Twenty-ninth Spring Symposium 2018
in association with the London Middle East Institute, SOAS (LMEI)
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Senate House
SOAS University of London
Saturday 10 March 2018
10am to 4.45pm
Symposium Programme
10.00 – 10.40 – Registration (in entrance hall of Paul Webley Wing) and Coffee/Tea (in Room S209)
10.50 – Opening remarks by President of BATAS
11.00 – Bill Park, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Defence Studies, King’s College London
“Turkey’s assorted Kurdish woes”
11.50 – Tim Stanley, Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
“Barbarossa’s Bath-house: Ottoman tiles and Persian poetry in the 1540s”
12.45 – Break for lunch
14.45 – Dr Gül Berna Özcan, Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Piety, business and politics: a quarter-century transformation in Turkey”
15.35 – Professor Daniela Berghahn, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Turkish-German cinema and the diasporic family experience”
16.45 – Closing remarks by President of BATAS
17.00 – BATAS Annual General Meeting to be held in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Room B104 (first floor).
Twenty-eighth Spring Symposium 2017
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Senate House
SOAS University of London
Saturday 6 May 2017
10am to 4.40pm
Symposium Programme
10.00 – 10.40 – Registration and Coffee/Tea
10.50 – Opening remarks (Professor William Hale, Acting President of BATAS)
11.00 – Uluç Gürkan, (Former Deputy Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe (PACE) and OSCE)
“Legal light on the ‘Malta Tribunals’ of 1919-1921: The British Government’s unsuccessful attempt to bring Turks to trial after WW1”
11.50 – Professor Scott Redford, (History of Art & Archaeology, SOAS, University of London)
“An A-Z of medieval Anatolian travel”
12.45 – Break for lunch (list of local eating places available at registration desk)
14.15 – Dr Ziya Meral, (Resident Fellow, British Army’s Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research)
“Turkey’s Security Dilemma: What drives Turkish security and defence policies? And why is the country facing more insecurity as their outcome?”
15.05 – Dr Rachel Harris, (Reader in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London)
“Text, performance, and the transnational circulation of the Hikmet poetry of 12th-century Sufi Ahmet Yesevi”
16.00 – 16.30 – Coffee/Tea
16.40 – BATAS Annual General Meeting
Twenty-seventh Spring Symposium 2016
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The Queen’s Building
Saturday 9 April 2016
10am to 4.30pm
Symposium Programme
10.00 – 10.40 – Registration and Coffee (The Queen’s Building)
10.50 – Opening remarks (Michael Lake, President of BATAS)
11.00 – Prof. Dr Sinan Bayraktaroğlu, (Hacettepe University, Ankara)
“The issue of Turkish versus English as languages of higher education
in Turkey”
11.50 – Edward Charlton-Jones, (Allen & Overy LLP)
“White Russian Refugees in Constantinople, 1918-23”
12.45 – 14.00 – Break for lunch (served in the Upper Hall)
14.10 – Dr İpek Demir, (University of Leicester)
“Kurdish and Turkish communities from Turkey: From ‘economic
immigrants’ to ‘political diasporas’?”
