Program
Wednesday 4 November
9.30-10.00 - Opening talks by Aziz Kocaoğlu, Candeğer Yılmaz and İlber Ortaylı
Session 1 - The Cosmopolitan Structure of İzmir: Literature, Music, Folklore and Gastronomy
Chairperson : Nuran Şahin
10.00-10.20 - Anca Dan
“Smyrna in its Anatolian and Aegean Enviroment: The Foundation Legends”
10.20-10.40 - Recep Meriç
“The Origins of Zeybek Culture”
Zeybek dances will be performed during the talk
10.40-11.00 - Serkan Çelik
“From Past to Present: Music of Izmir”
Musical performance: from ancient music to rebetico
11.00-11.20 - Ingrid Braggiotti
“Traditional Recipes of the Levantine Cuisine”
11.20-11.40 - Ahmet Uhri
“Following the Tracks of Cultural Interactions in İzmir: “Boyoz” and Stuffed Mussels”
11.40-12.00 - Coffee Break
12.00-12.20 - Nezih Aytaçlar
“One of the Ancient Tastes of Izmir Gulf: Garum Sauce”
12.20-12.40 - Basma Zerouali
“Music and Cosmopolitism in Smyrna at the Turn of the 20th Century”
12.40-13.00 - Avram Ajir
Musical performance: Sephardic music
13.00-13.20 - Discussion
13.20-14.30 - Lunch Break
Session 2 - Smyrna: From the very Beginning to a Great Aegean City
Chairperson : Stéphane Verger
14.30-14.50 - Zafer Derin
“The Prehistoric Settlement of Izmir: Yeşilova Höyük”
14.50-15.10 - Cumhur Tanrıver
“Old Smyrna. The Foundation of Smyrna and its Advancement as a City State”
15.10-15.30 - Akın Ersoy & Burak Yolaçan
“New Smyrna: Recent Discoveries”
15.30-15.50 - Michel Espagne
“A Cross-Cultural Point of View on Cross-Cultural Antiquity: The Case of Ekrem Akurgal”
15.50-16.10 - Discussion
Thursday 5 November
Session 3 - Architectural Evidence of Cultural Encounters
Chairperson : Pınar Aydemir
9.30-9.50 - Şeniz Çıkış
“Effects of Traditions in Modern Housing Architecture of Izmir”
9.50-10.10 - Mine Tanaç Zeren
“Jewish Life and the Sephardic Architecture during the 17th-20th Centuries in Izmir”
10.10-10.30 - Inci Kuyulu Ersoy
“Levantine Culture and its Architectural Witnesses in Izmir”
10.30-10.50 - Discussion
10.50-11.10 - Coffee Break
11.10-11.30 - Jean Luc Maeso & Didier Laroche
“Le Corbusier in Turkey: the Izmir City Planning Scheme, 1939-1949”
11.10-11.50 - Olcay Pullukçuoğlu Yapucu
“Trade Routes and Commercial Places in the Hinterland of Izmir”
11.50-12.10 - Discussion
12.10-13.30 - Lunch Break
Session 4 - Urban Topography from Past to Present
Chairperson : Jean-Luc Maeso
13.30-13.50 - Patrick Boulanger
“The French Hospital of Smyrna in the 18th Century between Openness, Transfers and Withdrawals”
13.50-14.10 - Jean-Claude Cheynet
“Medieval Smyrna”
14.10-14.30 - Georges Tolias
“Francesco Lupazzolo (1587-1702): Levantine, Smyrniot, and Isolario Maker”
14.30-14.50 - Discussion
14.50-15.10 - Coffee Break
15.10-15.30 - Marie-Valérie Lesvigne
“Seismic Events in the History of Smyrna. First Results and Prospect of Sismo-AsiaMinor Research Program”
15.30-15.50 - Cihan Özgün
“Approaches to the Effects of Izmir-Kasaba Railway Construction on the Izmir Urban Transportation Network”
15.50-16.10 - Jean-François Pérouse
“Izmir and Migratory Transit Flows since the Early 2000s : The Invisible Internationalization”
16.10-16.30 - Discussion
Friday 6 November
Session 5 - Communities and Languages
Chairperson : İnci Kuyulu Ersoy
09.30-09.50 - Servanne Jollivet
“Identity and Memory of the Greek Community of Smyrna”
09.50-10.10 - Sara Pardo
“A Glance at the Izmir Jews”
10.10-10.30 - Siren Bora
“The First Juderia: İkiçeşmelik (Establishment and Development)”
10.30-10.50 - Discussion
10.50-11.10 - Coffee break
11.10-11.30 - Hale Okçay
“Multireligious Structures of Izmir”
11.30-11.50 - Sarit Bonfil
“An Educational Institution from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic: “Ecole Israélite de Caratache”
11.50-12.10 - Erkan Serçe & Mustafa Özbaş
“Ethnicity and Politics in Izmir During the Second Constitutional Period”
12.10-12.30 - Discussion
12.30-14.00 - Lunch break
14.00-14.20 - Hatice Şirin User
“Contributions to Turkish from the Dialects of Sephardi Jews and Smirneika”
14.20-14.40 - Frédéric Barbier
“Journey to Smyrna, 1717-1811”
14.40-15.00 - Sophie Basch
“Alphonse de Lamartine and Izmir”
15.00-15.20 - Discussion
Session 6 - Closing Remarks
15.00-15.20 - Michel Espagne
Saturday 7 November
Excursion: ancient sites in Izmir