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Etkinlikler / Upcoming activities
25-26 June 2008
Symposium
Orient & Occident / West meets East in Istanbul
Organized jointly with
Utrecht University, Université de la Picardie, Amiens & Ankara
University
Symposium program
below and pdf
Symposium Abstract (pfd)
East and West, are, of course, expressions used to stress the
contrast between different worlds and ways of thinking, living or
making works of art. They also represent a certain stance in looking
upon “the Other”. All of these concepts have become clichés. But
they have had a widely accepted role and a long history as terms of
comparison. Especially in Istanbul, city known for ages as a gate to
the East and meeting point of people and cultures.
This conference is not the first and won’t be the last to deal with
the dichotomy. But it has a definite and special point of departure:
the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey as a place were the two worlds
meet. Our aim is to follow some of the stages of the encounter of
both throughout history and ín different fields. An eminent
international group of scholars, from the Czech Republic, France,
Greece, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and
Switzerland will meet prestigious Turkish intellectuals in this
conference, that will focus on Medieval history and literature,
Renaissance and Modern Travel writing, as well as present-day
Turkish culture. The symposium is organised by NIT, Universiteit
Utrecht, l’Université de la Picardie Amiens and Ankara Űniversitesi.
An important role is performed by the medieval period, when the West
first faced Byzantine culture and then the Ottomans. This has left a
broad range of testimonials both in historiography and in
literature. Key word is, of course ‘Crusade’, a concept still (and
justly) seen in the Muslim world as a huge campaign of aggression of
the Western Christian powers against Islamic religion and culture.
But not much different was the Byzantine reaction against the
Venetian-French war that, masked as a Crusade, overthrew their
Empire.
In Early Modern times, the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul was maybe
the most important event of the 15th century. Once the Turkish
presence in the former Byzantine capital was an accomplished fact,
diplomats, travellers and merchants went there and reported on its
fascinating culture, many elements of which would make their way
into Western life (e.g. rugs, coffee, tiles, sorbet ice and musical
instruments). In the period of Enlightenment, when the Ottomans were
no menace any more, the myth of the evil Turk was displaced by that
of the tolerant pasha or bon vivant. To many writers in the 18th
till 20th centuries, the so-called Near East provided an ideal
background: exotic, ma non troppo.
By now, however, the Ottomans had begun to look more towards Western
civilization. The tanzimat period only institutionalized an outlook
already present. After the Army, the economics, transports, applied
science and technology of the Empire tried to follow Western models.
“Westernizing” became a keyword that until today has lost nothing of
its actuality in Turkish culture. The great leader Atatűrk embraced
it and implemented a strict and consequent program revolutionizing
Turkish society into a Western one. In the process, the nation’s own
history rather receded to the background, since the elif be was
changed into the Latin alphabet and the language cleansed from
Arabic and Persian elements in favour of French or English words.
Politics, laws, education, dress and arts followed one after the
other and laid the base for a modern country and the emancipation of
women.
Now, some 85 years after the foundation of the Republic and 70 years
from its Founder’s and Father’s death, the Turks themselves have
become increasingly curious about their own background and history.
Ottoman culture is fashionable once again, even Operas are being
written and numerous books published on this subject. That still
some difficult points remain, and remain to be cleared, is no
secret. For Western observers, the country is, as it has always
been, both intriguing and welcoming. It is no exaggeration to say
that many of our age’s contradictions and problems are lived and
have to be faced right here.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM - PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE (pdf)
(version June 12, subject to change)
Wednesday, 25 June:
East and West Facing Each Other from The Middle Ages to the Early
Modern Period / L’Orient et l’Occident face à face
9.30: Opening: Fokke Gerritsen (NIT) and Raniero Speelman (UU)
Chair: Nevin Özkan
9.45: Fabio L. Grassi (Istanbul): Western Comments about Ottoman
Military Art.
10.10: Gencay Tunç (Istanbul): Ottoman Maritime Culture.
