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

About This Event

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

Convened by Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen.

• March 14:
  • 6:00pm: Keynote: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis). “Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: Writing Urban History in Aleppo from Empire to Nation State.”

• March 15, Conference:
  • 9:00am: Welcome and Introduction. Esra Akcan and Peter Christensen
  • 9:10am: 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.
  • 10:15am: End of Panel 1.
  • 10:20am: Panel 2: SOUTH
    • Mohamed Elshahed (Indepent Scholar and Curator). “Architects and Identity in Egypt and the End of Ottoman Cosmopol.

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Featured Guests

Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis). Ecem Sarıçayır (Cornell University). Peter Christensen (University of Rochester). H. Şükrü Ilıcak (University of Crete). Mohamed Elshahed (Indepent Scholar and Curator). Esra Akcan (Cornell University). Caecilia Pieri (French Institute of the Near-East). Lydia Harrington (Boston University) Sibel Bozdogan (Boston University)