COL - Colloquium on Ottoman Literature
Ottoman Literature Through the Centuries
3nd Colloquium on Ottoman Literature (June 6, 2024)
15:00-16:30
Şeyma Benli (Medeniyet University, Istanbul): Women as Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Pseudo-Regents in the Ottoman laṭīfe Corpus
İpek Hüner (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul): Possibilities of Ottoman Fiction: Hikayet-i Yahya Çelebi
Gisela Procházka-Eisl (University of Vienna): Poetry from the Provinces: Vaṣfī Efendi and his Largely Unknown Œuvre
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30
Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna): Ġazels in Progress: Drafts from Muḥibbī’s (Süleymān I) Poems
Hakan Yerebakan (Central European Universiy, Vienna): Early Modern Ottoman Humor and Invective: Theoretical Framework and Context
Aslıhan Gürbüzel (McGill University, Montreal): On Ottoman Love: Conversations between Political Thought, Sufism, and Literature
Organizers: Gisela Procházka-Eisl, Ercan Akyol
Dean, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies: Stephan Müller
2nd Colloquium on Ottoman Literature (April 20, 2023)
15:00-15:30
Sooyong Kim (Koç University, Istanbul): Ottoman Engagement with Persian Poetry across the 17th Century
15:45-16:15
Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna): Taming the thugs and protecting the peace: The professional experiences of a disappointed ḳāḍī
16:15-16:45 Coffee and Tea
16:45-17:15
Edith Ambros (University of Vienna): Centripetal and centrifugal structures and tendencies in Ottoman poetry
17:30-18:00
R. Aslıhan Aksoy Sheridan (TED University, Ankara): Taming the Nefs: Reading a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish Mecmū’a Inside Out
1st Colloquium on Ottoman Literature (May 19, 2022)
15:00-15:30
Ali Emre Özyıldırım (Yıldız Technical University): Osmanlı Şiirinde Özeleştiriden Sosyal Eleştiriye: Mihnet-keşan Örneği (18th/19th cent.)
15:45-16:00
Nazlı Vatansever (University of Vienna): Sahhaflarşeyhizade Es'ad Efendi’s (1789-1848) Text Compilation Practices and Intellectual Curiosities Through His mecmuas (19th cent.)
16:15-16:30
Aysu Akcan (University of Vienna): Could We Talk About Ego-Documents When We Talk About Ottoman Letters? Lāmiʿī Çelebi and His Letter-Collection, Kitābu Niṣābi’l-Belāġa (16th cent.)
16:45-17:00
Edith Ambros (University of Vienna): Turkish Soldiers’ Oral Dialectal Reminiscences of the Balkan Wars, the First World War and the War of Independence: a Genre of Ego-Document (20th cent.)
17:15-17:45 Coffee Break
17:45-18:00
Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna): Understanding the Intricacies of Persian Literature in the Ottoman Context: Meḥmed Riyāżī Efendi and His Dictionary of Poetry, Düstūru l-ʿamal (17th cent.)
18:15-18:30
Gisela Procházka-Eisl (University of Vienna): With Friends Like This You Don’t Need Enemies: The Ottoman Poet Sürūrī and His Polemics. (18th cent.)
18:45-19:15
Michael Sheridan (TED University, Ankara): Demonic Hermaphrodites, Infidel Catamites, and Poetaster Pimps: Sociocultural Tensions in the Early 17th-century Ottoman Elite as Seen through Invective Verse (17th cent.)