Phantomgrenzen – Workshop: Visible and Invisible Urban boundaries in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world from a comparative perspective

Im Rahmen des Projektes Phantomgrenzen im Ostmitteleuropa findet einen Workshop am 22-23. Mai im Zentrum Moderner Orient statt.  Programm: 22 May 2014  9:00 Coffee and Welcome  9:30 Introduction by the Conveners: Visible and Invisible Urban Boundaries in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman World  10:00-13:00 Session 1: Factional, Communal and Social Boundaries in Ottoman Cities  Discussant: Malte Fuhrmann  James A. Reilly : Ottoman Hama: Visible and Invisible Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century  Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow: Factional Boundaries in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914  Gürer Karagedikli: Boundary Within Boundary in the ‘Ottoman City’: The Jewish Space Between the Ottoman mahalle and the Jewish qahal in Early Modern Edirne  Sinan Dinçer: Extramural Istanbul: A Space for Social Mobility 14:00-17:00 Session 2: Living Together/Managing Separation: A Micro-History of the Urban Space  Discussant: Ali Sipahi  Michelle Campos: Rabbinical Rulings, Rental Sub-Lease, and Confessional Urban Boundaries in Ottoman Jerusalem  M. Erdem Kabadayi: Changing Neighbors and Neighborhoods in Ankara, Bursa and Salonika from the Ottoman Empire to Nation States: Urban Fabrics Compared Across Time and Space, 1845-1945  Christian Sassmanshausen: Titles, Clothes and Social Distinction in Late Ottoman Tripoli 23 May 2014  9:30-12:30 Session 3: The Religious and Ideological Construction of Communal Boundaries Between Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Times  Discussant: Hannes Grandits  Stefan Rohdewald: Constitution in Competition: Celebrations of National Saints in Plurireligious Urban Spaces of Ottoman Europe in the Long 19th Century  Aris Anagnostopoulos: From ‘Tourkopolis’ to ‘Metropolis’: Transforming Urban Boundaries in Late 19th Century Iraklio, Crete  Guillaume Vareilles and Vincent Lemire: Jerusalem in the 20th Century: A History of Borders?  13:30-16:30 Session 4: Microcosms of Diversity: Displacement, Migration and the Challenge to Urban Boundaries  Discussant: Axel Havemann  David Do Paço: Urban and Historiographical Boundary-Breaking: Geography of Urban Integration and the Investment of 18th-century Vienna by the Ottoman Merchants  Maria Pandevska: The Ottoman Prison Kurshumli Han in Skopje at the End of the 19th Century: Prison Walls and Bridging Ethnic Boundaries  Paris Papamichos Chronakis: Boundaries Drawn, Boundaries Crossed. Refugees, Relief Work, and the Nationalization of an Ottoman Port-City  16:30-17:00 General Discussion and Conclusion by the Conveners