Our lecture series in the 2024 summer semester, in continuation of the winter semester series, presents current doctoral and post-doctoral projects in Vienna in thirteen lectures. The series started with Onur İnal’s lecture “The Political Ecology of Kemalism” on 6 March 2024, 5:00-6:30 pm, Lecture Hall of the Department of Near Eastern Studies (Institut für Orientalistik).
On 13 March 2024, 5:00-6:30 pm, Naira Poghosyan will talk on “Joking on Problems, Laughing at “Others”: Case Study of Armeno-Turkish Satirical Mazagine Zvarcahos”
The lecture series will be held in a hybrid format and include twelve talks.
The full program of the lecture series and the information about the speakers and their topics are available on:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtungen/turkologie/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
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Der Osmanist Michael Ursinus stellt in der Vortragsreihe „Balkanforschung an der ÖAW“ am Beispiel einer osmanischen Originalurkunde aus dem bosnischen Kloster das Editionsunternehmen FOJNICA vor. Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag von Michael Ursinus! Der hybride Vortrag am 19. März 2024 ist Teil der Reihe „Balkanforschung an der ÖAW“ und wird vom Institut für die Erforschung der Habsburgermonarchie und des Balkanraumes der ÖAW in Kooperation mit dem Fachbereich Turkologie des Instituts für Orientalistik der Universität Wien veranstaltet.
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On 24 April 2024, 5:00-6:30 pm, Lecture Hall (Institut for Orientalistik), the Department of Near Eastern Studies will host the book presentation and discussion “Critical Approaches to Genocide. History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915”. The event is organised in cooperation with Andrea Pető (Central European University) and Hülya Adak (Sabancı University).
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Tietze Fellows in 2024
Viennese Turkology welcomes the first Tietze Fellow in 2024.
Naira Poghosyan (Yerevan State University)
Naira Poghosyan received her Ph.D. in Turkic Studies from Yerevan State University, Republic of Armenia. Her dissertation focused on the reflection of social and cultural problems of “Gastarbeiters” (Turkish migrants in Germany) in Turkish literature. Currently, Naira Poghosyan holds the Associate Professor position, pursuing academic and research work in the Department of Turkic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University. N. Poghosyan’s research focuses on the history of modern Turkish literature, Turkish historical novels, and the Armenian subject in Turkish literature. She is a former visiting scholar at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (DAAD Programme “Ostpartnerschaften”). During her research, she received support from the Higher Education and Science Committee of Armenia and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Naira Poghosyan’s research under the Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship aims to shed light on the ironical and satirical representation of both domestic and foreign political problems in the Ottoman Empire through the lens of the satirical magazine “Zvarcahos.” The magazine, mainly published in Armenian-scripted Turkish, provides a unique perspective on the sociopolitical landscape of the time.
In addition to Alika Zangieva (Princeton University) and Halit Serkan Simen (European University Institute) we will have another fellow joining us in September 2024:
Tobias Sick (University of Münster)
Project title: Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire: On Translations of Works of Islamic Mysticism within Transregional Sufi Networks in the Anatolian and Arab Provinces
Fellowship period: September 2024
Tobias Sick is currently working as a doctoral research associate at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Münster. Within the scope of the DFG Priority Programme 1981: “Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”, he began working on his dissertation in the project titled preliminarily “Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire: On Translations of Works of Islamic Mysticism within Transregional Sufi Networks in the Anatolian and Arab Provinces”. He received his master’s degree in the field of languages, history, and cultures of the Middle East from the University of Tübingen, during which he studied abroad at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran and gathered work experience at the German Orient-Institut in Beirut. Having started his dissertation project at Leipzig University in 2020, he was also a member of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies there.
You can find detailed information about our new fellows and their projects on the Tietze Fellowship website:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/fellows/
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Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Wien: TUK 63
Upcoming Event:
Summer School of Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography
Between 1 and 12 July 2024, we will host the summer school “Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography” in cooperation with the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Confirmed lecturers are: Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna), Hülya Çelik (University of Bochum), Janina Karolewski (University of Hamburg), Benjamin Weineck (University of Heidelberg), Yasir Yılmaz (ihb, ÖAW, Vienna).
The call for applications will be published soon. Stay tuned!
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Diyâr 2024, Issue 1
The first issue of Diyâr 2024, is coming soon! The issue includes the keynote speech given by Edhem Eldem at the opening of the Turkologentag 2023 in Vienna and research articles by Hatice Kamalı, Elif Shannon-Chastain, Ruth Bartolomä / Zaur Gasimov and Angelo Francesco Carlucci.
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Call for Applications GTOT Award 2025
For the fourth 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 whose thesis/dissertation in the fields of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish studies has been assessed between June 21, 2022 and December 21, 2024 is eligible to apply. Theses in German, English and French from all European and Turkish Universities are accepted. Resubmissions are not permitted.
Deadline: 31 December 2024
Award ceremony
The award ceremony will be held at the Turkologentag 2025 in Mainz.
Further information: http://www.gtot.org/news/gtot-call/?lang=en
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Johanna Chovanec was awarded the prestigious Fritz and Helga Exner Dissertation Prize of the Southeast Europe Association e.V. (SOG) for her dissertation “Turkey's Occidentalist Condition: Images of Self and Other in Early Republican Literature” (2023). The prize is awarded once a year for outstanding doctoral theses in the field of Southeast European research.
Ercan Akyol has been awarded a research fellowship by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz for summer 2024 to fund his project “Kontextualisierung der frühneuzeitlichen osmanischen Kulturgeschichte”.
Alptuğ Güney, lecturer of Turkish at the department of Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn, earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Vienna with his doctoral dissertation “Dimitrie Cantemirs Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches nach seinem Anwachse und Abnehmen: Eine Untersuchung zur Entstehung und Analyse eines Geschichtswerks über die Osmanen im frühen 18. Jahrhundert”.
Nazlı Vatansever has started working as a research associate for the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) project at the University of Münster.
Onur İnal will serve as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the European Society for Environmental History Conference in Uppsala on August 21-25, 2025.
Onur İnal will present a paper titled “The ‘Coal Line’ and the Invention of National Fuel in Early Republican Turkey,” at the American Society for Environmental History Conference in Denver on April 3-7, 2024.
Ercan Akyol will present the paper “Treating and Regulating Emotional States: Early Modern Ottoman Literary Culture against Melancholia” at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt on March 28-29, 2024.
The team from the FWF-funded project Grocers of Istanbul (GrocerIST) will be taking part in 25th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré- Ottomanes et Ottomanes (International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies, CIÉPO) CIEPO 25 in Tirana between 21 and 25 June with two panels on the topic of “New Perspectives on Consumption in the Ottoman Empire”.
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Akyol, Ercan. 2024. “A Mülāzemet Memorandum by Zekeriyazade Yahya Efendi.” Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions 2/1 (Winter 2024).
Chovanec, Johanna. 2024. “Literature and the Legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s Post-Imperial Condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.” Philosophy & Social Criticism. 1–24.
Fröhlich, Julia. 2024. Rezension von Pothiti Hantzaroula (2021). “Child survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: memory, testimony and subjectivity.” Neograeca Bohemica 23 (2023/24). S. 161-163.
Fröhlich, Julia. Rezension von Corry Guttstadt (eds.) (2023). “Antisemitismus in und aus der Türkei.” Der Falter 5 (2024). 19.
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