Workshop Report
International Workshop “Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies”, 6-9 July 2022
After a delay of more than two years due to Covid, the first extensive workshop on DH and Ottoman Studies took place in Vienna. The “Digital humanities and Ottoman studies” workshop brought together around 40 researchers from the fields of Ottoman studies, computer science, digital humanities and experts on Oriental manuscripts based in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. The participants discussed the potentials and challenges of digital Ottoman research. The workshop addressed these challenges and covered a variety of topical issues in the DH, such as “Transcription and text recognition”, “Digitization and digital libraries”, “Digital edition and infrastructures”, “Linguistic annotation, (multilingual) texts and data mining”, “Embedding external knowledge”, “Representation of vagueness and uncertainty”, and “Multimedia, GIS”.
Further information: https://dh-ottoman.univie.ac.at
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Report Summer School “Cultural Exchange and Heritage”, 11-22 July 2022
The CEST Summer School “Cultural Exchange and Heritage” – funded by the Stiftung Mercator – took place from 11-22 July 2022 with 14 student participants from 7 countries and 6 academic disciplines. The 12 invited lecturers* covered a wide range of topics (from the history of memory to the history of migration and diplomacy). The thematic exploration of the overarching theme of “Cultural Exchange” and “Cultural Heritage” took place through a range of formats, from lectures to workshops and excursions.
*Lecturers: Sebouh David Aslanian (UCLA, Los Angeles), Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna), Günhan Börekçi (CEU, Vienna), Gönül Bozoğlu (Newcastle University), Johannes Feichtinger (IKT, ÖAW, Vienna), Maximilian Hartmuth (University of Vienna), Johann Heiss (IKT, ÖAW, Vienna), Kathrin Kininger (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Vienna), E. Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), Maria A. Stassinopoulou (University of Vienna), Jeremy F. Walton (University of Rijeka), Chris Whitehead (Newcastle University), Yasir Yılmaz (ihb, ÖAW, Vienna), Shana Zaia (University of Vienna), Boghos Levon Zekiyan (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
Further information: https://cest-graduateschool.univie.ac.at
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Workshop Report: 3rd NEHT Workshop
“Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World - The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States”,
Vienna, 8-10 September 2022
The 3rd workshop of the Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey (NEHT), organized by the Chair of Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna took place at the University of Vienna on 8-10 September 2022. The workshop brought together scholars and researchers of Ottoman and post-Ottoman environmental history under the overarching theme of “The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States”.
On the first day of the workshop, 8 September, John R. McNeill (Georgetown University) delivered a keynote focusing on “ecological teleconnections”, a term he uses to refer to the relationships by which industrial production in pockets of Britain, Europe, eastern North America, and eventually Russia and Japan resulted in environmental tumult in pockets of South America, Africa, Oceania, and elsewhere.
On the second and third days, 9-10 September, scholars and students engaged in 7 panels over 2 days. A total of 22 presentations were done, followed by a panel discussion at the end of each session.
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Between the 1990s and early 2000s, there was an intense interest in Near Eastern Studies in questions related to the history of the press. The outcomes of this research were discussed at international conferences and resulted in a number of edited volumes. For other regions like Central Asia, however, the history of the press remained understudied in spite of its potential to reveal important insights into local discourses concerning modernisation, the colonial encounter or language policy, and their respective understandings. After a long pause, the press of various regions from Central Asia to Anatolia reemerges as an object of scholarly inquiry due to the ongoing efforts in digitizing archival holdings. This lecture series aims at presenting recent scholarship on the press in the Eurasian region, focusing on lesser-known newspapers and journals that were published in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, and Anatolia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among the invited speakers are: Volker Adam (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle – Wittenberg), Ahmad Azizy (Humboldt University), Ingeborg Baldauf (Prof. em. Humboldt University), Bianca Devos (Marburg University), Michael Erdman (British Library, London), Efthymia Kanner (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Thomas Loy (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences), Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek (Kadir Has University), Murat R. Şiviloğlu (Trinity College Dublin), and Arif Tapan (Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellow, Social Sciences University of Ankara).
Further information (soon):
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/dauerveranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
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Keshif is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to collecting and editing small, fine Ottoman texts and providing easy, free access to the material through a database with effective search functions.
The journal’s mission statement can be found here:
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/keshif/about
Keshif is published twice a year. The deadline for contributions in the 1st issue (Winter 2023) is December 5, 2022.
Keshif intends to devote itself specifically to those texts that often come to light by chance while working with manuscripts: Individual poems, letters, contracts, marginal notes of various contents that are too “small” for independent publication and, at the same time, too interesting to be forgotten. We see these texts as little stones that will become more and more over the years and make a beautiful mosaic.
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Alperen Arslan is an aspiring historian of modern physical and environmental sciences, especially in the context of the Ottoman Empire and Eurasia. During his stay as an Andreas Tietze Fellow in Vienna, Alperen will investigate how the vast territories of the Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to the Near East became fertile epistemic geographies of experiment for the international community of scientists such as chemists, paleontologists, mineralogists, and botanists from the second half of the nineteenth-century onwards.
Project Title: Nature as a Universal Laboratory: Energy, Empire, and the Problem of -Global- Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1945
More information is available on:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/fellows/
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Applications for the annual Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship have been opened. We particularly welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna and/or complement and expand the current research focus of the Department (i.e. environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage).
The deadline for applications is 31 October 2022.
More information about the fellowship and application material can be found on:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/
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Turkologentag 2023 will be held in Vienna between September 21 and 23, 2023.
As of now, you can register and submit abstracts/panel proposals on our site.
