Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna

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Diyâr Issue 1 (2026) to be released in May!

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We are pleased to share with you the first issue of the ViHOPE Newsletter for 2026.

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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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"

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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:
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