PROGRAMME
Thursday, 14 September 2017
13:30
Registration
14:15
Welcome Addresses
Prof. Dr. Nataša Mišković, Convener
Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski, Head, Middle Eastern Studies
Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
14:30
Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Burcu Doğramacı (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
From Istanbul to Ankara and Back Again: Photographing Old and New Cityscapes of the 1930s and 1940s
15:30
Coffee and Tea
16:00
Panel I
Čaršija and City Centre as Showcases of 'Oriental' Tradition and 'European' Modernity
Chair: Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel)
Dr. Andjelko Vlašić (Croatian Institute of History, Slavonski Brod)
'Istanbul Signifies the Past — Ankara the Present!' Istanbul and Ankara as Seen by the Interwar Yugoslav Public
Aida Murtić M.A. (Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in Global Perspective, Heidelberg University)
Interwar Modernity and Old Sarajevo Čaršija
Dr. Denis S. Ermolin (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, St. Petersburg)
Priština and Prizren on Postcards: Between Greetings and State-Building (1912–1941)
Comment: Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kuban
(Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University)
Friday, 15 September 2017
9:30
Panel II
Building the Yugoslav Capital
Chair: Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kuban (Istanbul Technical University)
Prof. Dr. Nenad Makuljević (Department of Art History, University of Belgrade)
The Belgrade Parliament Building between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Ignjatović (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade)
Spanning the Gap between Divisive Past and Primordial Unity: The Bridge of King Alexander I in Belgrade, 1930–1934
Magdalena Saiger M.A. (Graduate School 'Representations of the Shoa', University of Hamburg)
Symbolic Materiality – Belgrade's Old Fairground (Staro Sajmište) and its Function as a Vehicle to Pull the City Towards Central Europe
Dr. Zlata Vuksanović-Macura (Institute of Geography SANU, Belgrade)
The Housing Question in Belgrade in the Interwar Period
Comment: Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers
(Urban Studies, University of Basel)
12:00
Lunch
14:00
Panel III
Pan/Nationalist Zeitgeist: The Nation and the Body
Chair: Dr. Selen Etingü (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel)
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jakir (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split)
The Sokol Movement in Croatia as Promoter of Yugoslav Nationalism during the Interwar years
Dr. Vladana Putnik Prica (Art History Department, University of Belgrade)
The Role of the Sokol Movement in the Reshaping of Visual Identity of Interwar Belgrade
Yorick Tanner B.A. (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel)
The Visualization of Sport in the Turkish Press of the Interwar Period
Comment: Prof. Dr. Nataša Mišković
(Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel)
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Panel IV
Atatürk and the City: Progress, Repression, Neglect?
Chair: Dr. des. Alp Yenen (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel)
Prof. Dr. Erol Ülker (Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul)
Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Turkification in Istanbul, 1918-1923
lic. phil. Joël László (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel)
Reiterating the War of Independence: Mustafa Kemal's Domestic Travels
Saadet Özen M.A. (Boğaziçi University Istanbul)
Filming the Emergence of a New City, 1923–1933
Comment: Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski
(Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel)
Saturday, 16 September 2017
9:00
Panel V
From Subject to Citizen: Gender, Body, Dress
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nataša Mišković (University of Basel)
Dr. Xavier Bougarel (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
The Reis and the Veil: A Religious Polemic in Interwar Bosnia
(Reading of paper)
Prof. Dr. Sevgi Adak (The Aga Khan University in the United Kingdom, London)
The Veil, the Kafes and the City: A Gendered Perspective to Urban Transformation in Early Turkish Republic.
Dr. Burçin Çakir (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Turkey as Neutral Peace Maker and Istanbul as its Maker: Gender, Image and Visibility of Turkey on the Eve of World War II
Comment: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
(Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Panel VI
Leisure and the Visual Revolution
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nada Boškovska (Eastern European History, University of Zurich)
Prof. Dr. Zafer Toprak (Boğaziçi University and Koç University, Istanbul)
Modernity and Social Life: Visuality/Photography in Istanbul in the Early Years of the Republic
Jan Bartknecht M.A. (Goldsmiths, University of London)
The Magazine Yedigün as a Space of Visual Utopia in Turkish Modernity
Prof. Dr. Karl Kaser (Southeastern European History and Anthropology, University of Graz)
Hollywood's Conquest of Southeastern European Cities
Comment: Prof. Dr. Milan Ristović
(History Department, University of Belgrade)
13:30
Closing Discussion
14:00
Lunch and End of Conference