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SUMMARY:The Digital Frontiers of Land, Law, and Endowments in the Eastern Mediterranean
UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/202690
DESCRIPTION:A one-day international workshop discussing the opportunities and challenges of using digital tools for the study of land, law, and pious endowments in the eastern Mediterranean.\n
 Download the programme (PDF, 1.2mb)\n
Programme
 Welcome and Coffee – 10.00-10.30\n
 Opening Remarks – 10.30-10.45\n
Session I – 10.45-12.15

Albrecht Füess (University of Marburg) – Waqfization in the late Mamluk Empire: A deliberate policy or chaos management?
Nicolas Michel (University of Aix-Marseilles) – The EGYLandscape webGIS, a tool for the historical geography of pre- modern rural Egypt
Daisy Livingston (Durham University) – On the trail of Waqf and Private-property archives: Notaries, Qadis, and Document Accumulation in late-Mamluk Cairo

 Lunch – 12.15-13.15\n
Session II – 13.15-14.45

Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham) – Reflections on Pious Endowments and Ottoman State Building
Styliani Lepida (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Struggle for Land: Spatial Evolution and Management of the Great Meteoron Monastery’s Land Property (late 16th-17th c.). Documentation Challenges and Digital Parameters
Mariya Kiprovska (Central European University) – People on the Move: Strategies in Revitalizing the Landed Estates of Pious Endowments

 Coffee – 14.45-15.15\n
Session III – 15.15-16.45

Grigor Boykov (University of Vienna) – Spatial Exploration of Vakıf Lands in the Early Modern Eastern Balkans: Methodological Considerations and Limitations
Abdurrahman Atçıl (Sabancı University) – OTTOLEGAL: An Inquiry into the Actors of Ottoman Lawmaking Salih Günaydın (Sabancı University) – Developing a Data Model for the Analysis of Ottoman Legal Documents
Concluding Discussion – 16.45-17.15

 This event is organized by the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies with support from UKRI.\n

 Image: Drawing from Yiannitsa and Kavaje, Sept.-Oct. 1848. Edward Lear landscape drawings, MS Typ 55.11, MS Typ 55.26, TypDr 805.L513, 505 and 598. Houghton Library.\n
LOCATION:Stuart Hall Room, The Exchange, Centenary Square, Birmingham
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CLASS:PUBLIC
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