International Hrant Dink Foundation, Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality Directorate for Cultural Affairs , Diyarbakir Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Diyarbakir Institute for Political and Social Research announce a scientific meeting on the topic of the Social and Economic History of Diyarbakir and the Region.
Esteemed academics such as David Gaunt, Herve Georgelin, Raymond Kevorkian, Hans Lukas Kieser, Janet Klein, Barbara J. Merguerian, Vahe Tachjian and Jelle Verheij, along with academics from Turkey will present papers at the meeting, organised to understand and analyze the social and economic transformations in the Diyarbakir province between 1838 and 1938 and to enlighten the social and economic history of the area.
Organized from an interdisciplinary perspective, the meeting’s scientific committee consists of many researchers that work on Diyarbakir in the fields of history, economic history, political sciences, sociology, demography, namely; Aksin Somel, Ayhan Aktar, Cengiz Aktar, Edhem Eldem, Fazil Husnu Erdem, Raymond Kevorkian and Selim Deringil.
Driven from the fact that the records, archives and monographs on its economic and social life, as well as records on the social movements that took place in the region are very limited, the workshop aims to gather information about the cause of the social transformations and their consequences on the east of Anatolia.
The meeting, which will be held at Diyarbakir Sumerpark Meeting Hall, will be broadcasted live on www.hrantdink.org.
Friday, November 11
Registration and Opening of the Workshop (15:30-18:30)
Welcome address by
Rakel Dink, Hrant Dink Foundation
Opening speeches by
Osman Baydemir, Mayor of Diyarbakır
Mehmet Diyaeddin Gezer, Diyarbakır Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Necdet İpekyüz, Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research DISA
Cengiz Aktar, Hrant Dink Foundation
Keynote speech by
Baskın Oran, Anatolia after 1839: The State, The Muslims and the Non-Muslims
Saturday, November 12
I- General Panorama of Diyarbakır and its Surroundings
Panel 1 (08:30-10:30)
Chair: Akşin Somel
Barbara J. Merguerian
Diyarbekir: A 19th Century American perspective (1830-1870)
Kerem Soylu
The region during the second half of 19th Century based on archives of Diyarbekir
Raymond Kévorkian
The demographic challenge or the control of the territory: The vilâyet of Diyarbekir during the Ottoman period
George Aghjayan
A demographic narrative of the Diyarbekir province based on Ottoman records
II- Social-Economic Order and Its Deterioration During the Second Half of 19th Century
Panel 2 (11:00-12:30)
Chair: Suavi Aydın
Özge Ertem
The relations between Muslim and non-Muslim inhabitants of Diyarbakır, the local council, local notables and foreign actors
Hervé Georgelin
Armenians in Diyarbekir urban society in the late 19th Century
Seda Altuğ
Kurdo-Armenians in the rural parts of Diyarbekir in the pre-1915 world
Panel 3 (13:30-15:00)
Chair: Dilek Güven
Nilay Özok Gündoğan
Taxing the periphery, governing the ‘backward’: Making of the modern Ottoman State in
Palu, 1840-1870
Vahé Tachjian
The role of Palu Armenian life in the understanding of the development of the area’s social, economic and political life
Cafer Sarıkaya
Looking at the social and economic history of Diyarbekir and its periphery from 1893
Chicago World Fair
III- Ottoman Politics Towards the Region and Emerging Nationalisms
Panel 4 (15:30-17:00)
Chair: Fazıl Hüsnü Erdem
Uğur Bahadır Bayraktar
Getting used to humanity: a gaze from the Sublime Porte to Diyarbakır during the Tanzimat period
Akşin Somel
Ottoman education policies between 1870 and 1908
Suavi Aydın
Reflections on tribe-community-state relations in Diyarbekir and its periphery in 19th Century
Panel 5 (17:30-19:00)
Chair: Baskın Oran
Janet Klein
State, tribe, dynasty, and the contest over Diyarbekir at the turn of the 20th Century
Benjamin Trigona-Harany
Failed Ottomanism: the Süryani of Diyarbekir
Mehemed Malmîsanij
Kurdish nationalism in Diyarbekir in the early 20th Century (1900-1920)
Sunday, November 13
IV-Violence, Pogrom and Genocide in Diyarbakır
Panel 6 (9:30-11:00)
Chair: Etyen Mahçupyan
Jelle Verheij
Diyarbekir and the Armenian crisis of 1895
David Gaunt
The culture of inter-religious violence in Anatolian borderlands in the late Ottoman Empire (1890-1915)
Zeliha Etöz-Mehmet Taylan Esin
Great Blazes of Diyarbekir
Panel 7 (11:30-12:30)
Chair: Raymond Kévorkian
Hans Lukas Kieser
Missed peace with the Armenians? Approaching the Ottoman eastern provinces before 1915
Ayhan Aktar
Diyarbekir 1914-1919
V-Social and Economic conditions from World War I to the Republican era
Panel 8 (14:30-16:30)
Chair: Ahmet Insel
Mekki Uludağ
The social and economic conditions of Silvan during World War I
Cuma Çiçek
The first 10 years of the Turkish Republic in the Kurdish region
Doğan Hoca
Changing demographical structure of Diyarbekir
Jessie Hanna Clark-Saadet Altay
Historic role of women in Kurdish society in pre and early republican era
Panel 9 (17:00-18:00)
Chair: Ali Bayramoğlu
Sait Çetinoğlu
What happened to Armenian properties in Diyarbakır and its periphery?
Mehmet Polatel
The role of Armenian properties in the socio-economic transformation of Diyarbakır (1920-1945)
General Evaluation and Discussions (18:00-19:00)
Parallel event: The exhibition prepared by Osman Köker named “Armenians in Old Diyarbakır” will be open to visitors at the Church of Sourp Giragos throughout the
symposium.
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Nostradamus
Magical Cat Adventure
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