Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84960360728?pwd=RUzNOSKEXWX0GbUKdtbhxOmB90iWa3.1

Meeting ID: 849 6036 0728
Passcode: 130544

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PROGRAM

Thursday, 18 June 2026

11.00–11.30
Introductory Remarks
Constantin Ardeleanu

11.45–14.15
Session 1 | The Northern and Western Black Sea
Chair: Constantin Ardeleanu

Metin Omer and Adriana Cupcea
Invisible Identities at the Black Sea. The Turkish Tinsmiths in Babadağ (Romania)

Alena Bagro
Ottoman Religious Heritage in the Northwestern Black Sea Region: Preservation and the Problem of Collective Memory

Filiz Tutku Aydın & Yelis Erolova
A Comparison of Preservation of Cultural Heritage of Crimean Tatar Diaspora Communities in Türkiye and Bulgaria

Serhat Keskin
The Politics of Heritage in Russian Occupied Crimea

Constantin Ardeleanu
The Multiconfesional Heritage of a Cosmopolitan Port-City: The Maritime Cemetery of Sulina

14.30–15.30 

Session 2 | Language as Heritage
Chair: Adriana Cupcea

Özlem Şendeniz
Preserving Local Heritage: An Introduction to the Impact Assessment of Civil Society Initiatives on the Laz Language and Culture

Fatih Sami Özakyol
The Transformation of Biocultural Relations in the Eastern Black Sea Region: Language, Nature, and Memory

Friday, 19 June 2026

10.00–11.30
Session 3 | Alevism & Heritage
Chair: Nail Elhan

Melike Tepecik
Encircling the Sacred: The Çal Baba Forest and Mountain at the Intersection of Ecology, Belief, and Economy

Nail Elhan
Can the Subaltern Be Archived? Alevi Periodicals and the Politics of Memory

Veysel Dinler
The Uygur Village of Amasya as a Major Preserver of Alevi Heritage

11.45–13.15
Session 4 | Anatolian Heritage
Chair: Theodosios Kyriakidis

Octavian-Adrian Negoiță
Paul of Aleppo (1627–1669) and His Remarks on the Religious Life in the Territories around the Black Sea

Ediz Hazir
Missionary Networks and the Protection of Catholic Heritage in the Ottoman Black Sea: The Assumptionist Mission in Zonguldak (1897–1935)

Vanessa R. de Obaldía
The Capuchin Mission in Türkiye’s Black Sea Region: Towards a Preservation of Monuments & Archives

13.30–15.30
Session 5 | Monumental & Archival Heritage
Chair: Silvana Rachieru

David Neagu
The Armenian Churches from Moldova: from Prosperity to Abandonment

Olena Uvarova
The Greeks of Odesa in the 19th Century in Archives and Architecture: a Disappearing Presence

Theodosios Kyriakidis
Monumental and Manuscript Heritage of the Greek Orthodox in Anatolia: A Critical Review

Silvana Rachieru, Tiberiu Vasilescu
Ottoman Rural Heritage Under the Siege of Ignorance: Vanishing Mosques and Forgotten Cemeteries in Dobrudja

15.45-16.30
Keynote Speaker
Zeynep Ahunbay