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DANFront: New research project in the Department of Ottoman and Turkish Studies
The DANFront project developed by Onur İnal has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) with 451,767 euros. The project will run for three years, from 2024 to 2027 (Grant-DOI 10.55776/PAT2459324).
The DANFront project examines the role of the Danube in the Ottoman military expansion to the West during the 16th and 17th centuries and the effects of this expansion on the riverine environment. It aims to uncover how the Ottomans used the Danube for their military and socio-economic needs to expand their influence in southeastern and central Europe. The project will extract historical data from Ottoman sources, create data sets and visualize these data sets graphically.
The project team consists of Onur İnal (project leader) and Deniz Armağan Akto (prae-doc/researcher). National research partners are Arno Strohmeyer (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences). International project partners are Marian Coman (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History / Bucharest), András Vadas (Eötvös Loránd University / Budapest), Éva Szepesiné Simon (The Hungarian National Archives / Budapest) and Mehmet Kuru (Sabancı University Digital Humanities Laboratory / Istanbul).
The contents of the project can be followed on the project website danfront.univie.ac.at
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Jeanine Dağyeli (Central Asian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna and Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences), Noémie Etienne (Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna), and Negar Hakim (Technical University, Vienna, Institute of History of Architecture and Building Archaeology), and Yavuz Köse will launch a lecture series for the upcoming winter semester 2024. The series will be devoted to the Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction.
Heritage is a process: a place in the present and future given to the material and environmental cultures of the past. This lecture series focuses on heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia, emphasizing the processes of patrimonialization, whether perceived as positive (intellectual history, knowledge production, collection, exhibition, conservation) or negative (destruction). How are objects, built ensembles and spaces shown? What devices and discourses surround them? Whose heritage is collected, exhibited or, on the contrary, cancelled in museums and public spaces? Indeed, the destruction of works of art and monuments is also a powerful political gesture, which takes place in different contexts: protests, revolutions, destruction, and wars. It also creates new realities and sometimes new artworks. What can we do with those voids and absences? How can we talk about collection history, museum conservation, but also voluntary destruction in contexts of extreme violence? Our aim is to reflect on all the frameworks that produce, display, or destroy heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia over the long term.
You can look forward to lectures by: Markus Ritter (University of Vienna), Tara Andrews (University of Vienna), Rian Thum (University of Manchester), Kristina Pfeifer (Technical University Vienna), Mazen Iwaisi (Queen’s University Belfast), Tobias Mörike (Weltmuseum Wien), Jeremy F. Walton (University of Rijeka), Mohammad Talebian(University of Teheran), Gönül Bozoğlu (University of St. Andrews), Nadia Radwan (University of Bern), Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth (University of Vienna), Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna), Mahshid Sehizadeh (Bu-Ali Sina University Hamedan).
In cooperation with
The lecture series will be held in a hybrid format. Further information about the speakers, the topics and the full program will be soon available at:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtungen/turkologie/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
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Viennese Turkology welcomes Tobias Sick in 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. His project is associated with the DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group TRANSLAPT: Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Processes in the Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1750).
Halit Serkan Simen, our fifth fellow, will join us between September and November 2024. After completing his MA at Central European University (Budapest) in 2020, Serkan Simen pursued doctoral studies at the European University Institute (Florence). Researching his dissertation titled “The Ruling Elite Divided: The Making of Grand Vizier Koca Sinan Pasha (d. 1596) in the Faction-Ridden Ottoman Court”, under the supervision of Prof. Giancarlo Casale, Simen aims to bring a reassessment of the Ottoman political configuration in the late sixteenth century by focusing on the career trajectory and ruling elite features of five-times grand vizier Koca Sinan Pasha. The primary goal of his study is to write a political biography of a pasha that presents innovative critical inquiries, relying heavily on archival sources to reassess the changing Ottoman politics of the late sixteenth century and the evolving character of the Ottoman ruling elite during and in later centuries. In addition to Ottoman political history from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, Simen's interests include Mediterranean history, Ottoman-Italian relations, and contemporary Turkish history, particularly the popular movements of the 1970s and subsequent decades.
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
Summer School of Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography
Between 1 and 12 July 2024, we will host the summer school of “Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography” in cooperation with the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The two-week-long intensive program will allow the thirteen participants (from Austria, Germany, Georgia, Japan, Serbia, Turkey, and the USA) to comparatively read and analyse early modern (1500-1800) Habsburg and Ottoman primary sources concerning various topics Confirmed lecturers are Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna), Hülya Çelik (University of Bochum), Zsuzsanna Cziráki (ÖAW), Barbara Denicòlo (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg), Doris Gruber (ihb, ÖAW), Elisabeth Lobenwein (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Janina Karolewski (University of Hamburg), Benjamin Weineck (University of Heidelberg), Yasir Yılmaz (ihb, ÖAW).
 
 
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This year's COL Symposium, organized again by Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Ercan Akyol, took place on 6 June at the Institute of Near Eastern Studies; there were six contributions on various aspects of Ottoman poetry and prose.
