Conference Program and Abstracts (PDF)
Conference Program
Each participant has 15 minutes allotted for presentation
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Lorenz Jäger 9, Osijek
hall no. 39 (second floor)
9:30 Opening of the conference
10:00 – 11:30 First session
Moderator: Anđelko Vlašić
Szabolcs Varga, “Military roads along the middle Danube in the 15th and 16th centuries”
Aleksandar Jakovljević, “The Ottoman serhad in eastern Slavonia: the question of the Sancak of Ösek reconsidered”
Seyfullah Aslan, “Military significance of the middle Danube and Drava docks in the 16th and 17th centuries”
Stanko Andrić, “Edward Brown’s travelogue as a source for the history of the central Danube region in the late period of the Ottoman rule”
Discussion
[Coffee break – 15 minutes]
11:45 – 13:15 Second session
Moderator: Stanko Andrić
Danijel Jelaš, Petra Plantosar, “The continuity of medieval settlements after the Ottoman conquest: the case of Vukovo County”
Dragutin Šimić, “The geographical-demographic overview of the Ottoman nahiye of Vrhovine – a case study”
Anđelko Vlašić, “Tracing Evliya Çelebi’s route through western Slavonia and central Croatia in 1660”
İlhami Danış, “17th-century Ottoman geography works on Croatia: a comparison of travel data and bookish knowledge from the perspectives of Evliya Çelebi and Kâtip Çelebi”
Discussion
13:30 Lunch for the conference participants
15:00 – 16:45 Third session
Moderator: Dino Mujadžević
Marin Blaženović, “The analysis of fortifications in modern-day western Slavonia before and after the Ottoman conquest”
Okan Büyüktapu, “The Ottoman military organization in the Sancaks of Požega and Pakrac during the 16th century”
Zekai Erdal, “Fortresses in Croatia in the light of the Ottoman archives: the Gradiška fortress”
Discussion
[Coffee break – 15 minutes]
17:00 – 18:30 Fourth session
Moderator: Anđelko Vlašić
Kadir Purde, “The ethnonym Croat in the Ottoman history and geography corpus”
Dino Mujadžević, “The use of the ethnonym Croat and related concepts in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyaḥatname”
Marta Andrić, Musa Duman, Stanko Andrić, “Reading toponyms of northern Croatia in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname”
Eldina Lovaš, “Research on Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname and its reception in the Hungarian historiography”
Discussion
19:00 Dinner for the conference participants
Friday, November 15, 2024
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Lorenz Jäger 9, Osijek
hall no. 39 (second floor)
9:00 – 10:30 Fifth session
Moderator: Stanko Andrić
Maximilian Hartmuth, “Monumental Islamic architecture along the middle Danube”
Miklós Fóti, Gábor Demeter, “A Syrmian dervish colony in the nahiye of Baç: the zaviye of Mecnun Baba”
Zlatko Karač, “The Hindi Baba dervish tekke in Vukovar: a comparison of data from Çelebi’s Seyahatnâme and other Ottoman and Western sources”
Discussion
[Coffee break – 15 minutes]
10:45 – 11:45 Sixth session
Moderator: Dino Mujadžević
Robert Skenderović, “Evliya Çelebi on palankas and šarampovs as types of wooden and earthen fortifications in Slavonia”
Siniša Đuričić, “The Battle of Nagyharsány and its impact on the subsequent reconquest of Slavonia from the Ottomans”
Marko Rimac, “Remodeling the landscape of Evliya Çelebi’s era: the agricultural transformation of Slavonia and Syrmia in the post-Ottoman period”
Discussion
[Coffee break – 15 minutes]
12:00 – 12:45 Final discussion and closing of the conference
13:00 Lunch for the conference participants
International Conference
Evliya Çelebi and Eastern Croatia under Ottoman rule
Date of conference: November 14–15, 2024
Location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, Croatia
CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
The conference will be organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, the Croatian Institute of History – Department for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja in Slavonski Brod, and the Research Centre for the Humanities – Institute of History in Budapest. The conference is financed by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2022-10-8014, Evliya Çelebi and Eastern Croatia in the 17th Century.
The conference organizers wish to gather experts researching various aspects of history of eastern Croatia – that is, Slavonia, southern Baranja (Baranya) and western Srijem (Syrmia) – during Ottoman rule, i.e., from 1526 to 1699. There is a lack of historical sources for this period, and especially for the 17th century. There is a particularly great lack of narrative sources that would offer more detailed data about the situation in the mentioned area. An exception is the Travelogue of the Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi, which offers us new data about the ethnic and confessional structure of eastern Croatia, a clearer perception of the development of its settlements, and the scope of its Ottoman heritage. Bearing in mind the necessity of contributing to a better understanding of the history of eastern Croatia during Ottoman rule, and especially in the 17th century, we will welcome submissions concerning the following topics:
- the period and/or events immediately preceding the establishment of Ottoman rule in eastern Croatia
- the period and/or events immediately following the retreat of the Ottoman Empire from eastern Croatia
- Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname as a source for the history of eastern Croatia and the neighboring regions
- new primary sources for the area of eastern Croatia during Ottoman rule
- comparative cases of historical interactions between eastern Croatia and the neighboring regions, especially during the 17th century
The working language of the conference will be English. The conference will be held exclusively in-person (without an online option). The presented papers should be no more than 15 minutes long.
There will be no registration fee. The organizers will finance accommodation costs (two nights in a hotel in Osijek) for the authors of accepted paper proposals. Meals and refreshments during the conference will be provided by the organizers.
Papers presented at the conference will be published in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings book.
Please send your paper proposals (up to 1500 characters with spaces) with an accompanying brief biographical notes (up to 1000 characters with spaces) to elovas@ffos.hr. We are looking forward to your proposals and your participation at the conference.
Deadline for submitting paper proposals: May 1, 2024
Confirmation of accepted paper proposals: May 15, 2024
Deadline for submitting papers: May 1, 2025