Event

A Centennial of the First World War in the Middle East

DATE: Monday, May 4, 2015
TIME: 9:00am-6:00pm
LOCATION: Arch 108/109

The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania cordially invites you to a full-day symposium exploring the history of World War I in the broader Middle East. This is open to the public and will convene in the morning with keynote remarks by Dr. M. Şükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton University).

Symposium Program

(9 – 10 am) – Breakfast

(10am – 12 pm) – Session I: The Ottoman Empire

Dr. Mustafa Aksakal (Georgetown University): “World War I in the Middle East: New Scholarship”
Dr. M. Şükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton University): “Ottoman Shiite Jihad during the Great War”
Dr. Yücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond): “Fear, Anxiety and Manliness in the Ottoman Great War”

(12 – 1:30 pm) – Lunch

(1:30 – 3:30 pm) – Session II: Russia and the Caucasus

Dr. Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania): “The Policy and Practice of Russian Occupation in Eastern Anatolia and Northern Persia, 1915-1917”
Dr. Eileen Kane (Connecticut College): "Imperial Collapse and Migrations in the East"
Dr. Michael A. Reynolds (Princeton University): “The East’s Eastern Front: the Ottoman-Russian War and Its Legacies”

(3:30 – 4 pm) – Break

(4 – 6 pm) – Session III: Iran and Syria

Dr. Oliver Bast (University of Manchester): "Sideshow of a sideshow? - Iran and the First World War in the Middle East”
Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (University of Pennsylvania): “Post World War I Settlements: the Rise of Arab Middle East”
Dr. Eve M. Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania): “The Empire’s Soldiers: Senegalese Tirailleurs in Syria during WWI”

Departments of History, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Political Science, and the Perry World House

For more information, please visit:
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events/2015/May/ACentennialoftheFirstWorldWarintheMiddleEast