Exploring New Avenues of Collaboration in Brazil During the workshop at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, held on 23-24 September, Philip Bockholt and Hülya Çelik, together with Paulo Pinto, Gisele F. Chagas and others, explored new avenues of collaboration.

Workshop at UFF in Rio de Janeiro On 23-24 September, Philip Bockholt and Hülya Çelik will take part in the workshop “New Approaches to the Middle East in Germany and Brazil,” where they will each deliver lectures on multilingual textual traditions in the premodern and modern Ottoman Empire.

New Approaches to the History of the Middle East in Germany and Brazil The three-day workshop held at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) featured more than twenty papers presented by Master’s and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors. It was a great opportunity to exchange ...

From 16 to 18 September, Philip Bockholt will participate in the workshop “New Approaches to the History of the Middle East in Germany and Brazil,” delivering a lecture titled “Language, Culture, and Empire: Intersections of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean.”

On 22 July, the TRANSLAPT team, alongside the institute's secretary Vildan Yaşar and student assistants Aischa Mahmoud and Amina Catic, celebrated the end of the summer term of 2025. Wishing everyone a period of respite and productive endeavours from Münster!

The 2025 Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leaders meeting took place in Potsdam from July 10 to 12. Philip Bockholt attended the event, which included informative workshops, interesting lectures, and useful office hours with DFG officials. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...

Discussing the TRANSLAPT Book Series On 3 July, Torsten Wollina, Acquisitions Editor of the academic publisher De Gruyter Brill, visited the TRANSLAPT team to present on the publishing programme and discuss the upcoming TRANSLAPT book series.

TRANSLAPT presenting in Strasbourg Last week, four members of the TRANSLAPT team presented their research at the 6e Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans (GIS MOMM). This is the link to the conference page: momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

*Newly Published* Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire The newest TRANSOTTOMANICA publication has been released, featuring contributions by Bockholt and Sick from TRANSLAPT, Drkić, Zildžić, Benedek Péri, Sargsyan and Çelik.

Arguing about Munāẓara On 10–12 June, the workshop „Munāẓara – Seeing Eye to Eye? Theological and Literary Arguing Practices in Comparison“ took place at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Münster, discussing this literary genre in a variety of contexts.

Concluding the Workshop On Friday, 6 June, the workshop on "Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia" jointly organised by the TRANSLAPT and NoMansLand teams came to a conclusion. The event was an intriguing experience,

🌌 Panel I: Between Xīng and Yıldız: Astrology and Astronomy across Eurasia 🕒 Wednesday, 4 June | 16:30 | Chair: Andrew Peacock This first panel of the workshop featured three presentations focusing on multilingual knowledge transfer in astronomy and astrology.

Opening Session 🕒 Wednesday, 4 June | 14:30 The first day of the workshop began with a welcome address from Marco Schöller (Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster University) and the organisers of the event, Bruno De Nicola and Philip Bockholt, followed by two presentations

On 3 June, the TRANSLAPT team met with its Mercator Fellow, Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews), Bruno De Nicola and Sara Mirahmadi from the FWF START-award project NoMansLand (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Münster. In the meeting, the TRANSLAPT presented their current research,

Only one week left until the Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia workshop at Münster University, jointly organised by the research groups @NoMansLand_OEAW (Vienna) and @translapt (Münster)!

From 12 to 25 May, Sacha Alsancakli was a guest at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. As a guest of Yui Kanda, he delivered two lectures on the epic of Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya, a Turco-Persianate historical epic ...

Conference on Wissensgeschichte in Göttingen Last week, Philip Bockholt discussed translation processes as part of knowledge transfer in the early modern period at the conference "Das Artefakt im Fokus – Mediävistische Wissensgeschichte in der interdisziplinären Praxis". The conference,

On 15 May, Hannah-Lena Hagemann, the group leader of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group SCORE: Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (Hamburg University), gave a lecture at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Münster presenting the current research of her group.