Our exciting series will continue next year on 11 January 2023 with Volker Adam (Martin Luther University) speaking on “The Azerbaijani Press (1875-1920) as an Ideology-Forming Field of Research in Soviet and Post-Soviet Times” and on 17 January with Bianca Devos (Marburg University) who will speak on “Journalism between Politics and Literature: Tehran’s famous newspaper Shafaq-e Sorkh in the 1920s”. Finally, Murat R. Şiviloğlu (Trinity College Dublin) will conclude the series with his lecture on “The Emergence of Public Opinion in the Ottoman Empire”.
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Ezgi Sarıtaş received her PhD in Gender Studies from Ankara University. Her dissertation, which focused on the heteronormalization of love and eroticism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was published as a book in Turkish in 2020 under the title Cinsel Normalliğin Kuruluşu (Construction of Sexual Normality). She works as a research assistant at Ankara University, where she teaches courses on gender and sexuality and the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.
Sarıtaş’s research under the Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship, titled “A Transgender History of Movement and Translation between Vienna and Istanbul,” aims to examine the production and translation of scientific knowledge about sexuality in the interplay between the movement of people and the translation of ideas and concepts by juxtaposing personal narratives and medical discourses.
More about Sarıtaş and her project is here:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/fellows/
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Mustafa Kemal Baran completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University. His dissertation, "Between Place, Local Communities, and Labour: Archaeological Heritage and Memory in Turkey” explored the history and politics of archaeological practice and heritage based on a theoretical framework framed by memory studies. He currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University.
Baran’s project investigates the history and politics of archaeological practice in Turkey during and between two world wars. Focusing on the social history of the excavations directed by the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Ephesus during this period, his research aims to contribute to the scholarship that focuses on the preservation and stewardship of cultural heritage and archaeological practice in Turkey.
More about Baran and his project is here:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/fellows/
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Nazlı Vatansever completed her BA and MA in Turkish Language and Literature in Istanbul (Yıldız Technical University and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University). She obtained her Ph.D. in Ottoman and Turkish Studies from the University of Vienna in 2022. From 2012 to 2018, she worked as a research assistant for the Database for Ottoman Inscriptions project. She was a lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Studies/University of Vienna and a researcher for the ERC-Project: Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878-1918 (2018-2023) until 2022. She was one of the translators in the FWF project at the University of Innsbruck: Escape Slaves Christians in African Pirate Encounters. Since November 2022, she has been an associate lecturer at the Ruhr University Bochum and works for the ERC-Project: Late Ottoman Palestinians (LOOP). Her research interests lie in manuscript and reading culture, as well as the history of printing in the Ottoman Empire.
Her post-doc project focuses on advertisements for books in newspapers, published between 1831 and 1868 in Istanbul, as main sources. The project aims to reveal the dynamics of the book market in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, at a time when printed books became more popular through newspaper advertisements.
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“The World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) is a gathering of scholars, researchers, students and professionals drawn from a broad range of educational and other institutions, organizations and associations from around the world. What brings this global community together is a common interest in the study of the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim states of Central Asia, in addition to those areas of the world directly or indirectly affected by developments in these regions.
WOCMES is intended to provide Middle Eastern specialists from all branches of humanities and social sciences with the opportunity to meet and exchange research, experience and ideas, and to address – and attempt to reconcile – some of the challenges that arise when methodology meets theory and praxis meets politics. It involves numerous academic panels and roundtable discussions approved, in advance, by an academic committee, as well as keynote addresses by prominent scholars, scholarly exhibitions, and cultural and other events relevant to the field.” (Günter Meyer)
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February 13-14, 2023, University of Vienna
The first workshop on the FWF GrocerIst project will take place on 13-14 February. The closed workshop presents the project‘s first results and serves to discuss with the Advisory Board. On 13 February, Arif Bilgin (University of Sakarya) will kick off the workshop with a public lecture: Matbah-ı Âmire'nin Şehir İçi Gıda Tedarik Alanları/ Local Food Supply Areas of Matbah-ı Âmire (Imperial Kitchen) in Istanbul.
Other participants of the workshop are: Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul), Eminegül Karababa (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), Özge Samancı (Özyeğin University, Istanbul) and Selim Karahasanoğlu (Medeniyet University, Istanbul).
The workshop is not open to the general public. If you are interested in participating, please contact Sümeyye Hoşgör Büke: suemeyye.hosgoer.bueke@univie.ac.at
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Workshop Report:
Patrimonialization on the Ruins of Empire:
Islamic Heritage and the Modern State in Post-Ottoman Europe II
On November 25, 2022, the second part of the workshop titled Patrimonialization on the Ruins of Empire: Islamic Heritage and the Modern State in Post-Ottoman Europe took place at the University of Vienna's Department of Art History. Organized by the project ERC#758099 in cooperation with the Department of Near Eastern Studies, both workshops examined the place of material remains from the Ottoman period (or the lack thereof) in identity designs of the inheriting nations and Muslim communities therein. They drew upon a concept that describes the discursive process that elevates objects to become a society’s or territory’s heritage as ‘patrimonialization’.
