Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü  -  Nederlands Instituut in Turkije

3 Mar '16 Course

Istanbul Spring School: Keynote Lectures open to the public

From Monday 14 until Friday 18 March 2016, NISIS, in cooperation with AKMED, CNMS, IFEA, IISMM/EHESS, Koç University, NIT and RCAC, organizes its annual Spring School, which will take place in Istanbul. The overall theme of the Spring School is "Reviving previous times and expanding horizons: Islam and modernity in global historical perspective”.

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Keynote Lectures (as part of the Istanbul Spring School) open to the public

The keynote lectures which are taking place in Istanbul as part of the Istanbul Spring School, organized by NISIS and IISMM in cooperation with AKMED, CNMS, IFEA, IISMM/EHESS, Koҫ University, NIT , RCAC, CNRS, INHA, MOMM, OII, and SRII, are open to the public.

In order to register, please send an email to nkut14@ku.edu.tr before Thursday March 10th (limited places available)

All keynote lectures will take place take place in the auditorium of the RCAC (Research Center for Anatolian Civilization) of Koç University

İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Monday 14 March
09.30-10.00: Opening remarks
10.00-10.45: Keynote lecture 1 by Prof. Levent Yilmaz (Koç University): ‘Radical Modernity: A good for export-import?’
10.45-11.15: Questions and discussion
11.15-11.45: Coffee and tea
11.45-12.30: Keynote lecture 2 by Dr. Umar Ryad (Utrecht University): ‘Mediators of Religious Modernity: European Converts to Islam
in Interwar Europe.’
12.30-13.00: Questions and discussion

Tuesday 15 March
10.00-10.45: Keynote lecture 3 by Prof. Mercedes Volait (CNRS/IISMM):
‘Time and geography in the writings and architectural patronage of Egyptian scholar Ahmad Zaki (1867-1934).’
10.45-11.15: Questions and discussion
11.45-12.30: Keynote lecture 4 by Dr. Elena Paskaleva (Leiden University); ‘Islamic Rhetoric in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Timurid Legacy.’
12.30-13.00: Questions and discussion


Thursday 17 March
10.00-10.45: Keynote lecture 5 by Dr. Murat Dağli (Bilgi University), ‘Pragmatism
of early-modern Ottoman polity: Can pragmatism be used as
an explanatory and comparative category?’
10.45-11.15: Questions and discussion
11.15-11.45: Coffee and tea
11.45-12.30: Keynote lecture 6 by Dr. Pierre Hecker (Philipps-University Marburg):
‘The Politics of Culture.’
12.30-13.00: Questions and discussion