15.00 – Dr Eylem Atakav, (University of East Anglia)
“Growing up Married: Representing Child Brides in Film”
16.00 – 16.30 – Tea
16.40 – BATAS Annual General Meeting
Twenty-sixth Spring Symposium 2015
St Antony’s College, Oxford
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Saturday 25 April 2015
10.00am to 4.40pm
Symposium Programme
10.00 – 10.30 – Coffee, registration (in the Hilda Besse Building)
10.50 – Opening remarks (Michael Lake, President of BATAS)
11.00 – Dr Zeynep Kezer, University of Newcastle
“State penetration in eastern Turkey: Landscape, memory and identity in the early Republican years”
11.50 – Dr Pheroze Unwalla, York University, Toronto
“From battlefield to ‘theme park’: Centenary reflections on the transformation of Gallipoli”
12.45 – 14.00 – Break for lunch
14.10 – Professor Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck, University of London
“Turkey, alcohol and Islam”
15.00 – Antony Wynn, Freelance historian; author of Three Camels to Smyrna)
“Carpets in peace and war: The Oriental Carpet Manufacturers of Smyrna from 1908 to the early Republic”
16.00 – 16.30 – Tea
16.40 – Annual General Meeting
Twenty-fifth Spring Symposium 2014
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The Upper Hall
Saturday 26 April 2014
10.00am to 4.30pm
Symposium Programme
10.00 – 10.30 – Coffee, registration (in the Upper Hall)
10.40 – Opening remarks (Celia Kerslake, Chairperson of BATAS)
10.50 – Dr Michael Axworthy, University of Exeter
“Tribes, Turks and Persians in the time of Nader Shah, 1698-1747”
11.45 – Dr Kerem Öktem, St Antony’s College, Oxford
“The contested territory of political Islam in Turkey: From coalition to fratricide”
12.45 – 14.10 – Break for lunch
14.15 – Professor George Hewitt, SOAS
“Caucasians in Turkey: Their distribution and languages”
15.10 – Dr Michael Ellison, University of Bristol
“Say I am You – Mevlana: A love story”
16.00-16.30 – Tea
16.40 – Annual General Meeting
Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium
Saturday 27 April 2013
St Antony’s College,
Oxford Nissan Lecture Theatre,
St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road,
Oxford, OX2 6JF
TASG Twenty-third Spring Symposium
Saturday 5 May 2012
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The Queen’s Building
Programme
10.00 – 10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.45 – 11.35 Fadi Hakura (Associate Fellow, Chatham House)
Turkey’s role in international relations: The Middle East and beyond
11.40 – 12.30 Dr Ece Göztepe Çelebi (Faculty of Law, Bilkent University)
The constitution–making process in Turkey: Between law and politics
12.40 – 14.20 Lunch
14.25 – 15.15 Shahina Farid (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
“A Turkish Delight” – Life in an Anatolian city 9000 years ago:
the excavations at Çatalhöyük
15.20 – 16.10 Dr Caroline Tee (Bristol University)
On the path of Pir Sultan? Engagement with authority in the modern Alevi movement
16.15 Tea
16.30 Annual General Meeting
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Earlier Symposia, 1990-2011
| TASG First Symposium at St. Antony’s College , Oxford, 12 May 1990 | |
| Speakers | |
| Professor Geoffrey Lewis | Miscellanea Turcica |
| Metin Kunt | Studying Ottomans and Turks |
| Sir Mark Russell | Eastern Europe and Turkey’s aspirations |
| John Norton | Path to paradise: Turkish Sufi movements |
| Jennifer Scarce | The domestic hearth: A look at Turkish rugs |
| TASG Second Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge. 4 May 1991 | |
| Speakers | |
| Professor Michael Rogers | Iznik blue and white |
| Professor Polymnia Athanassiadi | |
| İsmail Emre | A Dervish without an order |
| Professor Gül Durmuşoğlu | Turkish female talk |
| Dr D Barchard | Turkey in the British press |
| Sir Horace Phillips | Teaching at a Turkish university |
| TASG Third Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 9 May 1992 | |
| Speakers | |
| Dr William Hale | Turkish politics after the elections |
| Peter Liddle | In search of Gallipoli |
| Dr Ayse Kırtunç | Ottoman costumes |
| Dr Arın Bayraktaroğlu | Telling of troubles in Turkish |
| Rosalie Lamburn | Improvisation in Turkish music |
