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ArgumentThe international conference &#8220;Shaping the Modern Body. Fashion, Food, Health and Manners across South Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire (17th-19th centuries)&#8221; intends to open a rich field in an under researched variety of sources. The body is the prism through which we intend to analyse four areas of historical enquiry and social interactions: manners and behavior; dress and fashion; food; health. Private and public spaces, meetings and social events, mediators, translators and go-betweens provide an important backdrop to our focus on male and female bodies and the disciplining, feeding, clothing, healing practices that shaped and changed their self-perceptions, experiences and social identities. We aim to explore a set of sources ranging from costume books and portraits; inventories; correspondences and journals; books of etiquette, food and cosmetic recipes and medical prescriptions; photographs and magazines.The conference is organized in the frame of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant no. 646489 Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe (LuxFaSS), hosted by the New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study, BucharestConvenersGiulia CALVIConstanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCUProgramme&#160;Thursday, 23 may09.45 Welcome and Opening Remarks10.00 &#8211; 11.00 Keynote lecture&#160;Ulinka RUBLACK (University of Cambridge) The Triumph of Fashion: Towards A Global HistoryChair: Giulia CALVI (University of Siena &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest)11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break11.30 &#8211; 12. 30 Session I: Medical PracticesChair and Discussant: M&#225;ria PAKUCS ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest)Giulia CALVI (University of Siena &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest) The Body of Nature. Travelling Scientists across the Ottoman Empire (XVI-XVII)&#160;Miri SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN (Tel Aviv University) Ottoman Physicians around 1700. Rethinking the Body of the Patient12.30 - 14.00 Lunch14.00 &#8211; 15.30 Session II: Health, Food and RemediesChair and discussant: Rossitsa Gradeva (American University in Bulgaria)M&#225;ria PAKUCS ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest)"They Steal it From the Sultan's Pharmacy": Pharmaceuticals and Medicines in Early Modern TransylvaniaHedda REINDL-KIEL (University of Bonn)The Balance of Food: Body, Health and Food in the Ottoman Empire (17th-18th century)Sorin GRIGORUŢĂ ("A. D. Xenopol" Institute of History, Iași)Weakness of the Body: Patiens and Pysicians in Early Modern Moldavia15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break16.00 &#8211; 17.00 Keynote lecture&#160;Barbara STOLLBERG-RILINGER (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)"The Most Beautiful of Women". Empress Maria Theresa's Body PoliticsChair: Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest)19:00 DinnerFriday 24 may10.00 &#8211; 11.00 Session III: Food and Social StatusChair and discussant: Ovidiu Cristea ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History)Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest)Food, Body and Social Status in South-Eastern Europe (18th&#8211;early 19th centuries)Castilia MANEA-GRGIN (The Ivo Pilar Institute/University of Zagreb)Food, Drink, and the Body in Englishman Samuel Pepys' and Transylvanian Miklos Bethlen's Autobiographical Writings (17th Century)11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break11.30 &#8211; 13.00 Session IV: Textiles and PoliticsChair and discusant: Dariusz KOLODZIEJCZYK (University of Warsaw)Giorgio RIELLO (University of Warwick)Europeans&#8217; Views of the Use of the Veil in the Middle East in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesGraeme MURDOCK (Trinity College Dublin)The Calvinist Body Under Ottoman Suzerainty: Cultures of Complaint in Later Seventeenth- Century TransylvaniaMichał WASIUCIONEK (New Europe College, Bucharest)Body Politics, Textile Politics: Kaftan Exchanges in the Ottoman-Moldavian Relations13.00 - 14.30 Lunch14.30 - 16.00 Session V: Women, Beauty and MannersChair and discussant: Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest)Sandra CAVALLO (Royal Holloway, London)Making the Body Beautiful in Early Modern Western Europe and BeyondAnastasia FALIEROU (Academy of Athens &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest) Rethinking Modernity: Bodily Practices, Culture of Manners and City Life in the Ottoman EmpireNicoleta ROMAN ("Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest) &#8216;Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?&#8217; Women, Beauty, Virtue and Charms in Nineteenth Century Romanian Society16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break16.30 &#8211; 17.30 Session VI: Soul of the People and TravelChair and discussant: Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu (Faculty of History, University of Bucharest &#38; Institut f&#252;r den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, Vienna)Constantin ARDELEANU (University of Galați &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest) Purifying Passengers and Cargo. The Danubian Quarantine between Miasmatics and Contagionists (1830s &#8211; 1850s)Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam &#38; New Europe College, Bucharest) Body and Soul: Physical and Collective Identity in Romanian-language Travel Narratives, 1826-185319:00 Dinner