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September, 28 2017, Thursday
10:00 – 10:15 Opening Speech
Prof. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Koç University, Director of VEKAM
Dr. Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge, The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies
10:15 – 11:00 Keynote Speech
The Political Economy of Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia
Prof. Metin Coşgel, The University of Connecticut
Dr. Sadullah Yıldırım, Ibn Haldun University
11:00 – 11:20 Break
12:20 – 12:10 Session I
Chair: Prof. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Koç University VEKAM
The structure of Agricultural Production in Sixteenth-Centre Central Anatolia: A General Overview
Prof. Mehmet Öz, Hacettepe University
Land and Labour in the Western Anatolian Landed Estates (Çiftliks) of the Nineteenth Century
Assoc. Prof. Yücel Terzibaşoğlu, Boğaziçi University
12:10 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Keynote Speech
Copper in the Hands of Ottoman Women: Outlandish or Unexceptional?
Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University
14:15 – 14:35 Break
14:35 – 16:00 Session II
Chair: Dr. Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge, The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies
A Glance at Ottoman Trade through the Records of the Imperial Mint: Foreign Coins in Circulation in Anatolia and Rumelia (1766-1802)
Asst. Prof. Ö. Faruk Bölükbaşı, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University
Trade and Production in Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Sixteenth Century
Assoc. Prof. Margaret Venzke, Stetson University
Tribe as an Economic Actor: The Cihanbeyli Tribe in the Province of Ankara (1839-1865)
Assoc. Prof. Yonca Köksal Özyaşar, Koç University
Mehmet Polatel, Koç University
September, 29 2017, Friday
10:00 – 10:45 Keynote Speech
Global Trade Routes and Anatolia during the Classical Ottoman Era
Prof. Özer Ergenç, Bilkent University
10:45 – 11:05 Break
11:05 – 13:00 Session III
Chair: Prof. Ebru Boyar, Middle East Technical University
Genoese Commercial Activities in Northern Anatolia in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
Dr. Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge, The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies
Production and Trade of Cotton in Ottoman Anatolia from the Early Modern to the Modern Period c. 1700- 1914
Prof. Elena Frangakis-Syrett, The City University of New York
Fakes of the Trade: Uncertainty and the Activation of Economic Norms in the Nineteenth Century
Dr. Marc Aymes, Centre National de la Recherche Scienti que
Occupations and Investment in Nineteenth-Century Bursa
Assoc. Prof. Hülya Canbakal, Sabancı University
Assoc. Prof. Erdem Kabadayı, Koç University
Prof. Alpay Filiztekin, Özyeğin University