Thursday, 17 October 2013
18:15 Public lecture (Kollegienhaus, lecture hall 120)
Erik Jan Zürcher (University of Leiden): Was the Ottoman cataclysm unavoidable? Young Turk attitudes at the time of the constitutional revolution
Friday, 18 October 2013 (Kollegienhaus, “Mehrzweckraum“, ground floor)
9:00-9:30: Welcome and introduction (Hans-Lukas Kieser & Maurus Reinkowski)
Panel I: Demise of Ottomanity: watersheds in the Balkans and Anatolia, 1912-14
09:30-10:30 Chair: Natasa Miskovic (University of Basel)
Y. Dogan Cetinkaya (University of Istanbul): Ottoman “atrocity propaganda “during the Balkan Wars
Eyal Ginio (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Negotiating identities during a time of war: The Judeo-Spanish press in the Balkan Wars
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30
Emre Erol (University of Leiden): Macedonian question” in Western Anatolia: The ousting of the Ottoman Greeks before the World War I and the case of Foça
Murat Kaya (University of Basel): The Western imperialism and the formation of the Young Turk mindset
Respondent: Kerem Öktem (Oxford University)
12:30-14:00 Break
14:00-15:30 Chair: Benjamin Frithjof Schenk (University of Basel)
Vangelis Kechriotis (Bosphorus University, Istanbul): From the Balkan Wars to World War One: the first historiographical narratives in Greek
Ebru Boyar (METU, Ankara): The impact of the Balkan Wars on Ottoman history-writing
Respondent: Méropi Anastassiadou (INALCO, Paris)
15:30-16:00 Break
Panel II: Struggle about “Ottomania” in Palestine, 1912-14
16:00-18:00 Chair: Benjamin Frithjof Schenk (University of Basel)
Dominique Trimbur (Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem): An eternal Ottoman Empire? French views on the destiny of Turkey at the eve of World War One: the case of Palestine
Yuval Ben-Bassat (University of Haifa): Petitions from Palestine in 1912-1913: A turning point in local support for the Empire?
Michelle Campos (University of Florida): The Ottoman sickness and its doctors: Imperial loyalty in Palestine on the eve of World War I"
Respondent: Paul Dumont (University of Strasbourg)
19:15 Public lecture (Kollegienhaus, lecture hall 120)
Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS, Paris): Syria 1913-2013
Saturday, 19 October (Kollegienhaus, “Mehrzweckraum“, ground floor)
Panel III: Ottomanity saved? A focal point of reform 1912-14: the Eastern Provinces
9:00-10:30 Chair: Tim Epkenhans (University of Freiburg im Breisgau) Vahé Tachjian (Houshamadyan, Berlin): Village and town life reconstructed, potential and fissures made visible
Nilay Özok Gündogan (Denison University, USA): Can the ‘ahali’ speak? Petitions from the Ottoman East, 1909-1914 Respondent: Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS, Paris)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Chair: Tim Epkenhans (University of Freiburg im Breisgau)
Mehmet Polatel (Bosphorus University, Istanbul): The effects of land disputes on the reform question in the Eastern Provinces
Thomas Schmutz (University of Zurich): The German role in the reform discussion of 1913-1914
Respondent: Erik Jan Zürcher (University of Leiden)
12:30–13:00 Final discussion