Weekly Schedule
Unit One: Early Modern Encounters: Boundaries and Crossings
June 20-24
Monday: “Reimagining Europe and the Mediterranean: Early Modernities and A Comparative View”
Orientation and introduction to the seminar
2.oo pm: Visit to the Lauinger Library and relevant collections
Tuesday:
AM: Visit to the Library of Congress
PM: “Cross-Cultural Interactions and Early Modernities”
Friday: “Ottomans and Europe”; “European Images of the Turk”
Guest scholar: Virginia Aksan, “Ottomans and Europeans: Contacts and Conflicts”
Discussion/Analysis of Sources and Scholarship
Unit Two: Military, Religious and Diplomatic Encounters
June 27-July 1
Monday: “The Ottomans and the New Diplomacy”
Tuesday: “Geographical Consciousness and Empire” with our guest scholar of the week:
Pınar Emiralioğlu, “Cartography, Geographical Consciousness and the Ottoman Imperial Project”.
Friday: “Conversion and Confessionalization”
“Messianic Dimensions of Imperial Ideology in the Early Modern Era”
Discussion/Analysis of Sources and Scholarship
Unit Three: Battlefields to Bazaars: Merchants, Diplomats, Travelers
July 4-8
Monday: Independence Day (we’ll meet on Thu for make-up class)
Tuesday: “Competition or Collaboration?: Implications of Trade and Exchange”
“Merchants in the Ottoman Empire and beyond”
Friday: “Foreign Merchants and Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire”
Guest scholar: Eric Dursteler, “Venetians in Constantinople”
Discussion/Analysis of Sources and Scholarship
Unit Four: Across the Religious Divide: Women in the Early Modern Era
July 11-15
Monday: “Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Guest scholar: Eric Dursteler, “Renegade Women”
Tuesday: “Ottoman Women in the Early Modern Era”
Friday: “Non-Muslim and Foreign Women in the Ottoman Empire”
Analysis of Sources and Scholarship
Discussion of projects and evaluation of outcomes