Levantine landscapes: communities, space and material histories – A workshop in the framework of the Graduate Seminar “Levantine Landscapes: Galata, İzmir, Chios”(HIST 655 – Boğaziçi University, in collaboration with OII)

Levantine landscapes: communities, space and material histories

Prof. Dr. Paolo Girardelli (Boğaziçi University)

A workshop in the framework of the Graduate Seminar “Levantine Landscapes: Galata, İzmir, Chios”(HIST 655 – Boğaziçi University, in collaboration with OII)

Friday, 20th December 2024, 14:00-18:00

This Workshop, organized in the framework of the Seminar „Levantine Landscapes. Galata, İzmir, Chios“ (Hist 655, Boğaziçi University, History Department and Orient-Institut in Istanbul) promotes a discussion on the multiple connections between Levantine presence, architectural patronage/developments, and the reworking and re-coding of landscape in three distant but interconnected sites. In the Workshop, examples and cases of engagement by Levantines in the urban and spatial development of Galata/Pera, the island of Chios and İzmir will be presented and discussed by six graduate students, at different stages of their academic evolution, and whose research interests have met in different ways the dynamics and the questions described above.

Introduced by Instructor Paolo Girardelli, the Workshop also benefits from the contribution of accomplished scholars like Melike Sümertaş and Kerem Öktem, who kindly accepted to chair its two sessions.

Paolo Girardelli completed his PhD at the University of Naples in 1996. His work focuses on European, Levantine, and non-Muslim presence in late Ottoman cities. Girardelli served as an Aga Khan Fellow at MIT in 2005-06, visiting researcher at INHA (Institut national de l’histoire de l’art) in Paris in 2013, Senior Fellow at Koç University ANAMED in 2015-16, and as a visiting professor at UNC Chapel Hill in 2018-19. His publications and graduate seminars concentrate on the relationship between space, diplomacy, religion and communities in the multicultural context of the Eastern Mediterranean. Girardelli has contributed significantly to the development of a graduate program in Art and Architectural History and Visual Culture at Boğaziçi University since 2000. His dedication to the spatial and cultural dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean is reflected in his role as a founding member and academic committee chair of the Association for Levantine Cultural Heritage Preservation (LKMKD). As a member of ICOMOS (Italian Chapter) and expert member of PRERICO (International Committee on Places of Religion and Ritual), he has worked on the assessment of sites for UNESCO World Heritage designation. He co-edited the book Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey with Ezio Godoli. For his contributions to the cultural dialogue between Italy and Turkey, he was honored with the Order of the Star of Italy in 2016.

This event is free of charge, the event language is English. You may attend only in person and for the whole time period. Registration needed.

Photos or videos will be taken during the event. By participating, you agree that these may be used on the OII website, newsletter and social media. The event will not be recorded.

Program

14:00 – 14:30:  Acceptance and Introduction by Prof. Paolo Girardelli (Boğaziçi University)

Session 1: Chair: Melike F. Sümertaş, PhD (ANAMED Fellow)

14:30 – 14:50: Can Bozkır (BU, PhD candidate)

„A Contested Island in the Aegean: Early Modern Chios and its Changing Landscape”

14:50 – 15:10: Buğra Poyraz (BU, PhD candidate)

“Papal Representatives and Apostolic Vicars in Galata and Pera (18th – 19th centuries)”

15:10 – 15:30: Onur Eren (BU, MA candidate)

“Destruction or New Opportunities Brought by the War? The Island of Chios in the Late 18th Century in the Light of Ottoman Archival Documents“

15:30 – 16:00: Discussion

16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee break

Session 2: Chair: Prof. Kerem Öktem (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)

16:30 – 16:50: Zeynep Cebeci Süvari (BU, PhD candidate)

„Continuing Roots between Chios and Galata: the Dandrias and the Tubinis”

16:50 – 17:10: Musa Koçoğlu (BU, MA candidate)

„Maudy of the Levant: A Levantine Memoir and the Licorice Trade in Early 20th-Century Western Anatolia“

17:10 – 17:30: Ege Gutay (BU, PhD candidate)

“Two Catholic Spaces of Smyrna: The Church of St. Polycarp and the Cathedral of St. John”

17:30 – 18:00: Discussion and conclusive remarks

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