9.45–10.00 Welcome and Opening remarks
10.00–11.40 Session I: People and Identities Across the Empires
Chair and discussant: Barbara STOLLBERG-RILINGER (University of Münster)
Michał WASIUCIONEK (New Europe College, Bucharest): Greek as Ottoman?
Maria PAKUCS ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History & New Europe College, Bucharest): Being a Greek in 17th century Transylvania: Business Ties and Linguistic Integration
Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History & New Europe College, Bucharest): ”Le Coquin Grec” vs. ”le Véritable François”. Being a Foreigner in the Danubian Principalities, 18th – Early 19th Centuries.
11.40–12.00 Coffee Break
12.00–13.40 Session II: Languages and Objects
Chair and discussant: Daniel SCHÖNPFLUG (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Hedda REINDL-KIEL (University of Bonn): Used Garments for the Royal Palace: Observations on kadīm (old), müsta’mel (used), köhne (shabby) and nev-zuhūr (newfangled) in Ottoman Material Culture
Tülay ARTAN (Sabancı University, Istanbul): Circulation of Antiques and Luxury: Paul Lucas’s Travels through Europe, Asia, and Part of Africa
Nicoleta ROMAN ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History & New Europe College, Bucharest): Memorabilia - Mapping Resources on Luxury and Fashion in (Pre)modern Southeastern Europe
13.40–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.15 Session III: Words/Languages of the Diplomacy
Chair and discussant: Stefan ROHDEWALD (University of Giessen)
Giulia CALVI (University of Siena & New Europe College, Bucharest): Translating between Cultures, Translating between Languages. Scientific and Diplomatic Networks in the Circulation of Knowledge
Tetiana GRYGORIEVA (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv): Enriching Vocabulary: Polish Ambassadors explore Ottoman Constantinople
David CELETTI (University of Padua & New Europe College, Bucharest): Ottomans and French in late 18th Century Crete. Trade, Diplomacy, and Personal Encounters
David DO PAÇO (Centre et Département d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris): Beyond Incommensurability: The Overlapping Circles of Social Belonging of Imperial Agents between Austria and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
DAY 2 TUESDAY,5TH JUNE
10.00–11.40 Session IV: Languages of the Historical Changes
Chair and discussant: Mihai-Răzvan UNGUREANU (University of Bucharest)
Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam & New Europe College, Bucharest): Ornament, Instrument, Testament: The spread of Romanian Writing and Printing in Eighteenth-century Moldavia and Wallachia
Sorin GRIGORUŢĂ ("A. D. Xenopol" Institute of History, Iași): Physicians, Medicalization and Modernization in Moldavia (The First Half of the 19th Century)
Artemis YAGOU (Deutsches Museum, Munich & New Europe College, Bucharest): "Αι των Πραγμάτων Μόδαι": New Words for Novel Practices
11.40–12.00 Coffee Break
12.00–13.40 SessionV: Words and Everyday Life
Chair and discussant: Ovidiu CRISTEA ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History, Bucharest)
Radu PĂUN (CNRS, Paris): Donare con dignità. Venetian Sources for an Anthropology of Gift-giving in Ottoman Constantinople, 16th Century
Liviu PILAT (University of Iaşi & New Europe College, Bucharest): Piskesh, Rushfet, and the Economy of Power in Sixteenth-Century Moldavia
Robert BORN (GWZO Leipzig): Black Soup and Turkish Boots. Oriental Commodities and Luxury Items in Hungary and Transylvania
13.40–15.00 Lunch
15.00–16.40 Session VI: Interaction of Lands/Interaction of Languages
Chair and discussant: Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam & New Europe College, Bucharest)
Constantin ARDELEANU (University of Galați & New Europe College, Bucharest): Language Interactions along the Danube (mid-1830s–mid-1850s)
Dimitrios KONTOGEORGIS (Ionian University): Revoltantă şi degradatoare demnităţii Naţionale…”. A sacred tongue, a traditional presence or an insidious enemy? The conflict on the use of the Greek language in churches and schools during the Cuza era (1859-1866)
Anastasia FALIEROU (Academy of Athens & New Europe College, Bucharest): Ottoman Women’s Press as Agent of Cultural Transfers
16.40–17.00 Coffee Break
17.00–18.30 Round Table: Ottoman Studies and South-Eastern Europe
Chair: Hedda REINDL-KIEL (University of Bonn)
Stefan ROHDEWALD (University of Giessen): Transottomanica: Eastern European Ottoman–Persian Mobility Dynamics
Robert BORN (GWZO Leipzig): The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia as Communication Spaces (16th–18th Centuries): Reflections on the Mobility of Objects, Network of Actors and Transfer of Ideas from an Art Historical Perspective
Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History & New Europe College, Bucharest): Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe
Conference convened by Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu within the ERC Project LuxFass no. No 646489 (http://luxfass.nec.ro) hosted by New Europe College, Bucharest (www.nec.ro)