Papers from this conference were edited by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet and published in The Ottomans and Trade (Oriente Moderno, XXV/1) (Rome, 2006).
Thursday 21 March
PANEL 1:
- Chair: Dr Colin Heywood (SOAS)
- Professor Dan Goffman (Indiana), Homogeneity and heterogenity in the Early Modern Ottoman world: toward a typology for Ottoman expansion.
- Professor Salih Özbaran (Izmir), The Ottomans and the Indian trade: new data and reconsiderations.
- Professor Michele Bernardini (Istituto Orientale Universario, Naples), Commercial activities in Anatolia during the period of Timur’s invasion: new perspectives.
PANEL 2:
- Chair: Dr Nelida Fuccaro (Exeter)
- Professor Elena Frangakis-Syrett (CUNY), The evolution and dynamics of Ottoman-European trade: the 18th century.
- Professor Leila Fawaz (Tufts), Beirut in the 19th century.
PANEL 3:
- Chair: Dr Colin Heywood (SOAS)
- Professor Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich), The business misfortunes of a 17th-century Ottoman merchant.
- Dr Jan Schmidt (Leiden), Hamza Efendi’s treatise on buying and selling of 1678.
PANEL 4:
- Chair: Professor Leila Fawaz (Tufts)
- Dr Maurits van den Boogert (Leiden), Ottoman Greeks in the Dutch Levant trade: collective policy and individual practice (1750-1800).
- Dr Svetla Ianeva (Sofia), Commercial practices and protoindustrial activities of a Bulgarian trader: Hristo Rachkov at the end of the 18th -beginning of the 19th centuries.
Friday 22 March
PANEL 5:
- Chair: Professor Amy Singer (Tel Aviv)
- Dr Eugenia Kermeli (Bilkent, Ankara), The legal aspect of the iltizam contract.
- Ms Ebru Boyar (Cambridge/METU), Public good and private exploitation: criticism of the tobacco Régie in 1909.
- Dr Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Trade and law in the early 15th century: the case of Cagi Sati Oglu.
PANEL 6:
- Chair: Professor Geoffrey Lewis (Oxford)
- Professor Jane Hathaway (Ohio), The Ottomans and the Yemeni coffee trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Professor Mina Rozen (Haifa), The bread of the poor: meat trade and politics in Jewish Ottoman society of the 19th century.
- Dr Dariusz Kolodziecjzyk (Warsaw), Slave hunting and slave redemption as a business enterprise: the northern Black Sea region in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Saturday 23 March
PANEL 7:
- Chair: Professor Leila Fawaz (Tufts)
- Dr Eyal Ginio (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem), The conquering Balkan Orthodox merchant?: Muslim merchants in the Ottoman Balkans.
- Dr Svetlana Ivanova (Sofia), Minorities: the merchants in Rumeli in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Dr Antonis Anastasopoulos (Crete), Building alliances: a Christian merchant in 18th-century Karaferye.
PANEL 8:
- Chair: Professor Amy Singer (Tel Aviv)
- Mr Tim Stanley (London), Shiraz, Istanbul, Delhi: luxury manuscripts and trade.
- Dr Nicolas Vatin (CNRS, Paris), Le commerce funéraire à Istanbul.
PANEL 9:
- Chair: Dr Colin Heywood (SOAS)
- Dr Fruma Zachs (Haifa), Commerce and merchants under Amir Bashir II: from market town to commercial.
- Dr Stefka Parveva (Sofia), The influence of the market on the urban agrarian space: the case of the town of Arcadia in 1716.
- Dr Rossitsa Gradeva (Sofia), Villagers in international trade: the case of Chervena voda in the 17th-18th centuries.
The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Academy.