Topkapı Sarayı’ndaki Din Konulu Tekstillere Genel Bir Bakış   Prof. Dr. Hülya Tezcan (Nişantaşı Üniversitesi):   Çarşamba, 29 Eylül 2021, 18:00 (GMT+3)   Topkapı Sarayı Padişah Elbiseleri Koleksiyonu’nda seksen yedi adet tılsımlı gömlek, bir yaka, beş takke, on yazılı örtüden oluşan yaklaşık yüz civarında eser bulunur. Bu gömleklerin kişiyi hastalıklara ve türlü kötülüklere karşı koruduğuna, […]

Many historical vestments and church fabrics of the Greek Orthodox rite survive today in monastic sacristies and museums. Until now, textile and dress scholars have primarily focused on their ultimate origin, historic evolution, and dogmatic meaning. In my view, these important material remnants inform us on underexplored dynamics in the society that produced them and […]

INVITATION TO AN ONLINE LECTURE “Fabrics of Devotion: Religious Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean”   The Jewish Prayer Shawl Tallit   Dr. Esther Juhasz (Shenkar College /The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)   Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT+3)   The tallit, the fringed garment, is worn by observant Jewish males to this day. The […]

INVITATION TO AN ONLINE LECTURE Dr. phil. Suna Suner (Don Juan Archiv Wien)   Studies on Culture and Diplomacy – Projects at Don Juan Archiv Wien: OTTOMANIA, DIPLOMATICA, BRASILIENSIA   Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 19:00 (Turkish time; GMT +3)   Don Juan Archiv Wien is a research institute in Vienna dedicated to theatre history and […]

Abstract: The Turkish Language Reform is one of the most fascinating cultural projects of the first half of the 20th century. Throughout the 1920s, numerous distinguished linguists from Hungary, Soviet Russia and Poland visited the University of Istanbul and maintained close contacts with Turkish academia. Mészaros Gyula, Wilhelm Barthold and Süreyya Szapszal were important inspirers, commentators […]

Abstract: The Ottoman Empire was a fundamentally multilingual society. In the course of the late Ottoman and early Republican period, certain policies, rules and practices were introduced in order to influence the linguistic situation and to establish the dominant language in the society, without a perspective for maintaining its linguistic diversity. In this talk Dr. […]

Abstract: Like Yusuf Akçura, Abdullah Battal-Taymas and other intellectuals of Tatar origin, Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1879–1957) from Kazan played an important role for the construction and development of the Turkish Republic. He met Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and made important contributions to the Kemalist reforms of law, politics, history and language. His role in the Turkish […]

Deutsche Institutionen in Istanbul in den Jahren 1933 bis 1944 Die Geschichte deutscher Gemeinden im Ausland während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ist Gegenstand fundierter Untersuchungen. Entfernt von abstrakter Theoriebildung betrachtet der Vortrag die soziale Praxis vor Ort und liefert einen Überblick über die einsetzenden Prozesse in deutschen Institutionen im Zeitraum von 1933 bis 1944. Mit […]

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 […]