Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna

Our hybrid lecture series brings together an outstanding international lineup exploring musical cultures across interconnected regions, from Central Asia to the South Caucasus and the Ottoman world.

For further details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

"A scene from the harem" (Female musicians and dancers) Franz Hermann, Hans Gemminger, Valentin Mueller (1654), Pera Museum https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Franz_Hermann,_Hans_Gemminger,_Valentin_Mueller_-_A_Scene_from_the_Turkish_Harem_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

There is music in the air! 🎶

Our summer lecture series "Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, the Caucasus & Central Asia" brings together an international group of scholars exploring musical cultures, sound, and exchange across regions.

Details coming soon — stay tuned!

Hagop Ayvaz, Ref.No. 1.1.7.285, Hagop Ayvaz Collection, Hrant Dink Foundation Archive, Istanbul

New on the ATLAS Blog:

Emre Görkem Onur, “Hagop Ayvaz’s Armeno-Turkish Monologue ‘Sizi Seviyorum’ (1932): Archival Context and Transcription.”

The post offers new insights into Turkey's cultural and theatrical history.

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Save the date!
Turkologentag 2027 in Paris
September, 15-17

University of Vienna

Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 — Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies

Call for Applications: at least 40 Doctoral Positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies

Application deadline: 2 March 2026, 14:00 CET

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

21.01.2026, 5p.m (online)
Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)
How to read a genealogical text: The Persianate nasab tradition as cultural archive and social practice

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GTOT Prize 2027 – Awards for Outstanding Theses and Dissertations in the Field of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies

The award celebration will be held at the Turkologentag 2027
in Paris.

Application deadline: 31 December 2026

Further information: gtot.org/en/gtot-call/

Turkologentag 2027!
Stay tuned: gtot.org/en/home-en/

https://cipgs.princeton.edu/projects/badakhshan-manuscript-digitization-project

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

14.01.2026, 5 p.m.
Bruno De Nicola (IfI, ÖAW)
Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th c. Badakhshan

orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

We are delighted to share with you the very first issue of the ViHOPE Newsletter! vihope.univie.ac.at

ViHOPE Newsletter 2025/1: mailchi.mp/9605efbda141...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

17.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Polina Ivanova (IfI, ÖAW)
Scribes without Scriptoria: Towards a Social History of Armenian Manuscript-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

The application deadline is approaching!
Interested? Then apply by 15 December 2025.

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

10.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Philip Bockholt (University of Münster)
Elite Translation Projects in the Tulip Period: Material Evidence and Cultural Context

Zoom link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

3.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Jeanine Dağyeli (University of Vienna/ÖAW, IfI)

Tracing the oral-written interface: Vernacular crafts‘ codices in Central Asia (18th-early 21st centuries)

Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

We are looking forward to the next lecture

26.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Elvira Wakelnig (University of Vienna)
A Thousand and One Arabic Medical Manuscripts

Zoom link:
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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

19.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Elif Sezer (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Materiality, Content, and Function of Kıra'ât Notes on Late Ottoman Popular Storybooks

Zoom link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

12.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Tijana Krstić (CEU)
Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-c.1655)

Zoom and further information:
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📢 New Open Access Issue!

The latest Diyâr: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2025) is out!
Special issue on heritage practices, guest edited by Roxana Coman (NIAS).

Read online 👉 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

05.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Aysima Mirsultan (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Constructing Knowledge: The Formation of the Turkistan Collection at the Berlin State Library

Zoom link:
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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

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🎉 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:
orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

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-...