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At the Ottoman Bank Museum Bridging the Gap.. Rural Macedonia From Ottoman to Greek Rule (1900-1920) The series of monthly seminars, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean", organized by the Ottoman Bank Museum in collaboration with Alpha Bank and the History Department of Boğaziçi University, continues this month on the topic of the history of Macedonian countryside. Socrates Petmezas from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete will be joining us with a presentation in English entitled "Bridging the Gap…Rural Macedonia From Ottoman to Greek Rule (1900-1920)" on Friday, April 15, at 5:00 p.m. In his lecture, Socrates Petmezas will examine Macedonian countryside in the first decades of the 20th century. Petmezas, through his presentation, will be combining the first ottoman agricultural "census" of 1907-1908 and the subsequent Greek agricultural statistics of 1914-1922 for the provinces that are currently part of Hellenic Macedonia. Petmezas, with this study, aims to assess the informative value of each individual census, make comparisons between the respective Greek and Ottoman European agricultural economies and, finally, give a clearer picture of the economic development of the region in the last decades of the Ottoman era. Socrates Petmezas' concern is to bridge the gap between academic communities, each entrenched into its own national monologue. After graduating from the Department of Economics at the University of Salonica , Socrates Petmezas received his masters degree at the E.H.E.S.S. , Paris. He has been teaching economic and social history at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete, in Rethymno, since 1990. In 2003, he published a book on the "History of Greek Agriculture in the 19th century" in Greek . The monthly seminar series, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean", focuses on the Greek Orthodox populations of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Seminar speakers provide comprehensive information on the subject and have a special awareness of the delicate historical context. Admission to the seminars is free. Assist. Prof. Elçin Macar will be our next speaker at the conference scheduled for Friday, May 27, 2005. 
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