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Die Wissenschaftlerinnen des Instituts und deren Kooperationspartnerinnen beschreiben in freier Form, wie sich ihre Projekte trotz der aktuellen Beschränkungen entwickeln und welche neuen Erkenntnisse sie gewonnen haben. Der Blog bietet Raum, um von Erfahrungen, Problemen und Lösungen zu berichten – vor Ort und aus der Ferne. Wichtig ist uns, dass wissenschaftliche Forschung ungeachtet aller Einschränkungen auch jetzt Freude macht, aber dass gerade die geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung derzeit vor besonderen Herausforderungen steht. Die Beitragenden verbindet das Interesse an der Geschichte, den gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen sowie den linguistischen und kulturellen Ausdrucksformen im Osmanischen Reich, der Türkei und ihren Nachbarländern.
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From Demography to the Rural Development – in Turkey and Beyond – Author: Heinrich Hartmann
From Demography to the Rural Development—in Turkey and Beyond Author: Heinrich Hartmann 10 December 2021 At the heart of what became my habilitation lies a fierce interest in European demographic anxieties about Turkey’s fast-growing population in the 20th century, especially in the immediate post-Second World War decades. Turkey’s rapid population growth in the 1950s and 1960s—its…
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Bir Yaşamın İzleri – Traugott Fuchs Mirasının Kataloglanması
Bir Yaşamın İzleri – Traugott Fuchs Mirasının Kataloglanması Yazarlar: Karin Schweissgut & Melissa Sivri 17 Eylül 2021 Traugott Fuchs’un Orient-Institut Istanbul’daki mirasını kataloglama projesi, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İstanbul Arşiv ve Dokümantasyon Merkezi ile iş birliği içinde, Kültürel Koruma Programının bir parçası olarak Dışişleri Bakanlığı ve Orient-Institut Istanbul fonları ile finanse edildi. Alman dili ve edebiyatı ve…
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Countdown to 9/11 – Author: Maurus Reinkowski
Countdown to 9/11 Author: Maurus Reinkowski 27 August 2021 I am sitting here at my desk that the Orient-Institut Istanbul has graciously provided me with for the month of August in an attempt to pursue a project of mine from olden times, that is, to make sense of the varying nature of “peripheries” in the…
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Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes – Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz
Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz 4 June 2021 Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together/ some say he was never here at all… (Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone) The above quoted lines of a song lingered in my…
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A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries – Author: Roxana Coman
A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries Author: Roxana Coman 30 April 2021 Ottoman material culture in Romania underwent significant paradigm changes with many symbolical implications during the 18th and 19th centuries, most notably if we take into consideration the westernization and nation building processes. Insofar, the…
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A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire – Author: Sebastian Willert
A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire Author: Sebastian Willert 23 April 2021 “Since I arrived at Halep [Aleppo] I have been seeing valuable antiquities in many houses. Telegrams I receive from Raqqa indicate that antiquity smuggling is pervasive.”[1] In his telegram of…
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Historical Resonances of Nichori – Author: Salih Demirtaş
Historical Resonances of Nichori Author: Salih Demirtaş 9 April 2021 Studies on ocularcentric aspects of visual culture in modernity cover broad epistemological areas that focus on priority to the eyesight over other senses; in other words, a vision-oriented construction of knowledge, truth and reality. As part of anti-ocularcentric discourses across the social sciences including multisensory…
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Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War – Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora
Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora 26 March 2021 What did it mean to individuals of different ethnic and religious backgrounds to participate in World War I under the Ottoman crescent and star banner? Focusing on a wide array of…
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Between Tradition and Innovation: The Young Generation of Iranian Composers in the Digital Era – Author and producer of podcast: Dr. des. Kamyar Nematollahy
Between Tradition and Innovation: The Young Generation of Iranian Composers in the Digital Era Author and producer of podcast: Dr. des. Kamyar Nematollahy 5 March 2021 Iranian classical music is heir to an ancient tradition that was historically connected to the court and other institutions of power. This music was once based on the Maghām…
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Nematollahy, Kamyar “The Young Generation of Iranian Composers in the Digital Era”
5 March 2021 Dr. des. Kamyar Nematollahy is a musician and ethnomusicologist from the University of Cologne where he defended his Ph.D. thesis in 2020. Since September 2019, he has been working in the BMBF-funded initiative “Iran and Beyond – Breaking the Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration (IRSSC). Performance of Culture, Religion and Body as Strategies of…