FRIDAY, MARCH 19
@ Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum


SESSION I: ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND MISSIONARIES
10:00 -12:00

1. Susan Heuck Allen (Smith College)
"Problematic Protégés and Projects: Charles Eliot Norton’s Archaeological Diplomacy and the AIA’s Acquisition of Symbolic Capital"

2. Bonna Wescoat (Emory University)
"‘The Most Perfect Idea of a Greek City that Anywhere Exists’:
Assos in the Nineteenth Century"

3. Heather Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania)
"American Missionaries in the Ottoman Lands: Foundational Encounters"

4. Brian Johnson (Independent Scholar)
"A Traveler’s View of American Missionaries in Anatolia"

LUNCH

SESSION II: PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
1:30-3:30

1. Nancy Micklewright (Getty Foundation)
"Photography in the Service of Empire: Past and Present in Ottoman Photography"

2. Layla S. Diba (Independent Scholar)
"Muhammad Ghaffari: The Persian Painter of Modern Life"

3. Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)
"John Henry Haynes’s Travels and Photographs of Anatolia in 1884-87"

4. Ioli Vingopoulou (National Research Institute, Athens)
"Travelers to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor"

COFFEE

SESSION III: DIPLOMACY, ART, AND ARCHAEOLOGY
4:00-6:00

1. Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer (University of Delaware)
"Germanophiles and Germanophobes: French Archaeology in the Mediterranean after the Franco-Prussian war"

2. Doris Behrens-Abouseif (SOAS, University of London)
"L.F. Cassas and the earliest panoramas of Cairo"

3. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (University of Pennsylvania)
"Unearthing the East: American Oriental Studies and Archeology in the Ottoman Empire"

4. Holly Edwards (Williams College)
"Exiles, Diplomats and Darlings: Afghans Abroad in the early 20th century"

RECEPTION

SATURDAY, MARCH 20
@ Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum


SESSION IV: OSMAN HAMDI BEY
9:00 -11:00

1. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
"Osman Hamdi Bey: Myths and Realities"

2. Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
"Defining Empire’s Patrimony: Ottoman Press and Antiquities"

3. Emine Fetvaci (Boston University)
"Between Modernity and Empire: The Art of Osman Hamdi"

4. Gülru Çakmak (Johns Hopkins University)
"'Il a su trouver le drame tel qu’il existe:' Osman Hamdi’s Zeïbek à l’affût (1867) and the French History Painting Tradition"

COFFE AND POSTER SESSION
(featuring materials to be included in the Fall 2010 exhibition)

CONCLUDING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION
12:00-1:00

1. Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)
"Westernization, Modernization and ‘Occidentalism’"