History of Occupations and Occupations in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Date: May 2-3 2015
Time: 10.00-18.00
Place: santralistanbul Campus, Board of Trustees Room

The workshop is organized by the İstanbul Bilgi University History Department.

PROGRAM

May 2, Saturday

10:00-12:00 M.Erdem Kabadayı
Occupational Structure, Demographic Change and Comparative Economic History. Where Do We Stand in the Historiography for the Ottoman Empire and Turkey?

10:00-12:00 Fatih Yücel
Voice of the Speechless: Socio-Economic Life in three Ottoman Cities (Bursa, Ivranya, Kütahya) in the mid-­‐19th Century Through Temettu‘at and Nüfus) Registers

10:00-12:00 Berkay Küçükbaşlar
Long-term Trends of Occupations in Textile Production from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic, 1845-1945, Continuity or Rupture?

12:00-13:30 Lunch 

13:30-15:30 Serdar Furtuna
Barbers in the nineteenth‐century Ottoman Empire in the Capital and Provincial centers 

13:30‐15:30 Daniel Ohanian
Occupations of Gedikpaşa's Apostolic Armenians in the early twentieth century

13:30-15:30 Akın Sefer
Labour Formation and 'Arsenal Workers' in mid-nineteenth century Istanbul

15:30‐16:00 Coffee Break

16:00‐18:00 Nalan Turna
The Shoemakers of Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview 

16:00-18:00 Gökçen Beyinli
Shrine Keeper or Thief? Türbedar in late Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic

16:00-18:00 Dilek Akyalçın Kaya
Foreign' Craftsmen of Salonica in the mid-nineteenth century

May 3, 2015 Sunday

10:00‐11:30 Onur Yıldırım
Some Thoughts on the State of the Art in Ottoman Guild Studies

10:00‐11:30 Gülay Yılmaz
The Janissaries in the Meat Market of Istanbul in the early seventeenth century Istanbul

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:30‐14:00 Suraiya Faroqhi
Selling and Manufacturing Rough Woollens in the Ottoman World

12:30-14:00 Hülya Canbakal / Hakan Erdem
Slaves and Slavery in Ottoman Bursa, 1500‐1840

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