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Voyvoda Street Meetings 2003
Everyday Life in the Ottoman Empire
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January 2003 - Prof. Ihsan Bilgin
Offices in the First Generation Modern Architecture and the
Ottoman Bank Building.
26
February 2003 - Assist. Prof. Paolo Girardelli
The Italian Community in Istanbul in the XIXth Century. Architecture,
Spaces, Social Relationship.
19
March 2003 - Prof. Edhem Eldem
When the
Palace Became a Prison: Murad V and His Family at the Çiragan
Palace.
16
April 2003 - Assoc. Prof. Tulay Artan
Was Edirne the Capital City of the Empire in the Second Half
of the XVIIth Century?
14
May 2003 - Yavuz Selim Karakisla
The Women Soldiers of the Ottoman Army: The Battalion of Women
Workers (1917-1919)
Voyvoda Street Meetings about Economic History
The theme of these meetings, which started in 2000, will
be this year "Finance, Investments and Commerce in
the Ottoman Empire and Turkey".
1 October 2003 - Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi
Debtors and Creditors during the 18th Century in Bursa
Through lack of liquidity depending on economic stagnation,
livelihood based on land exploitation and commerce, a new
faction of creditors emerged in Bursa...
5 November 2003 - Prof. Tevfik Güran
Ottoman Public Finance in the 19th Century
The systematic and normative transformation of the Ottoman
tax administration after the reforms of Tanzimat...
3 December 2003 - Prof. Ayhan Aktar
The Story of the Capital Levy
The starting date of the capital levy in the Ottoman Empire
and the taxpayers...
Voyvoda Street Meetings about Cities in
the Pursuit of the Ottoman Bank Branches
These meetings will take place in collaboration
with the Foundation for the Development of Cultural Consciousness
(Kultur Bilincini Gelistirme Vakfi) and Fest Travel and will
permit us to make a "retrospective city tour in the pursuit
of the Ottoman Bank branches".
The topics and lecturers of the 2003 mettings, held in
Turkish, are as follows:
21 May 2003 - Yildirim Buktel
A Retrospective City Tour in the Pursuit of the Ottoman Bank
Branches: Jerusalem, World of Conflicts
8 June 2003 - Gul Pulhan
A Retrospective City Tour in the Pursuit of the Ottoman Bank
Branches: Damascus
15 October 2003 – Faruk Pekin
Tahran
Urban landscapes and community scenary from Iran
and Tehran, a land of mystery after the 1979 Islamic Revolution... ‘The
other half of the world’, Isfahan, Chiraz, the heaven
of poetry, roses and nightingales, Kashan, Bam, city of ceramics
and carpets...
19 November 2003 – Turgay Tuna
Cairo
Cairo housing the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the seven
wonders of the ancient history, famous mosques of the Islamic
world constructed in arabesque style, multicoloured bazars
smelling incense and finally the sacred city where the Holy
Mary and the Infant Jesus, escaping from persecution hid...
17 December 2003 – Prof. Filiz Yenisehirlioglu
Yanya, Salonica, Kavala
How emerged the cities of the Western Thrace? Changes and
transformations...
Voyvoda Street Meetings about Istanbul
Themes on the urban sociology of Istanbul
22 October 2003 – Prof.
Alan Duben
Family Life in Istanbul
Family life in Istanbul in accordance with the rules of
good society...
24 December 2003 – Prof. Zafer Toprak
Efforts of tourism in Istanbul: Entertainment Culture
Ethnic transformations in Istanbul after the Crimean War
(1853-56)...
Voyvoda Street Meetings about Architecture
The Voyvoda Street Meetings of the Ottoman Bank Museum, will
now focus on a new field in order to comply with the interdisciplinary
dimensions of the documents displayed at the museum. The architectural
structure of "Galata and Pera 1900/2000" will be
discussed this year within the Voyvoda Street Architectural
Meetings.
The topics and lecturers of the 2003 meetings, which are
held in Turkish, are as follows:
 7 May
2003 - Prof. Afife Batur
The Art Nouveau
in Istanbul
4 June
2003 - Prof. Nur Akin
Galata and Pera
in Press Articles
2 July
2003 - Han Tumertekin
A Glance in Galata et Pera in the 2000's
8 October 2003 – Murat Tabanlioglu
Galataport
A new project reorganizing the forgotten and inaccessible
Salipazari shore of Pera...
12 November 2003 – Assoc. Prof. Murat Güvenç
Galata and Pera 1910: Analysis on Comercial and Social Topography
An analysis on the commercial and social topography of Istanbul in 1910 in
the light of 1904-1906 insurance plans.
10 December 2003 – Assoc. Prof. Cengiz Can
Alexandre Vallauri
Alexandre Vallauri, an architect of
Italian origin, born in Istanbul, who built the old head office
of the Ottoman
Bank in Karaköy, which houses today the Ottoman Bank
Museum.
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