The Late Ottoman Empire: A Discussion of History and Historiography
March 19 - April 19, 2023
This event is hybrid. In-person attendees will go to the NMC Conference Room, BF200B, 2nd floor, 4 Bancroft Ave.
Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies invites you to a symposium featuring University of Toronto graduate students "The Late Ottoman Empire: A Discussion of History and Historiography."
Chair: Dr. Milena Methodieva (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations)
Panel I – Governance, Society, and Intellectual Debates (1 pm – 2:30 pm)
Timothy Boudoumit
An Organic Reform: The Place of the Mutasarifiyya of Lebanon in Ottoman, Arab, and Lebanonist Historiographies
Negar Banisafar
The Representation of Women in the Ottoman Public Sphere
Baek Kyong Jo
Reproduction, Hygiene, and Sexuality: Women and the Late Ottoman Politics of Medicine
Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon
Scholarly Spolia: Gathering the Building Blocks for a History of Disability in the Late Ottoman Empire
Utku Can Akın
How Not to Contextualize Materialism in Ottoman Historiography
Coffee Break (2:30 pm – 3 pm)
Panel II – Contestation, Upheaval, and Violence (3 pm – 5 pm)
Olivia Pape
Socialist and Labour Movements in the Late Ottoman Empire
Benjamin Marshall
TBA
Michael Shirley
Rebellion in the Mountains and the Sand: Tracing Non-State Political Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Matthew Da Silva
The Treatment of Greek, Assyrian, and Other Christian Groups in the Ottoman Empire
Arman Ghaloosian
Violence Against Ottoman Armenians Prior to the Events of the Armenian Genocide
Isaure Vorstman
The Breakdown of Empire in Eastern Anatolia: Contextual Considerations in the Study of the Armenian Genocide
Sponsored by the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Department of History and the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies