Program 2017
Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
University of Hamburg -TürkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ)
27-28 October 2017
Conference Program (preliminary)
Friday, 27 October 2017
9:00-9:15
Opening and Welcome
Onur İnal, University of Hamburg
Yavuz Köse, University of Hamburg
Panel I
9:15-11:00
Environmental Movements and Protests in Turkey
Chair: Onur İnal, University of Hamburg
Zehra Taşdemir Yaşın, Binghamton University (USA)
Contextualizing the Rise of Environmental Movements in Turkey: Two Instances of Anti-Gold Mining Resistance
Bürge Abiral, John Hopkins University (USA)
From Landraces to Modern Wheat: History of Wheat in Turkey
Ethemcan Turhan, KTH Environmental Humanities Lab (Sweden)
Coal, Ash, and Other Tales: The Making and Unmaking of an Anti-Coal Movement in Western Turkey
Coffee Break, 11:00-11:30
Panel II
11:30-13:00
Water and Environment in Eastern Mediterranean
Chair: Selçuk Dursun, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
Water-intensive Agriculture and the Era of the 'Mediterranean Autumn' in Early Modern Cyprus
Vaso Seirinidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Evros/Maritsa/Meriç River and the Making of a Borderland Ecology
Styliani Lepida, University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
Water Shortage Issues in an Ottoman Province: The Case of 17th Century Cyprus Landscapes
Lunch Break, 13:00-14:00
Panel III
14:00-15:45
Circulation, Transfer and Adaptation of Environmental Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire
Chair: Onur Inal, University of Hamburg
Özkan Akpınar, Özyeğin University (Turkey)
Reclaiming the Empire: Environment, Hydraulic Engineering and Local Politics in Late 19th Century Salonica
Camille Cole, Yale University (USA)
Social, Economic, and Environmental Geographies of Steamshipping in Southern Iraq, 1865-1909
Canan Bolel, University of Washington (USA)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Role of the Mount Pagus in the Spatiotemporal Jewish Identity in Izmir during the Nineteenth Century
Yavuz Köse, University of Hamburg
The Inventor of Nature – Alexander von Humboldt in Turkey
Coffee Break, 15:45-16:15
Panel IV
16:15-17:45
Environmental Change and Urban Sanitation in the Ottoman Empire
Chair: Seda Altuğ, Boğaziçi University/EUME (Turkey/Germany)
Mehmet Kentel, University of Washington (USA)
Environment and Urban Infrastructure in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Water and Sewage in the (Re)Making of Pera, Kasımpaşa, and Terkos
Mohammed Gamal-Eldin, New Jersey Institute of Technology" (USA)
Cesspools, Mosquitos, and Fever: An Environmental History of Malaria Prevention in Ismailia and Port Sa'id, 1869-1910
Uğur Bahadır Bayraktar, Independent Scholar (Turkey)
Up to Auction: Water, Rights, and Commodification in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1860-1913
18:30-20:30
Keynote Lecture
Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld University)
Ottoman/Turkish Environmental History from a Global Perspective: Facts, Thoughts, and Questions
Welcome Reception
Saturday, 28 October 2017
Panel V
9:00-10:45
Transformation of Ottoman Landscapes (15th-17th Centuries)
Chair: Yavuz Köse, University of Hamburg
Elias Kolovos, University of Crete (Greece)
Was There A Little Ice Age in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean? Based on the Case Studies of Salonica and Crete
Hristo Hristozov, University of Sofia (Bulgaria)
Environmental Limits and Climate Variability in the Mountains on the Ottoman Balkans: Changing Social Landscape in the District (Kaza) of Nevrekop, 15th-early 18th Centuries
Mehmet Kuru, Sabancı University, Istanbul (Turkey)
Mapping People and Produce: Ecological Change and the Shift in Tax-Base in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University, Kayaşehir, Istanbul (Turkey)
Vineyards on the Bosporus: How They Flourished and How They Disappeared
Coffee Break, 10:45-11:15
Panel VI
11:15-13:00
Transformation of Ottoman Landscapes (18th-19th Centuries)
Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University, Kayaşehir, Istanbul (Turkey)
Önder Eren Akgül, Georgetown University (USA)
Nomads, Migrants, and Çiftliks: A Socio-Ecological Change in the Ottoman Aegean, 1750s-1820s
Seçil Uluışık, University of Arizona / Austrian Academy of Sciences (USA/Austria)
Chasing the Animal: Rivalry, Power, and Politics of Livestock in Ottoman Provinces, 1790s-1860s
Yener Koç, Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
Meşta-Nişin Aşair: Environmental and Political Adaptation of the Nomadic Tribes of Northeastern Anatolia [1800s-1860s]
Selçuk Dursun, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Forest Commons and Property Rights in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Lunch Break, 13:00-14:00
Panel VII
14:00-15:45
Environment and Politics in Turkey
Chair: Ethemcan Turhan, KTH Environmental Humanities Lab (Sweden)
Seçil Binboğa, University of Michigan (USA)
Soil, Technic and People: The Cold War Politics of Spatial Expertise in Turkey
Dale J. Stahl, University of Colorado Denver (USA)
A Technopolitical Frontier: The Keban Dam Project and Southeastern Anatolia
Sezai Ozan Zeybek, Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey)
’Forests Cannot Be Left to the Mercy of Peasants’ Scientific Forestry and the Invention of Public Benefit
Rana İzci Connelly, Marmara University (Turkey)
Knowing Nature: Politics of Picknicking in Istanbul
Launch of the Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey
15:45-16:15
Closing Remarks
17:00-18:30
Environmental History at the Waterfront: A Guided Tour through the Highlights and Dark Sides of the Warehouse District (Speicherstadt)
Organized and lead by Constantin Canavas (HAW – Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
