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Turkologie Newsletter 2024/4

Dear Colleagues,

As this eventful year draws to a close, we wish you restful and peaceful days and a wonderful start to a successful and fulfilling 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to our many activities in the coming year.

Warm regards,
Turkish Studies, University of Vienna


The most important at a glance:

 
After the holiday break, our lecture series “Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction” will resume with three compelling talks by Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth (University of Vienna), Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna), and Mahshid Sehizadeh / Mohammad S. Izadi (Bu-Ali Sina University) exploring the dynamic forces shaping cultural heritage across Turkey, the Islamic art market, and Iranian urban policies. We look forward to welcoming you to these insightful discussions on the challenges of heritage conservation in complex historical and contemporary contexts.

For further information:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtungen/turkologie/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
  
Johanna Chovanec (Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies, University of Vienna) and Yavuz Köse will launch a lecture series for the upcoming summer semester of 2025. The series will be devoted to the Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature. The upcoming lecture series at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna will examine contemporary research trends in modern Turkish literature, offering students and scholars new perspectives on the field’s evolving dynamics. Key topics include Turkish literature in a global context, exploring cross-cultural influences and international reception. Another focal area is the emerging field of health humanities, which investigates how themes of health, illness, and well-being are represented in Turkish literary works. The series will also address the interplay between literature and contemporary politics, providing insights into how authors from Turkey engage with socio-political issues.  Additionally, discussions will cover gender and LGBTIQ+ representation, analysing (queer) narratives that reflect and challenge societal norms. Finally, we will explore transcultural identities and the role of translation, emphasizing how migration and diaspora shape the Turkish literary landscape. Overall, this lecture series, scheduled for the summer term 2025 (March-June), seeks to provide new insights into the diverse thematic dimensions of modern Turkish literature through contemporary literary approaches
 
Turkish Studies in Vienna welcomes Beril Ocaklı (Postdoc) and Anastassiya Kulinova (Praedoc), who have joined the ERC project “ANTHEFT - Anthropogenic Environments in the Future Tense: Loss, Change and Hope in Post-Soviet Industrial Landscapes,” directed by Jeanine Dağyeli.
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We are overwhelmed by nearly 50 applications for our conference “Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints & Newspapers” (6-9 August 2025, Vienna)! We have received submissions from Armenia, Austria, Egypt, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Norway, Turkey, and the USA! We are looking forward to exciting presentations and discussions! Sebouh Aslanian, Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, UCLA, will give the keynote speech, and Masayuki Ueno (Osaka Metropolitan University) will present his new book Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire. Experiences of Istanbul Armenians in the Nineteenth Century, forthcoming in spring 2025 from Edinburgh University Press.
 
Stay tuned: https://mekhitar.univie.ac.at/activities/



The ATLAS Blog invites readers to explore the rich and intricate world of Armeno-Turkish manuscripts and print culture, a literary practice in which Turkish was written in Armenian script. Rooted in the diverse cultural and intellectual landscape of the Ottoman Empire, the Armeno-Turkish texts offer a window into centuries of multilingual exchange and intertwined histories, cultures and memories. Curated by scholars dedicated to studying this literary practice, the ATLAS Blog will highlight the ways in which Armeno-Turkish writing captured the layered interactions between Ottoman Armenian and Turkish communities. From archival discoveries to in-depth manuscript analyses, we will connect contemporary readers with the linguistic practices, literature, print media, and socio-political and cultural history of the period.
 
To read the first blogs: https://atlas.univie.ac.at
 

 

https://grocerist.acdh.oeaw.ac.at
 
This website was established to present the results of GrocerIST, a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and conducted by the Department of Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna, in collaboration with the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH). It showcases data on Istanbul’s grocers as documented in inheritance inventories from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
 
For the eighteenth century, a total of 392 kadi sicills were scanned, of which 77 include grocers' inheritance inventories with 88 entries in total from the years 1701 to 1795, covering three judicial districts (kadiships) of Istanbul: Galata (37 inventories), Üsküdar (21 inventories), and Eyüp (19 inventories).
 
For the nineteenth century, 124 kadi sicills from the Üsküdar kadiship were scanned, yielding 29 grocers’ inheritance inventories from the period between 1803 and 1851. The website will soon incorporate an additional 150 Eyüp grocers’ inheritance inventories, covering the years 1798 to 1906. By the first quarter of 2025, the data from the Galata grocers will also be added to the database.
 
The data can be explored in detail through five dedicated tabs: “Documents,” “Grocers,” “Groceries,” “Grocery Categories,” and “Locations.” Additionally, the “Dashboard” tab offers detailed graphs and visualizations of the data, facilitating deeper analysis. The site also includes a list of “paraphernalia” documented in the grocers’ inheritance inventories and will soon feature a separate database of pricing information.
 
For the university project website, click here: https://grocerist.univie.ac.at/

 
 
 
How is thinking and working with a manuscript different from working with an edited text? What challenges arise from a codex containing multiple texts with different dates and authors? How does ‘archival turn’ and social history of the collections inform how we approach manuscripts contained in them? How can digital tools be helpful in editing a text that differs from manuscript to manuscript? Which digital tools are particularly helpful for different aspects of working with manuscripts? These are just some of the important methodological questions that students hoping to work with Islamic manuscripts face when embarking on research or while in the field, often without any recourse to practical guidance. The course will explore these and other questions by focusing specifically on how to think and work with Islamicate manuscripts, with an emphasis on the sources in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian from Central Asia and the Middle East (c. 1200-c. 1700).
 
