Michigan: Fourth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop. “Shared History, Shared Geography: The Ottoman East.”

US Official News
April 18, 2013 Thursday

University of Michigan, The State of Michigan has issued the following
news release:

Fourth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop. “Shared History,
Shared Geography: The Ottoman East.”

Event Type: Conference / Symposium (exclude) Sponsor: Armenian
Studies Program Time: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Location: School of Social
Work Building Room: 1644

Conveners: Kathryn Babayan, ASP Director, Near Eastern Studies/History;
Richard Antaramian, Dzovinar Derderian, Ali Sipahi, ASP graduate
students. U-M.

Over the last three decades scholars of the Middle East have raised
new questions and used new methods that have forced them to reconsider
approaches of the former generations of scholarship. These include,
but are not limited to, critical interrogations of modernization theory
and the provenance of the nation-state form. Accounts exclusively
based on Armenians, Kurds, Syrians, missionaries, etc.

have emerged, while the historiography of the Ottoman East has largely
been concerned with governmentality studies. Welcome as these changes
may be, the respective turns have had little impact on our study of
the Ottoman Empire’s eastern borderlands (defined roughly as the area
bounded by Ankara, Mosul, and Kars).

The Ottoman East has been viewed largely, both by contemporary Ottoman
statesmen and modern-day historians, as a periphery of the Ottoman
enterprise centered in the imperial capital and western Anatolia.

These accounts posit the imperial center as the active agent of
history, seeking to civilize or bring order to its borderlands. This
workshop will begin to provincialize the center as it attempts to
understand the Ottoman East on its own terms.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress