Turkologentag will be held in Vienna from September 21 to 23, 2023. Organized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) in cooperation with the Chair of Turcology of the University of Vienna. Almost 800 participants from over 50 countries will present their research in more than 200 panels!
The GTOT Prize, which honors junior researchers for outstanding MA and PhD theses from the fields of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, will also be announced at the Turkologentag.
The conference program and other details can be found on the Turkologentag 2023 website:
https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at
In cooperation and with the support of:
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Prof. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University and Collège de France) will deliver the keynote speech at the Turkologentag 2023 on the convention’s first day, September 21, 2023.
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:
A History of the Ottoman Bank (1999); Un Orient de consommation (Istanbul, 2010); Un Ottoman en Orient. Osman Hamdi Bey in Iraq, 1869-1871 (2010); (As editor, with Zeynep Çelik), Camera Ottomana. Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914 (2015); L’Empire ottoman et la Turquie face à l’Occident (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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We welcome our new Andreas Tietze Research Fellow, Ezgi Sarıtaş. She is a research assistant at Ankara University, teaching courses on gender and sexuality and the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. As an Andreas Tietze Research Fellow, Ezgi will spend three months from June to September and work on her individual research project, “A Transgender History of Movement and Translation between Vienna and Istanbul”.
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Applications for the Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies for 2024 is now open! The fellowship aims to support advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early-stage researchers in their research projects. The application deadline is 30 September 2023.
More details about the application process and conditions of the fellowship can be found on the fellowship website:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/
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Contributions for the next issue of Keshif can be submitted until 1 September.
Further information: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/keshif/about/submissions
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This book is dedicated to Claudia Römer and brings together 33 contributions spanning a period from the 15th to the 20th century and covering the wide range of topics with which the honouree is engaged. The volume is divided into six parts that present current research on language, literature, and style as well as newer approaches and perspectives in dealing with sources and terminologies. Aspects such as conquest, administration, and financing of provinces are found as well as problems of endowments and the circulation of goods in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Another main topic is dedicated to minorities and their role and situation in various provinces and cities of the Ottoman Empire, as represented by various sources. But also topics like conversion, morality and control are illuminated. Finally, the volume provides an insight into the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, in which some previously unpublished sources (such as travel letters, memoirs) are presented and (re)discussed. The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.
For further details see: https://brill.com/display/title/62388
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Mustafa Kemal Baran (Koç University) spent two months in the Turkish Studies Department at the University of Vienna from May to July. In a short interview, he tells about his experience as an Andreas Tietze research fellow in Vienna:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/ehemalige-fellows/interview-with-dr-mustafa-kemal-baran/
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Arif Tapan (Social Sciences University of Ankara, TÜBİTAK Research Fellow): Saving a ‘wretched’ nation: Garabed Panosian and his Armeno-Turkish Münadi-i Erciyes newspaper (1859-1862) (June-December 2023)
This research project focuses on the relationship between the Münâdî-i Erciyes (Միւնատիի Էրճիյաս), an Armeno-Turkish periodical published from 1859 to 1862, and the 19th-century modern Ottoman literary culture. Münadi-i Erciyes was first published in Istanbul as periodical (“İlmiye, Sanatiye, Edebiye ve Saire”) and then as a daily newspaper by Garabed Panosian, an Ottoman Armenian from Kayseri. The periodical, which had a wide variety of content, was published in Turkish with the Armenian alphabet. As an early modern period periodical, Münadi-i Erciyes is highly suitable for following the practices of cultural modernization developed simultaneously by the intricate dynamics of the empire. Münadi-i Erciyes, which has not been subject to any academic study regarding modern Ottoman cultural history, will be examined in the context of cultural production and consumption relations of the 19th-century Ottoman Empire.
The project was entitled to receive international research support from TÜBİTAK, and this is the first official state support ever given to Armeno-Turkish studies in the Turkish academy. Thanks to this support, the research will continue in Vienna, Austria, under the supervision of Prof. Yavuz Köse.
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The refugee movement of Greek Jews fleeing from Axis-occupied Greece to Turkey constitutes one of several migration movements unfolding in the Aegean as a result of the Second World War. During 1943 and 1944, over 1,000 Jews escaped to Turkey by boat, traveling from Evia to Çeşme, and assisted by a range of actors at different levels (individual, corporate, collective). Based on ego documents, testimonies, and administrative and intelligence reports, my thesis aims at intertwining individual refugee experience with a meso perspective tracing the network(s) of actors determining the framework within which individuals acted. Hence, it situates specific experience within the sociopolitical and geopolitical structure that functioned as the framework of collective and individual agency.
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Johanna Chovanec has successfully defended her dissertation entitled Turkey’s Occidentalist Condition: Images of Self and Other in Early Republican Literature.
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PUBLICATIONS
Akyol, Ercan. “A Book List from the Early 17th Century.” Keshif 1, no. 1 (2023): 5-10.
Ambros, Edith Gülçin, “Coffee’s Elegy on the Death of Tobacco, 1636–1637 by Vardarlı Fazli. An Ottoman Social Parody and its Linguistic Particularities.” In “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Edited by Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023, 106-125.
Çelik, Hülya, Yavuz Köse, and Gisela Procházka-Eisl (in collaboration with Julia Fröhlich) (eds.), “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023.
Çelik, Hülya, Yavuz Köse, and Gisela Procházka-Eisl, “Introduction.” In “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Edited by Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023, 1-15.
Dilsiz Hartmuth, Ayşe, “Heritage Discourse in Early Republican Turkey: The Journal Ülkü (1933–1950) Re-Examined.” In “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Edited by Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023, 834-867.
Doğanalp-Votzi, Heidemarie, “Some Remarks on the Hitherto Unpublished Memoirs of a Member of the Kuva-yi Milliye in the Sanjak of Alexandretta/Hatay.” In “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Edited by Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023, 789-805.
İnal, Onur, “Tabiat, Tahayyül ve Tahakküm Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde İdeoloji, Su ve Ulus İnşası.” Toplumsal Tarih Akademi 2 (2023): 90-105.
Köse, Yavuz, “Strolling around Vienna Unarmed. Rıza Nur and His “Letters from Vienna” (1911).” In “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Edited by Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023, 763-789.
Köse, Yavuz, “Die Türkei Erdoğans: Von der Demokratisierung zur elektoralen Autokratie.” Rudolphina, 7. Juni 2023.
Procházka-Eisl, Gisela and Stephan Procházka, “More of the SAME: Is There a Standard Average Middle Eastern?” In “Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer. Edited by Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023, 60-106.
Vatansever, Nazlı. “The Types of Text Compiling as Practiced by Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi.” In Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes. Edited by Jürgen Paul and David Durand-Guédy. Berlin: De Gruyter, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 2023 (=Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Vol. 30).
Vatansever, Nazlı. “Bir Dîvân Koleksiyoneri Olarak Sahhâflarşeyhizâde Vakanüvîs Esʿad Efendi.” In Osmanlı Dünyasında Kitap Koleksiyonerleri. Edited by Hatice Aynur and Tülay Artan. Istanbul: Dergah Yayınları, 2023.
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