Honor in Ottoman and Contemporary Mediterranean Societies: Controversies, Continuities and New Directions
March 21-23, 2013 at Central European University in Budapest
Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Central European University), Shame, honour and taboo - Eros and etiquette in nineteenth century Arab writings
Dionigi Albera (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Honor in Mediterranean Anthropology
Ceren Belge (Concordia University) The Rules of Difference: Honor and National Identity in the Courts of Turkey and Israel
Isa Blumi (University of Leipzig), An Honorable Break from the Besa: Reorientating Violence in the Late Ottoman Mediterranean
Jean-Louis Briquet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), «A matter of man to man». Moral obligations, political loyalty and clientelism in Corsica
Berna Ekal (EHESS, Paris), The Notion of Honor and Institutions: The Case of Public Women’s Shelters in Turkey
Tolga Esmer (Central European University), How to Read Acts and Words of Honor in Late-Ottoman Accounts of Banditry
Anastasia Falierou (University of Athens), The Female Body as "Social Disorder": Morality and Honor in Ottoman Muslims Womens' Public Appearance
Orit Kamir (Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem), Honor and Dignity as Political and Legal Values in Israeli Society
Noémi Lévy-Aksu (Boğaziçi University), Building Professional and Political Communities: The Value of Honor in The Self-Representations of the Police during the Second Constitutional Period
Leslie Peirce (New York University), Honor as a Social Contract
Will Smiley (Harvard University), Freeing "The Enslaved People of Islam". Treaty Law, Religious Rhetoric and Inter-Imperial Honor in Russo-Ottoman Relations, 1739-1815
Başak Tuğ (Bilgi University), Protecting Honor in the Name of Justice
