Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association

Northwestern University

October 25-27, 2024

Program:
OTSA 2024 Conference

Northwestern University

October 25-27, 2024

FRIDAY, 10/25

8:30AM CST– 10:00 AM CST OTSA Board Meeting 

10:30AM CST– 10:45AM CST Welcome Remarks and Orientation

11:00AM CST– 12:30PM CST Panel Session 1

• Ottoman Diasporas in the Americas
  • Kent Schull, Binghamton University

“The Mormon-Armenian Diaspora in the Western United States: Immigration and Resettlement Struggles against Exploitation (1884-1922)”

• Stacy Fahrenthold, UC Davis

“Picketing the Syrian shop: Syrian American garment workers and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) of New York City”

• Devin Naar, University of Washington

“‘Toward the Emancipation of All Peoples’: Ottoman Socialism in the Windy City”

• Yorgio Topalidis, Flagler College

“‘There is no such thing as Ottoman Greeks!’: Lessons Learned from the Whitening Process of Ottoman Greek Immigrants in the US”

• Chair and Discussant- Amy Singer, Brandeis University

• Entangled Histories of Labor and Capital in the Ottoman Empire
  • Anıl Aşkın, Brown University

“Between City, Field, and Mine: Class Struggles in Eighteenth-Century Central Anatolia (1740-1780)”

• Emre Can Dağlıoğlu, Stanford University

“Proletariat under the International Financial Control: The 1910 Strike of Female Silk Workers in the Heart of Ottoman Sericulture”

• Önder Akgül, Northwestern University

“Debt, Labor, and the Making of a Global Hinterland in Late Ottoman Western Anatolia”

• Ellis Garey, Brown University

“Movement Regulation as Labor Discipline in Late Ottoman Greater Syria”

• Chair and Discussant- Elizabeth Williams, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

12:30PM CST– 1:30PM CST Lunch Break

1:30PM CST– 3:00PM CST Panel Session 2

• Revisiting Tribes and Tribalism in the Ottoman Empire
  • Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, New York University

“From Aşiret to Tribe, Oymak to Clan: The Politics of Labeling in Sixteenth-Century Texts and Their Translations”

• Stefan Winter, University of Quebec/Koç University

“Commander of the Steppe Warriors of the Age: The Desert Emir (Çöl Beyi) of Northern Syria and the Ottoman State”

• Habib Saçmalı, Marmara University

“Managing Nomadism: Ottoman Strategies for Forced Resettlement in the Early Eighteenth Century”

• Yonca Köksal, Koç University

“Reswan Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Central Anatolia: A Study of Governance, Mobility, and Livestock Trade”

• Discussant: Baki Tezcan, University of California- Davis

• Cultural Hegemony in Turkey’s Domestic Politics
  • Kenan Sharpe, Northwestern University

“The Shifting Character of Culture War: From Left-Right Struggle to Secular-Religious Lifestyle Debate”

• Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

“Recipe for (New) Turkey: Cooking Shows as Conservative Gender Edutainment in Cultural Hegemony Struggles”

• Hikmet Kocamaner, University of North Carolina

“Cultural Hegemony and Populist Narratives: The Case of Kızılcık Şerbet”

• Yağmur Karakaya, Yale University

“The ‘Failed Cultural Hegemony’ of the AKP: An Interrogation through the Museum of Conquest”

Chair and discussant: Meltem Müftüler, Sabancı University

3:15PM CST– 4:30PM CST Panel Session 3

• Memory after a Decade of War
  • Matthew Ghazarian, Yale University

“Memory and Archive After 1915”

• Yiğit Akın, Ohio State University

“’Alternative Archive?’: A Methodological Discussion about Exploring the Memory of the Great War in Post-Ottoman Anatolia”

• Rachel Baron-Bloch, University of California-Irvine

“Remembering Rhodes: Post-Ottoman Ethnographic Memory on Camera”

• Cevat Dargin, Columbia University

“Remembering Rescue: Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors Smuggled to Safety by Kurds”

• Discussant- Melanie Tanelian, University of Michigan

• Chair- Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, MIT

• Borders, Mobility, and Identity Formation in the Late Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath
  • Fatma Esen, Georgetown University

“The Impact of Tobacco Fields on Mobility and Identity in the Late Ottoman Black Sea”

• Irmak Senşöz, Princeton University

“The Making of Mobility Controls in Late Ottoman Palestine (1882-1913)”

