DAILY SCHEDULE
(Subject to Change)
When not listed, locations TBA.

We include here the main topics of the seminar to give you a sense of its general organization and scope. In addition, we are providing a list of the scholars who will help anchor the discussion along with selected titles of their lectures and workshops.

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

12:00 noon to 5:00 pm. Dormitory apartments available for check-in at Annapolis Hall.

6:00 pm. Welcome reception. Tawes Hall, 3rd Floor Terrace.

Monday, June 14, 2010

9:00 am to 12:00 noon. Introductions, orientation, framing, led by Adele Seeff (University of Maryland) and Judith E. Tucker (Georgetown University).
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Lunch.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Campus tour, pick up library card and identification card.

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Participants share research interests, potential plans; break into informal working groups to exchange ideas and suggestions.
2100 & 2101 Taliaferro Hall.

3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Research; directors available for consultation.
2100 & 2101 Taliaferro Hall.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Research.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Cartography led by Alison Sandman (James Madison University).
2110 Taliaferro Hall.

Required reading:

Brotton, “Disorienting the East: The Geography of the Ottoman Empire.”  Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World.  Cornell University Press, 1998.  87-118.
Manners & Emiralioglu,  European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos.  The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, 2007.  17-80 ( ideally to 107).
Massing, “Observations and Beliefs: The World of the Catalan Atlas.”  Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration.  Yale University Press, 1991.  27-33 and 120-121.
Short, “Coordinating the World.”  Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600.  Syracuse University Press, 2004.  9-33. 
Soucek, Svat.  “Islamic Charting in the Mediterranean.”  History of Cartography, volume 2, book 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies.  University of Chicago Press, 1992.  263-292. 

Recommended reading:

Campbell,  “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500.”  History of Cartography. Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.  J. University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Edson, “The World View of the Mappamundi in the Thirteenth Century.”  The World Map, 1300-1492.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.  11- 32.
Gunn, First Globalization, 1500-1800. 2003.
Harley and Woodward, eds. History of Cartography. Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
-----. History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. 1992.
McIntosh, The Piri Reis Map of 1513. 2000.
Woodward, The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance. 2007.
-----.  “Medieval Mappaemundi.”  History of Cartography. Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.  University of Chicago Press, 1987.

6:30 pm. Hosted dinner.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

10:00 am to 11:45 am. Library of Congress led by Alison Sandman.
Pause for mini-evaluation.

Libary of Congress - 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540
Meet inside security. Metro stations: Union Station (Red Line), Capitol South (Blue and Orange Lines)

12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Lunch.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. First group of reports on research.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Research.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Research all day.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Research all day.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

9:00 am to 9:45 am. Mini-evaluation and brief project updates led by Adele Seeff and Judith E. Tucker.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Travel Narratives led by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Maryland).
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Required reading:

Alam and Subrahmanyam, Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. 2007. Selections TBA.
Translations of selected fourteenth-century Indo-Persian travel narratives. Translations to be provided.

12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Second group of reports on research.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Research; directors available for consultation.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

9:00 am to 12:00 noon. Trading Patterns led by Judith E. Tucker.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Required reading:

Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It.  2004.  137-160.
Matar, Turks, Moors, and Englishmen.  1999.  1-82.
Tabak, The Waning of the Mediterranean.  2008.  33-185.

12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Third group of reports on research.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Research.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Research all day.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

9:00 am - 2:00 pm. Research.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Cultural and Scientific Exchange led by Judith E. Tucker.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Required reading:

Al-Mawsuli, Ilyas Hanna. “The Book of Travels of the Priest Ilyas, Son of the Cleric Hanna al-Mawsuli.” In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century, ed. and trans. Matar. 2003. 45-112.
bin Qasim, “Journey to France and Holland.” In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century, ed. and trans. Matar. 2003. 5-44.
Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It.  2004.  179-210.
Ghiselin, The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople 1554-1562, trans. Forster. 1927, 2005. 1-67.

6:30 pm. Hosted dinner.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Friday, June 25, 2010.

Research all day.

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Monday, June 28, 2010

9:00 am to 9:45 am. Mini-evaluation and brief project updates led by Adele Seeff and Judith E. Tucker.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Material Goods led by Meredith J. Gill (University of Maryland).
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Required reading:

Mack, Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. 2002.
Mack and Zakariya, "The Pseudo-Arabic on Andrea del Verrocchio's 'David'," Artibus et Historiae 60/30 (2009): 157-172.
Necipoglu, "Suleyman the Magnificent and the Representation of Power in the Context of Ottoman-Hapsburg-Papal Rivalry," Art Bulletin 71/3 (1989): 401-427.

12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Lunch.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Fourth group of reports on research.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Research; directors available for consultation.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

10:00 am to 12:00 noon. National Gallery visit, led by Meredith Gill.

National Gallery - 4th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20565
Meet in rotunda. Metro stations: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter (Green and Yellow Lines), Smithsonian (Blue and Orange Lines)

12:15 pm to 1:45 pm. Lunch in downtown Washington, DC.

2:00 pm to3:30 pm. Freer and Sackler Galleries visit, led by Rosamond E. Mack.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Research all day.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Final project reports.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

Friday, July 2, 2010

9:00 am to 11:30 am. Evaluations, provisional conclusions, and next steps led by Judith E. Tucker and Adele Seeff.
Jimenez Room, Stamp Student Union.

12:00 noon to 2:00 pm. Celebratory luncheon.
Jimenez Room, Stamp Student Union.

3:00 pm. Final check-out from campus housing.
Annapolis Hall.

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