May 16, Monday

– – 8:45 – 9:15
Registration

– – 9:15 – 9:30
Welcome: Ipek Türeli, Tassos Anastassiadis

– – 9:30 – 10:45                 
– – Opening Address
Chair: Zeynep Çelik, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Benjamin Fortna, University of Arizona
“Educational Change in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods:  Histories, Spaces and Texts”

– – 10:45 – 11:05                
Coffee break

– – 11:05 – 12:30                
– – Session I: School Architecture: North American Models
Chair: Rebecca Rogers, Université René Descartes – Paris 5

Dale Gyure, Lawrence Technological University
“The Transformation of the Schoolhouse: Modernizing School Architecture in the 19th and 20th Centuries”

Geoffrey Carr, University of the Fraser Valley
“Colonial Modernities and the Indian Residential Schools: Surveying the Legacies of Religious Instruction in Government Institutions”

– – 12:30 – 14.30               
Break

– – 14:30 – 16:00             
– – Session II: Turkish Civilizing Mission
Chair: Tassos Anastassiadis, McGill University

Zeynep Türkyılmaz, Boğaziçi University
“‘Civilize Rebels’ Daughters, Absorb them within Turkishness’: Residential Schooling and Republican Solution to the Dersim Question (1937-1957)”

Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle University
“On the Periphery of the Nation: Early Republican Schools in Elazığ”

May 17, Tuesday

– – 9:15 – 10:40                 
– – Session III: French Civilizing Mission in the Mediterranean
Chair: Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle University

Rebecca Rogers, Université René Descartes – Paris 5
“Changing Representations of North African Educational Spaces for Girls: Decoding the French Civilizing Mission”

Tassos Anastassiadis, McGill University
“From Civilizing Mission to the Capitalist Market? Buildings, Timetables and French-Italian Competition in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1880s-1920s” 

– – 10:40 – 11:00               
Coffee break

– – 11:00 – 13:00               
– – Session IV: School and the City: Beirut, Izmir, Istanbul
Chair: Ipek Türeli, McGill University

Maria Bashshur Abunnasr, American University of Beirut
“Another Amherst on the Site of Ancient Berytus?: The New England Landscape of Ras Beirut, 1870-1920”

Sibel Zandi-Sayek, College of William and Mary
“A Town-Gown Partnership: The International College of Smyrna from Late Ottoman to Republican Years”

Zeynep Çelik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
“In the Centre of the World?: Robert College of Istanbul”

– – 13:00 – 14:00               
Lunch

– – 14:00 – 15:00               
– – Concluding session
Chairs: Tassos Anastassiadis, Ipek Türeli, McGill University
Respondent: Sibel Zandi-Sayek, College of William and Mary