THURSDAY, JUNE 6th
2-6 p.m. (CET)
2 p.m. Opening Remarks & Introduction
Christine Howald & Birgit Sporleder (Berlin)
2.20 p.m.
Panel 1Digging up the Legal Framework:
Excavating and Exporting Antiquities
Chair: Martina Müller-Wiener (Berlin)
Artemis Papatheodorou (Istanbul)
Discrepancies Between Legislated Rules on the
Sharing and Export of Antiquities
Belgin Turan Özkaya (Ankara)
Ottoman Antiquities and the Question of Legitimacy
in the Nineteenth Century
Ozan Huseyin (London)
Reconsidering Ottoman Responses to Problematic
Museum Collections: The Case of the Beyhekim
Mihrab Tiles
Reem Abbass Moustafa (London)
The Treaty of Sevres: the Exception to Cultural
Reparation that Followed World War I
3.20 p.m.Coffee Break
3.30 p.m.
Panel 2Digging up the Mechanisms: Translocating
Antiquities
Chair: Martin Maischberger (Berlin)
Nicolas Amoroso & Néguine Mathieux (Morlanwelz /
Paris)
The Farah Family Art Business – Trade and Export
Practices of Antiquities from Syria and Lebanon
Anna Georgiev (Mainz)
Theodor Wiegand's Work at the Constantinople
Museum Station
Anna Lekka (Athens)
Τhe Role of the Istanbul Museum in the Circulation
of Antiquities within the Empire. Osman Hamdi Bey
and Theodoros Makridis
Annetta Alexandridis & Benjamin Anderson (Ithaca,
NY)
Collateral Damage? Extracting Reproductions of the
Monumentum Ancyranum
4.30 p.m.Coffee Break
4.40 p.m.
Panel 3Digging up the Parties: Actors and Networks
Handling Antiquities
Chair: Christine Howald (Berlin)
Stefanie Janke (Berlin)
Title tba
Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan (Lincoln)
Armenian-Ottoman Antiquities Dealers
Sujatha Chandrasekaran (Berlin)
Smuggling or Oversight? Collecting Antiquities in the
Ottoman Southern Black Sea Littoral
Rubina Raja & Olympia Bobou (Aarhus)
The Danish Trade in Palmyrene Objects
5.40 p.m.Conclusion Day 1
FRIDAY, JUNE 7th
2-6 p.m. (CET)
2 p.m. Welcome
Christine Howald & Birgit Sporleder (Berlin)
2.10 p.m.
Panel 4Digging up Politics: Power Relations and Antiquities
Chair: Miriam Kühn (Berlin)
Mustafa Kemal Baran (Istanbul)
Antiquities in the Trenches – Heritage Preservation
Efforts in Western Anatolia in Times of War
Sebastian Willert (Leipzig)
An Irrevocable Contract? The German-Ottoman
Agreement on the Partage of Finds and its Impact
(1899–1918)
Nilay Özlü & Ceren Abi (Istanbul)
Destination Louvre (?) – Armistice Excavations and
the Journey of Antiquities
Erhan Tamur (York)
Colonialism and Archaeological Networks: The Case
of Tello
3.10 p.m. Coffee Break
3.30 p.m.
Panel 5Digging up the Methods: Research in the
Provenance of Antiquities
Chair: Birgit Sporleder (Berlin)
Nicola Crüsemann (Berlin)
Letters from Sendschirli/Zincirli (working title)
Nicholas Salmon (Karlsruhe)
Revisiting Archaeology on Ottoman Rhodes:
Archives, Objects, and Interviews
Bernhard Weisser & Angela Berthold (Berlin)
A Numismatic Correspondence from the Years
1872–1917
Vinca Michaelis (Berlin)
Partage in Baalbek: Otto Puchstein's Excavations
and the Circumstances Surrounding the Export of
Archaeological Finds
4.30 p.m. Coffee Break
4.50 p.m. Break-out Session ‘Research Needs’
5.20 p.m. Presentation of Results
5.40 p.m. Conclusion and Farewell
The workshop is organised by the research project „Legal – Illegal? The Circumstances of the Excavation and Export of Archaeological Objects from Sam'al, Didyma and Samarra in the Ottoman Empire to Berlin in the Early 20th Century“ which is funded by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation) and conducted in collaboration with ANAMED – Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koç Üniversitesi İstanbul, Türkiye. The project is headed by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s Zentralarchiv and is being carried out in collaboration with the Antikensammlung, Museum für Islamische Kunst and Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The discussions at the workshop will also contribute to a guideline being prepared by the project team on how to research archaeological objects with problematic translocation histories from the Ottoman Empire in museums’ collections.