| TASG Fourth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 8 May 1993 | |
| Speakers | |
| Dr John Baldwin | Some aspects of the interaction of Turks and Slavs in the Balkans |
| Prof Chris Hann | |
| Dr Ildiko Beller-Hann | Markets and morality in the east Black Sea border country |
| Dr Uygur Kocabaşoğlu | The 19th Century British consular establishment in the Ottoman Empire |
| Professor Cem Behar | Traditional Turkish music: Sound and sense |
| TASG Fifth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall , Cambridge, 14 May 1994 | |
| Speakers | |
| Lady Rosamond Hanworth | The Heritage of North Cyprus |
| Behrooz Morvaridi | Social structure in North Cyprus |
| Oktay Ekşi | Recent developments in the Turkish media |
| Emre Aracı | The traditions and influences of Turkish janissary music |
| TASG Sixth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 13 May 1995 | |
| Speakers | |
| Professor Malcolm Wagstaff | Mountain life in south-west Turkey |
| Tim Stanley | The Library of Umur Bey in Bursa |
| Professor Paul Sterling | Turkish Village: Forty years of revolutions |
| Professor David Kushner | Questions of identity in contemporary Turkey |
| TASG Seventh Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 11 May 1996 | |
| Speakers | |
| Dr Andrew Mango | Perceptions of Turkey |
| Professor Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu | Trends and styles in modern Turkish painting |
| Dr Butrus Abu-Manneh | Rethinking the early Ottoman reforms |
| Dr Hugh Poulton | The top hat, the Grey Wolf and the Crescent: nationalism in the Turkish Republic |
| TASG Eighth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 10 May 1997 | |
| Speakers | |
| Rev Robin Denniston | The Second World War: Eavesdropping on Turkey |
| Dr Philip Mansel | Ambassadors and artists in Istanbul |
| Dr F.A.K. Yasamee | Ottoman diplomacy |
| Dr Sinan Bayraktaroğlu | Foreign language education, sociocultural change and modernisation: The Turkish case |
| TASG Ninth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge 2 May 1998 | |
| Speakers | |
| Rev John Kemp | Icongraphy in Byzantium during the Palaiologan period (1258-1453) |
| Peter Coggins | The Turkish diaspora in Britain |
| Eva Ostergaard –Nielsen | With the feet in Germany and the head in Turkey: |
| Political mobilisation of the diasporas from Turkey in Germany | |
| Professor Osman Okyar | Politics in Ataturk’s modernisation |
| TASG Tenth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 8 May 1999 | |
| Speakers | |
| Dr Colin Imber | The Ottoman Empire: A lost world? |
| Dr George Dedes | Mehmet the Conqueror and the Church of `Ayasofya` |
| Mark Hutchings | Turks in Shakespeare and his contemporaries |
| John Drake | The Sultan’s garden at Aynalı Kavak Kasrı |
| TASG Eleventh Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 6 May 2000 | |
| Speakers | |
| Charles Newton | The Ottomans observed: Pictures of Ottoman Turkey in the Searight Collection at the V&A |
| Dr David Morray | The dragoboys of Ortakoy: the Levant Consular Service 1877-1914 |
| Mithat Rende | The Turkish straits: A challenging future? |
| Dr William Hale | Turkey’s politics: Before and after the Earthquake |
| TASG Twelfth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 12 May 2001 | |
| Speakers | |
| Professor Belma Ötüş Baskett | Keeping step with Atatürk: The precarious career of Hakkı Behiç |
| Dr Tunç Aybak | The Black Sea world, emergent or imagined |
| David Barchard | The end of Ottoman Crete |
| Osman Streater | The ‘Turkish Ambassador’ who became Pope: |
| The wartime friendship between the future Pope John XXIII and Numan Menemencioglu | |
| TASG Thirteenth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 11 May 2002 | |
| Speakers | |
| Professor Richard Clogg | Greeks bearing gifts: Arnold Toynbee and the Koraes Chair |
| Dr Arın Bayraktaroğlu in collaboration with Dr Maria Sifianou (in absentia) | An introduction to linguistic politeness across boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish |
| Michael Stephen | Some legal issues affecting Turkish-Greek relations |
| Professor Clement Dodd | The Cyprus negotiations : Reconciling the irreconcilable |
