COL - 4th Colloquium on Ottoman Literature

20.11.2025

Thursday, November 20, 2025 – 14:30-18:00

14:30-16:00

Şerife Yalçınkaya (Ege University, İzmir): Places Have Memories: The Cultural Life of the Muslim Population in Izmir in the Seventeenth Century 

Edith  Ambros (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna):  On Some Secular and Religious Garshuni Turkish Poems Sung in the 19th Century  

Elif Sezer Aydınlı (Sabancı University, Istanbul): Ottoman Graffiti: 19th Century Storybooks as a Source of Popular Art?

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Şeyma Benli (Istanbul Medeniyet University): Types of Authorship in Ottoman Literature

Ercan Akyol (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna): An Istanbulite Poet for a Mamluk Patron: The Story of Mūnisü’l-ʿuşşāḳ (1509), an Unknown Şehrengiz 

Gisela Procházka-Eisl (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna): “Owls Nesting in the Ruins of a Broken World” – About the Translation Project of Sürūrī’s muẓḥikāt and its Problems

 

Location: Campus Universität Wien/ Hof 4/ Seminarraum Turkologie, Institut für Orientalistik

Organizers: Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Ercan Akyol