Visions of Empire
Krishan Kumar Visions of Empire How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today’s increasingly interconnected world The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on...
CfP: für die Fachtagung Geschichte “Imperial Cities”, 26. bis 27. April 2018 in Moskau
Deadline november 17TH 2017 Urban history research has recently experienced increasing interest in “imperial” questions. One expression that is used over and over again is the “imperial city”. While this term has so far primarily been applied to the European metropolises of the western colonial empires, this conference aims to analyze the phenome non of the imperial city in the context of the continental empires of Eastern...
Muslim Land, Christian Labor
Anna M. Mirkova Muslim Land, Christian Labor Transforming Ottoman Imperial Subjects into Bulgarian National Citizens, 1878-1939 Focusing upon a region in Southern Bulgaria, a region that has been the crossroads between Europe and Asia for many centuries, this book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states. This is a region marked by shifting borders, competing Turkish and...
CfP: The Production of Imperial Space. Empire and Circulations
The Production of Imperial Space. Empire and Circulations (18th -20th centuries) CIERA Workshop Centre For History of Sciences Po, Paris 23-24 November 2017 Deadline: June, the 1st 2017 Empires are often presented as State structures with specific relations to space, as they tend to expand through progressive accretion of territory. Imperial spaces are supposed to be strongly hierarchical, divided between centres and peripheries, with...
Building Confessional Identities in the Ottoman Empire
Giornata di studi: Building Confessional Identities in the Ottoman Empire 06 febbraio 2017, École française de Rome La collaborazione in età moderna tra autorità politiche e gerarchie ecclesiastiche nell’imposizione di un’uniformità religiosa e nella creazione di marcatori identitari esclusivi è stata tradizionalmente studiata all’interno del quadro interpretativo della “confessionalizzazione” – un concetto nato per il caso...
CfP: Ambivalent Legacies
Ambivalent Legacies: Memory and Amnesia in Post-Habsburg and Post-Ottoman Cities Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity 26-28 April 2017 Deadline : 1 December 2016 The empires that once defined the political geography of Europe are no more. One cannot meet a Prussian, Romanov, Habsburg, or Ottoman today; these dusty categories of affiliation have ceded to myriad national identities. Yet it would be...