This two-day event convenes recent scholarship and works-in-progress on the transformation of Ottoman province centers into national capitals/cities during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the broader transformations in the region, such as Aleppo, Athens, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Kars and Khartoum. This event will be the very last one in the series Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen have been running since 2015 with a grant from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, a consortium of universities and colleges in the central New York region.