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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 1d

📢 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/...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 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

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

CEST Symposium 2025/2026, Naples – CEST

cest-turkey.org

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jul 29

📜 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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jul 7

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-...

Istanbul (Constantinople), 1846-1852 https://mechitaristlibrary.org/hayastan/

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our latest Turkologie Newsletter 2025/2 ist out!
mailchi.mp/3ff50f2153df...

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

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 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...

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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎓 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/

GTOT award – GTOT

gtot.org

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jun 2

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...

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · May 29

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...

Halcyon Days in Crete | Αλκυονίδες Ημέρες στην Κρήτη 34 years of symposia and proceedings | 34 χρόνια συμποσίων και πρακτικών - Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης

Οι Αλκυονίδες Ημέρες στην Κρήτη είναι μια σειρά διεθνών οθωμανολογικών συμποσίων που διοργανώνονται στο Ρέθυμνο κάθε τρία χρόνια, τον Ιανουάριο, από τον Τομέα Οθωμανικής Ιστορίας του Ινστιτούτου Μεσογ...

cup.gr

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · May 1

📖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...

Book cover: Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire, by Masayuki Ueno

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · May 27

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

Jobs@Universität Wien

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · May 25

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · May 16

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...

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · May 12

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...

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · May 10

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...

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Apr 22

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...

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