The core team of Open Jerusalem is going to meet up altogether for the very first time! We are really excited to start a new phase of our project.
Here you can find our strictly scheduled seminar program:
Sat 27, 1st day: team building
Sun 28, 2nd day: scientific framework
Mon 29, 3rd day: timetable of future development
We will report day by day some results of every session. So please follow us here on our new blog.
It’s time to launch our new social network channels: facebook page and twitter account. You are more than welcome in visiting us in our virtual space. Feel free to give back to us your comments and feedbacks by email.
PROGRAM
- 9:15: Vincent Lemire (Université Paris-Est): « Open Jerusalem Project : a first assessment after 5 months »
- 9:30: Falestin Naïli (IFPO Amman): «The Ottoman municipality of Jerusalem: how to reconstruct the history of a forgotten urban institution».
–> Please click here to read her text
- 10:00: Merav Mack (CRFJ) «The Survey of Archives in Jerusalem: toward a completion».
–> Please click here to read her presentation
- 10:30: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université de Laval - Québec): «Jusqu’où ouvrir Jérusalem? Curiosités, questions et apostilles sur le projet Open Jerusalem»
–> Please click here to read his text
Photo: An Ottoman map of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, from 1882-83 (1300 AH), from the Sâlnâme-yi vilâyet-i Sûriye 1300 AH. From the Hathi Trust
PROGRAM
- 15:00: Vincent Lemire (UPEM): «Which internal / external communication for the Open Jerusalem Project?»
- 15:30: Elena Astafieva (CNRS): «The Russian Presence in Palestine: Political, Religious and Cultural aspects, 1840-1920»
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- 16:00: Marie-Alpais Torcheboeuf (Ecole nationale des Chartes): «Les archives de l’Ecole biblique et archéologique de Jérusalem: présentation du premier inventaire»
–> Please click here to read her text
- 17:00: Yann Potin (Archives de France): «Regard d’un archiviste sur le projet Open Jerusalem»
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- 17:30: Merav Mack (CRFJ): works in progress
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Photo: The Mosque of Al-Aksa, Jerusalem between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington
PROGRAM
- 14:00: Vincent Lemire: «Jerusalem is not (only) in Jerusalem : a transnational project between local and global»
- 14:30: Prof. Yaron Ben‐Naeh (Professor, HUJI): «Where did the Sephardim Disappear?»
- 15:00: Stéphane Ancel (Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Hambourg): «The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and its Archives»
–> Please click here to read his text
- 16:00: Leyla Dakhli (CR-CNRS, IREMAM): «Imperial multilingualism and national translations? Understanding the Ottoman linguistic practices»
- 16:30: Flavia Ruani (EPHE): «The Syriac Orthodox Community in Jerusalem and its archives»
–> Please click here to read her text
- 17:00: Merav Mack (CRFJ): works in progress (last visits, contacts, finalization of the questionnaire…)
Photo: General view, Jerusalem between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington
PROGRAM
- 15:30: Vincent Lemire: «Under the Canopy: How to move in a documentary archipelago?»
- 16:00: Michelle Campos (ZMO ‐ Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin): «‘Unmixing’ the Holy City: Civic Disintegration and Urban Segregation in Mandatory Jerusalem»
- 16:45: Angelos Dalachanis (IREMAM, Aix‐en-Provence): «From Suez to Jérusalem: studying urban and social history through the Greek archives»
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- 17:30: Merav Mack (CRFJ): works in progress (last visits, Christ Church Archives, Sephardi Community Archives, Questionnaire…)
- 18:00: Falestin Naïli (IFPO, member of Open-Jerusalem Team): works in progress (Minutes of Ottoman municipality 1892‐1915, Jerusalem Archives in Amman…)
- 18:30: Discussion (Discussant: Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois University)
Des archives municipales ottomanes (1892-1912)
aux archives citadines de Jérusalem (1840-1940)
PROGRAM
- 9:30: Vincent Lemire, introduction : «Le projet archives municipales (2010-2013), une préfiguration du projet Open Jerusalem (2014-2019)?»
- 10:00: Falestin Naïli (IFPO Amman, member of Open Jerusalem Team) : «Jerusalem, Amman, Beirut and beyond: moving from the Jerusalem municipal archives to the collective memory of Ottoman Jerusalem in search of citadinité»
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- 10:30: Yasemin Avci (Pamukkale Univ., member of Open Jerusalem Team): «Jerusalem Municipal Archives and Istanbul Imperial Archives in Osmänle: How to interconnect the two levels?»
–> Please click here to read her text
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- 11:00: Merav Mack (CRFJ): «Open Jerusalem Survey: New Questionnaire and First Results»
Ouvrir les archives de Jérusalem:
pour une histoire connectée de la citadinité dans la ville sainte (1840/1940)
PROGRAM
- 9:00: welcome
- 9:30: Vincent Lemire (Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée): introduction: “Où sont les archives citadines de Jérusalem? Premiers jalons d’une recherche en cours”
- 10:00: Merav Mack (CRFJ): “The Jerusalems Archives and Libraries Survey (2007) and the Open-Jerusalem Project (2014-2019): similarities and differences”
- 10:30: Roberto Mazza (Western Illinois University): “To Unlock the Holy City: Questions, Themes and Sources to Rediscover the Late Ottoman and Early British Jerusalem”
- 11:00: Maria Chiara Rioli (Ecole normale supérieure de Pise): “Les archives de l’Eglise latine de Jérusalem sont-elles des archives citadines ?”
- 11:30: discussion
Photo: Nebi Musa festival outside of the Damascus Gate (between 1898 and 1917), Jerusalem, American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept.
Opening Jerusalem Archives: for a connected history of 'Citadinité' in the Holy City (1840-1940)
