Research Presentations
Upcoming events
24-25 September 2026 - Vienna
Vincent Thérouin - “Beyond han-s and bridges: Tracing the road between ‘road mosques,’ springs, and ruins in Ottoman Bosnia”, at Workshop Routes and Communication Networks: Rethinking Connectivity and Agency in the Historical Geography of the Balkans
17-20 September 2027 - Skopje
Vincent Thérouin - “A Monument on Its Own Scale? Building, Preserving, and Contextualizing Neighbourhood Mosques: Examples from Sarajevo (15th-17th centuries)”, at 18th International Congress on Turkish Art
Past events
Pınar Ceylan and Christopher Markiewicz - “The Long-Term Financial Trajectory of Ottoman Foundations (Waqfs): A Political Economy Perspective”, at 26th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré- Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Varna, 23-27 June 2026
İrem Gündüz-Polat - “Charity from State Lands: 'Sultanic’ Waqfs and their Waqfiyyas in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”, at 26th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré- Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Varna, 23-27 June 2026
Vincent Thérouin - “Is this settlement new? Trajectories of waqf-incorporated “founded settlements” of the early modern Ottoman Balkans", at 26th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré- Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Varna, 23-27 June 2026
Semih Özmeriç and Roman Schärer - “Introducing a Large Dataset. Diverse Approaches to Centrally Supervised Waqfs of the Ottoman Empire (14th – 18th Centuries)”, at 26th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré- Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO), Varna, 23-27 June 2026
Vincent Thérouin - “Turning 'Villages' into 'Cities'? The Urbanization Process in Early Modern Ottoman Bosnia, its Effectiveness and its Conceptualization”, at Conference, Medieval Landscapes and Rurality in Anatolia and Beyond, Istanbul, 14-16 May 2026
Vincent Thérouin - “De l’extraction automatisée au WebSIG, restituer le territoire de la Bosnie ottomane (XVe-XIXe siècles)”, at Workshop, Construire une solution GéoNakala - Exposer les données géohistoriques en WebSIG Fair, Alexandria, 3-7 May 2026
İrem Gündüz-Polat - "The Role of Waqfs in the Political and Territorial Consolidation of the Early Ottoman Polity", at Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series, Textual, Spatial and Material Approaches in Ottoman History, Ghent University, Ghent, 23 April 2026
Vincent Thérouin - "Seeing Like a Space: Investigating Urbanization in Ottoman Bosnia, between Texts, Maps, and Material Remains", at Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series, Textual, Spatial and Material Approaches in Ottoman History, Ghent University, Ghent, 23 April 2026
Pınar Ceylan and Christopher Markiewicz - "The Long-Term Financial Trajectory of Ottoman Foundations (Waqfs): A Political Economy Perspective", at The Economic History Society Annual Meeting, London School of Economics, 11 April 2026
Vincent Thérouin - “Do you know where this village is?” Automating the Extraction and Alignment of Toponyms, Between Latin and Non-Latin Scripts, for the Ottoman Context”, at DistamLab seminar, Online, 7 April 2026
Vincent Thérouin - co-chair of panel 1, “Early modern Circulations and Contacts", at Symposium “Perspectives on art histories in the Balkans - Actors, Networks, and Practices from the Early Modern to the Contemporary”, Paris, 18-20 March 2026
Pınar Ceylan and Christopher Markiewicz - "The Long-Term Financial Trajectory of Ottoman Foundations (Waqfs): A Political Economy Perspective", at The Early Modern Economic & Social History Seminar, Cambridge University, 12 March 2026
Christopher Markiewicz - “Foundations of the Ottoman State: Evkaf-ı Selatin and the Political Economy of Endowments”, at The Ottoman World and Beyond, 1400-1800: In Honor of Cornell H. Fleischer, Bilgi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, 26-28 June 2025
Christopher Markiewicz - "Waqf and the Bayt al-Mal in the Mamluk and Ottoman Sultanates", presented at « Anatomie des fondations pieuses waqf : récits situés et cercles d’influence genrés dans les espaces islamiques » Séminaire IISMM, EHESS, Paris, 18 April 2025
Christopher Markiewicz - “Endowments and State Formation in Islamic Lands (1450-1650)”, keynote lecture at Vinculação & Herança: a dinâmica dos morgadios e capelas em novos contextos geográficos (séculos XVI-XVIII), IberLAND ERC Project, University of Hannover, 19 November 2024
Christopher Markiewicz - “Waqf and the Bayt al-Mal in the Mamluk and Ottoman Sultanates”, at Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting 2024, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 4 October 2024
Christopher Markiewicz - “Endowments and the Public Treasury in Sultanates of the Fifteenth Century”, presented at Unstated: Low Authority Societies in Medieval Europe, Cornell University, 28-29 May 2024
Christopher Markiewicz - “Islamic Endowments (Waqf) and State Formation in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1650”, presented at New Perspectives on Late Medieval Middle East History, L’Université de Liège, 17 May 2024
Publications
Abdurrahman Atçıl and Christopher Markiewicz. "Sharʿia and Governance in Ottoman Egypt: The Waqf Controversy in the Mid-Sixteenth Century." International Journal of Middle East Studies. 2024;56(1):55-74. doi:10.1017/S0020743824000278
Thérouin, Vincent. "Mapping the Vanished Han Networks of Bosnia: The Use of GIS to Visualize Local Road Systems in an Ottoman Context". International Journal of Islamic Architecture 15, no. 1 (2026): 91–113