Friday, November 13,
9:00-10 am Registration
10-12:30 pm Welcome, Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel
Center)
Donald Quataert (MENA)
Opening Remarks, Caglar Keyder (Fernand Braudel
Center)
Session I:
Richard Antoun (MENA), Chair
Cornell Fleischer (Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, Univ. of Chicago)
"The Rule of Law and Writ in the Formation of
Ottoman Classicism"
Discussant: Roger Owen (History, Harvard)
2-5 pm, Session II:
Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj (MENA), Chair
Huri Islamoglu (Economics, Middle Eastern
Technical Univ., and Near Eastern Studies,
New York Univ.)
"Property as a Contested Category: State Power and
Property Relations in the Nineteenth-Century
Ottoman Empire"
Engin Deniz Akarli (History, Brown Univ.)
"Law and Order in the Marketplace: Istanbul
Artisans and Shopkeepers, 1730-1840"
Discussant: David Powers (Near Eastern Studies Cornell Univ.)
Saturday, November 14
9:30-12:30 pm, Session III:
Sukru Hanioglu (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton),
Chair
Leslie Peirce (History, UC-Berkeley)
"Bargaining Over the Law in a Provincial Court:
Ayntab at the Mid-Sixteenth Century"
Judith E. Tucker (History, Georgetown Univ.)
"Rethinking Legal Reform: Muftis, the State,
and Gendered Law in the Arab Lands in the Late Ottoman
Period"
Discussant: Khaled Fahmy (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton)
2-5 pm, Roundtable Discussion: conference participants and Akbar Muhammad (MENA) and Ariel Salzmann (Near Eastern Studies, New York Univ.)
Registration
Pre-registration by mail is strongly recommended.
Fee: $25 Faculty and guests
(Binghamton Univ. faculty and all students: free)
To attend Friday dinner and Saturday lunch, you must pre-register
by mail.
Friday dinner fee: $25.00
Saturday lunch fee: $ 8.00
Deadline: October 23, 1998
Please send conference Registration Form to:
Ottoman Conference
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
Lodging
For those attending the conference, reduced rates are available
at:
Holiday Inn at the University
4105 Vestal Parkway, Vestal NY 13850
607-729-6371
$58 per room
Deadline for guaranteed rooms is October 23, 1998
Please send Hotel Reservation Form directly to the hotel.
Parking
Parking is available in the Paid Visitor Lot and Paid Garage for
$3 on Friday,
$1 in quarters on Saturday in the Garage,
$3 in the Paid Visitor Lot
or, on Saturday only, free in regular campus parking lots.
Information
For more information, contact:
Ottoman Conference
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
P. O. Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
phone: 607-777-4924; fax 607-777-4315
email:
devoist@binghamton.edu
Law and Legitimation in the Ottoman Empire
Conference and Meal Registration Form
Deadline: October 23, 1998 (Please Print)
Name_________________________________________
Institution__________________________________
Department___________________________________
Mailing Address______________________________
_____________________________________________
Registration Fee: $______________
($25 non-BU faculty and guests)
Friday Dinner_____at $25.00 $______________
(choice of ____Beef Tips Bordelaise,
____Chicken Teriyaki,
____Baked Salmon Filet,
____Pasta Primavera Alfredo,
Soup or salad bar, beverage and dessert included)
Saturday lunch _____at $8.00 $______________
(buffet; vegetarian choice available)
Total amount enclosed $______________
Please send check in US currency by Oct. 23, 1998 payable to:
"Fernand Braudel Center", Binghamton Univ.
P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton NY 13902-6000
Law and Legitimation in the Ottoman Empire
Hotel Reservation Form
Send directly to:
Holiday Inn at the University
4105 Vestal Parkway
Vestal NY 13850
607-729-6371
FAX: 607-729-6407
Deadline: October 23, 1998 (Please print)
Name_________________________________________
Address______________________________________
_____________________________________________
Telephone____________________________________
Accommodations needed________________________
Date/time of arrival_________________________
Date/time of departure_______________________
_____Please guarantee reservation past 4 pm
Credit card name, number, exp. date
_____________________________________________
Signature____________________________________
Fernand Braudel Center
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