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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
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
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.

www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-...
July 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Our latest Turkologie Newsletter 2025/2 ist out!
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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:
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June 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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
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
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

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May 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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

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April 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📣 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.
April 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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

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For further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/.../ringvorl...
April 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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

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March 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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

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March 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM