Beyond allusions
at the Collège de France
11, place Marcelin Berthelot
75005 Paris, France
This colloquium will be filmed (Collège de France / CERIMES co-production) and broadcast on our website.
The long-standing relations between France and Turkey, which began at the height of the Ottoman Empire and continued uninterrupted in the centuries that followed, are traditionally evoked as soon as current relations between the two countries and the question of Turkey's possible entry into the European Union are broached. More recently, at the numerous symposia organized to mark the "Turkish Season in France", there has of course been no shortage of reminders on this subject. But these have always been more or less substantial and precise allusions. They were generally more concerned with the present and the future than with an extensive and complex past. History has remained in the background.
However, it seems worthwhile to take stock of this history, and to devote at least one day of this "season" to it. The Collège de France, which was the first French institution to welcome Turkish studies, seemed the right place to fill a gap.
What was this history made of? Was it a single lecture, or did it mutate over time? How much of it is rooted in myth and how much in reality? Has everything already been said long ago, and don't today's historians have new information and insights to offer? In what directions should historical research be pursued?
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM:
9:30am: Opening of the day
10:00 am: The origins and heyday of the Franco-Ottoman alliance
Gilles Veinstein, Collège de France
10:45 am: Political relations in the 17th and 18th centuries
Géraud Poumarède, University of Bordeaux
11:00 am: Break
11:30am: Trade in the Levant
Ethem Eldem, University of Bospore
12h00: "Regards croisés: Turqueries and "Modes Franques" on the Bosphorus
Frédéric Hitzel, CNRS
12:30 pm: Discussion
2:30 pm: Political relations in the 19th-20th centuries
François Georgeon, CNRS
3:00 pm: French interests in the Ottoman Empire, 19th-20th centuries
Jacques Thobie, Université Paris VIII
3:30 pm: Break
3:45pm: Colonial France and the Ottomans
Henry Laurens, Collège de France
4.15pm: In the aftermath of the First World War
Pinar Dost, IFEA
4.45pm: Discussion
