The Futures Past of the Ottomans

Journée d’études organisée par Olivier Bouquet. 

Programme

9:00 – Welcome and Coffee

9:15 – Opening Remarks

Session 1: “New Turkey”: What Kind of State?

Chair: Élise Massicard (CERI, Paris)

9:30 – Samuele Abrami (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan; Sabancı University, Istanbul)

Nostalgia for the Past in the “New Turkey”. Between Kemalist Utopia and Islamist Dystopia

Discussant: N. Moudouros

10:00 – Nikos Moudouros (University of Cyprus, Nicosia)

“We are not a Tribal State”: The Multiple Uses of Ottoman History for a “Strong State”

Discussant: T. Dudlák

10:30 –Tamás Dudlák (ELTE University, Budapest)

The Rise of Civilisational States: Civilisational Discourse in Turkey

Discussant: S. Abrami

11:00 – Coffee Break

Session 2: Erdoganism’s Futures Past/Pasts Future

Chair: Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

11:20 – Ayşe Bozkurt (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Frames of Erdoğanism: The Pasts Future of "Payitaht: Abdülhamid"

Discussant: O. Bouquet

11:50 – Olivier Bouquet (Université Paris Cité, CESSMA, IUF)

“Dieses west noch”: Erdoğan, Being and Time

Discussant: A. Bozkurt

13:00 – Lunch Break

Session 3: Unpacking neo-Ottomanism

Chair: Ahmet İnsel (Galatasaray University, Istanbul)

14:30 – Barış Zeren (CETOBaC, EHESS, Paris)

Hamidism Beyond the Myth: The Fragile Sovereign and the April 2017 Regime

Discussant: I. C. Schick

15:00 – Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 

Weaponization of neo-Ottomanism as Soft Power: Sultan Abdülhamid, President Erdoğan and Women’s National Volleyball Team

Discussant: B. Zeren 

15:30 – İrvin Cemil Schick (CETOBaC, EHESS, Paris)

Occult Practices in Erdoğan’s Turkey, in Historical Context

Discussant: F. M. Göçek

16:00 – Coffee Break

Session 4: After the Ottomans

Chair: M’hamed Oualdi (Sciences Po, Paris)

16:30 – Aline Schlaepfer (University of Basel)

History-writing in Iraq after the Ottomans. Between Hamidianism, Constitutionalism, and Kemalism

Discussant: E. Szurek

17:00 – Emmanuel Szurek (CETOBAC, EHESS, Paris)

Onomastic Proofs: The non-Muslims and Their Names

Discussant: A. Schlaepfer

17:30 – Roundtable Discussion & Concluding Remarks