People, Trade, Gifts and Beyond: The Circulation of Goods and Practices between the Ottoman Empire and Europe (16th-19th Centuries)
July 04–05, 2016
The aim of the workshop is to depict a more comprehensive picture of the circulation of objects and commodities between the Ottoman Empire and the Christian world, encouraging contributions that focus on trade, gifts-exchange, and other forms of transfer of goods. Within this conceptual framework, special attention will be also devoted to the networks through which goods flowed, the routes and the carriers. The research questions that we would like to answer are: What is the relationship between these different forms of circulation of objects? Is there any complementarity? What can the suggested enlarged perspective add to the study of the circulation of objects between the Ottoman Empire and Europe and to the study of the relationships between the two worlds? With regard to gift-giving, what was the status of these ritual gifts? What was the consideration about the others and their civilisation that underlined the choice of a certain gift? And, more generally, how did objects change the world that they transited? How were they received and integrated in the daily life practices?
The workshop is a collaborative project supported by the Centre Marc Bloch, the EURIAS Fellowship Program, the European Commission, the ERC Project LuxFass and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
The Workshop takes place at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Convener
Contact
Vera Kempa
Wissenschaftliche Programme, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Tel. +49 30 89001 157
Email vera.kempa@wiko-berlin.de
Participants
Tülay
Artan
Sabanci University, Istanbul
Giulia
Calvi
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
David
Celetti
University of Padua
David
do Paco
Sciences Po Paris
Finbarr Barry
Flood
Fellow
2015/2016
New York University
Hannes
Grandits
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gül
Kale
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
Nora
Lafi
Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Maria
Pakucs
Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest
Maria Pia
Pedani
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Özge
Samanci
Yeditepe University, Istanbul
Daniel
Schönpflug
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Freie Universität zu Berlin