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

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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