Congrès Mondial des Études sur le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord

Barcelone du 19 au 24 Juillet 2010

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EMPIRE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: ANTIQUITY TO THE BRITISH/FRENCH MANDATES - 4/4: Ottoman to Mandates (093) - NOT_DEFINED activity_field_Panel
 

· NOT_DEFINED institution: University of Connecticut (USA)

· NOT_DEFINED organizer: Robin Adele Greeley

· NOT_DEFINED language: English

· NOT_DEFINED description: Concepts of empire and imperialism have long provoked serious reflection and intense controversy. Yet while studies continue to proliferate, troubling elisions remain. While serious investigations of modern empires in the Middle East abound, almost none have been contextualized within the longer history of empire available through the extended archaeological record. Alternatively, few archaeologists have attempted to theorize Ancient Near Eastern empires; even fewer undertake comparative analyses across time and space. Many ANE studies continue to rely on a straightforward model of territorial expansion through military conquest, patterned after standard interpretations of the Roman empire, thus neglecting evidence of other methods of maintaining political control over diverse polities and multiple states. Studies of the modern period, while often more nuanced, frequently maintain a sharp divide between capitalist and pre-capitalist imperial forms, and tend to view the latter, having been ?superseded? by capitalism, as irrelevant. A similar division is often constructed between the Islamic and pre-Islamic periods. This interdisciplinary symposium aims to redress these deficiencies by expanding theoretical and historical investigations of empire and its implications for studies of Middle Eastern civilizations. Fourteen scholars from the disciplines of history, art history and archaeology explore disparate models of the constitution, expansion, structure and destruction of Middle East empires from antiquity to the modern era. This panel, the final of four, treats, the Ottoman empire, the British Mandate, and the French Mandate.

Chair: Harvey Weiss, Yale University
Discussant: Robin Adele Greeley, University of Connecticut
Paper presenter: Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee
“The Ottomans: Inheriting, Creating, and Projecting Empire”
Paper presenter: Sarah D. Shields, University of North Carolina
“Ottoman/British Mandate in the provinces (case study: Mosel)”
Paper presenter: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
“Aspects of Late Imperialism: the Mandates and State Formation in the Middle East”
Paper presenter: Henry Laurens, College de France
“European Mandate Politics in the Middle East”