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THE
RENAISSANCE AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD
Warburg
Institute and School of Oriental and African Studies, London,
26-27 April 2006
Organised by Claire Norton (St. Mary’s College, University
of Surrey), Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) and Anna Contadini
(SOAS), supported by St.
Mary’s College, the British
Academy, the British
Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, , the Gladys
Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Society
for Renaissance Studies, and the Samuel
H. Kress Foundation.
Click here to download
booking form - Click
here to download the programme leaflet (pdf, 383 k)
Registration fee: £50 for two days (concs. £30); £30 for one
day (concs. £20). (includes lunch, coffee and reception). Members of the
Society for Renaissance Studies can register at the concession rate.
Please note that the 26th is sold out, but registration
is still open for the 27th
This conference brings together an international group
of eminent scholars in order to present the latest research on the
cultural, intellectual, artistic and commercial interactions between
Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the Renaissance. It
has been timed to coincide with the National Gallery’s 2006
exhibition, Bellini and the East. For the first day, which will emphasise
interactions in the field of the humanities, the Warburg Institute
will be the host; on the second day, the conference will transfer
to the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies where artistic
relations will be considered. The individual papers will examine a
number of key aspects, including artistic, philosophical and scientific
exchanges; the reception and use of Ottoman artefacts in Europe; European
and Ottoman architecture; the extent of Western knowledge of Ottoman
music; and the experience of Christians in Islamic lands and Muslims
in Christendom.
Wednesday 26 April, Lecture Room, Warburg Institute
09.30-10.00 Registration
Session chaired by Charles Burnett
10.00-10.15 Introduction
10.15-11.05 Keynote Address:
Palmira Brummett
The Lepanto Paradigm Revisited:
Knowing the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century
11.15-11.35 tea/coffee
11.35-12.05 Anna Akasoy
Mehmed II as a Patron of Greek Philosophy and Science: Eastern
and Western Perspectives
12.20-12.50 Asaph Ben Tov
Turco-Graecia: German Humanists and the End of Greek Antiquity. Cultural
Exchange and Misunderstanding
13.05-14.15 lunch
Session chaired by Rhoads Murphey
14.15-14.45 Margaret Meserve
Bastards and Pretenders: Italian Humanists on the Legitimacy of Ottoman
Imperial Claims
15.00-15.30 Zweder von Martels
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's Thoughts About the Turks
15.30-16.00 tea/coffee
Session chaired by Brian Vickers
16.00-16.30 Noel Malcolm
Positive Views of Islam and of Ottoman Rule in the Sixteenth Century:
The Case of Jean Bodin
16.45-17.15 Sonja Brentjes
Giacomo Gastaldi's maps of Anatolia - the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman
cultural space?
19.30-21.00 Visit to the National Gallery
Thursday 27 April, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre,
School of Oriental and African Studies.
09.30-10.00 Registration
Session chaired by Evelyn Welch
10.00-10.15 Introduction
10.15-11.05 Keynote Address:
Gülru Necipoğlu
The Italian Connection:
Western Horizons of Mehmed II's Patronage of Art and Architecture
11.15-11.35 tea/coffee
11.35-12.05 Caroline Campbell
Venetian Ambassador in Damascus: Pietro Zen and Ottoman-Mamluk-Venetian
Relations
12.20-12.50 Michael Rogers
The Boston Scribe
13.05-14.15 lunch
Session chaired by Sylvia Aud
14.15-14.45 Anna Contadini
The Vogue for Ottoman Artefacts in Renaissance Italy
15.00-15.30 Suraiya Faroqhi
Exporting Ottoman Textiles to European Countries
15.45-16.15 Alison Ohta
The Link between Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance Book Bindings
16.30-17.00 tea/coffee
17.00-17.30 Owen Wright
The Problem of Music
17.45-18.15 Alan Chong
The Body East and West: Mehmed II’s Colored Italian Engravings
18.30-18.45 Concluding Remarks
18.45-20.15 reception at the Brunei Gallery (SOAS)
Registration fee: £50 for two days (concs. £30); £30
for one day (concs. £20). (includes lunch, coffee and reception).
A small number of bursaries are available to enable younger scholars,
and scholars coming from Eastern Europe,Turkey and the Middle East
to attend. The deadline for bursary applications is 1 March 2006.
For further information go to St
Mary’s
website (http://www.smuc.ac.uk/ottoman/),
or the SOAS website (http://www.soas.ac.uk/art/).
To register and for further details please consult Claire Norton (nortonc@smuc.ac.uk). Click here to download
booking form.
