Program

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Monday, October 2 

9:00 – 10:00 Breakfast at Torch Club, Building D2, NYUAD Campus

10:00 – 10:30 Welcoming Remarks & Introduction

Peter Kitlas, Humanities Research Fellow, NYUAD

  Süphan Kırmızıaltın, History, NYUAD

  Nathalie Peutz, Arab Crossroad Studies, NYUAD

10:30 – 12:30 PANEL I: Materiality and Diplomacy

Moderator: Maurice Pomerantz, NYUAD, Arab Crossroad Studies

1. Recounting Diplomatic Contacts in the Premodern Islamicate World: The Mamluk Case

Malika Dekkiche, History, University of Antwerp

2. The Sultan of Paper: Recovering a Mamluk Diplomatic Letter to the Sultan of Mali (1440)

Rémi Dewière, History, Northumbria University

3. Representing the Liminal: Faces and Places between Istanbul and Tehran in the Early Nineteenth Century

Özlem Yıldız, Art History, Temple University

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch at Torch Club

14:00 – 16:00 PANEL II: Concepts and Diplomacy

Moderator: Laure Assaf, NYUAD, Arab Crossroad Studies

1. Decolonial Ventures in Early Modern History: Al-Ghassānī’s Khaldunian Reading of Spanish Modernity and the Burgeoning of Islamicate Diplomatic Ethics

Achraf Idrissi, English and American Studies, University of Debrecen

2. Conceptual Diplomacy: A look at “European” Diplomacy from Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century

Yusuf Ziya Karabıcak, History, Mainz University

3. Translation in Cross-Confessional Diplomacy and its Archival Transmission: Florence and Cairo

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, Global Liberal Studies and Italian, NYU

4. Local Diplomacy, Global Scale: The Ottoman Consular Network

Michael Talbot, History, University of Greenwich

19:30 – 21:00 Dinner at Torch Club

Tuesday, October 3 

9:00 – 10:00 Breakfast at Torch Club

10:00 – 12:00 PANEL III: Culture and Diplomacy

Moderator: Justin Sterns, NYUAD, Arab Crossroad Studies

1. Between the Center and the Periphery: Ottoman Firmans in the Diplomatic History of Tunisia

Ahlem Ellafi, Beit Bennani, Tunisia

1. Navigating Mediterranean Diplomacy: Forging Peace Between the Ottoman Empire and Spain in the Eighteenth Century

Ayşe Çiçek Ünal, History, Yale University

2. Two Moroccan Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe: Cross-cultural Encounters and Cultural Diplomacy

Khalid Bekkaoui, English, Sidi Muhammed Ben Abdallah University

Salaheddine Bekkaoui, English, Sidi Muhammed Ben Abdallah University

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch at Torch Club

14:00 – 15:30 PANEL IV: Practicing Diplomacy

Moderator: Monica Marks, Arab Crossroad Studies, NYUAD

1. The Issue of Border Crossing and Migration in the Ottoman-Safavid Rivalry and its Diplomacy

Ayşe Baltacıoǧlu-Brammer, History, NYU

2. The Moriscos as Diplomats in the Turbulent Modern Mediterranean 

Houssem Eddine Chachia, History, University of Tunis

3. When a Captive Meets an Empress: Warfare and Diplomacy in the Ottoman Russian Sphere during the 1770s

Gül Şen, History, University of Bonn

15:30 – 16:00 Closing Remarks and Discussion

Peter Kitlas, Humanities Research Fellow, NYUAD

  Süphan Kırmızıaltın, History, NYUAD

16:30 – 21:00 Tour and Dinner at the Anwar Gargash Diplomacy Academy