Registration: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/registration/
At Turkologentag 2023, there will also be a limited number of panels reserved specifically for student (BA/MA) presentations. The deadline for submission of abstracts for student papers is March 31, 2023.
Turkologentag 2023 awards travel grants for students! We will support students who have neither travel scholarships nor funding from their universities. Preference will be given to applicants from Turkey.
Information about our Advisory Board can be found here:
https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/organization/advisory-board/
GTOT members pay lower registration fees. For more information, please visit the conference homepage: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at
The peer-reviewed journals Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies and the Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM) invite participants of the Turkologentag to submit articles. Thematic foci (4-6 contributions) are especially welcome.
Up-to-date information will be published continuously on the conference homepage. Please check back regularly: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at
In cooperation and with the support of
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We are happy to announce that our keynote speaker for the Turkologentag 2023 will be Prof. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University and Collège de France).
Edhem Eldem is a professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University and holds the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman History at the Collège de France. He has taught as a visiting professor at Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, the École pratique des hautes études and the École normale supérieure. His research interests include the Levantine trade, the history of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, Ottoman funerary epigraphy, the history of archaeology and photography in the Ottoman Empire, the socio-economic transformations of Istanbul at the turn of the twentieth century, biographies at the end of the Empire, and the dynamics of Westernization and Orientalism.
Selected Publications: French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (1999); A History of the Ottoman Bank (1999); (with Daniel Goffman and Bruce Masters) The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul (1999); Pride and Privilege: A History of Ottoman Orders, Medals and Decorations (2004); Death in Istanbul: Death and its Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture (2005), La Méditerranée turque (2000, with Feride Çiçekoğlu); L'épitaphe ottomane musulmane XVIe-XXe siècles (2007, with Nicolas Vatin); Un Orient de consommation (Istanbul, 2010); Un Ottoman en Orient. Osman Hamdi Bey in Iraq, 1869-1871 (2010); Osman Hamdi Bey and Osgan Efendi's Journey to Nemrud Dağı (2010); (As editor, with Zeynep Çelik), Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914 (2015); Osman Hamdi Bey: İzlenimler, 1869-1885 (2016); (As editor, with Houssine Alloul and Henk de Smaele), To Kill a Sultan. A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905) (2018); L’Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l’Occident (2018); (As editor, with Sophia Laiou), Istanbul and the Black Sea Coast. Shipping and Trade (2018); Mitler, Gerçekler ve Yöntem. Osmanlı Tarihinde Aklıma Takılanlar (2018); V. Murad’ın Oğlu Selahaddin Efendi’nin Evrak ve Yazıları, I, V. Murad ile Cléanthi Scalieri (2019); L’Alhambra. À la croisée des histoires (2021).
Further information: https://hist.boun.edu.tr/people/edhem-eldem
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GTOT Board Election
Here are the results of the GTOT board elections (term 2022-2025):
For the third consecutive time, Prof. Dr. Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna) has been elected President.
Deputy Presidents
Dr. Astrid Menz (University of Hamburg)
Prof. Dr. Christoph K. Neumann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Treasurer
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hülya Çelik (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Members
Prof. Dr. Elise Massicard (Tenured Research Professor, National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS)
Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel)
Prof. Dr. Julian Rentzsch (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
PD Dr. Gül Şen (University of Bonn / University of Heidelberg)
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For the third time, the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) is awarding the GTOT Prize for Outstanding Theses in the Fields of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish studies to junior researchers.
The authors of the top three M.A. theses will receive 500 Euros each; the best dissertation will be awarded 1,000 Euros. In addition, abstracts of the awarded works will be published in Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies.
Application requirements
Anyone who completed his or her thesis/dissertation in the fields of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish studies between 1 May 2020 and 21 December 2022 is eligible to apply. Theses in German, English and French from all European and Turkish Universities are accepted.
Deadline: 31 December 2022
Award ceremony
The award celebration will be held at the Turkologentag 2023 (21-23 September) in Vienna, Austria.
Further information: http://www.gtot.org/award/cfa_2023/?lang=en
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Edith Ambros, «Les études littéraires dans Turcica », 50 ans d’études Turques. Turcica, Une Revue Cinquantenaire, 10 Octobre 2022, Paris.
Ercan Akyol hat ein Schreibstipendium von der Stadt Nilüfer (Bursa), erhalten, um seine Doktorarbeit fertig zu schreiben. Er hat zudem ein Reisestipendium vom Istanbul Research Institut erhalten, um in Istanbul über osmanische Literaturgeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts zu forschen.
Julia Fröhlich, “One Route, Many Ways to Relative Freedom. The Multi-facetted Refugee Movement from Greece to Turkey (1941-44) told through a Multi-perspective Lens”, Conference Greece, Turkey and the past and present of forced migrations, Newcastle University, 5-6 September 2022.
Onur İnal (mit Deniz Armağan Akto), “Coping with the River: Nature, Empire, and the Making of the Early Modern Ottoman Danube”, Disturbance on the Danube: State, Infrastructure and the Environment, New Europe College, Bucharest, 29–30 September 2022.
Yavuz Köse, “Rıza Nur als Historiker armenischer Geschichte: das unveröffentlichte Werk Ermeni Tarihi (1914-1923)”, Panel: Schriftsteller, Historiker, Nationalist. Eine kritische Analyse von Rıza Nurs (1879-1942) Leben und Schaffen im Licht seiner unveröffentlichten Werke, 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag , 12.-17. September 2022, Berlin.
Claudia Römer, «Les études linguistiques dans Turcica», 50 ans d’études Turques. Turcica, Une Revue Cinquantenaire, 10 Octobre 2022, Paris.
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