- Şeyma Benli (Medeniyet University, Istanbul): Women as Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Pseudo-Regents in the Ottoman laṭīfe Corpus
- İpek Hüner (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul): Possibilities of Ottoman Fiction: Hikayet-i Yahya Çelebi
- Gisela Procházka-Eisl (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna): Poetry from the Provinces: Vaṣfī Efendi and his Largely Unknown Œuvre
- Ercan Akyol (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna): Ġazels in Progress: Drafts from Muḥibbī’s (Süleymān I) Poems
- Hakan Yerebakan (Central European University, Vienna): Early Modern Ottoman Humor and Invective: Theoretical Framework and Context
- Aslıhan Gürbüzel (McGill University, Montreal): On Ottoman Love: Conversations between Political Thought, Sufism, and Literature
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The first issue of Diyâr 2024 is out! 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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Forthcoming Book
Becoming Ottoman:
Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages
Edited by Yavuz Köse, Petr Kučera, and Tobias Völker
Becoming Ottoman examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed “Ottoman identity”, be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilating to the host society or by becoming loyal servants or subjects of the Ottoman state, identifying themselves as Ottomans, but retaining their faith. Bringing together a variety of case studies that reflect a broad range of individual experiences in changing historical circumstances, the book provides a detailed study of the process of Ottomanization. The book draws upon a variety of archival and other sources such as travelogues, diaries and folk epics, including lesser known examples, from early-modern Czech, Venetian and Wallachian views of converts, to case studies of 19th century British, German and Austrians who switched loyalty. They show that this process depended on a range of factors, from conversion, to integration into the culture of the ruling elites, fluency in the language, affiliation through family ties or marriage, and, most importantly, social status and professional rank.
I.B. Tauris, January 2025 (expected publication date)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/becoming-ottoman-9780755640997/
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Forthcoming Book
Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
Edited by Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal, and Alexander SchweigTransforming Empire places the Ottoman Empire within the global context and provides insight into the multifaceted transimperial and transnational connections that characterized it in different periods. It focuses on the connections, interactions, exchanges, networks and flows in and around the Ottoman Empire. Contributions in the book reflect the evolving and dynamic nature of the Ottoman Empire from different angles.
Contributors are Ali Atabey, Serpil Atamaz, Lee Beaudoen, Emine Evered, Kyle Evered, Richard Eaton, Ziad Fahmy, Gülsüm Gürbüz-Küçüksarı, Onur İnal, Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Myrsini Manney-Kalogera, Claudia Römer, Alexander Schweig, Gül Şen, Baki Tezcan, Fariba Zarinebaf.
Brill, September 2024 (expected publication date)
https://brill.com/display/title/69009
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Call for papers / panels: Turkologentag 2025
The Fifth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag 2025) will be held at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 18–20 September 2025. The conference is organized in co-operation with the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT e.V.).
We are inviting proposals for papers and panels in the domains of language, literature, history, culture, society, politics, and philology of the Turks and the Turkic peoples. Conference languages are English, German, and Turkish.
Paper and panel proposals can be submitted between 15 August and 15 December 2024. Panels should comprise 3 or 4 papers. All abstracts will be subject to a review process. The results will be announced by 31 March 2025.
Detailed information, including guidance on the submission of abstracts and panel proposals, will be announced on https://turkologentag.uni-mainz.de/ soon.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Mainz.
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Julia Fröhlich will present a paper titled “‘Just like in Robinson Crusoe’: Children’s Perspectives on the Jewish Exodus from Greece to Turkey (1943 – 1944)” at the Children’s History Society Conference 2024: Children’s Worlds at Newcastle University in the UK on 5 July 2024.
Julia Fröhlich will present a paper titled “In Support of Individual Odysseys. The Trans-Aegean Exodus of Greek Jews (1943-1944) in the Light of Local Relief Networks” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Workshop “From the Atlantic to the Black Sea: Local Relief and Rescue Operations on the Margins of the Holocaust” that will take place in Washington D.C on 19-30 August 2024.
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 XI. Tensions of Europe Conference in Frankfurt (an der Oder) on 19-21 September 2024.
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Ambros, Edith. Review of Bouquet, Olivier. Quand les Ottomans firent le point : Histoire graphique, technique et linguistique de la ponctuation turque ottomane. Miroir de l’Orient musulman 8. Turnhout, Belgique: Brepols, 2019, in Diyâr 5, no. 1 (2024): 101–103.
İnal, Onur. “Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History. Edited by Lisa Brady. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Köse, Yavuz. “Prusyalı Emin Efendi (1813-1892) – the founding director of the first modern law school (Mekteb-i Hukuk) in the Ottoman Empire”, in Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century, Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space. Edited by Boriana Antonova-Goleva and Ivelina Masheva (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 93-116.
Köse, Yavuz. “En eski Ermeni harfli Türkçe matbu yemek kitabı: Yemek ve Hamur İşleri Tertibi (1861),” Yemek ve Kültür 75, 1 (2024): 60-66.
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