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 we don’t know about Ottoman seapower.
• William Blair, The development of the Ottoman steam navy in the 19th century. 
• Konstantin Zhukov & Alexander Vitol, The origins of the Ottoman submarine fleet. 
• Victoria Holbrook, Oceanic narcissism and post classical Ottoman poetry. 
• Claudia Römer, The sea in comparisons and metaphors in Ottoman historiography in the 16th century.

Saturday 23 March, 1996

 

• Victor Ostapchuk, The changed military and political landscape of the Ottoman Black Sea in the face of the Cossack onslaught in the 17th century.
• Alexander Halenko, Was the Black Sea “closed” before its “opening” by the Russians? 
• Rossitsa Gradeva, War and peace along the Danube at the end of the 17th century. 
• İdris Bostan, Technological developments in the Ottoman navy during the second half of the 17th century with special reference to the types of ships.
• Rhoads Murphey, Technology transfer in the naval sphere during the pre-print era.
• Elena Frangakis-Syret, An analysis of Ottoman-Western trade in the Aegean from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
• Alexander de Groot, The Ottoman squadrons of Barbery in the 17th and 18th centuries: the sea road towards modernisation. 
• Gábor Ágostan, Merces prohibitae and the Anglo-Turkish trade in war materials in the 16th and 17th centuries. 
• Kaori Komatsu, The Ottoman navy during the reign of Abdülhamid II: an analysis of the financial problem. 
• John Alexander, The Ottomans and the Red Sea.