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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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November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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November 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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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/...
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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

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October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🎉 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
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
September 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
August 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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...
August 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📜 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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July 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
July 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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.

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July 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Our latest Turkologie Newsletter 2025/2 ist out!
mailchi.mp/3ff50f2153df...

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July 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
📢 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...
June 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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🎓 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
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June 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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."

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June 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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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...
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May 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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📖New book: Masayuki Ueno on the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its non-Muslim subjects, with a focus on the Armenians of Istanbul.📖
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May 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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
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May 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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?

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May 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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

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May 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM