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EurAsian Transformations, awarded € 9.2 million from the FWF (in total more than € 15 million), will establish a research and training infrastructure for studying the rich and diverse textual, visual, and material resources created over the last 3000 years of Eurasian history. The Austrian Academy of Sciences is the lead institution of the project, with CEU and the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck composing the research cluster.
Our colleagues Jeanine Dağyeli and Yavuz Köse, and Michael Jursa (Assyriology) will work as key researchers on this project for the next five years.
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The first workshop of the FWF project, “GrocerIST: Tracing Food Consumption,” took place on 13 and 14 February. Arif Bilgin (University of Sakarya) opened the workshop with a keynote entitled “Local Food Supply Areas of Matbah-ı Âmire (Imperial Kitchen) in Istanbul.” On the second day, the GrocerIST team presented the preliminary findings of their work. Sümeyye Hoşgör Büke (University of Vienna) showed in her talk which content relevant to consumption history is offered by inheritance inventories of grocers of the 18th century. Next, Deniz Özeren (University of Vienna) went into the specifics of the 19th-century inheritance inventories she examined. The second panel was dedicated to the Digital Humanities methods used within the project. Peter Andorfer (ACDH-CH, ÖAW) explained how he transfers the data extracted from the inheritance inventories into a database and what possibilities this offers for further analysis and presentation of the information. Finally, Martin Gasteiner (Department Repository Management PHAIDRA, University Library) and Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna) presented the platforms Transkribus and NewsEye. They showed how AI-based platforms facilitate automated text recognition and provide various tools for searching and analyzing texts (as well as layouts). The kick-off workshop offered the opportunity to exchange ideas with the Advisory Board Members* and to get important inputs.
*Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul); Eminegül Karababa (METU - Middle East Technical University, Ankara); Selim Karahasanoğlu (Medeniyet University, Istanbul); Gisela Procházka-Eisl (University of Vienna); Claudia Römer (University of Vienna); Özge Samancı (Özyeğin University, Istanbul).
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Canon, heritage and the nation: Narratives of modernity between past and future
in Republican Turkey (1923-2023)
Our lecture series in the summer semester (Wednesday, 18:30-20:00, Hörsaal, Institut für Orientalistik) will be entirely dedicated to the Republic of Turkey in its 100th anniversary, looking at different aspects of the development of modern Turkey and its current situation. We have a truly impressive lineup! Look forward to:
Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel) kicked off the series on 15 March with his lecture “The Demise of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective, “followed a week later by Nathalie Clayer (EHESS, CNRS, Paris) with the talk “Religion and Editorial Field in Republican Turkey.” We look forward to Jenny B. White (Stockholm University), who will lecture on “Turkey's Green Screen: Modernity as Erasure and Projection” on 29 March.
Further information:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/dauerveranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
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We look forward to welcoming two Ph.D. students and two postdocs who will work on exciting projects in Vienna as TÜBITAK Fellows for six and twelve months, respectively. More information will follow soon on our homepage.
Deniz Armağan Akto (Bilkent University): Continuity and Change on the Lower Danubian Periphery of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century
Şeyma Benli (Istanbul Medeniyet University): Narratives on Early Modern European Climate in Ottoman Literature
Oya Gözel (Kocaeli University): Politicization of Consumption in the Ottoman Empire after 1908 in the Context of Changing Social and Economic Mentality
Arif Tapan (Social Sciences University of Ankara): Saving a ‘wretched’ nation: Garabed Panosian and his Armeno-Turkish Münadi-i Erciyes newspaper (1859-1862)
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Registration: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/registration/
We have received a total of 840 applications from over 50 countries! The selection process for individual papers and panel proposals was completed in early March and acceptance letters have been sent to 740 applicants.
The organizers will award travel grants for students and early career researchers without travel scholarships or funding from their universities. Preference will be given to applicants from Turkey.
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.
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 first of two special issues will be out soon
The first special 2023 issue entitled “A Century of Gender Equality Struggles in Turkey: Feminist History Revisited” has been edited by Elife Biçer-Deveci and Selin Çağatay and will be out in May.
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Onur İnal will serve as an editorial board member in the new “Middle East Environmental Histories” book series of Leiden University Press, edited by Alan Mikhail.
Onur İnal has been elected to the advisory board of the Environmental History Cluster Austria (ECHA).
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Akyol, Ercan. “Kafzade Faizi”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, eds. Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart.
Ambros, Edith Gülçin. “Hayvanbiçimcilik (Zoomorfizm), Hayvanlarla İma ve İnsanmerkezcilik: XVII. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Edebiyatında Hayvanlar ve İnsanlar.” In 17. Yüzyıl Işığında Osmanlı, eds. Hanife Koncu, Nuri Seçgin. Istanbul: DBY Yayınları, 2022, 117-133.
Chovanec, Johanna (gemeinsam mit Petr Kučera). “Caught in the Text: Authenticity, Originality and Intertextuality in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Istanbul.” In Texts, Contexts, Intertexts: Studies in Honor of Orhan Pamuk, eds. Julian Rentzsch and Petr Kučera. Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2022, 261–317.
Köse, Yavuz. “The First Ottoman-Turkish History of the Armenians.” Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions 2023.
Vatansever, Nazlı. “Sahhaflarşeyhizade Vakanüvis Esad Efendi’nin (1789-1848) Kendi Kaleminden Oto/biyografik Metin Parçaları”. Toplumsal Tarih Akademi (2022): 8-21.
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