CfP: The Making of Law in the Ottoman Space, 1800-1914. Paris, 26-29 May 2015 Participants will be notified of the Steering Committee’s decision in early March. The Steering Committee is composed of the following members: Nathalie Clayer (Centre d’Etudes Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, EHESS, Paris), Benjamin Fortna (SOAS, University of London), Bernard Heyberger (Centre d’Etudes Interdisciplinaires des Faits Religieux, EHESS, Paris), Huricihan İslamoğlu (Bosphorus University, Istanbul), Dina Khoury (Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University), Laurent Mignon (Oriental Institute, Oxford University), Avi Rubin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Kent Schull (Binghamton University, SUNY, New York), Michel Tissier (University Rennes 2-Centre de Recherches historiques de lOuest/Collegium of Lyon). We intend to publish selected papers from the workshop as a themed-hard copy collective volume. Consequently, if an abstract is accepted for the workshop, a full draft paper should be submitted by May 15th, 2015. Limited help with travel funding is available on application to postgraduate students and early career researchers, who will submit a paper. If you would like to be considered for funding, please inform us when you submit your abstract. The workshop is a part of the project entitled “Trans-acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (post-)Ottoman Globalization”, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-12-GLOB-003) and supervised by Marc Aymes (CNRS, CETOBAC, Paris). To know more about the project, see cetobac.ehess.fr/index.php?1257.
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