Past Events
HAT Conversations: Role of Science in Daily Life

Industrialisation and Urban Growth from the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey in a Comparative Perspective

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22
January 2021, Friday
Location: İstanbul, Turkey
ENCHOS III

Third Meeting of the European Network for the Comparative History of Population Geography and Occupational Structure (1500-1900)

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27
September 2019, Friday
Location: Koç University, ENG 208 (Engineering Faculty)
European Historical Economics Society Conference

Uygar Karaca has participated in European Historical Economics Society Conference with the presentation "Regional aspects of demographic and structural transformation in Bulgaria between 1878-1956”

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29
August 2019, Thursday
Location: Paris
Contextualizing the culture of Orthodox Christian Monasticism in Büyükada in “the long nineteenth century”: Community of a religious order or source of revenue for bunch of “laymen”?

One of the aims of the presentation was to discuss with the project members how to utilize historical maps of Büyükada in my research.

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09
April 2019, Tuesday
Irrigation in the Making of Ottoman Iraq: The Construction of the Hindiya Barrage (1891-1913)

This study investigates the role of irrigation practices in the Ottoman centralization attempts in Iraq between the years 1891 and 1914.

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26
March 2019, Tuesday
First International GeoPortOst Workshop on Maps in Libraries – IOS

M. Erdem Kabadayı and Piet Gerrits presented a paper on “Geo‐Spatial‐Mining of Historical Maps and Texts: Comparing 16th c. Ottoman military logistics with 19th c. transport infrastructure in Southeast Europe” at the GeoPortOst workshop in The Leibniz Institute for East and Sou

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13
March 2019, Wednesday
Location: Regensburg, Germany
Exploring and Visualizing the Wealth of the Rich in Bursa through Record Linkage and GIS, 1820-1840

This paper revolves around the probate inventories of three rich people died in the city of Bursa in the period from 1820 to 1840: An Ex-Qadi of Plovdiv, a daughter of an ulama family, and an Armenian cloth merchant. Its aims are threefold.

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27
February 2019, Wednesday
Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT) Symposium: Standplaats Istanbul

The Ottomans left vast archives of administrative documents, much of which remains unexplored. Digital technologies (GIS) can help explore these archival materials to ask new questions regarding historical developments in such areas as demography, urbanization, trade, or milita

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28
November 2018, Wednesday
Location: İstanbul, Turkey
Changes in the Military System of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century and Socio-Political Effects

Did the Ottoman army really modernize after the abolition of Janissaries? After the establishment of Mansure, how did the Ottoman society transform? Has the state systematically tried to militarize society?

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27
November 2018, Tuesday
Coping with Scarcity and Famines in Ottoman Anatolia ca. 1700-1900

On 13 November 2018, Semih Çelik presented the archival sources and methodologies he intended to use for a paper he has been working on, on the economic history of famine resilience in Ottoman Anatolia from a longue-duree perspective, covering a period from early-1600s until mi

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13
November 2018, Tuesday
CIEPO-23

Osman Özkan participated in the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIEPO) conference in Sofia to present the paper referenced below. “İdâre-i Mahsûsa Vapur Şirketi’nin Ulaşım Ağı ve CBS Tabanlı Mekânsal Analizi”, presented by Osman Özkan.

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11
September 2018, Tuesday
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
World Economic History Congress

Project team members M. Erdem Kabadayı and Uygar Karaca have presented the following papers at the WEHC 2018 in Boston.

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29
July 2018, Sunday
Location: Boston, USA