Honor in Ottoman and Contemporary Mediterranean Societies:
Controversies, Continuities and New Directions
March 21-23, 2013 at Central European University in Budapest
Workshop Program
Thursday, 21 March (Nádor 13, Room 001)
18:30-19:00 Registration
19:00-19:30 Welcoming remarks
19:30-20:30 Reception
Friday, 22 March (Nádor 9, Gellner Room)
9:30-13:00 Panel I: Discursive, Textual Representation
Moderator: Tijana Krstić (CEU, Department of Medieval Studies)
9:30 Tolga Esmer (Central European University)
How to Read Acts and Words of Honor in Late-Ottoman Accounts of Banditry
10:00 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
10:30 Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Central European University)
Shame, honour and taboo - Eros and etiquette in nineteenth century Arab writings
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30 Jean-Louis Briquet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
«A matter of man to man». Moral obligations, political loyalty and clientelism in Corsica
12:00 Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-19:30 Panel II: Honor, Subjection and Subjectivity
Moderator: Elissa Helms (CEU, Department of Gender Studies)
14:30 Dionigi Albera (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Honor in Mediterranean Anthropology
15:00 Anastasia Falierou (University of Athens)
The Female Body as "Social Disorder": Morality and Honor in Ottoman Muslims Womens' Public Appearance
15:30 Berna Ekal (EHESS, Paris)
The Notion of Honor and Institutions: The Case of Public Women’s Shelters in Turkey
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30 Discussion
Saturday, 23 March (Nádor 9, Gellner Room)
9:30-12:30 Panel III: State, Community and Honor
Moderator: Elise Massicard (CNRS)
9:30 Isa Blumi (University of Leipzig)
An Honorable Break from the Besa: Reorientating Violence in the Late Ottoman Mediterranean
10:00 Ceren Belge (Concordia University)
The Rules of Difference: Honor and National Identity in the Courts of Turkey and Israel
10:30 Orit Kamir (Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem)
Honor and Dignity as Political and Legal Values in Israeli Society
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30 Discussion
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-18:30 Panel IV: Politics of Honor
Moderator: Christine Philliou (Columbia University)
14:30 Leslie Peirce (New York University)
Honor as a Social Contract
15:00 Başak Tuğ (Bilgi University)
Protecting Honor in the Name of Justice
15:30 Will Smiley (Harvard University)
Freeing "The Enslaved People of Islam". Treaty Law, Religious Rhetoric and Inter-Imperial Honor in Russo-Ottoman Relations, 1739-1815
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30 Discussion
17:30 Concluding Remarks by Nukhet Sirman; General Discussion