In Search of the Phanariot Abode: Aspects of Domestic Culture, Residential Architecture, and Court Life 2: Phanariot Ascendency, the Long Eighteenth century


Erkal N. G.

  • Etkinlik Kategorisi: Çalıştay Organizasyonu
  • Etkinlik Türü: Çalıştay
  • Etkinlik Organizasyonu Yılı: 2023
  • Katılımcı Sayısı: 50
  • Özet:

    About the workshop 2:

    The second workshop in the series aims to focus on the Age of Phanar in the “long” eighteenth century, and the Phanariots’ ascendency from a Mediterranean mercantile elite, to the offices of kapukethüda, dragoman of the fleet, imperial dragoman, and finally hospodars of Wallachia and Moldavia. 


    Hospodar families served as the tip of a trans-regional network of not only trade but also knowledge, influence, and power. Major sources of their power were their proximity to the Ottoman sultan, and their increasingly pivotal role in Ottoman governance, tax farming, as well as the internal working of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate. This period witnesses the parallel rise of two loci of power: the habitat of a Christian elite in Istanbul and the vassal Moldowallachian principalities with its distinct court institutions.   


    Format of the workshops:

    Speakers will offer 8-minute thought-provoking, open-ended presentations on their take on any of the themes listed in the overview document, in relation to the material and cultural history of the Phanariots, in accordance with their own intellectual focus. These presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion.

    Program:
    18:00–21:00 (EEST/UTC+3) - East Europe & East Mediterranean
    11:00–14:00 (EST/UTC-4) - USA East Coast

    08:00–11:00 (PST/UTC-7) - USA West Coast

    18:00–18:10

    Introductions

    18:10–18:50

    Elif Bayraktar-Tellan, Istanbul Medeniyet University

    The Lures and Pitfalls of Studying the Estate Inventories of Phanariots

    Mara Verykokou, Benaki Museum 

    Jewelry, Silverware, Textiles, Paintings and Icons at the Benaki Museum, Seventeenth – Eighteenth centuries

    Cristina Cojocaru, “G. Oprescu” Institute of Art History & National University of Arts 

    Is There a Phanariot Art in the Romanian Principalities?

    Alper Metin, University of Bologna

    Members of à la Mode Circles or Taste Arbitrators? Phanariot Architectural Patronage and The so-called Ottoman Baroque in Istanbul

    18:50–19:30

    Discussion, questions, and answers
    Discussants: 

    Shirine Hamadeh, Koç University

    Christine Philliou, University of California, Berkeley

    Constanţa Vintilă, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy

    Anna Ballian, Benaki Museum

    19:30–19:40

    Break

    19:40–20:20

    Miltos Pechlivanos, Freie Universität Berlin & Centrum Modernes Griechenland

    Books and Readings in the Phanariot Abode

    Ertan Ünlü, Ankara University

    A Phanariot Family in the Eighteenth-century Ottoman World: the Skanavis from Chios

    Savvas Tsilenis, National Hellenic Research Foundation (retired) 

    Views of the Phanariots on Constantinople and the Neighborhoods of the Fener Balat in the Eighteenth Century

    Esra Ansel, Bilkent University

    Limitations and Potentiality of the Ottoman Sources on Phanariot Residences and Neighborhoods During the Long Eighteenth Century:A Discussion of Recent Secondary Literature Based on Ottoman Archival Material

    20:20–21:00

    Discussion, questions, and answers
    Discussants: 

    Shirine Hamadeh, Koç University

    Christine Philliou, University of California, Berkeley

    Constanţa Vintilă, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy

    Anna Ballian, Benaki Museum