EVENT CANCELLED
Mare Fugitivum: Fugitivity and the Making of the Ottoman Mediterranean
April 26, 2:30 – 6:00 pm, Uris Hall, Room 333, Columbia University
Organized by Ayse Polat, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies
Registration is required for both Columbia and non-Columbia guests. Please click the link below for registration.
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EVENT CANCELLED
Program
Welcoming Remarks: 2:30 – 2:40 pm
Panel I: 2:40 – 4:10 pm
Chair: Andreas Guidi
Ayse Polat, “Notes on Fugitivity and Carcerality in Late Ottoman History”
Lale Can, “On Creating an Ottoman Siberia: Toward a New History of Ottoman Carceral Geographies”
Zavier Wingham, “Unmoored and Enslaved Crisis of the African in the Ottoman Black Mediterranean, 1880s - 1890s”
Break: 4:10 – 4:30 pm
Panel II: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Chair: Ayse Polat
Youssef Ben Ismail, "Acting Like One’s (Legal) Self: Petty Thieves, Political Dissidents, and Other Legal Experts around the Ottoman Mediterranean”
Hazal Özdemir, “They Migrate Due to the Poverty or Loneliness:” Categorizing/Counting Migrants at the Ottoman Mediterranean"
Andreas Guidi, “A post-Ottoman history of the Aliyah Bet: Shipping agents, Imperial Surveillance, and Jewish Fugitives, 1941-1948”
