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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Yavuz Köse
Yavuz Köse
T: +43-1-4277-43430
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/persons/yavuz-koese(09c1ef67-bafe-43e4-8d59-1232847d1090).html
Summer term 2025
141001 VO STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
141020 VU M3 Contemporary Research and Methods in Studies on Modern Turkey
141034 SE Historical-Cultural Seminar (and Bachelor's Paper) - Minorities
141037 UE M10 - UE A - Digital Text Analysis in Ottoman Studies
141163 VO Ringvorlesung Literature and History of Turkey - Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
141229 SE M14 - Seminar Master thesis
Winter term 2024
141001 VO OR-1 VO Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
141003 UE Archives, Ottoman Sources, and Media (reading texts included)
141009 UE Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies
141053 VO History of the Republic of Turkey
141160 VU M1 - VU Contemporary Research and Methods in Ottoman Studies
141163 VO Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia
141165 SE Politics and Society
141666 SE M4 - SE Culture and Cultural Policy
Summer term 2024
140229 SE M14 - Seminar Master thesis
141001 VO STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
141031 EX M2 Ottoman Empire in Transformation: From Empire to Nation I: Ottoman Cultural History - Eating and drinking culture in the capital of the Ottoman Empire (18th-20th century - Excursion seminar)
141034 SE Historical-Cultural Seminar (and Bachelor's Paper) - Eating and drinking culture in the capital of the Ottoman Empire (18th-20th century - Excursion seminar
141073 PS Introduction to Academic Methods andSelected Fields of Turkish Studies
141163 VO Ringvorlesung Current Research in Turkish Studies II
420012 SE EurAsian Transformations Doctoral Seminar - New Perspectives in the Philological, Historical and Cultural Studies of EuraAsia: Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Köse, Y., Völker, T., & Kucera, P. (2025). Introduction. In Y. Köse, P. Kucera, & T. Völker (Eds.), Becoming Ottoman: Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages (pp. 1-18). I.B. Tauris.
Köse, Y. (2025). To abandon one’s homeland, name and religion: Germans becoming Muslims in the late Ottoman Empire. In Y. Köse, P. Kucera, & T. Völker (Eds.), Becoming Ottoman: Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages (pp. 181-204). I.B. Tauris.
Köse, Y., Völker, T., & Kucera, P. (Eds.) (2025). Becoming Ottoman. Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages. I.B. Tauris.
Köse, Y. (2024). Prusyalı Emin Efendi (1813-1892) – the founding director of the first modern law school (Mekteb-i Hukuk) in the Ottoman Empire. In B. Antonova-Goleva, & I. Masheva (Eds.), Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century.: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Space (pp. 93-116). Brill.
Köse, Y. (2024). Hippilerin Türk Kraliçesi: Perihan Yücel’i Hatırlamak. In A. Yenen, & E. J. Zürcher (Eds.), 100 Kesitle Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi'nin 100 Yılı (pp. 276-282). İletişim Yayınları.
Köse, Y. (2024). En eski Ermeni harfli Türkçe matbu yemek kitabı: Yemek ve Hamur İşleri Tertibi (1861). Yemek ve Kültür, 75(1), 60-66.
Köse, Y. (2023). The Turkish Queen of Hippies: Remembering Perihan Yücel. In E. J. Zürcher, & A. Yenen (Eds.), A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments (pp. 249-254). Leiden University Press.
Köse, Y., Celik, H., & Prochazka-Eisl, G. (Eds.) (2023). “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Brill. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage Vol. 78 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545809
Köse, Y. (2023). Strolling around Vienna Unarmed. Rıza Nur and His “Letters from Vienna” (1911). In H. Çelik, Y. Köse, & G. Procházka-Eisl (Eds.), “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer (Vol. 78, pp. 763-788). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545809_032
Köse, Y., Akcan Altintas, A. A., Celik, H., & Sargsyan, A. (2023). Digital Preservation, Publishing and HTR of Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Printed Books and Newspapers from the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna (MEKHITAR). Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 9(2), 67-75. https://doi.org/10.2979/tur.2022.a902165
Köse, Y. (2023). Die Türkei Erdoğans: Von der Demokratisierung zur elektoralen Autokratie. Rudolphina : Wissenschaftsmagazin der Universität Wien. https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/tuerkei-von-der-demokratie-zur-elektoralen-autokratie
Köse, Y. (2023). "Vienna is a Treasure to Us": Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Role Models for the Late Ottoman Empire. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 32(3-4), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2022.03/04.06
Köse, Y. (2023). The First Ottoman-Turkish History of the Armenians. Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions, 1(1), 38-44. https://doi.org/10.25365/kshf-23-01-08
Köse, Y. (Ed.), Inal, O. (Ed.), & Akyol, E., (TRANS.) (2022). İktidar Tohumları: Osmanlı Çevre Tarihi Üzerine İncelemeler. İletişim Yayınları.
Köse, Y., & Inal, O. (2022). Environnement, climat. In F. Georgeon, N. Vatin, G. Veinstein, & E. Borromeo (Eds.), Dictionnaire de l'Empire ottoman (2 ed., pp. 712-716). CNRS Editions.
Köse, Y., Akcan, A., Celik, H., & Sargsyan, A. (2022). Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Printed Books and Newspapers from the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna (MEKHITAR): Research Note. Manuscript in preparation.
Köse, Y., & Inal, O. (Eds.) (2022). Human-Animal Encounters in the Middle East and Central Asia. Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 3(1), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.5771/2625-9842-2022-1-5
Köse, Y. (2022). Yeni Vatanın Doğasını Keşfetmek: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Erken Dönem Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nde Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). In O. Inal, & Y. Köse (Eds.), Iktidar Tohumları: Osmanlı Çevre Tarihi Üzerine İncelemeler (pp. 295-318). İletişim Yayınları.
Köse, Y., & Nocera, L. (2021). Thematic Focus: Concept of Culture and its Politicization in Turkey: Introduction. Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 2(2021), 302-303.
Köse, Y. (2021). Ein Land zwischen Zuversicht und Zorn. Falter. Stadtzeitung für Wien, 43(21), 21-21.
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Yavuz Köse

