Changing Turkey in a Changing World

A joint conference of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul  & the European University Institute, Florence

Venue: Bogaziçi University, Rectorate Conference Hall
Date: October 29-31, 2009

Within the framework of the research project “Europe and Beyond: Transfers, Networks and Markets for Musical Theatre in

Modern Europe, 1740-1960″

*October 29, Thursday *

*13:00             Opening by Hakan Yilmaz (Chair of the European Research Center, Bogaziçi University)

*13:15       Opening by Heinz Gerhard Haupt* and* Philipp Ther* (Department of History, European University Institute)

*13:30-14:30            Keynote Lecture* Emre Araci (London): The Sultan’s symphony*: evaluating the Ottoman court’s passion for the music of Europe

*14:30-15:00            Coffee-Break *

*Panel 1*

15:00-16:30*STATE PATRONAGE IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS*

*Chair: Filiz Ali*

·      Gözde Çolakoglu (ITU) – Murat Nur Çolakoglu (Bogaziçi University): Western Impact on Ottoman Court Music during Selim III and Mahmud II

·      Melis Sülos (Bogaziçi University): Theatrical Politics – The Use of European Music and Drama in the Ottoman Diplomacy

·      Emine Serdaroglu (Bogaziçi University): The Establishment of Conservatories and Their Development During the Early Turkish Republic

*16:30-17:00            Coffee-Break*

*17:30-18:30            Plenary Talk *

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*Chair: Philipp Ther* (European University Institute)

·      Philip Sadgrove (University of Manchester): Ottoman and European Influences on early Arabic Musical Theatre

*19:00            Welcome Reception with a* *Performance of Ottoman Classical Music by ITU Students*

*October 30, Friday

*Panel 2 *

9.30- 11.00 DECONSTRUCTING THE “OTTOMAN”: “MINORITIES” AND “MIGRANTS”*

Chair: Arzu Öztürkmen*

·      Merih Erol (Bogaziçi University): Turkish and Greek Music Debates at the turn-of-the-century

·      Aram Kerovpyan (Paris): Ottoman Armenians and Westernization in music

·      Belma Kurtisoglu (ITU): The Balkan Dilemma: Music of the Bosniak Immigrants in the Early Republican Turkey

*11:00-11.30            Coffee break*

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*Panel 3*

11:30-13:00 INDIVIDUALS AS AGENTS OF MODERN MUSICAL FORMS*

*Chair: Adam Mestyan*

·      Suna Suner (Don Juan Archive, Vienna): “Of Messengers, Messages and Memoirs: Opera and the Eighteenth Century *Sefâretnâmes*”

·      Melissa Bilal (University of Chicago): Teotig’s Amenun Daretsuytse (Everybody’s Almanac) and its Yerajshdagan (Music) Pages

·      Oksana Sarkisova (CEU): ‘National’ Tunes, Soviet Orchestration: Vostokkino film studio and Song About Happiness

*13:00- 14:30 Lunch *

*Panel 4 *

14:30- 16:00

*Chair: Philip Sadgrove*

*RETHINKING 19TH C OTTOMAN THEATRE AND ITS MUSIC*

·      Adam Mestyan (CEU): “Turkish” visiting theatre troupes in Egypt(1869-1892)

·      Cafer Sarikaya (Bogaziçi University – Yeditepe University):Representation of the Ottoman Theatre in the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893

·      Pinar Gümüs (Sabanci University): Staged Forms of a Cosmopolitan Istanbul

*16:00-16:30 Coffee break*

*16:30-17:30            Plenary Talk*

*Chair: Ute Frevert*

·      *Arnold Reisman *(Shaker Heights, Ohio):Classical Music and Opera in Post-Ottoman Turkey: A Reappraisal

*17:30-18:30 Lecture and Music *

*Chair: Selçuk Esenbel *(Bogaziçi University)**

·      Hasan Uçarsu, Composer (Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory)

.      Sirin Pancaroglu, Harpist (www.sirinpancaroglu.com) “Uninvited guests” for cheng, harp and orchestra

*October 31, Saturday*

*Panel 5 *

9.30- 11.00

*TURQUERIE AND ITS AUDIENCES*

*Chair: Aysin Candan (Yeditepe University)*

·      Vjera Katalinic (Croatian Academy of Sciences, Zagreb): At the Boundary of the Empires: Orientalisms at the Croatian National Stage in the 19th Century

·      Peter Stachel (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna): Alla turca? So called “Turkish” elements in the traditions of “music-country” Austria

·      Lale Babaoglu (Bogaziçi University): Defining the Turk:  the construction of meaning in operatic Orientalism

*11:00-11:30 Coffee-break*

*Panel 6 *

11:30- 12.30

*GENRES (I) : THE IRRESISTABLE CHARM OF THE OPERA *

*Chair: Oliver Müller *(Bielefeld)**

·      Gesa Zur Nieden (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Rome): “Describing processes between the local and the global: Preliminary considerations on comparisons using the example of the mobility of musicians in 17th and 18th-century Europe”

·      Markian Prokopovych (CEU): The Queen of Saba in Budapest

*12:30- 14:00 Lunch*

*Panel 7*

14:00-15:30            **

*GENRES II: SEARCHING FOR THE FOLK AND THE POPULAR WITH A WESTERN TOUCH *

*Chair:  Lale Babaoglu (Bogaziçi University)*

·      Berna Özbilen (Istanbul Technical University, Turkish Music State Conservatory): *Kanto* as a new Ottoman-Turkish popular music

·      Altug Yilmaz (Bogaziçi University): The Making of “Turkish Folk Music” with European Aspirations

·      Songül Karahasanoglu (ITU – Turkish Music State Conservatory): Remembering the “Ottoman” in Modern Times: Conflict and Change in Religious Music in Turkey

15:30-16:00 Coffeebreak

*Panel 8*

16:00-18:00 *IN SEARCH OF NATIONAL FORMS: CLASSICAL MUSIC, BALLET, MODERN DANCE IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY*

*Chair: Cem Behar (Bogaziçi University)*

·      Seren Akyoldas (Bogaziçi University):* *The Choral Society of Berlin travels in the Orient: 1908, organized by the *Teutonia*

·      Zeynep Günsür (Yildiz Technical Unv.) Republican Stage: Quest for “National” – Processes of Orientalization & Self-Orientalization in searching “The Original”

·      Kivilcim Yildiz Senürkmez (Mimar Sinan Unv.): Establishing Classical Music in Early Republican Turkey

·      K. Deniz Polat (ITU-MIAM): Europeanization in the Realm of Islamic Aesthetics

*18.00-19:00 Roundtable: Summary and Concluding remarks * (Cultural Heritage Museum)

*Chair: Filiz Ali*

*Participants: Ute Frevert (Yale), Philipp Ther (EUI), Stanislav Tuksar (University of Zagreb).*

*19:00-19:30 Farewell Recital by Emine Serdaroglu & Seren Akyoldas     *

Compositions by Ulvi Cemal Erkin & Adnan Saygun