Scholarly Presentations (Conference Papers & Invited Talks)

“A Well-protected Domain of the Sultan or the Tsar’s Patrimony?: Diplomacy and Imperial Rivalry over the North Caucasus between the Ottoman Empire and Muscovy.” Presented at the 44^th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 15-18, 2012, New Orleans, LA.

“Merriments in the North Caucasus: An Ottoman Elite (but Far from Stuffy) Perspective on the Circassians.” Presented at Seminars in Ottoman & Turkish Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto, October 26, 2012, Toronto, ON.

“Textbook Recommendations and Critiques—What Works in the Classroom and What does not?” Presented at the 9^th Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, University of Toronto, May 18-20, 2012, Toronto, ON.

“The Astrakhan Campaign of 1569: An Ottoman Military Fiasco Re-visited.” Presented at the 43^rd Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 17-20, 2011, Washington, DC.

“The Clash of Ottoman and Muscovite Imperial Policies in the Sixteenth-Century North Caucasus: Master vs. Slave or Brother vs. Brother?” Presented at the 8^th Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop, University of Cincinnati, April 29-May 1, 2011, Cincinnati, OH.

“The Ottomans in the North: A Frontier Far from the Lands of Islam.” Presented at the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Students Conference, University of Toronto, March 2-3, 2011, Toronto, ON.

“Religious Synthesis through Trade: Islamization of the Circassians in the 17^th-century North Caucasus.” Presented at the 48^th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 22-25, 2014, Washington, DC. “Quantitative Study of Ottoman Wealth Accumulation: Three Grand Viziers.” Presented at the 45^th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 21-25, 2013, Boston, MA.

“Internationalization of the North Caucasus as a Borderland: Islamization versus Christianization and the Sultan versus the Tsar.” Presented at the 46^th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 17-20, 2012, Denver, CO.

“Socio-economic Impact of Ottoman Slave Elites in 17^th-century Istanbul and Anatolia.” Presented at the 47^th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 19-22, 2015, Philadelphia, PA.

Piri Reis' map of Central & South American coasts, 1513