Skilliter Centre

Papers from this conference were edited by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet and published in The Ottomans and Trade (Oriente Moderno, XXV/1) (Rome, 2006). Thursday 21 March PANEL 1:  Chair: Dr Colin Heywood (SOAS) Professor Dan Goffman (Indiana), Homogeneity and heterogenity in the Early Modern Ottoman world: toward a typology for Ottoman expansion.  Professor Salih Özbaran (Izmir), The Ottomans and the

CHAIR: Lesley Peirce (UCLA) Jonathan Harris (London), Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Ottoman taxation.  Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Tax farming in Istanbul after the conquest: the case of rents.  Eleni Sakellariou (Ioannina), The Western perspective: tax farming in a province of the Spanish empire. Southern Italy and the Genoese involvement.  Huri Islamoglu (Sabanc University), Taxation as an aspect of pre-modern property relations:

This conference considered various aspects of corsairing, piracy and ransom in the Mediterranean. CHAIR: Elena Frangakis-Syrett (CUNY) Elizabeth Zachariadou (Crete) Itinerant corsairs in the Aegean (14th-15th centuries)  Nicolas Vatin (Paris) Tableau de la piraterie dans les eaux ottomanes en 1559-1560 Pàl Fodor (ELTE, Budapest) Piracy, ransom, slavery and trade: French participation in the liberation of Ottoman slaves from

This conference examined the Ottoman frontier under four main headings: the fluid frontier, the fixed frontier, the commercial frontier and the cultural frontier. 17-20 March 1999 The Fluid Frontier Chair: Colin Heywood (SOAS) Colin Imber (Manchester), The vocabulary of frontiers Keith Hopwood (Lampeter), The wild west: the frontier with Byzantium in the 12th and early 13th centuries

This conference was organised in conjunction with Mark Nesbitt, Institute of Archaeology, UCL. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu (Hacettepe, Ankara), Excavations in Istanbul.  Machiel Kiel (Utrecht), Electronic" excavation of an Ottoman külliye in Kirkkavak.  Caroline Finkel (Istanbul), Dirt and documents: the case of Ottoman Ozi (Ochakov).  Joanita Vroom (Utrecht), Turkish rubbish in Greek soil: the Ottoman pottery from some waste pits in

Focusing on commerce, banking, crafts, guilds and economic trends, this conference considered the Ottoman economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Amnon Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The changing face of the Fertile Crescent: Hourani's ideas in the light of further research.  Eugene Rogan (Oxford), Families and trade in the early 19th century.  Ruba Kanaan

Friday 22 March, 1996 Elizabeth Zachariadou, Monks and Sailors under the Ottoman Sultans. Catherine Otten, Relations between the Aegean Islands and the Turks in the 14th and 15th Centuries.  Kate Fleet, Early Turkish naval activities.  Molly Greene, Ruling an island without a navy: a comparative look at Venetian and Ottoman Crete. Palmira Brummett, The Ottomans as a world power: what

Papers at this conference considered Cairo, Üsküp and Jerusalem, as well as Qasr Ibrim and Ottoman style and imperial ideology in an urban setting. Chair: André Raymond (Aix-en-Provence)   Doris Behrens Abouseif (Munich) Dawudiyya in Ottoman Cairo   Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu (Cambridge) Ottoman style and imperial ideology: participation in a visual experience within an urban setting   Machiel