Via Eurasia: A European Culture Road Project Scientific Committee Meeting

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Event Date:

20.12.2019 - 09:00 to 17:00

Event Place:

UBYO Seminar Room

Event Content:

The Via Eurasia is a cross border cultural route, which links Italy to Turkey through the Balkans and is composed of individual networks of ancient roads, ranging from the Phrygian Road network, through roads of the Roman Empire, to those of the Ottoman Empire.

As part of the Civil Society Dialogue 5 EU Program, the management and scientific committees of this 5000 km cultural route is preparing to submit an application dossier to the Council of Europe for certification.

The scientific committee will gather on December 20th via a meeting kindly hosted by the Boğaziçi University’s Tourism Administration Department.and BU-Applied Tourism Administration and Research Center.

During the meeting old road networks from different eras and sustainable tourism aspects of the Via Eurasia will be discussed with open sessions and short presentations.

Program of the Scientific Meeting

09:00 – 09:30 Registration/Coffee

09:30 – 10:00 Background, Partners, Associates and Activities of the Via Eurasia Project, Hüseyin Eryurt

10:00 – 10:10 Via Eurasia – The Route of Roads: Theme and Components (1/2), Kate Clow

10:10 – 10:30 Tourism as a Tool for Sustainable Development in Destination Regions, Duygu S. Öztürk

10:30 – 10:50 Stadiasmus Patarensis and Road Networks Between Lycian Cities, Hüseyin Uzunoğlu

10:50 – 11:10 The Via Sebaste and Other Routes of St. Paul in Turkey, Mark Wilson

11:10 – 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:40 "Construction builders' mobility and social connections between Bursa and the Balkans in Ottoman times" Eirini Yalçın

11:40 – 12:00 The Ottoman Heartland and Its Roads, Caroline Finkel

12:00 – 12:20 Sultans Trail: the Ottoman Road to War, Max Smits

12:20 – 12:40 The Continuation of Via Egnatia in Bithnya, Ayşe Çalık

12:40 – 13:00 Infrastructure of Trade in Byzantium, Koray Durak

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 – 14:30 The use of heritage and its Limit in the Context of Trekking Tourism, Eisuke Tanaka

14:30 – 14:50 Via Eurasia – The Route of Roads: Theme and Components (2/2), Kate Clow

14:50 – 15:10 Submission of the Application dossier to the Council of Europe for Accreditation, Elena Dubinina

15:10 – 16:15 Discussion: Review existing material for the scientific report; further steps necessary for report; continuing activities of the committee; final conference; future programs, etc.

Useful Links

http://www.cultureroutesinturkey.com

https://www.traceyoureco.gr/

http://civilsocietydialogue.org/

https://www.viefrancigene.org/en/

https://www.coe.int/en/web/culturalroutes - https://www.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes/about-the-eicr

https://www.viaegnatiafoundation.eu/

https://www.sultanstrail.net/over-ons/?lang=en