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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