We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo will be organizing an international conference on Ottoman history, entitled ""Pacific Rim Ottomanists' Conference" on March 22 and 23, 2023. This conference brings together scholars of Ottoman history based in East Asia and the Western regions of the United States to share their ongoing research.
The conference will be held both in person and online. Please fill in the form and choose either "online" or "in person." In-person participants (up to 18 people) will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis.
Registration form:https://forms.gle/wqndVFqy9StPPXYK8 (Open until the end of March 19).
Date: March 22 and 23, 2023 (Wed and Thu)
Venue：Large meeting room (3rd floor), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo／Zoom
Program
March 22, Wed
17:00~18:40 Opening session
Opening remarks (Jun Akiba, U Tokyo)
Baki Tezcan (UC Davis): "Birgili, Akhisarlı, and Kadızade: A Story of Disenchantment in Three Acts."
Jun Akiba: "Visiting the Courtroom through Back Door: A New Look at the Ottoman Sharia Courts"
March 23, Thu
10:30~17:00
●1st Session 10:30~12:00 Law and Justice in the Ottoman Empire
Tommaso Stefini (European U Institute): "Ottoman justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian merchants in Ottoman Courts (16th-18th centuries)"
Nora Barakat (Stanford U): "Assembling Private Property in the Late Ottoman Empire, From Homs to Hufuf"
●2nd Session 13:20~14:50 Early Modern Istanbul: From the Palace to the Street
Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA) and Madoka Morita (TUFS): ""How to Keep the Horses Happy: Urban Crowding in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul"
Satoshi Kawamoto (TUFS): "New Dorms for New Elites :The Baltacılar and the Ottoman Palatial Architecture in the Seventeenth Century"
●3rd Session 15:20~16:50 Ottoman Urban History
Masato Tanaka (U Tokyo): "Men of Professions and Money": Freemasonry, Civic Associations, and the Formation of a New Social Class in Late Ottoman Beirut"
Eunjeong Yi (Seoul U) and Madoka Morita: "Reconsidering Mahalles of Ottoman Istanbul" (tentative title)
*The conference is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 20H01322 and 20H05827
Contact: Jun Akiba (IASA, U Tokyo, j-akiba[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp）