1922 : In the Wake of the Death of an Empire

Turkish, Greek, Russian and Jewish boys in the streets of Istanbul, 1921 / Library of congress

Vendredi 24 juin 2022, 9 h – 18 h 30

Junior scholar and graduate conference

Salle du Musée des moulages, École française d’Athènes
Didotou 6, Athènes (Grèce)

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9.00 – 9.15 | Opening session
Gilles de Rapper (École française d’Athènes)
Welcome
Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS, IHMC) & Alexis Rappas (Koç University)
Introduction

09.15 - 11.15 Session 1 - Managing Minorities : State, Church, and Public Opinion

Chair : Alexis Rappas (Koç University)

Discussants : Hervé Georgelin (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) & Dimitris Kamouzis (Center for Asia Minor Studies)

Lukas Tsiptsios (University of Normandy & McGill University)
Minority Politics of Greek Administrations in Occupied Territories : the Cases of Trabzon (1916-18) and Smyrna (1919-22)

Arman Khachatryan (Ben Gurion University)
The Armenian Lay Communities and the Patriarchate in Changing Jerusalem : From Disruption to Unity

Yanis Bonos (Panteion University)
The Introduction of the Press as a Tool of Government to the non-exchangeable Inhabitants of Western Thrace, 1924-26

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00 Session 2 - Education policies

Chair : Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS, IHMC)

Discussants : Merih Erol (Özyeğin University) & Efi Gazi (University of Peloponnese)

Klara Volaric (Loughborough University)
Yugoslav State and Muslim Minorities in South Serbia : Educational Affairs

Fares Damien (SNF-University of Basel)
Jabal ‘Amel, a hybrid Mediterranean space. Between entrenchment and trans-regionality at the dawn of Greater Lebanon

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break

14.30 - 16.30 Session 3 - Business and Labor

Chair : Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS, IHMC)

Discussants : Efi Kanner (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) & Eleni Kyramargiou (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

Mehmet Doğar (University of Cambridge)
The Business Activities of the Italian Levantines and Residents in the Early Turkish Republic

Christos Mais (University of Thessaly)
From Majority to Minority and Vice Versa. Jews and Pontus and Asia Minor Refugees at the Port of Thessaloniki

Semih Gökatalay (University of California Saint Davis)
Religious Minorities and Business Associations in Interwar Greece and Turkey

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 - 18.30 Session 4 - Religious and Charity Networks

Chair : Alexis Rappas (Koç University)

Discussants : Lambros Baltsiotis (Panteion University) & Haris Rigas Theodorelis (Koç University)

Lediona Shahollari (University of Michigan)
Funding a New Albanian Church ? The Albanian Orthodox Community of Istanbul and the 1923 Population Exchange
Gabriel Doyle (Sciences-Po, Paris)
Preoccupied Istanbul : Charitable Networks after the First World War