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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
29.10.2025, 5 pm (Vienna), hybrid
Rıza Yıldırım (University of Vienna)
“The Question of Authorship and Religious Authority in Alevi Manuscripts"
Zoom link and further information
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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
22.10.2025, 5pm (Vienna), hybrid
Ulfat Abdurasulov — “Paper Frontiers: Encountering the Turkic and Persian World in Muscovite Diplomatic Chancellery”
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We are delighted to present the latest Atlas-Blog contribution. Atlas is a platform for scholarly discussions on Armeno-Turkish manuscripts and prints.
"Reading Persian Advice Literature in Armeno-Turkish: Some Notes on the ‘Pearl-Adorned Pendnāme’" by Tobias Sick
atlas.univie.ac.at?p=488
🎉 New FWF project at our Department!
Congratulations to Umut Türem, whose three-year project “Everyday Scandals & Community Making in Authoritarian Turkey” has just been funded by FWF.
For more details, see 👉 orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
#AuthorianTurkey, #rezalet, #EkşiSözlük
CfA | Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship 2026
Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.
Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
Deadline: 6 October 2026.
Further information:
cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...
We are looking forward to our upcoming lecture series!
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
More information at: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Our conference (6-8 August) has just concluded —huge thanks to all participants for their inspiring contributions and discussions. A milestone for our project and motivation for future events.
Further information is available here: mekhitar.univie.ac.at/activities/c...
📜 Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
Our upcoming lecture series explores recent advances in the study of manuscript cultures across the Ottoman Empire, the Arabic-speaking world, and Central Asia.
Stay tuned:
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Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna
ViCAS is dedicated to advancing innovative research in all fields, and encouraging dialogue that bridges academic disciplines, countries, and intellectual traditions.
Interested? Apply now: vicas.univie.ac.at
Istanbul (Constantinople), 1846-1852 https://mechitaristlibrary.org/hayastan/
Writing Against the Law: Ottoman-Armenian Print Culture (1857-1914)
Congratulations to Nanor Kebranian on successfully receiving a Principal Investigator Project award from the FWF! Her project will be hosted in our department.
www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-...
Our latest Turkologie Newsletter 2025/2 ist out!
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📢 Join the University of Vienna!
We're hiring a Postdoc in Ottoman/Turkish Studies (6 yrs, full-time) at the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies.
Start: Oct 2025 | Application deadline: 15 July 2025
Apply now:
🔗 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
🎓 GTOT Prizes 2025 🏆
Awarded for outstanding theses in Turkology, Ottoman & Turkish Studies!
📍 Ceremony: Turkologentag 2025, 19 Sep, Mainz
🎖️ Meriç Tanık (EHESS)
🎖️ Fatih Doğan (Sabancı)
🎖️ Katharina Krause (Oxford)
More soon 👉 gtot.org/en/gtot-award/
Krit:Arab Kritische Zugänge zur Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft
"The aim of this Blog is to strengthen critical approaches in Arabic and Islamic studies and to use an interdisciplinary perspective to debate topics of social relevance."
kritarab.hypotheses.org/category/eng...
Volumes 5-9 and 12 of the series "Halcyon Days in Crete", the prestigious triennial Ottomanist symposia initiated in 1991, are available online free of charge to the wider public, a practice that will continue for future Halcyon Days in Crete volumes.
cup.gr/blog/halcyon...
Book cover: Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire, by Masayuki Ueno
📖New book: Masayuki Ueno on the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its non-Muslim subjects, with a focus on the Armenians of Istanbul.📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managin...
University of Vienna, Phil-Kult
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of Geographies of Power in the Eastern Mediterranean World (c. 1000-1800)
(within the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations)
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Prae-doc...
Application deadline: 1 July 2025
Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
We look forward to the next lecture with
İpek Şahinler (University of Texas at Austin)
05.06.2025, 5 p.m. (Vienna time)
What is Queer Turkish Literature?
Also via Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
22.05.2025 (ONLY VIA ZOOM), 5pm (Vienna time)
Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (University of Bologna)
Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities
orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Great news! "From now on, Diyâr will be published as Gold Open Access, making cutting-edge research freely available to all. And that’s not all — all our previous issues will soon be accessible as well."
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/2...
Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
15.05.2025, 5pm (Vienna time)
Ralph Poole (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
Queer Turks on the Move: Ambiguities of Home in Pan-European Cinema
Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Photo Credit: Emir Bozkurt (Pexels)
Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
08.05.2025, 5 pm (Vienna time)
Şima İmşir (Koç University, Istanbul)
In Sickness and in Health: Medical Imagination in Turkish Literature
Also via Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
📣 Thrilled to share that Brill has accepted the Handbook of Ottoman Manuscript Cultures (ed. by Hülya Çelik, Janina Karolewski, and Yavuz Köse) for their Handbook of Oriental Studies series! A multi-authored, interdisciplinary volume exploring the rich manuscript traditions of the Ottoman world.
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Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
10 April 2025, 5PM
Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna)
Publishing Ottoman Texts in Modern Times: Denial, Distortion and Censorship
univienna.zoom.us/j/6194737710...
For further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/.../ringvorl...
CFP: Gewalt und Literatur: Vergleichende Betrachtungen türkisch- und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur
Interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 14 – 15. November 2025
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Petr Kucera und Dr. Anna-Lena Eick
Bewerbungsfrist: 30. April 2025
Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
03.04.2025, 5pm
Hülya Çelik (Ruhr U. Bochum)-Ani Sargsyan (U. of Hamburg)
Translating Worlds, Bridging Cultures: Shaping Literary Taste(s) in 19th-Century Ottoman Empire
Zoom link:
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Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature
13 March 2025, 5PM
Brett Wilson (Central European University, Vienna)
A Microcosm of Ottoman Decline: Sufism, Sexuality, and Morality in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's Nur Baba
Also via Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
📢 The latest Turkologie Newsletter 2025/1 is out!
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