Empire’s Province Into National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire

Convened by Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen

Supported by the Central New York Humanities Corridor

March 14

Keynote.

6:00 PM: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis). “Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: Writing Urban History in Aleppo from Empire to Nation State”

March 15

Conference.

9:00 AM: Welcome and Introduction. Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen

9:10 AM: PANEL 1: NORTH

Ecem Sarıçayır (Cornell University). “Discourse of Architecture and Hygiene on the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands”

Peter Christensen (University of Rochester). “Turanism and the Ottoman Architectural Legacy in Austria-Hungary”

H. Şükrü Ilıcak (University of Crete). “Revolutionary Athens through Ottoman Eyes. New Evidence from the Ottoman State Archives:

10:15:  End of Panel 1

BREAK

10:20:  PANEL 2: SOUTH

Mohamed Elshahed (Indepent Scholar and Curator). “Architects and Identity in Egypt and the End of Ottoman Cosmopolitanism”

Esra Akcan (Cornell University). “After the ‘Last Ottoman Generation’: Sudan at Colonial and Postcolonial Crossroads”

10: 05: End of Panel 2

BREAK

11:10: PANEL 3: EAST

Caecilia Pieri (French Institute of the Near-East). Following Ottoman modernity in Iraq: architectural themes and variations (1870-1950).

Lydia Harrington (Boston University) 'The hands of the compassionate': the Damascus vocational school and imperial patronage at the end of the Ottoman Empire."

11:55: Response: Sibel Bozdogan (Boston University)

12:05: Q&A

12:45 Conclusion

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