【Date】 Wednesday, July 12, 2017　5:30-7:30 pm

【Venue】 First Meeting Room (3F), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

【Program】
Speakers:
 Yusuke Motani (The University of Tokyo):
  “Higher Council of Aleppo during the Egyptian Occupation (1832-1840): A Study of Administrative Reform in Syria under Muhammad Ali Pasha's Rule”
 Takashi Oshio (Chiba University):
 "From Morisco to Andalusī: A Transitional Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
 Minami Tanaka (Kyushu University):
  “Atatürk's Mention of Japan”
 Keiko Iwamoto (Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences):
 “What Was the Difference?: A Study on the Continuation and Transformation of the Ottoman Tax-Exempted Yörüks and Müsellems”

Main Commentators:
 Shirine Hamadeh (Rice University)
 Sophia Laiou (Ionian University)

Moderator:
 Jun Akiba (Chiba University)

Contact Persons:
 Jun Akiba (j-akiba[at]faculty.chiba-u.jp),
 Kazuo Morimoto (Tobunken, The University of Tokyo) (morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

The event is free of charge and open to the public. No registration required.

Co-sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tobunken Seminar) , JSPS Kakenhi, “Formation of Modern Society in the Ottoman Empire, 17th to 19th Centuries” (26284106), and JSPS Kakenhi, "Internalization of National Consciousness in Interwar Turkey" (16K03090).