Professor

  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
Type of address: Postal address.
Austria

Web address: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at

Research interests

His research is focused on the social, economic, and consumption history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Particularly, he is interested in the effects of modernization and globalization in the late Ottoman Empire. Other major topics Köse is engaged with are the environmental history and the emergence and development of tourism in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.

Curriculum vitae

Since 2019: Professor for Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Chair), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna

2010-2018: W3-Professor for Turkology (Deputy Chair), Asien-Afrika-Institut, University Hamburg

2008-2010: Assistant Professor (akademischer Rat (a.Z.), Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2001-2008: Research Assistant, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2001: Magister Artium in History and Culture of the Near East and Turkish Studies (major), Psychology and Economics (both minor), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

1995-2001: MA in History and Culture of the Near East and Turkish Studies (major), Marketing and Adverstising psychology and Economics (both minor), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Administrative Duties

Since June 2024
Head of the Department of Near Eastern Studies

Since January 2024
Vice Speaker Doctoral School of Philological and Cultural Studies

October 2022 - June 2024
Deputy Head of the Department of Near Eastern Studies

Since Noveber 2022
Spokesperson Professors of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies

Since October 2020
Vice-Study programme director DSPL (42)

Since October 2020
Member of the "Fakultätskonferenz"

2012-2018
Chairman of the B.A. and M.A. Examinations board, Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg

2017-2018
Head of the Master selection committee, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg

2013-2018
Member of the Commission of Teaching and Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg

2013-2017
Deputy member of the Commission of Teaching and Studies, Faculty for Humanities, University of Hamburg

2011-2018
Speaker TürkeiEuropaZentrum Hamburg (TEZ), University of Hamburg

2011-2017
Head and Deputy head of Department Middle Eastern Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut,
University of Hamburg

