Between Tradition and Transformation: Shabbat Musical Practice in the Jewish Community of Istanbul

This talk will be about ongoing transformations in the sacred musical repertoires practiced by ḥazzanim (synagogue cantors) and their synagogue congregations in Istanbul’s contemporary Jewish community. Dr. Alpar argues that clergy and laypeople alike negotiate their religious identities as Turkish Jews in the musical choices they make. While many try to maintain the community’s local […]

Güfte Mecmualarının Osmanlı Tarihyazımına Katkısı

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

‘Güfte Mecmuası’ makam, usûl, beste türü, bestekâr ismi gibi atıflardan birini yahut birkaçını kullanmak suretiyle, mündericâtındaki şiirlerin bestelendiğini gösteren şahsî derlemelerdir. Güfte mecmuaları, mecmuayı toplayan kişinin, melodisini hafızasında sakladığı eserleri, yeri geldiği zaman ona başvurarak okumasını temin eder. Güfte mecmualarının Osmanlı musiki tarihi bakımından en büyük önemi, meşk yöntemiyle üstaddan çırağa aktarılagelmiş ve 19. ile […]

Khanly in word, sultanic in image: exchanges between 16th-century Transoxiana and Anatolia evidenced in the Shībānī-nāma of Muhammad Sālih

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To attend this online lecture, prior registration is necessary: Please send an email specifying your name and academic affiliation to events@oiist.net by 16 November 2020 (Monday) at the latest. For technical reasons, the number of participants is limited. You will be informed about the organizational and technical procedure before the lecture starts. The focus of […]

Wishing Trees and Whirling Rocks: Eco-Material Rituals at the Alevi Shrine of Abdal Musa

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

To attend this online lecture, prior registration is necessary: Please send an email specifying your name and academic affiliation to events@oiist.net by 30 November 2020 (Monday) at the latest. For technical reasons, the number of participants is limited. You will be informed about the organizational and technical procedure before the lecture starts. Every year, in […]

Human, Medicine and Society

Armin Grunwald, full professor of Philosophy of Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is Director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at KIT and Director of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag. His research interests include technology assessment, ethics of philosophy, digital transformation of society, […]

“Giving Breath to the Silent Signs” – Revival of Middle Eastern Secular Music from Post-Byzantine Music Manuscripts

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

For technical reasons, the number of participants is limited. You will be informed about the organizational and technical procedure before the lecture starts.   From the 10th century onward, Byzantine music teachers created and developed a music notation by using musical signs. Since the late 14th century it has also been used for the transcriptions […]

Reconsidering Mevlevi Photographs Beyond the Established Clichés

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

To attend this online lecture, prior registration is necessary: Please send an email specifying your name and academic affiliation to events@oiist.net by 25 January 2021 (Monday) at the latest. For technical reasons, the number of participants is limited. You will be informed about the organizational and technical procedure before the lecture starts.   Despite the […]

Osmanlı Kaynaklarında Kâr’ın Tarihsel İzleri

Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

Klasik Türk müziği fasıl repertuarının en uzun ve karmaşık sözlü eser formu olan kâr, 17. yüzyıldan itibaren güfte mecmualarında kendine yer bulmuş, hattâ bu kaynaklardaki bazı kârların melodileri günümüze kadar ulaşmıştır. Güfteleri genellikle Farsça olan bu eserlerin önemli bir kısmının 15. yüzyılın efsanevi müzik bilgini Abdülkâdir Merâgî’ye atfedilmesi modern dönem müzikologlarınca şüpheyle karşılanmış, hattâ 17. […]