sources: Ibn Taghribirdi, Barbaro / The Book of Chilam Balam of
Chumayel
17:00–18:00 Final Discussion