Program Draft

February 29, 2008

Location: DeCafe, Perloff Hall, UCLA

10:00

Coffee

10:30-45

Opening remarks Susan Slyomovics

10:45-55

Introduction Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro

10:55-11:20

Edhem Eldem, Bosphorous University, Istanbul
Ottoman Archaeology in the Late Nineteenth Century: the Local Dimension

11:20-11:45

Wendy Kural Shaw, Bahçesehir University, Istanbul
Discourses on Ancient Archaeological Sites and Antiquities in the Late Ottoman Empire

11:45-12:10

Zeynep Çelik, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Historic Heritage and the Image of the Empire: the Official Perspective

12:00-12:45

Moderator: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Moderated discussion

1-2:30

Lunch

2:30-2:35

Introduction by moderator

2:35-3:00

Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Baskent University, Ankara
The Entries of the Imperial Archeological Museum in Istanbul

3:00-3:25

Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, Ankara, Turkey
Excavation of Raqqa by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the early 20th century

3:25-4:30

Moderator: Katherine S. Burke
Moderated discussion

4:45-6:30

Reception

March 1, 2008

Location: DeCafe, Perloff Hall, UCLA

9-9:25

Coffee

9:25-9:20

Introduction by moderator

9:30-9:55

Emel Erten, Gazi University, Ankara
Ottoman Perceptions of Western Archaeology

9:55-10:20

Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles
Looking for “a happier race of archaeologists:” Western Characterizations of Ottoman Archaeology

10:20-10:45

Fikret Yegül, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Our Complicity in this Classical Looting": Contesting the Past at Sardis, 1922-1925

10:45-11:45

Respondent: James Goode
Moderated discussion

Conference is free and open to the public