• Mary Tezak, Georgetown University

“Yenice to Nusaybin: Sites of Overlap During World War I”

• Diana Yayloyan, Georgetown University

“Mobility as an Everyday Experience of Ottoman Armenian Deportees in the Deserts of Syrian Jazira and Forests of Dersim Between 1915 and 1918”

• Chair- Deren Ertaş, Harvard University

4:45PM CST– 5:45PM CST Special Session

• “A Turkish Circle in the Pacific Northwest? The Tradition of Turkish and Ottoman Studies at the University of Washington Reconsidered”
  • K. Mehmet Kentel, Leiden University
  • Selim S. Kuru, University of Washington
  • Senem Aslan, Bates College
  • William Bamber, University of Toronto
  • Discussant- Reşat Kasaba, University of Washington

6:00PM CST– 8:00PM CST Reception

SATURDAY, 10/26

9:00AM CST- 10:00AM CST Business Meeting

10:30AM CST- 12:00PM CST Panel Session 4

• Ottoman Racialization and Its Afterlives: Cultural and Multilingual Perspectives
  • Berkay Uluç, University of Michigan

“Nahda, Tanzimat, ‘Aesthetics’: A Racial Discourse”

• Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr, Columbia University

“Pure Lineage: Iran and Racecraft on the Ottoman/Turkish Stage”

• Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, University of Pennsylvania

“From Kin to Kind: The Hayırsızada Dog Massacre and the Mediation of the ‘Human’”

• Hakem Al-Rustom, University of Michigan

“Confessional Ethnicities in Post-Ottoman Turkey: The Armenian Case”

• Chair and Discussant- Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University

• Imperial Center to Nationalizing Borderlands: Ottoman Europe, 1900-1922
  • Pınar Odabaşı Taşçı, The University of Akron

“Edirne during World War I: Borderlands and Belonging at the End of Empire”

• Kaleb Adney, University of Missouri- Kansas City

“National Economy and Political Sustenance: Post-Ottoman Macedonia as a Central Periphery “

• Jacob Daniels, University of Texas

“The Eye of the Storm: Borderland Violence and the Jews of Edirne, 1912-1918”

• Pelin Tiğlay

“The Ideological Borderlands of the IMARO: Imagining Ottoman Balkans as a National, Socialist and Imperial Center (1893-1912)”

• Chair and Discussant- Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular

12:00PM CST- 1:30PM CST Lunch Break

1:30PM CST- 3:00PM CST Panel Session 5

• Who is Afraid of the Balkans?
  • Ana Sekulic, University of Pittsburgh

“The Friar Figure: Beyond the In-Between in Ottoman Studies”

• Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University- Chicago

“The Specter of Europe in Ottoman and Balkan Scholarship”

• Leyla Amzi Erdoğdular, Rutgers University-Newark

“The Ottoman Balkans: Between Sources and Temporalities”

• Harun Buljina

“Between Bosnia and Bosporus: Historiographies and Prosopographies of Islamic Reform in Late and Post-Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina”

• Chair and Discussant- Uğur Peçe, Lehigh University

• Ottoman Imperial Belonging and Order: New Histories of Law and Punishment
  • Hazal Özdemir, University of Michigan

“Redefining Land, Privilege and Imperial Belonging at the End of Empire”

• Lâle Can, The City College of New York

“Exile as Late Ottoman Imperial Politics”

• Camille Cole, Illinois State University

“’Following’: Dependence and Belonging in Late Ottoman Iraq”

• Ayşe Polat, Columbia University

“‘A Farewell to Arms’: Economies of Violence in the Golan Heights, 1878-1908”

• Chair and Discussant– Nora Barakat, Stanford University

3:15PM CST- 4:30PM CST Panel Session 6

• War, Weapons, and Imperial Transformations Across the Ottoman and Spanish Empires
  • James Tallon, Lewis University

“Revolution, Reform, and Nationalism: in the Albanian Provinces of the late Ottoman Empire”

• Wayne Bowen, University of Central Florida

“The Fall and Rise and Fall of the Spanish and Ottoman Empires, 1700-1924”

• Veysel Simşek, McGill University

“Ottoman Arms Production and Imports, 1826-1839”

• Chair and Discussant- Kate Dannies

• Islam in AKP’s “New Turkey” Intersecting Discourses of Religion, Identity, and Governance
  • Seda Baykal, University of Pittsburgh

“The Resilience and Transformation of the Ottoman Ulema: A Genealogical Study from Empire to Republic”

