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