• 1:00-2:45

  Stephen F. Dale, Professor of History, Ohio State University

  "Turks, Turks and turk Turks: Turkic Identities in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires"

  Respondent: Richard Barnett, Associate Professor of History, U.Va.

• 2:45-3:00

  Coffee Break

• 3:00-4:45

  Suraiya Faroqhi, Professor of History, Istanbul Bilgi University

  "Trading between East and West: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period"

  Respondent: Erin Rowe, Assistant Professor of History, U.Va.

• 8:00-10:00 Concert, McLeod Hall Auditorium (U.Va. Nursing School)

  Turkish music by ensemble TURKU: Nomads of the Silk Road

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• 9:30-11:15

  Walter Denny, Professor of Art History and Adjunct Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts

  "Carpets and Carpet Weaving as Cultural Markers: Turkic Carpets and Turkic Identity"

  Respondent: Deniz Calis Kural, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, U.Va., and Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design, Bahcesehir University (Istanbul)

• 11:15-11:30

  Coffee Break

• 11:30-1:15

  Ron Sela, Assistant Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University

  "Central Asia IS The Turkic World: A View from Within"

  Respondent: Shawn Lyons, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, U.Va.

• 1:15-2:15

  Lunch

• 2:15-4:00

  Roundtable Discussion

  Moderator: James Meyer, Assistant Professor of History, Montana State University, and Research Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies

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