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

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

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

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

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” Zoom und further information orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

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: 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

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! mailchi.mp/3ff50f2153df... To subscribe: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

📢 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...

📖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...

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.

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

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! Stay updated on the latest in Ottoman, and Turkish Studies in Vienna. Click here to access the newsletter, or subscribe to receive future updates directly. orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

📢 Announcing our upcoming conference at the University of Vienna (Aug 6–8, 2025). 🔹 9 thematic panels 🔹 Keynote by Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA) 🔹 Book discussion with Masayuki Ueno (Osaka Metropolitan University) 📜 More details soon: 🔗 mekhitar.univie.ac.at/activities/

University of Amsterdam Postdoctoral researcher in Ottoman History Deadline: 10 April 2025 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Universität Duisburg Essen (Institut für Turkistik) Universitätsprofessur für „Türkische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft mit besonderem Fokus auf Migration und Akkulturation“ (Bes.-Gr. W2 LBesO W) Bewerbungsfrist: 27. März 2025 www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/c...

📢 Exciting news! Diyâr is now Gold Open Access—all past and future issues will be freely available! 🎉 We’re launching this new era in May with a special issue: "Cultures of Expertise in the Eastern Mediterranean", edited by Barbara Henning, Taisiya Leber & Ani Sargsyan. Stay tuned! #OpenAccess

📢 Lecture Series – Summer 2025 Here is our poster! 'Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature' ✨ March 13th, 2025 – June 12, 2025, 5PM-6:30PM, Hybride Event, Campus of the University of Vienna, Institute’s Auditorium orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

📢 Lecture Series – Summer 2025 Explore 'Contemporary trends in the study of modern Turkish literature' with leading scholars! 📚✨ 🗓 March 13 – June 12, 2025 📍 Univ. of Vienna & via Zoom ⏰ Thursdays, 17:00–18:30 CET 🔗 More info: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Summer school: Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools in Islamic Studies Course date: June 30–July 11, 2025 Location: Vienna Application deadline: February 14, 2025 summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...

Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia 22.01.2025, 5pm Mahshid Sehizadeh / Mohammad S. Izadi (Bu-Ali Sina University) Conservation or Destruction: A Review of Urban Policies towards the Historic Areas of Iranian Cities Also via Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction 15.01.2025, 5 p.m. Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna) Building the Islamic Art Market after 9/11: A Heritage Economy of the 21st Century Also via Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Great news! Starting 2025, Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies will transition to #GoldOpenAccess! All back issues OA from Jan 2025. Boosting global visibility, supporting early-career researchers. Further info follows soon! Happy New Year! www.nomos.de/en/journals/...

Thrilled to share that Becoming Ottoman is now out as an e-book! 🎉 Hardback coming 23 Jan 2025. A heartfelt thanks to all our brilliant contributors—your work made this project truly special. We hope it inspires many readers. Learn more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/becoming-...

📰 The Turkologie Newsletter 2024/4 is out! Stay informed about the latest updates and insights in Turkish and Ottoman Studies. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/51b8e4bf134f... 📬 Subscribe to never miss an issue! orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung... We wish you a successful and fulfilling 2025!

Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction 08.01.2025, 5 p.m. Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth (University of Vienna) Envisioning ancientness: A closer look at cultural heritage discourses in early Republican Turkey orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...

Overwhelmed by nearly 50 applications for "Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints & Newspapers" (6-9 Aug 2025, Vienna)! Submissions from Armenia to the USA! 📜🌍 #ArmenoTurkishStudies #CulturalHeritage mekhitar.univie.ac.at/activities/

Please share: Call for Applications Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...