Legacies of Muslim Rule in Southeastern Europe Managing Pasts
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Legacies of Muslim Rule in Southeastern Europe  Managing Pasts

By Alexandra Vukovich

This workshop explores how states in southeastern Europe sharing a complex history of Christian and Muslim rule manage layered heritages.

Location

Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul

No:247 İstiklal Caddesi Istanbul, İstanbul 34421 Turkey

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Highlights

  • 8 hours
  • In person

About this event

Please note: this event is located inside the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul, so please provide your name as it appears in your passport and bring an ID with a photo in order to access the site.

The workshop programme is as follows:

2 September 

From 10 am: coffee and pastries

10.30 am - 11 am: Welcome and opening remarks: Alexandra Vukovich (King’s College, London) and Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)

11 am - 1 pm: Panel 1: Heritage without Heirs 1

Hakan Tarhan (Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeology Project) 

Living with Byzantium: Local Perceptions Towards Remnants of a ‘Dissonant’ Past in İznik and Trabzon

Ivo Strakhilov, Slavka Karakusheva (Sofia University)

Scales of Dissonance: Rethinking Ottoman Heritage in Bulgaria

Fani Gargova (Mainz University)

Instrumentalizing Jewish Heritage: Between Obfuscation and Appropriation in Balkan National Narratives 

1 pm - 2 pm: lunch

2 pm - 4 pm: Panel 2: Heritage Without Heirs 2 

Koray Durak (Boğaziçi University)

Byzantium in the Classroom: Narrating the Self through the Other in Turkey and Kosovo

Delyan Rusev (Sofia University) 

Is There an Ottoman Church or a Bulgarian Mosque? Categorizing Ottoman-Era Heritage: Some Thoughts and Cases from Bulgaria  

Suna Cagaptay (Muğla University)

Anaia Byzantine Excavation 

4 pm - 4.30 pm: coffee break 

4.30 pm - 6.00 pm: Panel 3: Dissonance and Heritage

Emir Filipović (University of Sarajevo)

Evlad-ı Fatihan or Heirs to the Bosnian Crown? Modern Bosnian Muslims and Bosnia’s Pre-Ottoman Heritage

Višnja Kišić (UNESCO, University of Novi Sad)

From Otherness to Dissonances on the (Im)possibilities of “Imagining the Balkans” Otherwise

3 September

9.30 am - 11:00 am: Panel 4: Heritage Identities

Aleksandar Ignjatović (University of Belgrade)

Shifting Identities of Ottoman Urban Vernacular Architecture in the 20th Century 

Berin Gür (TEDU Ankara)

Hagia Sophia: The Lost Mosque

11 am - 11:30 am: coffee break

11:30 am - 1pm: Panel 5: Heritage in Perspective

Alexandra Vukovich (King’s College, London)

Postcolonial Heritage in National Contexts

Francesco Lovino (University of Ferrara)

The Reception of Byzantium

1pm - 2 pm: lunch at SRII

2 pm - 3 pm: Discussion

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