• Fatma Murat Elmacıoğlu, Bilkent University

“Redefining Urban Based on Islam: The Concept of Şehir in the Works of Lütfi Bergen”

• Zeynep Önal, Bilkent University

“A Muslim Feminist NGO: The Case of Havle Women’s Association in Turkey”

4:45PM CST– 5:45PM CST Special Session

A Roundtable Celebrating Mark Stein’s 27 years with H-TURK’S heavy hitters and you:

As Mark Stein passes the baton after 27 years as H-TURK coordinator and editor, we join with him, Alan Fischer, Ernie Tucker, Andras Riedlmayer, Victor Ostapchuk, and Günhan Börekçi for a roundtable dialogue: From TSA to OTSA: How H-Turk Got Here, and How We Imagine and Actualize the Unfolding of its Future.  We look forward to celebrating, being together, and hearing your vital input and voices.

6PM CST- 8PM CST Reception

SUNDAY, 10/27

9:00AM CST– 10:15AM CST Panel Session 7

• Interwar Turkey in Global Context
  • Nesi Altaras, Stanford University

“Anchoring the Post-Ottoman Sephardi World: Republican Istanbul as a global Jewish Center”

• Kubra Sağır, EHESS

“From Would-be-state Diplomacy to Rebel Diplomacy: The International Relations and Diplomatic Activities of Kurdish Political Actors, 1918-1938”

• Emmanuel Szurek, EHESS

“Branding the Revolution, Framing Turcology: The Creation of the Centre d’études turques (Sorbonne, 1935)”

• Aytek Sönder Alpan, Simon Fraser University

“A forgotten small-scale exchange of populations between Turkey and Bulgaria in 1935 How many times could one village avoid being exchanged?”

• Discussant- Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  • Chair– Emre Can Dağlıoğu, Stanford University

• Translating Cultures: Legal, Linguistic, and Literary Intersections in Ottoman European Exchanges
  • Tomasso Stefini, Sabanci University

“Understanding the Giustizia Turchesca:  Translation and the Production of Legal knowledge in Ottoman Istanbul (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)”

• Duygu Yıldırım, University of Tennessee

“The Translating Subject: Self-Assertion and Edges of Mediation in Ali Ufkî’s Bilingual Dialogues”

• Marloes Cornelissen, Sabanci University

“Lettres Muettes”: A 17th-Century French–Ottoman Oriental “Love-Code”

• Mehmet Kuru, Sabanci University

“AESOP Alla Turca: Turkish Translations of Aesop Stories in the Early Modern Ottoman World”

10:30AM CST– 12:00PM CST Panel Session 8

• Beyond the Madrasa: Sites of Science and Religion in Ottoman History
  • Nathaniel Moses, Havard University

“The Hindiyeh Canal and the Ecology of Value in Nineteenth Century Iraq”

• Zeynep Küleli, John Hopkins University

“Divine Blooms: Cultural and Symbolic Meanings of Tulips in Early Modern Ottoman Floriculture”

• Dana Nabulsi, Havard University

“Healing the Body and Soul: Medical Missionary Rivalry in 19^th Century Ottoman Syria”

• Chair- Alexander Barna, Northwestern University

• Economic Knowledge and Policy in the Ottoman Arab Provinces in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Murat Bozluolcay, University of Chicago

“Keeping an Eye on Trade: Production of Economic Knowledge in Early-Nineteenth Century Syria”

• Zoe Griffith, Baruch College

“Who Knew? Information-Gathering and Imperial Reforms in Late-Eighteenth Century Egypt”

• Elizabeth Williams, University of Massachusetts- Lowell

“Documenting Sovereignty: The Stakes of Economic Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth Century Syria and Aleppo”

• Chair and Discussant- Aaron Jakes, University of Chicago

12:15PM CST– 1:45PM CST Final Session and Roundtable

Gender and Sexuality in Ottoman and Turkish Studies: The State of the Field and New Approaches

• Kate Dannies, Miami University

“Breadwinner Soldiers: Gender, Family, and the Body in the Ottoman First World War”

• Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania

“The Homoerotics of Empire Before Modernity”

• Murat Yıldız, Skidmore College

“‘The Ottoman World of Sport’: It’s in the Game”

• Emre Keser, University of California- Santa Cruz

“Herculine Barbin in the Ottoman Empire: Gendering Monsters, Historicizing Sex”

Chair and Discussant- Seçil Yılmaz, University of Pennsylvania