Workshop: The Ottoman World and the North in the Eighteenth Century

     

 10.00–10.15   

 Introduction Gunlög Fur and Catharina Raudvere
10.15–11.30

Hanna Hodacs and Kenneth Nyberg
The Changing role of Linnaean Travel. European and Global Contexts
discussant: Olof Heilo
11.30–12.15   

Michael Harbsmeier
From von Haven to Björnståhl to Rasmus Rask. Three Chapters in the Early History of Philological and Linguistic Fieldwork
discussant: Pontus Kyander
12.15–13.30    Lunch
13.45–14.30   

Jan Hjärpe
Letters from Morocco 1789-1791. Olof Agrell’s Observations and Commentaries
discussant: Åsa Karlsson
14.30–15.00    Coffee break
15.00–15.45

Karin Ådahl
The Image of Constantinople. On Cornelius Loos and King Karl XII’s Oriental Expeditions
discussant: Martin Olin
15.45–16.30   

Catharina Raudvere
Jacob Jonas Björnståhl in Constantinople. Early Swedish  Ethnography of Islam and Muslims?
discussant: Ingela Nilsson
16.30–17.00    Coffee break
17.00–17.45   

Carter V. Findley (on zoom link)
Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans. Mouradgea d’Ohsson on Law and the State
discussant: Marie-Christine Skuncke
17.45–18.00               

Summing up Olof Heilo
18.30

Drinks and dinner