- Lucienne Thys-Şenocak, Associate Professor of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç UniversityLecture title: Preserving and Promoting theHeritage of Wine in Turkey- Nevra Necipoğlu, Professor of Byzantine History,Boğaziçi UniversityLecture title: Viticulture and Wine Production inthe Aegean Region during the Byzantine Era

Τhe first lecture will concentrateon how the importance of the

legacy of wine in Turkey, a legacy with a history ofmore than 10,000 years,which includes both tangibleand intangible aspects of heritage, can be better protected and passed on to futuregenerations by using two specific heritageinstruments: the culturallandscape and the culturalroute. The second paper,with examples from thenorthern Aegean, willexplore the role of wine

in the economy of theByzantine Empire.

- Εvridiki Sifneos, Research Director, National Hellenic Research FoundationLecture title: Olive-oil economy and cultural heritage on both sides of the Aegean- Eleutheria Zei, Associate Professor of History, University of CreteLecture title: Continuities in the rural landscapeand cultural continuities: olive cultivation on theMoschonisia islands in the early 20th century.

18 August 2015

- Arzu Öztürkmen, Professor of Folklore, Oral Historyand Performance Studies, Boğaziçi UniversityLecture title: Reading Dance Images in Ottoman Miniatures- Panagiotis C. Poulos, Lecturer, Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, University of AthensLecture title: Ottoman Musical Itineraries Between Center and Periphery: The case of theAsia Minor North Coastal Region

The first lecture will examine howparticular dance forms have beendepicted, represented andrecontextualized in Ottomanfestive events through the 16th to 18th centuries. Based on miniature paintings from albums, imperial festival surnames books, and the narrative accounts of European observers. The second lecture willexamine the musicalitineraries between AsiaMinor’s northern coastalregion and Istanbul, operatingon the basis of networks thatsupported a dynamic culturalflow between center andperiphery.

28 July 2015

The first lecture will be about common cultivation prac-tices and the transfer of know-how in olive-oil produc-tion between the two shores of the Aegean. It willexamine how coastal populations maintained a contin-uous flow of information on the methods of cultivatingolive groves, the extraction of olive-oil, soap productionand the commercialization of the amount produced untilthe 1920s. The second lecture will examine the land-scape of the area of Ayvalık and Cunda after the Popu-lation Exchange, when a large volume of Turco-Cretansarrived and settled there, continuing the tradition ofolive cultivation and soap-making with which they werewell acquainted from their native Crete.

9 July 2015Αgricultural and Cultural Landscapes:

Vines on the North Aegean CoastsOlives, oil-soap. The wealth of Mytilene,

Ayvalık and the Moschonisia islandsOttoman Performing Arts

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