International Workshop

May 10-11, 2007

Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)

Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany

S-Bahn 1 or 7: Nikolassee

Programme:

Thursday, 10 May

9:45-10:15 Welcome, Registration

10:15-13:00

Introduction: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler

Nora Lafi (ZMO): Comparative Migration Studies in the Ottoman Urban
Panorama

Session 1: Regulation of Migrations by the State and the City

Discussant: Andreas Helmedach (Braunschweig)

Christoph Herzog (Orient Institute Istanbul): Migration and the State: on
Ottoman Regulations Concerning Migration since the Age of Mahmud II

Dilek Akyalçýn-Kaya (EHESS Paris/Istanbul): Immigration to the Ottoman
Lands: the Case of Salonica in the Late Nineteenth Century

13:00-14:30 Lunch at ZMO

14:30-16:30

Session 2: Migration, Urban Governance and the Role of Itinerant Labour in

Comparative Perspective

Discussant: Dana Sajdi (Fellow of EUME/ZMO)

Tetsuya Sahara (Meiji University Tokyo): The Ottoman City Council and the
Beginning of the Modernization of Urban Space in the Balkans

Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris I Sorbonne): Access to Urban Notability for
Migrants in Early Modern Marseilles

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-18:00

Irene Fatsea (University of Thessaly, Volos/Athens): Builders
and Craftsmen in the Founding Phase of Modern Athens: the Illuminating
Role of the Building Contract

Friday, 11 May

10:00-13:00

Session 3: The Stranger in the City: Unwanted Immigrants

Discussant: Zafer Yenal (Fellow of EUME/ZMO)

Florea Ioncioaia (University of Iaþi): Foreigners in Town: Urban
Immigration and Local Attitudes in the Romanian Principalities at the
Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1830-1859)

Florian Riedler (ZMO): Armenian Labour Migration to Istanbul and the
Migration Crisis of the 1890s

Malte Fuhrmann (ZMO): North-to-South Migration in the Imperial Era:
Workers and Vagabonds between Vienna and Constantinople

13:00-14:30 Lunch at ZMO

14:30-16:30

Session 4: Emigration: Transgression and Transcontinental Space

Discussant: Johann Büssow (FU Berlin)

Malek Sharif (Orient Institute Istanbul/Bonn): Emigration from Late
Ottoman Beirut

Andreas Pflitsch (ZfL): Literature and Migration: the Beginnings of Modern
Arabic Literature between Beirut, Poltova, New-York and Cairo

16:30-16:45: coffee break

16:45-18:00: Conclusion: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi,
Florian Riedler

Final Discussion



An event organized by the Migration and Urban Institutions Research Group
at ZMO (Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Florian Riedler, Nora Lafi)