Journal Editing Roles

since 2019
Editorial board member, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM)

since 2018
Co-founder, Editorial board member and Chief editor, Diyâr. Journal for Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies

2012-2019
Co-editor, Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung in Deutschland (Springer VS Verlag)

Band 1: Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung in Deutschland
Band 2: Die Türkei im Spannungsfeld von Kollektivismus und Diversität
Band 3: Grenzräume - Grenzgänge - Entgrenzungen
Band 4: Umbrüche – Krisen – Widerstände

Memberships

since 2025
Society for Armenian Studies (SAS)

since 2015
President of the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT e.V.)

since 2015
Founding member of the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (CEST)

2010-2017
Board member Deutsch-Türkische Gesellschaft e.V. (DTG)

since 2009
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (SOG)

since 2004
Founding member Münchner Zentrum für Islamstudien (MZIS)

Armenische Buchstaben, türkische Worte. Die Erschließung und Erforschung der armeno-türkischen Sammlung der Wiener Mechitharisten-Kongregation

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

21 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Quo Vadis Türkei?

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

10 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Food and Cooking in the Late Ottoman Empire

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

7 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Kontrolle und Gewalt im osmanischen Bergreich

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

17 Oct 2023 → 21 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

How to do Critical Turkish Studies?

Yavuz Köse (Speaker), Kerem Öktem (Speaker), Paul Levin (Speaker), Lea Nocera (Speaker) & Elise Massicar (Speaker)

22 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The oldest printed Armeno-Turkish cookbook: Yemek ve Hamur İşleri Tertibi (1861)

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

21 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Transcribing and Searching Ottoman Newspapers (Transkribus)

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

21 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

100 Jahre Republik Türkei

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

24 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Die wohlbehüteten Ländereien des Sultans. Territoriale Schrumpfung und imperiale Größe im späten Osmanischen Reich

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

1 Dec 2022 → 3 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Osmanische Texte mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz transkribieren. Erste Ergebnisse

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

19 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Short introduction to the collection of Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

22 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Das Hochglanzmagazin Şehbâl und seine Werbeanzeigen: Zwischen Global, Lokal und Glokal

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

11 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

26 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“Strolling Through Istanbul”: Early Modern Guides to the City

Yavuz Köse (Speaker) & Alptug Güney (Speaker)

27 Sept 2021 → 30 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“Viyana bize … daha iyidir, daha lazımdır”. Dr. Rıza Nur and his letters from Vienna

Yavuz Köse (Keynote speaker)

29 Jul 2021 → 31 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Panel: Ottoman Transkribus: Experiences of HTR+ Model Training for Ottoman Turkish in various scripts

Yavuz Köse (Speaker) & Melike Aysu Akcan Altintas (Speaker)

21 Jul 2021 → 23 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna as a unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire

Yavuz Köse (Invited speaker)

24 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Geschichte der Juden vom Osmanischen Reich bis zur Republik Türkei

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

3 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

HTRising Ottoman Manuscripts

Yavuz Köse (Speaker), Melike Aysu Akcan Altintas (Speaker) & Julia Brigitte Fröhlich (Speaker)

12 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

100 Jahre UHH: OTHAPP. Auf digitalen Spuren osmanisch-türkischer Präsenz in Hamburg: OTHAPP

Yavuz Köse (Speaker)

24 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Türkeibezogene Forschungen am Institut für Orientalistik

Yavuz Köse (Speaker), Ayse Dilsiz Hartmuth (Speaker) & Onur Inal (Speaker)

23 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

„...richtig entlaufen, seiner Heimat, seinem Beruf, seinem Glauben“. Deutsche Konvertiten im späten Osmanischen Reich

Yavuz Köse (Invited speaker)

24 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Head

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 1F-O1-18

T: +43-1-4277-43430

yavuz.koese@univie.ac.at