The application deadline is 14 February 2025. 
 
Summer university course is co-funded by the Open Society Foundations, and supported by the FWF and Cluster of Excellence “Eurasian Transformations” (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8), and the Chair for Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.

  

New Andreas Tietze Fellows

 
Viennese Turkology welcomes new fellows for the 2025 cohort.
 

Tunahan Durmaz is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in history at the European University Institute in Florence and is currently a fellow at Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in Istanbul. In his project, “A Cultural History of Bodily Fluids: Health and Disease in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1620-1700,” he looks at the perceptions of disease and illness in the late seventeenth-century Ottoman world, intending to comprehend the complex social, cultural, material, and medical aspects of dealing with them in an early modern setting. During his tenure, he will work on his project and will make a research project application to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
 

 Enes Kurt is a research assistant at İstinye University in Istanbul. He received his Ph.D. from the Business Administration Department of Yıldız Technical University in 2023. In his project, “Mediterranean Correspondence: Ottoman Merchants and Economic Networks in the Late Ottoman Period,” he analyzes 146 Ottoman Turkish letters of merchants from the 18th and 19th centuries in the manuscript collection of the Forschungsbibliothek Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha. His primary objective is to investigate the commodities involved in trade and consumption within the Mediterranean region during this period. During his tenure, he will work on his project and will make a research project application to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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Halit Serkan Simen (European University Institute) spent two months in the Turkish Studies Department at the University of Vienna from September to November. 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-halit-serkan-simen/

 
Tobias Sick (University of Münster) spent one month in Vienna as an Andreas Tietze Fellow conducting research for his dissertation 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.” 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-tobias-sick/

 


 

Diyâr Issue 2 (2024) published!


Diyâr’s latest issue for 2024 has been published. The volume “Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer: Persian in the Ottoman Empire” was edited by Philip Bockholt and Hülya Çelik. It includes contributions by A.C.S. Peacock, Veronika Poier, Philip Bockholt, Sacha Alsancakli, Zakir Huassein Gul, Kameliya Atanasova, Hülya Çelik, and Renaud Soler.


We are pleased to announce that the journal Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies will switch to Gold Open Access with the first issue in spring 2025! All back issues of our journal will also be fully Open Access from January 2025. 

The additional costs associated with the transition will be financed by a moderate increase in GTOT membership fees and by so-called Article Processing Charges - APCs. In concrete terms, this means that we will require authors whose articles are published as part of third-party-funded projects and for which third-party funds are earmarked to pay the corresponding APC fees. 

Do authors without Open Access funding have to fear that their articles will no longer be published? No, absolutely not! 

Diyâr's goal is still to publish original research articles that have undergone a rigorous peer review process based on an initial review by the editors and an anonymous review by at least two anonymous reviewers (double-blind peer review). The aim of this change is to increase the visibility of our members‘ research and, in particular, to give early career researchers the opportunity to make their work immediately accessible worldwide without barriers.
 
We will seek to have the journal included in other indexes (Scopus, Web of Science) in order to increase the attractiveness of the journal, particularly for young researchers. In the medium term, an A-rating will be sought to enable or facilitate institutional Open Access funding. In line with this objective, the journal‘s web information has already been revised, and, in particular, greater transparency has been ensured with regard to ethical guidelines, review standards and processes. 



Turkologentag 2025

Mainz, 18-20 September 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 cooperation with the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT e.V.).

Further information: https://turkologentag.uni-mainz.de/

We are looking forward to meeting you in Mainz.



GTOT Prize 2025 – 
Awards for Outstanding Theses and Dissertations in the Field of
Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies


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.

T
he authors of the top three M.A. theses will receive 500 Euros each; the best dissertation will be awarded 1,000 Euros. Abstracts of the awarded works will be published in Diyâr. Journal for Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies.

Deadline: 31 December 2024

The award celebration will be held at the Turkologentag 2025 in Mainz.

Further details: https://gtot.org/en/gtot-call/

NEWS
 

Ercan Akyol will give a talk with the title “Mektuboloji: Osmanlı Mektuplarında Müsvedde, Asıl, Kopya ve Katlama Teknikleri,” at Özyeğin University in Istanbul, on 20 December 2024.

Onur İnal has become an affiliate member of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC).

Yavuz Köse (with Petr Kučera and Tobias Völker), “Introduction,” in Becoming Ottoman. Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, edited by Yavuz Köse, Petr Kučera and Tobias Völker (London: I.B. Tauris 2025), 1-18.

Yavuz Köse, “To Abandon One’s Homeland, Name and Religion: Germans Becoming Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire,” in Becoming Ottoman. Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, edited by Yavuz Köse, Petr Kučera and Tobias Völker (London: I.B. Tauris 2025, 181-203).

Ercan Akyol, “16th-17th Century Manuscripts and Letter-Writing Manuals in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin,” Alte Kataloge in neuem Gewand – Blog des DFG-Projekts Qalamos. https://od-portal.hypotheses.org/3540

     
     
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