{"id":3812,"date":"2026-05-05T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/reason-religion-ottoman-syria\/?page_id=3812"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:26:05","slug":"political-economy-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/reason-religion-ottoman-syria\/?page_id=3812","title":{"rendered":"Political Economy and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 27-28 June 2024<\/b><\/p>\n

Programme<\/u><\/p>\n

Thursday 27 June 2024<\/u><\/p>\n

9-9.30 Welcome and introduction<\/p>\n

9.30-11.00 Panel 1. Religious identity and conflict:<\/p>\n

Joe Leidy: Trials of Faith: Establishing a Protestant Community in Hasbayya, 1844<\/p>\n

Peter Hill: Monks and Muskets: Armed Affrays in Mount Lebanon\u2019s Catholic Churches, 1842-1845<\/p>\n

11.30-1.00 Panel 2. Politics and Social Change:<\/p>\n

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

Aviv Derri: Public Credit, Commercial Capitalism, and Social Change in the Ottoman Empire<\/p>\n

1.00-2.30 Lunch<\/p>\n

2.30-4.00 Panel 3. Rights, Belonging, and Property:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Williams: Law, Land, and Sovereignty: Contesting Claims to Property in Late Ottoman Aleppo<\/p>\n

Seda Altug: To whom do the stone remnants belong: community and property in Ottoman-Silvan (1908-1911)<\/p>\n

5.00-6.00 Book event: Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East <\/em>by Peter Hill<\/p>\n

7.30 Dinner<\/p>\n

Friday 28 June<\/u><\/p>\n

9.30-11.00 Panel 4. People and Revolution:<\/p>\n

Ceyda Karam\u00fcrsel: The Business of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire<\/p>\n

Naz Y\u00fccel: The 1908 Ottoman Constitutional Revolution from a Materialist Perspective<\/p>\n

11.30-1.00 Panel 5. Class and the Proletariat:<\/p>\n

Masato Tanaka: Dangerous Classes in Late Ottoman Beirut: Urban Riots and Sectarian Violence, ca. 1880s\u20131903<\/p>\n

Emre Can Daglioglu: Proletariat under the International Financial Control: The 1910 Strike of Female Silk Workers in the Heart of Ottoman Sericulture<\/p>\n

1.00-2.00 Lunch<\/p>\n

2.00-3.00 Additional panel\/Roundtable (tbc)<\/p>\n

3.30-5.00 Ottoman Political Economies Planning Session<\/p>\n

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