In this part of the workshop, a double-session (1/2) featured contributions related to Ukraine (Hartmuth, Demchuk, Kançal-Ferrari, Guboglo), while session 3 (Kovács, Dilsiz Hartmuth) focused on perceptions of Ottoman material inheritances as a joint patrimony of Turkey and Austria and Hungary. Session 4 (Wilson, Akyol) addressed omissions in modern Turkey's heritage canon in the field of literary and religious heritage, while in session 5 (Sabri, Radovanović) the policies towards 'pious foundations' (evkaf) in post-Ottoman Serbia and Cyprus were discussed. The organizers are pursuing the plan to publish an anthology with selected contributions from both workshops.
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La Turquie Kamâliste 13 (1936)
Our lecture series in the summer semester will be entirely dedicated to the Republic of Turkey in its 100th year, looking at different aspects of the development of modern Turkey and its current situation. We have a truly impressive lineup! Look forward to:
Karabekir Akkoyunlu (SOAS, London), Ayşe Gül Altınay (Sabancı Univesity, Istanbul), Nathalie Clayer (EHESS, CNRS, Paris), Burcu Doğramacı (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), Martin Greve (Orient-Institute Istanbul), Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS, Paris), Hans Lukas Kieser (University of Newcastle), Élise Massicard (Sciences Po Paris CERI), Raoul Motika (Universität Hamburg), Christoph K. Neumann (Orient-Institut Istanbul), Kerem Öktem (Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice), Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel), Mehmet Fatih Uslu (Koç University, Istanbul), Jenny B. White (Stockholm University).
Further information (soon):
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/dauerveranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
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 Registration: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/registration/
The deadline for the panel proposal has already passed. It is still possible to submit individual abstracts until 31 December 2022.
At the 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.
The Turkologentag 2023 awards travel grants for students! We will support students with neither travel scholarships nor university funding. 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) invites 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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The Turkologentag 2023 is pleased to present the documentary “Traugott” about the German scholar in exile in Turkey, Traugott Fuchs (1906-1997).
The film (in German with Turkish subtitles, 50-55 minutes) is nearing completion and will be introduced by Richard Wittmann, the production manager and project manager. Afterward, with the director Dirk Schäfer, he will be available for questions and discussion regarding the work of this eminent literature professor, philologist and painter from the 1930s to 1980s, as well as the Traugott Fuchs Archive being created at the Orient Institute Istanbul.
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Call for Applications GTOT Award 2023
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 for 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 ceremony 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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Alptuğ Güney took up the position as a lecturer in the Department of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn.
Johanna Chovanec began working as an assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna.
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Akyol, Ercan, “Keshif: Osmanlı Türkçesi Mikro Edisyon E-Dergisi Ve Veritabanı,” Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 3 (Ekim 2022): 101-7. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7228003.
Akyol, Ercan, “Cursing Through Someone Else’s Mouth: Faizi's Lampoon of Veysi,” The Journal of Ottoman Studies/Osmanlı Araştırmaları LX (December 2022): 1-26.
Ambros, Edith, “Dîvân (Me’âlî),” Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü, http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/divan-me-ali
Chovanec, Johanna, “Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Postimperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur,” in New Perspectives on Imagology, eds. Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022), 181–200.
Doğanalp-Votzi, Heidemarie, “Bir Küçük Anadolu Şehrinin Tarihi ve Ekonomisi: Safranbolu ve Dericilik,” in Safranbolu Çarşı’sı. Bir Küçük Anadolu Şehrinin Sosyoekonomisi, ed. İbrahim Canbulat (Istanbul: Nobel, 2022), 316-37.
İnal, Onur and Emir Küçük, “Antroposentrizmin Ötesinde: Türkiye Modernleşme ve Kent Tarihinde Çalışan Hayvanlar,” in Ekoloji. Bir Arada Yaşamın Geleceği, eds. Didem Bayındır and Mine Yıldırım (Istanbul: Tellekt, 2021), 399-425.
İnal, Onur and Yavuz Köse (eds), İktidar Tohumları. Osmanlı Çevre Tarihi Üzerine İncelemeler, tr. by Ercan Akyol (Istanbul: İletişim, 2022)
İnal, Onur and Yavuz Köse, “Environnement, climat,” in Dictionnaire de l‘Empire ottoman, 2 Bde., eds. François Georgeon, Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein, and Elisabetta Borromeo (Paris: CNRS Editions 2022), 712-16.
İnal, Onur, “İmparatorluğun Meyveleri: 19. Yüzyıl Sonunda İncir, Kuru Üzüm ve Batı Anadolu’nun Dönüşümü,” in İktidar Tohumları. Osmanlı Çevre Tarihi Üzerine İncelemeler, eds. Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse (Istanbul: İletişim, 2022), 111-44.
İnal, Onur, “Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment in Turkey,” Environmental History 27, no. 4 (October 2022): 634-41.
Köse, Yavuz, “Yeni Vatanın Doğasını Keşfetmek: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Erken Dönem Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nde Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859),” in İktidar Tohumları. Osmanlı Çevre Tarihi Üzerine İncelemeler, eds. Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse (Istanbul: İletişim, 2022), 295-319.
Köse, Yavuz, ““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 - Special Issue: The Ottoman Empire and the “Germansphere” in the Age of Imperialism 32, 3/4 (2022): 395-412.
Procházka-Eisl, Gisela, Enverīzāde Saʿdullāh Enverī Efendi’s “Treatise on Austria” (Risāle-i Avusturya). (Otto Spies Memorial Series, Bd. 12) (Bonn: EB-Verlag 2022).
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