Turkey 1908–1914: biographical approaches

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Turkey 1908–1914: biographical approaches

Veranstalter
Historisches Seminar und Orientalisches Seminar der Universität Zürich in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stiftung Forschungsstelle Schweiz-Türkei (SFST) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen (SGMOIK)
Veranstaltungsort
Hauptgebäude der Universität Zürich, KOL-G-212
Ort
Zürich
Land
Switzerland
Vom - Bis
13.11.2008 - 15.11.2008
Website
http://www.hist.uzh.ch/lehre/neuzeit/kieser/tagung2008.html
Von
Kieser, Hans-Lukas

This conference will attempt to ascertain the social and cultural dynamics of the Ottoman world before the catastrophe of World War I. It will emphasize the utopian moment of the Young Turk Revolution in Summer 1908, that is the hopes, fears, trends, doctrines, fraternizations and polarizations expressed against the backdrop of the crucial quest for the Ottoman Near Eastern future. The conference will tackle the years of 1908-1914 as a formative period of political, intellectual, and literary biography. Despite its clearly delimited focus on these years, it will try to bridge a century by taking as its basis the Ottoman world before its dissolution and before the victory of ethnic nationalism. At the core is the ongoing challenge of a common future, that is the challenge of a constructive appropriation of a vertiginous multitude of conflicting, or seemingly conflicting historical and cultural resources. At this conference we will attempt to rethink Turkey from the Ottoman world of the early 20th century, in particular from the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and the end of the Belle Époque, instead of thinking it from its founding period, or “hour zero”, after World War I.

Within the limits of the available seats, the conference is open to students of the University and registered visitors from outside.

Programm

Thursday, 13 November

09.45 Introduction
10.00-11.00 Political history and biography 1908-1914: seminal years? Chair: Hamit Bozarslan, EHESS, Paris
- Mehmet Şükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton): The CUP and the 1908 Revolution.
- Erik Jan Zürcher (Leiden): Political socialization 1908-1914.

11.30-13.00 Icons, leaders, and mentors 1908-14 (1) Chair: Fatma M. Göçek, University of Michigan
- Sacit Kutlu (Istanbul): Enver Bey, the icon of the period (in Turkish, paper in English).
- Funda Soysal (Istanbul): Ahmed İhsan, the founder of the journal Servet-i Fünun.
- Hans-Lukas Kieser (Zurich): Talat Bey, a biographical approach.

14.30-15.30 Icons, leaders, and mentors 1908-14 (2) Chair: Erik Jan Zürcher, Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam
- Ali Suat Ürgüplü (Bamberg): Hayri Efendi, minister and Sheikh ul-Islam, according to his diaries.
- Raymond Kévorkian (Paris): Krikor Zohrap.
15.30 Conclusions of the first day. Discussion.

16.30 Public lecture by Mehmet Şükrü Hanioğlu, chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, room KOL-E-18: Dr. Bahaeddin Shakir (1874–1922), a Young Turk par excellence

Friday, 14 November

09.15 Re-introduction
09.30-11.00 Belief in an Ottoman future? The Young Turk Revolution in the provinces Chair: Raymond Kévorkian, Univ. Paris VIII
- Fuat Dündar (Paris): Milli Ibrahim Pasha and Ziya Gökalp in Diyarbekir, 1908: clash of political cultures and visions?
- Bernard Lory (Paris): Pance Dorev, a Bulgarian Young Turk at Bitola/Monastir.
- Vangelis Kechriotis (Istanbul and Berlin): Izmir, the Rum and the Young Turk Revolution.

11.30-13.00 The Young Turk Revolution in the provinces (2) Chair: Şükrü Hanioğlu, University of Princeton
- Astrid Meier (Zurich): Intellectuals in the Arab provinces.
- Henning Sievert (Zurich): Berber chief Sulayman al-Baruni: from prisoner to statesman.
- Ryan Gingeras (New York): Circassian, the Special Organization and Deep State politics: a biographical approach?

14.30-15.30 Women pioneers Chair: Astrid Meier, University of Zurich
- Serpil Çakır (Istanbul): Making Women Pioneers Visible: Fatma Aliye, Ulviye Mevlan.
- Sima Aprahamian (Montreal): Ottoman Women's movements and Armenians.

16.00-17.00 A revolution in literature? Authors, figures, translators (1) Chair: Hilary Kilpatrick-Waardenburg (SGMOIK)
- Stephan Guth (Oslo): 1908-14 in Turkish novels.
- Erol Köroğlu (Istanbul): Historical and political positioning of literary authors 1908-14.
17.00-17.30 Conclusions of the second day. Discussion.

Saturday, 15 November

9.30-10.30 A revolution in literature? (2) Chair: Stephan Guth (University of Oslo)
- Kévork Bardakjian (Ann Arbor): The fatal failure of the Muses: literary biographies of Daniel Varuzhan and Siamanto.
- Ahmet Altan (Istanbul, to be confirmed): Writing today on the Second Constitutional Period.

11.00-12.30 From Union and Progress to the EU and reform, or to an apocalyptical Middle East? Rethinking a century.
- Fatma M. Göçek (Ann Arbor): From 1908 to 2008: A sociological analysis of continuity and change.
- Hamit Bozarslan (Paris): From CUP to “Ergenekon”: dynamics of violence and State-coercion in Turkey.
Final discussion.

Kontakt

Doris Rütimann

Historisches Seminar der Universität Zürich

d.ruetimann@access.uzh.ch

http://www.hist.uzh.ch/lehre/neuzeit/kieser/tagung2008.html