Program

10.00 – 10.15: Greetings & Introduction

10.15 – 12.00: Panel I: Intellectual Connections

Hasan Çolak (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Romanian Academy) - Rethinking Christian-Muslim hierarchies in the eighteenth century: the Orthodox Church and Ottoman Muslim scholars

Elif Bayraktar Tellan (Istanbul Medeniyet University) - Reconsidering Konstantinos Kaisarios Dapontes as an Ottoman intellectual

Yorgos Tzedopoulos (Academy of Athens) - To die or not to die? Conflicting manifestations of religious zeal and of contesting Ottoman rule in an oracular text of the late 18th and the early 19th century”

12.00 – 12.30: Coffee break

12.30 – 14.15: Panel II: Artistic Connections

Mara Verykokou (Benaki Museum) - The narrative of Phanariot identity at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture: Jewellery, silverware, textiles, paintings and icons at the Benaki Museum, 17th–18th centuries

Nikolaos Vryzidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) - Ottoman Textile Culture and the Church: Aspects of Production and Consumption in the 18th Century

Anna Ballian (Benaki Museum, curator emerita) - Religious Silver of the Orthodox Church: The Case of Kermira and Sinasos (Germir and Mustafapaşa)

14.15 – 15.45: Lunch break

15.45 – 17.30: Panel III: Political Connections

Nikolas Pissis (Ionian University) - Greek Orthodox Prelates and their Loyalties: The Russian Temptation (17th-18th centuries)

Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) - The Language of Alliance: Orthodox Clergymen and their Reports to the Sublime Porte in the Age of Revolutions

Leonidas Moiras (Democritus University of Thrace) - The Changing Fortune of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate after the Establishment of the Greek Kingdom: Between Devotion and Suspicion

17.30 – 18.00: Coffee Break

18.00: Keynote Speech: Paraskevas Konortas (University of Athens) - The Evolution of Historical Research concerning the Relationship between the Porte and the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople: Myths and Realities