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The Ottoman Balkans: A Symposium in Honour of Machiel Kiel
June 27, 2008 - 2-6PM
 


Preliminary Program (pdf)

14:00 – 14:10 Fokke Gerritsen, Maximilian Hartmuth / Introduction

EARLY OTTOMAN REALITIES
14:10 – 14:30 Mariya Kiprovska (Bilkent University)
Legend and historicity: The Binbir Oklu Ahmed Baba Tekkesi and its founder
14:30 – 14:50 Grigor Boykov (Bilkent University)
In search of vanished Ottoman monuments in the Balkans: Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey’s complex in Konuş Hisarı

STUDYING THE OTTOMAN HERITAGE OF THE BALKANS
14:50 – 15:10 Stephen Lewis
The Ottoman patrimony of Bulgaria revisited: monuments, issues, memory
15:10 – 15:30 Maximilian Hartmuth (Sabancı University)
“Not fully meeting the requirements of this style”: A note on the beginnings of the study of the Ottoman architectural heritage of the Balkans
15:30 – 15:45 Discussion
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break

RESTORING THE OTTOMAN HERITAGE OF THE BALKANS
16:00 – 16:20 Kemal Kutgün Eyüpgiller (Istanbul Technical University)
Preliminary results from the survey of Rumelikavaği fort
16:20 – 16:40 Zeynep Ahunbay (Istanbul Technical University)
Recovering the remnants of the Alaca Cami at Foča

THE ARCHIVES AND THE FIELD
16:40 – 17:00 İlknur Kolay (Istanbul Technical University),
Ottoman building materials and the brick and roof tile: Some remarks based on archival documents
17:00 – 17:20 Rossitza Gradeva (American University in Bulgaria)
Some thoughts on church construction and reconstruction in the pre-reform Ottoman Balkans
17:20 – 17:35 Discussion

17:35 – 18:00 Reception
 

Geçmiş etkinlikler
Previous activities

2008

Symposium Orient & Occident / West meets East in Istanbul organized jointly with Utrecht University, Université de la Picardie, Amiens & Ankara University 25-26 June 2008 (more information)

Lecture
René Rouwette The changing  perspective?
Pragmatists and Opportunists in Dutch-Turkish relations, 1947-1974 16 June 2008 (more information)

Lecture Dr. Alexander de Groot The Nature of the Dutch Capitulations (1612-1634-1680) 6 May 2008
(more information)

Symposium and Workshop Museums Engaging Communities organized with Bilgi University 11-12 April 2008 (more information)

Symposium Culture, religion and identity: Current Groningen Research on the Postclassical City (300BC-300AD) 24 January 2008 (more information)

Lecture Hanneke van der Heijden While the furniture whispers and the clouds cry out loud: Aşk-ı Memnû: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’s novel (‘Forbidden love’, 1900) through the eyes of a Dutch translator 21 January 2008 (more information)

2007

New Year’s wishes 2008

Workshop The Astrolabe, Wilfred de Graaf and Hüseyin Şen (Utrecht University) 14 November, 2007 (more information)

Symposium Conservation, Restoration, and Re-usage of Ottoman Architecture
Practices and Problems in Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Balkans
October 9, 2007
(more information)

Lecture Dr. Joanita Vroom (RCAC fellow, Sheffield University) Mr. Turkey goes to Turkey, or: how the 18th century Dutch diplomat Cornelis Calkoen lunched at the Ottoman court  May 23, 2007 (abstract)

Lecture Prof. Dr. Onno van Nijf (Groningen University) Public Space and Political Culture in Roman Termessos May 10, 2007 (abstract)

Lecture Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden U., U. of Amsterdam) Whose identity? Material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Commagene April 11, 2007 (abstract)

Kraliçe Beatrix Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü ziyaret ediyor
Queen Beatrix visits the Netherlands Institute in Turkey

2 Mart – March 2, 2007
(briefing for Her Majesty)

Sempozyum - Symposium
Türkiye’de Endüstri Arkeolojisi
Industrial Archaeology in Turkey

Jointly organized with the Turkish History of Science Society 2 Mart - March 2, 2007 (program)

 

2006

Annual Report
NINO-NIT Annual Report 2006
(links to NINO website)

Lecture and Documentary Evening
7 Aralık - December 7, 2006
Lecture: Joris Oddens on the 17th c. travel diary of Gerard Hinlopen
Documentary: Karadeniz

Jointly organized with the Netherlands Consulate-General

Konferans Dr. Lucinda Dirven (University of Amsterdam) Deities, Cults and Dogs in Hatra. Religious Continuity and Change in a pre-Islamic Desert City June 8, 2006 (poster)