Workshop

Christians and Jews in Ottoman Society: A Workshop in Oxford

Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial, University of Oxford (john-paul.ghobrial@history.ox.ac.uk)
Dates: 3-5 July 2017 (two and a half days)

This workshop has the explicit purpose of the publication of a volume of collected essays. As such, we invite submissions for papers from scholars who will be able to adhere to the provisional schedule detailed on the page linked below. We are interested in papers that engage with the general subject in different ways. For example, some papers might consider aspects of everyday life among specific communities of dhimmis, while others might offer more, general accounts of the place of dhimmis in Ottoman society. The main criterion is that papers must engage with wider questions about the place of dhimmis within various contexts of Ottoman, Muslim, or imperial society. Given limits of space and time, it is unlikely that we will be able to select papers that focus only on practices within specific dhimmi communities, i.e., all papers must engage in a meaningful way with the status of these communities as Ottoman subjects.

Proposals should take the form of an Abstract (no more than 250 words, including title) and a short Cover Letter introducing yourself and including details of your current institutional affiliation and any previous publications (no more than 1 page). When preparing your proposal, we strongly encourage you to consider the section: ‘Some Propositions’ on the News and Events page.

Proposals should be sent to john-paul.ghobrial@history.ox.ac.uk no later than 20 February 2017.