INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP TRANSFORMING SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE LONG 19 TH CENTURY: PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES AS AGENTS OF MODERNIZATION

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP TRANSFORMING SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE LONG 19TH CENTURY: PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES AS AGENTS OF MODERNIZATION 1-2 December 2017 Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” For more details see: https://agents-of-modernization.weebly.com/ December, 1st Room 17 Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, 49 Moskovska Str. 13:30 – 13:45 PANEL 1 13:45 – 14:30 OPENING SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATIONS IN OTTOMAN CENTER AND PERIPHERY KEYNOTE LECTURE Dimitris Stamatopoulos, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki/Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Power and Hegemony in the Rum Millet (18th-20th c.): Power networks and interest groups in the Ecumenical Patriarchate during the Late Ottoman period 14:30 – 14:45 14:45 – 15:00 Chair 15:00 – 15:20 Discussion Coffee break PANEL SESSION 1 Eyal Ginio Yavuz Köse, University of Hamburg Prusyali Emin Efendi (1813-1892) – the founding director of the first modern law school (mekteb-i hukuk) in the Ottoman Empire 15:20 – 15:40 Yura Konstantinova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia The modern influences in health care and hygiene and the traditional Bulgarian society in Thessaloniki 15:40 – 16:00 16:00 – 16:20 Discussion Coffee break Chair 16:20 – 16:40 PANEL SESSION 2 Ivelina Masheva Nevila Pahumi, University College London Global goes Local: Christian Workers, Gender and Cultural Translation in the Late Ottoman Balkans 16:40 – 17:00 Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Unlikely Exponents of Modernization: Ottoman POWs writing on the Balkan states during the Balkan Wars 17:00 – 17:20 Discussion December, 2nd Hall 2 Rectorate, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. PANEL 2 09:00 – 09:45 LOCAL AND FOREIGN AGENTS OF POLITICAL MODERNIZATION IN THE OTTOMAN AND POST-OTTOMAN BALKANS KEYNOTE LECTURE Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul/Collège de France, Paris A Thwarted Modernity? Ottoman Princes in the Nineteenth Century 09:45 – 10:00 10:00 – 10:20 Chair 10:20 – 10:40 Discussion Coffee break PANEL SESSION Yavuz Köse Alexandar Zlatanov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Michal Czajkowski–Sadyk Pasha and his Ottoman Cossack Regiment as agents of modernization 10:40 – 11:00 Tobias Völker, University of Hamburg From Hanseatic diplomat to Ottoman civil servant – Andreas David Mordtmann (18111879) as contributor to and critic of late Ottoman modernization 11:00 – 11:20 Ivaylo Nachev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Konstantin Jireček and the establishment of institutions in the modern Bulgarian state 11:20 – 11:50 12:00 – 14:00 Discussion Lunch break PANEL 3 14:00 – 14:45 ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE BALKANS DURING THE LONG 19th CENTURY KEYNOTE LECTURE Dobrinka Parusheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski” Society, Technology and Culture, or How the Balkans Meet Modernity 14:45 – 15:00 15:00 – 15:20 Discussion Coffee break PANEL SESSION 1: THE ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION Chair: 15:20 – 15:40 Boriana Antonova–Goleva Ivelina Masheva, freelancer Top to Bottom and Bottom to Top: Patterns of Commercial Law Modernization in the Ottoman Balkans during the Tanzimat 15:40 – 16:00 Hristiyan Atanasov, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia Midhat Pasha and the Credit Agricultural Funds as Institution of Modernity 16:00 – 16:20 16:20 – 16:40 Discussion Coffee break PANEL SESSION 2: THE TECHNOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION Chair: 16:40 – 17:00 Dobrinka Parusheva Paulina Dominik, The Free University of Berlin We wired up most of Turkey as if it was a broken clay pot: Polish political émigrés in the Ottoman service as engineers in the second half of the 19th century 17:00 – 17:20 Boriana Antonova-Goleva, University of Economics–Varna/Comenius University, Bratislava The Ruse–Varna railway project: a case study of technology transfer and modernization in the Late Ottoman Balkans 17:20 – 17:40 17:40 Discussion Closing