Programm

Monday, July 4 9:30 Welcome and organizational remarks Chaterine Gousseff (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) Daniel Schönpflug (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) 10:00–11:30 Session 1: Not Only Trade: Circulation of Commodities for Personal Use. (Chair: Hannes Grandits) Collecting in the Ottoman world and beyond (Tülay Artan) On the road: commodities and travellers in the Ottoman Lands (Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu) Missionary networks and the circulation of daily objects and food. The Custody of the Holy Land as a case study (Felicita Tramontana) 11:30–12:00 Coffee break 12:00–13:00 Session 2: Food and Kitchenware (Chair: Sonja Brentjes) ‘C’est tout à fait une nouvelle branche de commerce que j’ouvre’: clientelism and informal food circulation between Pera and Vienna in the 1780s (David do Paco) Truffle, Cognac & Casseroles: European Style Food Items, Beverages & Kitchenware in 19th century Istanbul (Ozge Samanci) 13:00–14:30 Lunch 14:30–16:00 Session 3: Diplomacy. Gift-exchange and Informal Circulation of Goods and Food (Chair: David Celetti) Gift-exchange and cross-cultural diplomacy: Ottoman-French practices in the 17th century (Christine Vogel) Venetian hosts and Ottoman guests in the Venedik Sarayı in Constantinople (about 1670-1683) (Maria Pia Pedani) Prohibited Foods, Excessive Expenses and Objects of Desire: Circulation of Goods and Commodities between Naples and Istanbul in the Second Half of the18th Century (Rosita d’Amora) 18:00 Dinner Tuesday, July 5 10:00–11:30 Session 4: Circulation of Goods: Conflicts, (perceived) Limitations, and Perception of the “Other” (Chair: Daniel Schönpflug) Tradition, Modernization, Industrialization and Colonization : reflections on the circulation of fez /chéchias in the Ottoman Empire and beyond (1850-1914) (Nora Lafi) Figures at the Frontier: European Coins and Commodities in the Ottoman Lands (Finbarr Barry Flood) Ephemeral Architecture and Mechanical Devices: Ottoman Festivities as a Site of Early Modern Global Interactions (Gül Kale) 11:30–12:00 Coffee break 12:00–13:00 Session 5: Luxury Items and Beyond (Chair: Finbarr Barry Flood) Long-distance and local trade in the customs accounts of Sibiu/Hermannstadt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Maria Pakucs) Luxury comes from the East. Fashioning “à l’indienne” between the Ottoman Empire and Italy (XVIII-XIX) (Giulia Calvi) 13:00–14:30 Lunch 14:30–16:00 Round table and conclusions (Chairs: Felicita Tramontana, Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu and Rosita d’Amora)