Diplomacy
- Chair: Gül Tokay (Istanbul)
- John Burman (Cambridge), “Rebels and revolutionaries: Britain and opposition to the Ottoman system during the late Hamidian period, 1898-1908.”
- Gökhan Çetinsaya (Istanbul Şehir University), “Anglo-Ottoman relations: the case of Iraq.”
- Feroze Yasamee (Manchester), “Neutrality and moderation: Abdülhamid II and Great Britain, 1888-1892.”
The case of Cyprus
- Chair: Feroze Yasamee (Manchester)
- Irene Pophaides (Cambridge), “The Ottoman-British-Cypriot triangle: a reassessment.”
- Niyazi Kızılyürek (University of Cyprus), “How did the Muslims of Cyprus become an ethnic community?”
- Sia Anagnostopoulou (Panteion University, Athens), “Cyprus: the critical encouter between the imperial-type modernity of the Ottoman Empire and the radical, representative modernity of Britain.”
Espionage
- Ebru Boyar (METU, Ankara), “Ottoman responses to English espionage in Anatolia in the post-World War I period.”
- Kate Fleet (Cambridge), “British activities in south-eastern Anatolia in the aftermath of the First World War.”
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the A.G. Leventis Foundation and The English School in Nicosia, Cyprus.