Konferenz: The Power of Connections. Interpersonal Networks and Agency in the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Europe (Die Macht der Verbindungen. Interpersonelle Netzwerke und Agency im Osmanischen Reich und im osmanischen Europa), Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Das osmanische Europa", Tübingen, 27.–28. September 2017.
Whether on a local, a regional, an imperial, or a global level, interpersonal networks provide the crucial social infrastructure for human activity across the board, from ostensibly lonely academic studies to dinner parties, from travel to conquest. Like the physical infrastructure provided by roads and ports, the postal system and telegraph lines, water pipes and electric wires, this social infrastructure enables, shapes, and sustains certain forms of human behaviour. Like physical infrastructure, the existence of social infrastructure was the result of conscious efforts as much as serendipity. Moreover, in their very nature, interpersonal networks were dynamic, changing over time as individual members reoriented themselves or passed away and as the social, political, economic, and legal frameworks transformed. Such shifts in turn affected the formation of webs of contact as well as the respective patterns of, and options for, action.
The 2017 Annual Conference of the Working Group "Ottoman Europe" brings together scholars working on the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Europe from the fourteenth to the twentieth century to reflect on the ways in which interpersonal networks enabled, constrained, and shaped the actions of individual as well as group actors and how the creation and maintenance of such networks itself became the object of agency. The papers cover a wide variety of themes, including, but not limited to, Ottoman political, cultural, and social history, diplomacy and 'international' relations, violence, economic history and commerce, as well as the history of literary production, scholarship, and theology. Contributors will examine individual actors, social groups, as well as associations and institutions such as families, guilds, and state agencies.
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Veranstalter:
Mit finanzieller Unterstützung des DFG Schwerpunktprogramms "Transottomanica: Osteuropäisch–osmanisch–persische Mobilitätsdynamiken"
Organisiert von Ayşegül Argıt (Heidelberg), Prof. Dr. Lejla Demiri (Tübingen) und Dr. Tobias Graf (Tübingen/Heidelberg) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arbeitskreis "Das osmanische Europa".
