COL - Colloquium on Ottoman Literature
Ottoman Literature Through the Centuries
Fourth Colloquium on Ottoman Literature (20 November 2025)
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
Organizers: Gisela Procházka-Eisl, Ercan Akyol
Dean, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies: Stephan Müller
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.)