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Turkish Studies in Vienna welcomes Özlem Sultan Çolak (Praedoc), who has joined the research team of Yavuz Köse in the Department of Near Eastern Studies as a university assistant prae-doc.
"I am a researcher specializing in migration and memory studies, with a particular focus on Ottoman diasporas in Latin America. My academic background includes master’s degrees in History and Latin and North American Studies, through which I have explored themes of transnational migration, identity formation, and cultural memory. In my doctoral research, I examine the migration of Armenian and Sephardic Jewish communities from the Ottoman Empire to Argentina, analyzing how they navigated adaptation while preserving their collective memory. During my PhD, I intend to conduct archival research and investigate the role of memory institutions in shaping diaspora identities."
Turkish Studies in Vienna welcomes Nazerke Kanatbekova (Praedoc), who has joined the Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations".
Her PhD project, supervised by Jeanine Dağyeli., "Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Past: From Testing Grounds to Cultural Heritage" examines how Kazakhstan’s nuclear past, in particular the legacy of nuclear testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, has been internalized, narrated, and culturally represented by the local population. It explores the ways individuals and communities engage with this history, contribute to the formation of cultural memory and heritage in post-Soviet Kazakhstan.
Turkish Studies in Vienna welcomes Nikolaos Olma (Postdoc), who has 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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The 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, investigating 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, seeks to provide new insights into the diverse thematic dimensions of modern Turkish literature through contemporary literary approaches.
Look forward to lectures by: Brett Wilson (Central European University, Vienna); Petr Kučera (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz); Johanna Chovanec (University of Vienna); Hülya Çelik (Ruhr University Bochum) / Ani Sargsyan (University of Hamburg); Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna); Şima İmşir (Koç University, Istanbul); Ralph Poole (Paris Lodron University Salzburg); Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (University of Bologna); İpek Şahinler (University of Texas at Austin); Burcu Alkan (Yeditepe University Istanbul).
13.03.2025, 5 pm
Brett Wilson (Central European University, Vienna)
A Microcosm of Ottoman Decline: Sufism, Sexuality, and Morality in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's Nur Baba ( Abstract and Bio)
Zoom-Link for the entire lecture series
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/68578731559?pwd=U2Jouiq5vxnOwaKNWuitJmFF9TFmK1.1
For further information:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtungen/turkologie/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-turkologie/
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming conference "Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints, and Newspapers" to be held at the University of Vienna from 6-8 August 2025. This landmark event will feature nine thematic panels, bringing together leading international scholars to explore various aspects of Armeno-Turkish textual traditions, including archival sources and language, historiography, multilingualism and translation, sociolinguistics, musical traditions, printing cultures, literary genres, theatre and morality, and post-Ottoman writing cultures. The conference will also feature a distinguished keynote lecture by Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA) on "Armeno-Turkish as a heterographic literary field: Complicating Ottoman Convivencia", a special session on the preservation of Armenian cultural heritage, and a book discussion on "Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire: Experiences of Istanbul Armenians in the Nineteenth Century" with Masayuki Ueno (Osaka Metropolitan University). With its rich programme and lively intellectual exchange, the conference aims to discuss current research issues and trends, and to shed new light on the significance of the Armeno-Turkish literary heritage.
More information and the programme will be available soon at: https://mekhitar.univie.ac.at/activities/
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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).
Directors
Tijana Krstic
Department of Historical Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Bruno De Nicola
Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Faculty
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb
Bundespatentgericht, Germany (formerly, SOAS Middle East Library)
Mathew Barber
The Aga Khan University; Institute for the Studies of Muslim Civilization, London, United Kingdom
Efe Erunal
History Department, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Konrad Hirschler
Universität Hamburg Faculty of Humanities Asien-Afrika-Institut, Hamburg, Germany
Yavuz Kose
Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
Shiva Mihan
Curator of Islamic Collections (Persianate World), British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Marijana Misevic
Department of Historical Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Lorenz Nigst
The Aga Khan University; Institute for the Studies of Muslim Civilization, London, United Kingdom
Masoumeh Seydi
The Aga Khan University; Institute for the Studies of Muslim Civilization, London, United Kingdom
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.
