Nadir Özbek,
Associate Professor

Assistant Director for The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
Bogaziçi University
34342 Bebek-Istanbul / Turkey

 e-mail:  ozbekn@boun.edu.tr
phone:  +90-212-359 76 07
fax:       +90-212-265 80 03 (Atatürk Institute)

   


CONFERENCE PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

“Internal Security and the Ottoman Provincial Police Organization (1876-1908),” International Conference on New Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Middle East and Balkans,” January 12-13, 2007, Chiba University, Tokyo, Japan.

“The Peasants and the Ottoman Gendarmerie: Dispute Resolution in the Rural
Context, 1876-1909,” 10th International Congress of Economic and Social History
of Turkey, September 28-October 1 2005, Venice-Italy.

“Governing the Countryside: Gendarmerie in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” Social Politics in the Middle East: A Symposium in Honor of the Late Historian, Mine Ener, The Middle East Center-University of Pennsylvania, 9-1 April 2004.

“Defining the Public Sphere in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1918,” Central Eurasian Studies Society Fourth Annual Conference, October 2-5, 2003, Cambridge-Massachusetts, USA.

Comments on the paper "Limits to Globalization: Welfare States and the World Economy" presented by Stephan Leibfried (University of Bremen, Germany) in "Workshop on Economic Reform, New Politics and Social Justice", June 6-7 2003, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul-Turkey, 6-7 June 2003

"Governing the 'new poverty': Restructuring the Welfare System in Turkey" paper presented at the workshop on "The Socio-economic Dimensions of Poverty in West Asia and North Africa", Middle East Awards for Population and Social Science (MEWARDS), Rabat-Morocco, 13-15 May 2003.

Voluntary Initiative, Philanthropic Publics, and the Hamidian Regime, 1876-1908”, Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies. International Institute-University of Michigan, Cultural Politics Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-June 1, 2001.

Ottoman Labor History Workshop at Kevorkian Center of NYU, New York-USA, 24 March 2001.

“The Politics of Pediatrics: The Imperial Hospital for Children, 1899-1909”, Middle East Studies Association, 2000 Annual Meeting, November 16-19 2000, Orlando, FL-USA

“Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation During the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, 1876-1909”, Poverty and Philanthropy, University of Michigan, 4-7 May 2000, Ann Arbor, MI-USA.

“The State and the Poor: Beggars and Vagrants in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1914”, Middle East Studies Association, 1999 Annual Meeting, November 20-22 1999, Washington, D.C-USA.

“From Pan-Turkism to Asianism: The Activities of Abdurresid Ibrahim in the Young Turk Period”, Bogazici University Symposium on the History of Japanese-Turkish Relations, October 7-9, 1998, Istanbul/Turkey.