Back	At the Ottoman Bank Museum POST-REVOLUTIONARY "PASSIONS"": Reform, Revolt and Contested Nationality in the Making of the Greek-Ottoman "Frontier" 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 at Boğaziçi University, will consider, this month, a key episode in the making of the Greek-Ottoman "frontier." Akis Papataxiarchis, from the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean, will be joining us with a presentation in English, entitled, "Post-Revolutionary 'Passions': Reform, Revolt and Contested Nationality in the Making of the Greek-Ottoman 'Frontier'," The conference is scheduled for Friday, September 30, at 5:00 p.m. In his lecture, Akis Papataxiarchis will address a major crisis that occurred in Ayvalik/Kydonies in April 1842, three years after the promulgation of the Gülhane Hatt-i Serifi and the beginning of the Tanzima reforms, and a year before the Constitutional Revolution in Greece, when G. Mavrogordatos, King Otto's special envoy and ex prime-minister, was negotiating the "Commercial Treaty" between the Greeks and the Ottomans with his counterparts in Istanbul. Although of usually diverging opinions and viewpoints on Greek-Ottoman matters, most of the the available primary and secondary sources concurred in describing the rebellion as a tax 'revolt'. Adopting a a micro-historical, bottom-up perspective, Papataxiarchis will discuss the interrelated aspects of this multifaceted event, including factional strife (among Ottoman Christians), contested nationality and boundary negotiation. Akis Papataxiarchis obtained his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics in 1988 with a thesis entitled, Kinship, Friendship and Gender Relations in two Village Communities (Lesbos, Greece). In 1986, he was appointed to the Department of History and Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean, in Mytilene, where he has been teaching as assistant professor since 1989. He has been invited, as a visiting scholar, to the University of Crete, Boğaziçi University, the London School of Economics, and the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Papataxiarchis has published extensively on issues of gender, cultural and social strategies, and issues of methodology and is co-editor of the volumesContested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, with P. Loizos and Lillies of the Field: Marginal People Who Live for the Moment, Westview Press, 1999, with S. Day and M. Stewart Boulder. The monthly seminar series, "Economy and Society on Both Shores of the Aegean," concentrates on the Greek Orthodox populations of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Seminar speakers provide comprehensive information on the subject and display special awareness of the delicate historical context. Admission to the seminars is free. Prof. Filiz Yenisehirlioglu will be our next speaker at the conference scheduled for Friday, October 21.