10.35: Isabel Barros Dias (Lisboa): L'Empereur Constantin selon
l'Estoria de Espanna (version royale) d'Alphonse X de Castille et de
Léon.
11.00: Martine Yvernault (Limoges): "L'Orient de Mandeville: voyager
par le texte".
11.20: coffee break
Chair: Géneviève Pichon
11.35: Mirka Novotna (Brno): Pèlerinage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem
et à Constantinople (chanson de geste et son adaptation de Julius
Zeyer).
12.00: Danielle Buschinger (Amiens): Constantinople et les états
latins
d’orient au temps des croisades.
12.25: Anna Kukułka-Wojtasik (Varsavie): Un rêve d'unifier le monde:
superposition du mythe byzantin au mythe arthurien dans Chrétien de
Troyes.
12.50: lunch break
Chair: Raniero Speelman
14.30: Yücel Dağlı (Istanbul): The Western World as seen by Evliya
Çelebi
15.15: Kaspars Klavins (Riga): " La place des pays baltes sur la
route des Vikings vers la Grèce au Moyen Age.
15.40: tea break
Chair: Marc Moser
16.00: Catherine Hémet (Le Havre): France et Angleterre au 14ème
siècle: partir en croisade contre les Infidèles.
16.25: Geneviève Pichon (Bâle): Un point de vue "occidental" sur des
peuples "orientaux" - rapporté par Joinvılle a l'occasion du sejour
du Roi Saint Louis en Terre Sainte (mi 13e)
16.50: Şakir Somak (Istanbul): Northern Cyprus Shining Star
17.15: Pera visit
Thursday, 26 June
Travel, Dance, History, Art and Architecture / Voyages, Danse,
Histoire et Architecture
Chair: Serpil Oppermann
9.15: Himmet Umunç (Ankara): The Dutch in the Levant: Trade and
Travel
in the Ottoman World in the Seventeenth Century.
9.40: David Wrisley (Beirut): Illuminating 1453: Constantinople,
Jerusalem and the Duke of Burgundy.
10.05: Raniero Speelman (Utrecht): Learning Ottoman and Persian in
the 17th
Century: Pietro Della Valle’s Notebook.
10.30: Arzu Öztürkmen (İstanbul): Dancing Alla Turca: The Concept of
‘Dance’
10.55: coffee break
Chair: Fabio L. Grassi
11.15: Colette Gauthier: "Le Jeu de Carnaval du Turc" (Des Türken
Fastnachtspiel) de Hans Rosenplüt.
11.40: Marc Moser (Nice): Orient et occident; etude étymologique
comparative avec référence aux sources littéraires orientales.
12.05: Serpil Oppermann (Ankara): Turkish Landscapes in English
Travel Writing from the Perspective of Ecological Imperialism.
12.30: Nevin Özkan & Fatih Demirhan (Ankara et İstanbul): Cornelis
de Bruyn’s Turkey rivisited.
12.55: lunch break
Modern Arts and Culture / Culture et Arts modernes
Chair: Himmet Umunç
14.30: Mehmet Buçukoğlu (Istanbul): Turkish Banking Culture.
15.00: Onofre, Ana (Lisboa) : Les Coréens, les Japonais, les Chinois,
les
Siammais vus de Paris par Eça de Queirós à la Belle Époque.
15.30: Elisabeth Etienne: L’Orient de Lyautey.
16.00: tea break
Chair: Danielle Buschinger
16.15: Rosa Sequeira (Lisboa): La littérature du ‘mahjar’ au Brésil
de l`actualité.
16.40: Maria Guincho do Anjos & Ana Rias (Lisboa): Spécificités
Culturelles en Traduction: Japon, Portugal, France.
17.05: Gloria Bastos (Lisboa): Images de l’Orient dans la
littérature de jeunesse au Portugal.
17.30: Ronald Perlwitz (Paris/Abu Dhabi): La sagesse d'un Brahmane
de Friedrich Rückert: Un monument à la croisée des religions.
17.55: conclusion du colloque and farewell drink
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(links to NINO website)
Lecture and
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