The Decline and Fall of Empires: Habsburg and Ottoman

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Conference Program

Friday, November 9

10:00–11:15: Opening Keynote Lecture:

Herzl on the Acropolis: Greece and Israel as Post-Ottoman Projects
Katherine E. Fleming
Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization

11:30–1:30: War and the End of Empire

Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown University, The Ottoman Empire at War
Mark Cornwall, University of Southampton, Treason and Regime Crisis
Ke-Chin Hsia, Indiana University, Habsburg Military Service in Wartime
Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland, War and the Jews of the Habsburg Monarchy
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT, War and the Ottoman Armenians
Philipp Ther, University of Vienna, Habsburg & Ottoman Refugees in the Decade of War

2:30–3:45: Afternoon Keynote Lecture:

Remembering the Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy One Hundred Years On:
Three Master Interpretations
R. J. W. Evans
Regius Professor of History Emeritus, Oriel College, Oxford University

4:00–6:00: National Tensions and Coexistence at Empire’s End

Michele Campos, University of Florida, in Palestine
Ipek Yosmaoglu, Northwestern University, in Macedonia
Daniel Unowsky, University of Memphis, in Galicia
Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University Chicago, in Bosnia
Robert Nemes, Colgate University, in Hungary
Edhem Eldem, Bogaziçi University/Collège de France, in Istanbul

Saturday, November 10

10:00–12:15: Religious Tensions and Coexistence at Empire’s End

Bruce Berglund, Calvin College, A New Religion in Prague
Lale Can, City College of New York, Trans-imperial Hajj
Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer, NYU, Sunni-Shiite Encounter
Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University, Islam in Europe after the Ottomans and the Habsburgs
Paul Hanebrink, Rutgers University, Christian Hungary
Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota, Empire’s End and  Legacy of Catholic Reform

1:15–3:30: Aftershocks and Afterlives of Empire

Stephen Gross, NYU, Post-Habsburg Economic Dislocations
Asli Igsiz, NYU, Greek-Turkish Population Exchange
Dominique Reill, University of Miami, Post-Habsburg Crisis in Fiume
Andrea Orzoff, New Mexico State University, Creating Czechoslovakia
Leslie Peirce, NYU, From Privilege to Rights? Women and the End of Empire
Alison Frank Johnson, Harvard University, Assassination, Amnesty, and the End of the Austrian Death Penalty
Zachary Lockman, NYU, Ottoman Legacies in the Arab East

3:45–6:00: Comparative Ends of Empires

Molly Greene, Princeton University, Two Empires, Two Ends: Byzantines & Ottomans Compared
Michael Reynolds, Princeton University, Ottoman and Romanov
Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, Habsburg and Ottoman
Zvi Ben-Dor, NYU, Qing and Ottoman
Holly Case, Brown University, Consuls & the Demise of Habsburg and Ottoman Empires
Billie Melman, Tel Aviv University, Archaeology and the End of Empires
Larry Wolff, NYU, Woodrow Wilson, the Ottomans, and the Habsburgs

Sunday, November 11

10:00–12:00: Final Reflections; Armistice Pause

From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.