We are pleased to announce the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia will be holding a workshop entitled “Military Elites in the Early Modern Islamicate World and Beyond.” This workshop brings together scholars of Ottoman and Safavid history to discuss various aspects of military elites in the early modern Islamicate world and beyond, such as their recruitment, culture, and arts.
This workshop is held both in person and online. To attend the workshop, please fill in the registration form. The language of the workshop is English.
Date: January 20, 2024 (Sat), 12:30~16:30
Venue：Large meeting room (3rd floor), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo／Zoom
Registration form: https://forms.gle/LeQ8CtJTKqoUro6a9
Program
Workshop: Military Elites in the Early Modern Islamicate World and Beyond
| 12:30~12:40 | Opening Remarks by Jun Akiba (IASA, U Tokyo) |
| 12:40~13:25 | Gülay Yılmaz (Akdeniz University) “From Candidates to Slaves: Janissary Army Recruitment Until the 17th Century” |
| 13:25~14:10 | Hirotake Maeda (Tokyo Metropolitan University) “Slave Soldiers Who Cannot Understand the "Iranian Ways"?: The Cases of the Safavid Gholams” |
| 14:10~14:40 | Break |
| 14:40~15:25 | Satoshi Kawamoto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “When It Rains in Istanbul: Weather and Ottoman Court Ceremonials in Early-modern Istanbul” |
| 15:25~16:00 | Iku Nagashima (JSPS; IASA, U Tokyo) “A Preliminary to a Comparative Study of Turkish and Japanese Archeries” |
| 16:00~16:30 | Discussion |
Contact : Jun Akiba (IASA, j-akiba[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
*This workshop is supported by JSPS Kakenhi 20H01322
