This was a one-day graduate conference with members of the research project “Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”, which forms part of the University of Heidelberg’s “Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“.
10.00-11.30 | PANEL 1 |
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Evangelos Katafylis, Christian-Muslim contacts and interrelations in the 14th century through the epistle of Gregory Palamas. | |
Tobias Graf, Studying renegades as agents of cultural flows and their role in the Ottoman state, c. 1580-1610. | |
11.30-12.00 | Break |
12.00-13.30 | PANEL 2 |
Christian Roth, The eighteenth-century Aegean as a theatre of transcultural flows. | |
Will Smiley, Ottoman-Russian cultural flows through captivity in the eighteenth century. | |
13.30-14.30 | Lunch |
14.30-15.00 | PANEL 3 |
Nur Sobers Khan, Slaves as agents of cultural and technical exchange in mid-16th century Istanbul. | |
15.00-15.30 | Break |
15.30-16.00 | PANEL 4 |
John Burman, Bridging an uncrossable divide: British diplomacy in Istanbul at the turn of the twentieth century. |