Xenophobia-flyer - University of Chicago

Xenophobia-flyer - University of Chicago

The University of Chicago
Thursday, October 22
9:00 Hakan Karateke | Welcome address
Xenophobia and
Alterophobia
in Pre-Modern
Ottoman Lands
Thursday, October 22
Friday, October 23, 2015
Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street; Regenstein Library Building
Organized by Hakan Karateke, Helga Anetshofer,
9:15 David Nirenberg | Keynote speech
Morning panels chair: Holly Shissler
9:45-10:15 Bilha Moor | Northwestern University
The Jew and the European in Ottoman eyes; ca. 15501700
10:15-10:45 Hakan Karateke | University of Chicago
Upper-class Ottomans’ views on Jews
3:30-4:00 Basil Salem | University of Chicago
“Arab” identity in the eighteenth-century Ottoman
Empire
4:00-4:30 Michael Sheridan | Bilkent University
Defining and defaming the other in early
17th-century Ottoman invective
Friday, October 23
11:15-11:45 Orit Bashkin | University of Chicago
How does Rome look in the eyes of the people of
Hebron?
11:45-12:15 Konrad Petrovszky | Vienna University
“Those disrespectful of our customs” – Patterns of
popular and gentile aversion against the “Greeks” in
the Danubian principalities; 16th–18th centuries
Morning panels chair: Ahmed El Shamsy
10:00-10:30 Emin Lelic | University of Chicago
The greatest of tribulations: Constructions of femininity in sixteenth century Ottoman physiognomy
10:30-11:00 Helga Anetshofer | Univ. of Chicago
“Are you from Çorum?” Derogatory attitudes
towards the “unruly mob” of the provinces as
reflected in a proverbial saying
11:00-11:30 Baki Tezcan | UC Davis
A comparative look at Africans in Ottoman
letters in the 17th and 18th centuries
Lunch
Lunch
Afternoon panels chair: Frank Lewis
2:00-2:30 Vjeran Kursar | University of Zagreb
Ambiguous subjects and uneasy neighbours: Bosnian
Franciscans’ attitudes towards Ottoman state, “Turks”,
and Vlachs
2:30-3:00 Helen Pfeifer | University of Cambridge
Bitter sherbet: Rumis and Arabs in the later sixteenth
century
Afternoon panels chair: Baki Tezcan
1:30-2:00 İpek Hüner | University of Chicago
“Infidel” in the early modern Ottoman fiction
2:00-2:30 Erdem Çıpa | University of Michigan
Changing perceptions about Christian-born
Ottomans: Anti-kul sentiments in Ottoman
historiography
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
2:30-3:30 Final discussion
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Steirische Völkertafel | A brief description of the people in Europe and their characteristics | Early 18th century