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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Room 501

11:30-12:30 Opening Session

Chair: Bianca Kühnel, Director of the European Forum at the Hebrew University

Greetings:

Israel Bartal, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lars Hänsel, Director of the Israel Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Opening Lecture:

Amnon Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Guild System in Ottoman Jerusalem

Lunch Break

14:00-16:00 New Approaches to the Study of the Ottoman Balkans and the Middle East

Chair: Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amy Singer, Tel Aviv University

The Balkans and the Middle East Compared: How Might This Be Accomplished?

Karl Kaser, University of Graz

Visual Studies: Their Potential for the Comparative Study of the Late Ottoman Empire

Markus Koller, University of Giessen

Nationalism in the Balkans and the Near East: A Comparative Analysis

The Konrad Adenauer Conference Centre at Mishkenot Sha'ananim

17:30 Reception

18:00-20:00 From Empires to Nation-States: Looking through the Prisms of the Balkans and the Middle East

Chair: Reuven Amitai, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Welcome Address:

Lars Hänsel, Director of the Israel Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Keynote Lectures:

Shlomo Avineri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

When Empires Collapse

Nathalie Clayer, CNRS/EHESS, Paris

Kosovo as a Territory-Building Process since the End of the Late Ottoman Period

Monday, January 19, 2009

Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Room 501

09:00-11:00 Reshaping the Late Ottoman Balkans and the Middle East: The Beginning of a New Era?

Chair: Amikam Nahmani, Bar-Ilan University

Paul Dumont, University of Strasbourg

Salonica-Beirut: The Reshaping of Two Ottoman Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean

Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Haifa

The Ottoman Background of the Early Jewish-Arab Encounter in Palestine at the End of the 19th Century

Yuri Stoyanov, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Between Middle Eastern Heterodoxy, Indigenization and Modern Shi'ism: Contesting Identities among the Balkan Alevi and Bektashi Communities in the Post-Ottoman Period

11:30-13:30 Cultural Connections between the Balkans and the Middle East

Chair: Bernd Papenkort, Oxford Leadership Academy

Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Remembering the Lost Balkans in Arabic in the Interwar Period

Dror Ze'evi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Late Ottoman Sexual Discourse and Its Impact on Contemporary Middle Eastern Culture

Adnan Kadrić, University of Sarajevo

The Stereotypization of the Figure of the “Enemy” in West Ottoman Balkans Literatures and Ottoman Turkish Literature (Cultural-Civilization Reflections on Current Ontological Problems)

Lunch Break

15:00-17:00 Ottoman Roots, Post-Ottoman Realities

Chair: Ehud Toledano, University Chair for Ottoman Studies, Tel Aviv University

Konrad Clewing, University of Regensburg

Between Millet and National Identity Building: Modern Collective Identities among the Balkan Muslim Populations

Slobodan Ilić, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta

The Contested Past: Ottoman Legacy in the Collective Memory of Post-Ottoman and Contemporary Bosnia

Maurus Reinkowski, University of Freiburg

Post-Ottoman Egypt – But Was Egypt Ever Ottoman?

17:30-19:00 Roundtable Discussion:

Lessons from Kosovo: The Perspectives of the Middle East

Chair: Elie Podeh, Head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alex Yakobson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amikam Nahmani, Bar-Ilan University

Avraham Sela, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bernd Papenkort, Oxford Leadership Academy, University of Sarajevo

Shlomo Avineri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Pini Avivi, Sub-Deputy for Eastern and Central Europe in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Concluding Remarks: Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem