Abstract: This talk presents a newly published edited volume about debates on language policy and planning in the Republic of Turkey. The eight chapters deal with various aspects related to both the official language Turkish and the other languages used in Turkey, whether autochthonous minority languages or languages that have recently become important through migration. […]
Dr. Anastasios B. Nikopoulos Thessaloniki 12 January 2022, 19:00 Orient-Institut Istanbul Reevaluating the Institutional Autonomy of 14th Century Mount Athos under the Ottomans: The “Confiscation Issue” with Regard to Athonian Landholdings in Postbyzantine Macedonia The self-governed monastic community of Mount Athos is the only surviving monastic center of many that once existed […]
As is the case with many other former Ottoman regions, Romania’s relation with its imperial Ottoman legacy is a complex, multilayered, contradictory, and ambiguous one. These ambiguities seem to permeate almost every aspect of 19th and 20th century’s Romanian culture and society in the constructivist spirit of searching for roots while building a new and […]
Die Zeit um 1900, also die Zeit der Herrschaft von Sultan Abdülhamid II. (reg. 1876-1909), war vom Bemühen geprägt, sich gegenüber den übermächtigen europäischen imperialen Staaten zu behaupten. Unter den Strategien einer positiven Selbstdarstellung boten sich fotografische Selbstdokumentationen des Osmanischen Reiches in besonderer Weise an. Das aus dieser Zeit erhaltene umfangreiche Bildmaterial verdankt sich zu […]
Invitation to an online lecture Dr. Jana Matuszak University of Tübingen Parodying Songs of Praise: towards an understanding of Sumerian mock hymns Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 19:00 (GMT +3) Sumerian literature is recognized as the world’s oldest literature. It has only been recovered in the last century and this pioneering work […]
Festvortrag von Prof. Dr. em. Peter Zieme (Berlin): Barbara Kellner-Heinkele – ein Leben für die Turkologie Der namhafte Iranist und Turkologe Prof. Dr. em. Peter Zieme, in Fachkreisen vor allem bekannt durch die fast 25-jährige Forschungstätigkeit im Rahmen des Akademievorhabens zur „Turfanforschung“ der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu den Textzeugnissen der alten Kulturen an […]
Polish Republic was founded in 1918 and was able to defend its independence against Bolsheviks in the following years. The Peace Treaty of Riga (1921) was, however, rather a cease-fire and the Soviet Union conducted multilevel pressure on Poland trying to import revolution and to back ethnic separatism. Warsaw’s answer was the strategy of Prometheanism, […]
Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University) The place of Islamic artefacts in Osman Hamdi Bey’s artistic and museological career Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) Abstract Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), celebrated both for his talent as a painter and his achievements at the head of the Imperial Museum, has always had […]
The story of the rise of modern Arabic literature begins in the 19th century when the encounter with Europe instigates a far-reaching process of translation, adaptation, and transmutation against the backdrop of a wider move towards state-modernization on the one hand and incipient colonization on the other. In the throes of these sweeping changes, modern […]
Dr Ambra D’Antone (The Warburg Institute, London) “Karagöz is ours”: İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s Cultural Revivalism and the Long Turkish Modernity Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) By Kıvanç from İstanbul, Turkey – İstanbul Toys Museum ( Karagöz And Hacivat), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4092519 In 1939, the Turkish scholar and art critic […]
M. Merve Uca (Sadberk Hanım Müzesi) Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam: Sadberk Koç as a Rigorous Collector Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) Turkey’s first private museum is named after Sadberk Koç, who pioneered in the development of private museums in this country. She is not only a key figure in the […]
Dr. Theodor E. Ulieriu-Rostás (Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Ethnological Archive) Recovering the Provisional. Musealization and Photography in the Early Years of the Museum of Ethnography and National Art in Bucharest (1906 – 1912) Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) The 1900 Exposition Universelle and the 1906 Bucharest Jubilee Exhibition brought renewed interest […]