13–14 April 2023, Mainz
Organization: Barbara Henning, Ani Sargsyan, Taisiya Leber
Draft program
13th of April, Thursday
14.00: Greetings & Introduction: Barbara Henning, Ani Sargsyan, Taisiya Leber
14.30 – 15.30: Outcomes of the first workshop on expertise (2021)
Speakers: Andreas Helmedach, Yusuf Karabicak
15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30: Panel I: Modern Expertise
Chair: Barbara Henning
Aylin de Tapia, Cappadocia as a Field for Expertise: Paths of three Rum “experts” of Cappadocia in search of a historical identity
Meriç Tanık, Proving one’s worth: Ottoman agronomists’ and veterinarians’ rhetoric on the essential utility of their expert-knowledge
17.30 – 17.45: Coffee break
17.45 – 18.30: Keynote lecture by Elise Massicard (CNRS, Paris)
19.00: Dinner
14th of April, Friday
9.00 – 10.30: Panel II: Early Modern Expertise
Chair: Taisiya Leber
Hasan Çolak, Multilingualism as a form of transcultural expertise: A study of multilingual Ottoman Muslim intellectuals in the eighteenth century
Polina Ivanova, Manuscript as a site for expertise: MS 532 of the Matenadaran collection (Armenia)
11.00 – 12.30: Panel III: Early Modern Experts
Chair: Ani Sargsyan
Eda Genç Atalay, Eugenios Voulgaris and the Enlightenment in the Orthodox Church
Tomislav Matić (online), Croatian Experts on the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Century
12.30 –13.30: Lunch break
13.30 – 14.00: Publication Strategy – leading questions and steps on the way to the special issue
14.00 – 14.30: Coffee break
14.30 – 15.30: Final discussions