This joint conference was organized with l’Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, Rome and CNRWS, Leiden University, and held in Leiden on 21-22 September 2002.
Papers from the conference were edited by Maurits van den Boogert and Kate Fleet and published in The Ottoman Capitulations: Text and Context (Oriente Moderno, XXII/3) (Rome, 2003).
Friday 21 September
| 9.45 | Welcome and opening |
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| Chair: Alexander de Groot (Leiden) | |
| 10.00 | Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Latin-Ottoman diplomatic relations before the fall of Constantinople. |
| 10.30 | COFFEE |
| 11.00 | Darius Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw), Between the splendour of Barocco and Realpolitik. The form and contents of the Polish-Ottoman treaty documents of 1699. |
| 11.30 | Jan Schmidt (Leiden), Manuscripts documenting relations between the Ottoman Empire and the West in the Leiden University Library: treaties, passports and letters. |
| 11.30 | Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont (Paris), Autour de quelques texts de capitulations conservés à la bibliothèque Inguimbertine de Carpentras. |
| 12.30 | LUNCH |
| Chair: Kate Fleet (Cambridge) | |
| 14.00 | Merlijn Olnon (Leiden), ‘A most agreeable and pleasant creature’? Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha and Dutch commerce in the Levant. |
| 14.30 | Erik Visscher (Leiden), An Ahdname in the making: the Treaty of Pasarrowitz (1715-1718). |
| 15.00 | Rosita d’Amora (Naples), Diplomatic exchange between Naples and the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the 18th century. |
| 15.30 | Isa Blumi (New York), The shifting parameters of the capitulations in the late Ottoman period: the case of Austrian pretensions in Ottoman Albania, 1878-1912. |
Saturday 22 September
| Chair: Darius Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw) | |
| 11.00 | Maurits van den Boogert (Leiden), The capitulations and the Ottoman legal system: Europeans in the Islamic courts. |
| 11.30 | Svetlana Ivanova (Sofia), The Ottoman Empire’s own ‘foreigners’ and their joint berats. |
| 12.00 | Alexander de Groot (Leiden) ,The Ottoman capitulations: Foreign Relations or Home Affairs? |