Political Economy and Religion

Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 27-28 June 2024

Programme

Thursday 27 June 2024

9-9.30 Welcome and introduction

9.30-11.00 Panel 1. Religious identity and conflict:

Joe Leidy: Trials of Faith: Establishing a Protestant Community in Hasbayya, 1844

Peter Hill: Monks and Muskets: Armed Affrays in Mount Lebanon’s Catholic Churches, 1842-1845

11.30-1.00 Panel 2. Politics and Social Change:

Amr Ahmed: What can the willow tree (sifsafa) in 1830s Egypt tell us about war, energy, and political power?

Aviv Derri: Public Credit, Commercial Capitalism, and Social Change in the Ottoman Empire

1.00-2.30 Lunch

2.30-4.00 Panel 3. Rights, Belonging, and Property:

Elizabeth Williams: Law, Land, and Sovereignty: Contesting Claims to Property in Late Ottoman Aleppo

Seda Altug: To whom do the stone remnants belong: community and property in Ottoman-Silvan (1908-1911)

5.00-6.00 Book event: Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East by Peter Hill

7.30 Dinner

Friday 28 June

9.30-11.00 Panel 4. People and Revolution:

Ceyda Karamürsel: The Business of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire

Naz Yücel: The 1908 Ottoman Constitutional Revolution from a Materialist Perspective

11.30-1.00 Panel 5. Class and the Proletariat:

Masato Tanaka: Dangerous Classes in Late Ottoman Beirut: Urban Riots and Sectarian Violence, ca. 1880s–1903

Emre Can Daglioglu: Proletariat under the International Financial Control: The 1910 Strike of Female Silk Workers in the Heart of Ottoman Sericulture

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 Additional panel/Roundtable (tbc)

3.30-5.00 Ottoman Political Economies Planning Session

For more details on the Ottoman Political Economies research group, see the programme of the first annual meeting.