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Österreichisches Staatsarchiv: Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Wien
The Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the third installment of its Intensive Summer School on Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography. This two-week intensive program is dedicated to the comparative study of early modern (1500–1800) Habsburg and Ottoman primary sources.
Paleography courses encompass the study of various scripts in the target languages, the utilization of diverse source materials, the examination of intricate linguistic structures, and the critical analysis of primary sources.
Held at the centrally located Austrian Academy of Sciences in the 1st District of Vienna, the program features morning classes led by experienced instructors and afternoon lectures by distinguished scholars. Additionally, participants will engage in guided visits to Austrian archives (HHStA, ÖNB), selected museums, and a historical tour of Vienna, highlighting sites directly and indirectly linked to Ottoman-Habsburg history.
The Habsburg courses will be taught during the first week (July, 7 – 11)
Teachers:
Zsuzsanna Cziraki (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Dimitra Grigoriou (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Elisabeth Lobenwein (German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy) Lecturers:
William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Timothy Olin (Central College, USA)
Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna, Austria)
The Ottoman courses will be taught in the second week (July, 14 – 18)
Teachers:
Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna, Austria)
Nilab Saeedi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Yasir Yılmaz (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) Lecturers:
Gisela Prochazka-Eisl (University of Vienna, Austria)
Claudia Römer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Marinos Sariyannis (Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Greece)
Hüseyin Yılmaz (George Mason University, USA)
  
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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).
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Diyâr Issue 1 (2025) in print!
Exciting news! Diyâr is transitioning to Gold Open Access, making all future issues freely available—and granting full Open Access to all past issues as well!
We are thrilled to launch this new era with our upcoming special issue: "Cultures of Expertise in the Eastern Mediterranean", guest-edited by Barbara Henning, Taisiya Leber, and Ani Sargsyan. Stay tuned for its release this spring!
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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.
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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.
Ercan Akyol has been awarded the University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries David Walker Memorial Visiting Fellowship in Early Modern History for the 2025–26 academic year. As part of this fellowship, he will conduct research on münşeat collections in the Bodleian Libraries for his project, "Early Modern Ottoman Epistolary Guides."
Ercan Akyol will present a talk titled "17. Yüzyıl İstanbul’unda Şehir-İçi Mektuplar" at the XI. Uluslararası Osmanlı İstanbulu Sempozyumu, hosted by İstanbul 29 Mayıs University, Turkey, on 24–25 May 2025.
Sümeyye Hoşgör Büke will present a talk titled "Grocery Stores at the Intersection of Eating Out and Eating at Home: Food Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" at the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food, which will take place on 5–6 June 2025 at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. The theme of this year's symposium is 'Food and the City.'
Onur İnal has become an affiliate member of the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations
Yavuz Köse will take part at the workshop "Turcology in the Archives", on April 11, 2025, at the University of Naples L'Orientale.
Yavuz Köse will participate in the book launch of Becoming Ottoman. Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages' together with Petr Kucera and Tobias Völker. The event is jointly organised by the University of Vienna and the Central European University and will take place on 13 May at 17:30 at the CEU's Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies.
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Aysu Akcan, "ʿAlī Şīr Nevāyī’s Letter of Recommendation for the émigré poet Baṣīrī", Keshif 3 (1):1-8. https://doi.org/10.25365/kshf-25-01-01.
Ercan Akyol, “Gathering at Night: Yaḥyā Efendī’s Letter of Invitation” Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions 3/1 (Winter 2025):9-13. https://doi.org/10.25365/kshf-25-01-02.
Julia Fröhlich, "Organising Rescue Against All Odds: Turkish Zionists In İzmir and Their Role In The Trans-Aegean Rescue Operation Saving Greek Jews from Extermination (1943-1944)", Journal of Modern Turkish History 20.41 (2024), 455-483.
Jeanette Kilicci, and Yavuz Köse, "Wien als bedeutendes Zentrum armenischer Kultur", Eurasia-Blog, Der Standard, 12.03.2025, https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000256111/wien-als-bedeutendes-zentrum-armenischer-kultur
Gisela Procházka-Eisl, “A Recipe for Black Ink in a Manuscript of ʿAṭāʾī’s Ḫamse”. Keshif 3 (1):73-76. https://doi.org/10.25365/kshf-25-01-09.
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