Τρίτο Συνέδριο του Προγράμματος της Μαύρης Θάλασσας

Οργανωτική Επιτροπή:

Καθηγήτρια Τζελίνα Χαρλαύτη (Συντονίστρια του έργου, Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο)
Σοφία Λάιου (Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο)
Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University)
Βαγγέλης Κεχριώτης (Boğaziçi University)
Χρήστος Χατζηιωσήφ (Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών)

Γραμματεία

Δρ Αλεξάνδρα Παπαδοπούλου (Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο)
Μαρία Κωνσταντινίδη (Ιόνιο Πανεπιστημίο)
Κώστας Καραλής (Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο)

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Conference schedule

Thursday 23 October
19.00 - Sismanoglio Megaro, Istiklal Cad. 60
Round Table on “The Rise of Ottoman and Venetian/
Ionian Greek Shipping, 1700-1821”

20.00
Welcome reception

Friday 24 October
Boğaziçi University (Ibrahim Bodur Salonu)

09.00 – 9.15 Welcome remarks
Edhem Eldem, local organizer and Gelina Harlaftis, project coordinator

9.15 – 11.00
Session I - Istanbul and maritime trade
Chair: Gelina Harlaftis

1. Edhem Eldem, (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Trade in the Black Sea through the lenses of the French Chamber of Commerce’s Revue commerciale du Levant.”

2. Apostolos Delis, (Institute of Mediterranean Studies/ FORTH /Univ. of Crete, Greece)
Navigating insidious waters: duration, rhythms and hazards of the voyages to Istanbul and Black Sea in the 19th century

3. Feride Akin, (Institute of Mediterranean Studies/ FORTH /Univ. of Crete, Greece)
The development of the port of Istanbul, in the last third of the 19th century

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13.30

Session II- Economic development of the port cities the southern shore
Chair: Vangelis Kechriotis

1. Mehmet Yavuz Erler, (19 May University of Samsun, Turkey)
Refugees in the basin of the Canik mines: Greek Orthodox from mining to agriculture (1790-1884)

2. Stavros Anestidis, (Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Greece)
Samsun (Amisos). Aspects of financial development and cosmopolitanism in the late 19th c.

3. Ekin Mahmuzlu, (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
The import-export trade of Trabzon in the 19th century

4. Evrydiki Sifneos, (IHS/ National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece)
Was the extraction of coal at Kozlou and Zonguldak mines profitable?

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.30

Session III- Urban development of the port cities Chair: Yücel Terzibaşoğlu

1. Vasilis Colonas, (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Between two Empires; Architecture and Greek Communities on the shores of the Black Sea at the end of the 19th century

2. Athina Vitopoulou, Alexandra Yerolympos, (University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Ottoman port cities of the Black Sea at the threshhold of modernity

3. Maria Lekakou and Evangelia Stefanidaki (University of the Aegean),
Is Cruise Tourism a catalyst for city revitalization? The case of Black Sea cities

17.00 - Transfer to Kabatas and boat trip to Hebeliada (island of Chalki)

19.30. Dinner at an Old Mansion of Chalki

22.30. Return to Katabas by boat

Saturday 25 October
Boğaziçi University (Demir Demirgil Salonu)

09.00 – 11.00
Session V. Trading with Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire (a)
Chair: Gelina Harlaftis

1. Sasha Halenko, (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine)
Rise of the Ukrainian granary of Europe (13-18th centuries)

2. Panayotis Kapetanakis, (University of Greenwich/ National Hellenic Research Foundation)
From Constantinople and Elgin to Odessa and Yeames: the British flag entering the Black Sea (1797-1807) From Constantinople and Elgin to Odessa and Yeames: the British flag entering the Black Sea (1797-1807)

3. Gerasimos Pagratis, (University of Athens, Greece)
The Ottoman Empire and the Ionian maritime enterprises (c. late 18th-early 19th century.)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13.30
Session VI - Trading with Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire (b)
Chair: Meltem Toksöz

1. Igor Lyman and Victoria Konstantinova, (Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine)
Ottoman vector of trade and shipping of Azov sea-ports in 19 century

2. Constantin Ardeleanu, / Lower Danube University (Universitatea Dunărea de Jos)
Constantinople and the beginnings of steamship in the Black Sea (1830s-1850s)

3. Socrates Petmezas, (University of Crete, Greece)
The construction of Black Sea statistical series

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.30
Session VII. Ottoman Merchants in the Black Sea trade
Chair: Maria-Christina Hadjiioannou

1. Sophia Laiou, (Ionian University, Greece)
The Ottoman Greeks and the Black Sea Trade, end of the 18th-beginning of the 19th century

2. Mustafa Batman and Şahica Karatepe, (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
A Brief History of a Muslim Merchant Family: Nemlizades

3. Katerina Galani, (Ionian University, Greece)
The Greek business group between Constantinople and the City of London in the mid-19th century

16.30-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-19.00
Session VII. Ethnoreligious identity and social life
Chair: Sophia Laiou

1. Hamdi Özdiş, (Düzce University, Turkey)
19. yüzyılın sonlarında Doğu Karadeniz’de yönetim ve iktidar ilişkilerinin yapısına dair bazı gözlemler [Some Observations on the Structure of Power Relations and Ottoman Administration in the Late Nineteenth- Century Trebizond Vilayet]

2. Zeynep Türkyılmaz, (Dartmouth College, USA)
Hiding in the Mines: Crypto-Christian Miners of Ottoman Trebizond (1700-1918)

3. Vangelis Kechriotis, (Boğaziçi University, RCAC/Κοç University, Turkey),
Greek-Orthodox in politics and the economy of the Black Sea port cities at the end of the Empire

4. Elia Kyfonidou (Independent Scholar),
The Greek- Orthodox communities of Pontus at the beginning of the twentieth century: A glimpse at the Greek bibliography

20.00 Dinner at Boğaziçi

Sunday 26 October
Boğaziçi University (Demir Demirgil Salonu)

10.00-12.00
Session VIII- Linkages and integration to the global economy
Chair: Evrydiki Sifneos

1. Per Kristian Sebak, (Bergen Maritime Museum, Norway)
Immigration from Odessa to New York, 1892 to 1924

2. Maria-Christina Chatziioannou, (IHS/HNRF)
The port of Trieste and its Black Sea merchant routes at the end of the 19th c.

3. Eka Tchkoidze, (Ilia State University Tiblisi, Georgia)
Batumi’s Free –Port (Porto-Franco) system: advantages and disadvantages for further economic development

4. Alexandra Papadopoulou, (University of Bocconi, Italy)
The integration of Southern European Russia in the new global economy of the 19th century and the role of foreign business.

12.30-13.00
Maria Konstantinidou - Kostas Karalis and Gelina Harlaftis, (Ionian University, Greece)
The administration and progress of the project