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Presentation of the SeminarWhat is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year&#8217;s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies.Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) BerlinTh&#232;me 2009-2010: Post-Ottoman Cities.November 9Introduction: Between Ideologies and Modernities: Post-Ottoman Cities in Comparative Perspective by Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) and Nora Lafi (ZMO)November 16The City, the Valley, and the Nation: On a post-Ottoman 'Land Settlement' in Mandate Palestine, 1921-1948 by Munir Kamal Fakher Eldin (Majdal Shams; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East &#8211; The Middle East in Europe 2009/10)December 7Tel Aviv as a Colonial Post-Ottoman City by Mark Levine (University of California,  Irvine / CMES Lund)January 11The Housing Question in Post-Ottoman Izmir and the Population Exchange with Greece, 1924-30 by Ellinor Morack (FU Berlin, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and  Societies)January 25Changing Social Roles in Post-Ottoman Istanbul: A Gendered Approach by Nazan  Maksudyan (Istanbul Technical University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East &#8211; The Middle East in Europe 2009/10)February 8French City or Ottoman? The Patrimonial Debate in 19th and early 20th century Algiers by Nabila Oulebsir (Universit&#233; de Poitiers)April 19Erasure and Distortion: The Ottoman Memory in Contemporary Beirut Art Production by Kirsten Scheid (American University in Beirut; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East &#8211; The Middle East in Europe 2009/10)April 26Ankara: the Republican Urban Project and the Ottoman Heritage by Kyle Evered (Michigan State University)May 10Colonial Algiers and the Ottoman Heritage: Planning, Architecture and Governance by Zeynep Celik (New-Jersey Institute of Technology)May 31Life After the Ottomans: Heritage and the New National Urban Narrative in Post-Ottoman Cities of the Balkans by Zeynep Aygen (University of Portsmouth)June 14Changing Identities in Post-Ottoman Salonica by Katherine Fleming (New-York University)June 28Intellectual Dimensions of Continuity and Transformation in post-Ottoman Istanbul by  Sait Ozervarli (Yildiz Technical University)July 12Conclusion: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) and Nora Lafi (ZMO)   This seminar is supported with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Twice a Month, Mondays 17:00-19:00 Starting November 9, 2009Venue:Conference Hall Zentrum Moderner Orient Kirchweg 33 14129 Berlin-Nikolassee  Participants are asked to register at the following address: Dr. Nora Lafi nora.lafi@rz.hu-berlin.de Telefon (+49) (0) 30 80307- 0The seminar is part of the activities of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and of the research program 'Europe in the Middle East &#8211; The Middle East in Europe' (EUME, research field 'Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions') of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the  Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.For more information please visit:  http://www.zmo.de http://www.eume.de http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mediter