Workshop “Circles of Trust: Marriage, Village Guarantors, and Private Reading Groups in the Ottoman Empire”

The Workshop “Circles of Trust: Marriage, Village Guarantors, and Private Reading Groups in the Ottoman Empire” will be jointly organized by Group B01 “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), “International joint research on social class and gender in the Ottoman Empire” (AKIBA Jun, 20H01322).

Date/Time & Place

Sat Mar 25 2023 13:30 ~ 17:00
Online conference room & Tokushokan, 2nd floor, Imadegawa Campus, Doshisha University
https://www.doshisha.ac.jp/en/information/campus/imadegawa/imadegawa.html

Program

13:30–13:45 Opening

13:45–14:30
Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA) “Trust, Connectivity and Empire: Nested Suretyships in the Ottoman Postal System”

14:35–15:20
Tommaso Stefini (European U Institute) “Risky unions: Venetian/Ottoman marriages and contested inheritances”

15:50–16:35
Baki Tezcan (UC Davis) “The not-so-well-connected domains of Ottoman knowledge production: Su’udi’s The Book of Felicity and The New Report and their reception.”

16:35–17:00 Discussions

Moderator: Jun AKIBA (The University of Tokyo)
Language: English

Pre-Registration etc.

Admission: Free
Pre-registration is required. For registration, please see here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1A07Woz8UaKKI0-2dMGOqbOCrMwD02sUst_gJXW2mR8iO7A/viewform (in-person participation)
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vd-qoqD0sGtA0GFFbo_U93Tljgl6LPhev (online participation)

Sponsored (Co-sponsored) by:
Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “International joint research on social class and gender in the Ottoman Empire” (Jun AKIBA (The University of Tokyo) Project number: 20H01322)

For the latest information, please refer to the following link.
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/event/upcoming#29461