Nükleer Enerji ve Toplumsal Sağlık

Gelişme ve kalkınma hedefleriyle uyumlaştırılan nükleer enerji üretimi, negatif dışsallıkları bağlamında tartışmalı bir konudur. Dünya genelinde Çernobil Nükleer Felaketi ve ondan 25 yıl sonra meydana gelen Fukuşima Nükleer Felaketi nedeniyle nükleer enerjiden çıkış eğilimi oluşmuşsa da başta Türkiye olmak üzere bazı ülkeler ilk defa nükleer santral sahibi olmayı planlamaktadır. Bu çalışmayla nükleer zincirin bir halkası […]

Diverging Genealogies and Conflicting Trajectories of Feminism in Egypt and Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire into the 1930s

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 2 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.   Although historiography […]

Networks of Expertise in Turkey: Politics of Autism

There has been widespread media coverage of what is often referred to as the “autism epidemic” around the world. Today autism remains a field of contention. This presentation builds on fieldwork conducted in Turkey to analyze the changing politics of childhood through a study of autism. Through observations and interviews with parents and professionals, I […]

Sonic Rituals: Ottoman, Habsburg & Burgundian Festivities (15th – 17th Centuries) From an Intermedial Perspective

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

To attend this online workshop, prior registration is necessary: Please send an email specifying your name and academic affiliation to events@oiist.net by 31 August 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 workshop starts. Sounds are an […]

Sanat Uzun, Hayat Kısa: Tıp, Delilik ve Sanat

İçeriden Sesler, Sessizlikler: Tımarhanede Sanat ve Edebiyat (Fatih Artvinli): Türkiye’de “delilik çalışmaları” alanına ilgi son yıllarda giderek artmaya başlamıştır. Tıp tarihi ve psikiyatri tarihi alanında daha çok temel aktörler ve kurumların tarihine yoğunlaşılırken, bu kurumlarda bizzat hastalar tarafından üretilen eserler, edebiyat ve sanat ürünlerine yansıyan sesler ve sessizlikler henüz yeterince işitilmemiştir. Bu sunumda, Toptaşı Bimarhanesi, […]

Weathering the Data Deluge: Challenges and Opportunities of Computational Social Science Methods

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

IMPORTANT NOTE: To attend this livestream lecture, prior registration is necessary: please send an email specifying your name and academic affiliation to events@oiist.net by 18 May 2020 (Monday) at the latest. “Out with every theory of human behavior (…) who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we […]

The Ingredients of Aşure

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

Online Workshop The Ingredients of Aşure which will take place on 24 September 2020 17.00 – 19.30 (Istanbul time) via Zoom The workshop is part of a series of research meetings dedicated to Materialities of Everyday Religiosity, Past and Present. It aims to look closely at aşure, the sweet boiled grain soup, or pudding, which […]

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 […]