| TASG Fourteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 10 May 2003 | |
| Speakers | |
| Joyce Reynolds | Hunting for inscriptions at Aphrodisias |
| Dr Renee Hirschon | The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange in retrospect |
| Dr Catherine Alexander | Images of the ‘state’ in contemporary Turkey |
| Dr Nuri Yurdasev | How European is Turkey ? |
| TASG Fifteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,24 April 2004 | |
| Speakers | |
| Osman Streater | Can Turkey join the EU while the Greek Orthodox Seminary on Heybeli Island remains closed ? |
| Dr Vally Lytra | Greek and Turkish contact: A sociolinguistic account of two languages and cultures in an Athens primary school |
| Dimitris Antoniou | Western Thracian Muslims in the Greek capital: From migration to religious organisation |
| John Muir | The construction of a dam in Turkey: An engineer’s reflections on his experiences |
| TASG Sixteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 April 2005 | |
| Speakers | |
| John Martin | Turco-British encounters 1920: A view from the Royal Navy |
| Dr Halim Kara | Self and nation in the autobiographical writings of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889-1974) |
| David Barchard | A concise history of turcophobia in the 19th and 20th centuries |
| Dr Aslı Niyazioğlu | Imperial visions: Mehmed II and his Topkapı Palace |
| TASG Seventeenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 22 April 2006 | |
| Speakers | |
| John Martin | Espionage in Ankara: Operation Cicero |
| Professor Clement Dodd | Cyprus: Turkey’s nemesis? |
| Dan van der Wat | SMS Goeben: The ship that changed the world |
| Andrew Finkel | The anatomy of an ‘asparagas’ – or why Turkish newspapers sometimes lie |
| TASG Eighteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 21 April 2007 | |
| Speakers | |
| Osman Ertekün | THE GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS: FACT OR FICTION? |
| Maureen Freely | ORHAN’S İSTANBUL: A TRANSLATOR’S REFLECTIONS |
| Nanor Kenderian | REPRESENTING THE TURK IN ARMENIAN LITERATURE: HAGOP OSHAGAN (1883 – 1948) |
| Dr Kerem Öktem | THE KURDS: ‘TRAPPED MINORITY’ OR ‘AGENTS OF CHANGE’ IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY? |
| TASG Nineteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 19 April 2008 | |
| Speakers | |
| Prof Gerald MacLean | Courting the Porte: Early Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy |
| Ateş Orga | Irfan Orga’s “Portrait of a Turkish Family”: |
| Genesis of a literary masterpiece | |
| Prof Salahi Sonyel | British policy during the Cyprus crisis, 1974-1975 |
| Prof Clement Dodd | The Orient Express |
| TASG Twentieth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 18 April 2009 | |
| Speakers | |
| John Martin | Franz von Löher: A German Foray into Ottoman Cyprus 1875 |
| Prof Richard Sakwa | Russia and Turkey: Parallel Destinies |
| Dr Brian Beeley | Postal Rivalries in the Late Ottoman Empire |
| Stephen Parkin | An Italian in Istanbul: Edmondo De Amici’s ‘Constantinople’ |
| TASG Twenty-first Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 17 April 2010 | |
| Speakers | |
| Laurent Mignon | Forbidden Love: Vartan Paşa and Zafer Hanım |
| Dan van der Vat | Winston Churchill’s Greatest Failure:The Dardanelles Disaster in 1915 |
| Ruth Christie | Reading from her translated Turkish poetry |
| Gareth Winrow | Turkey’s role as an energy transit state |
| John MacGinnis | The Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project: |
| Excavating a Provincial Capital of the Assyrian Empire | |
| TASG Twenty-second Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 7 May 2011 | |
| Speakers | |
| Metin Heper | Some Thoughts on Currently Conflictual Issues in Turkey |
| William Park | The Origins, Nature and Prospects of Turkish Foreign Policy |
| under Ahmet Davutoğlu | |
| Deniz Duru | Coexistence in Burgaz, Princes Islands of Istanbul: Living |
| and Negotiating with Ethnic, Class and Religious Differences | |
| Figen Phelps | Dame Ninette Valois and Turkish Ballet |
| Özlem Güçlü | New Cinema of Turkey: What is ‘new’? Why is it not ‘Turkish’? |
