Dr. Michael Talbot’s research explores Ottoman history in a global context through Ottoman relations with other states and societies, including through formal and informal diplomacy and encounters at sea. He has published on Ottoman-British relations, Ottoman Algiers, Ottomans and Southeast Asia, and Ottoman concepts and practices of maritime sovereignty. In 2017 he published Ottoman-British Relations 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth Century Istanbul.講演２　
Kristine Kostikyan (Matenadaran, Armenia)
“Some Peculiarities in the Activities of the Armenian Merchants in the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries Considered on the Basis of Persian Documents”

Dr. Kristine Kostikyan specializes in Persian source studies: documents, manuscripts and historiographies. Her research on Persian sources refers to different issues of history of Armenian people, Iran and Armenian-Iranian relations. Her first research was on the 19th century Persian historiography on history of Karabagh (Mirza Yusif Nersesov, Tarikh-e Safi) in the 18th century till its annexation to Russian Empire, which she published in 2000. She has published four volumes the Persian decrees and sharī‘a documents of the Matenadaran and the ‘Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran’ in English.