Architecture and Economy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies presents the 22nd Annual Postgraduate Colloquium - Architecture and Economy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Organisers: Hasan Ilban & Nila Namsechi

Program

• 09.00 - 10.00: Registration
• 10.00 - 10.15: Welcome and Coffee
• 10:15:  Opening
• 10:15 -10:30: Opening Remarks
• 10.30 - 11.00: Keynote, Professor Scott Redford (Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archeology, SOAS University of London)
• 11.00 - 12.15:  Session I: Power and Heritage

Gökay Kanmazalp (Leipzig University), ‘Ownership’ and ‘Guardianship’: The Role of the Boğazköy Sphinx in the New Cultural Regimes of the Republic of Turkey

Sebastian Marshall (University of Cambridge), ‘Primitive’ huts, model temples, and transhistorical readings of the architecture of the Teke Peninsula in the nineteenth century

Antonios Savva (University of Birmingham), Photographing the Gothic: John Thompson, Empire, and Capitalism in Cyprus

• 12.15 - 13.15: Lunch Break
• 13.15 - 14.30: Session II: Transition of Built Environment and Topography in Cities

Sofia Thatharopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), From monumental to practical: Aesthetic shifts in Christian religious architecture of early Islamic Palestine

Fotios Poulopoulos (ETH Zurich), The housing culture of the Greek-Orthodox minority in Istanbul: The case of Peran and Tatavla

Cem Almurat (Boğaziçi University), The Final Blow: A Survey on the Impact of Justinianic Plague on Late Antique Byzantine Urbanism

• 14.30 -15.00: Coffee Break
• 15.00 - 16.15: Session III: Economy and Urbanism

Panagiota Mantouvalou (University of Birmingham), Food Production and Consumption in Byzantine Athens

Xinyu Wang (University of Cologne), Research on the Venetian Quarter in Constantinople, 11^th-12^th Centuries

Rania Mohammad (University of Zagreb), Requests and Complaints of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) Merchants in Alexandria through Arabic Documents in Dubrovnik and Zadar Archives at the End of the Mamluk State and the Beginning of the Ottoman Era in Egypt

• 16.15 - 16.30: Closing Remarks
• 16.30 - 17.30: Sweet Treats

Free refreshments will be available both before and during the colloquium, for any enquires please do not hesitate to get in contact.