Lectures
30.05.2022 (with Salih Demirtaş): Chair of the workshop Experience of a City: Multisensorial Approaches to Past and Present. Orient-Institut Istanbul, online.
27.05.2022: „Fäden und Fährten des Religiösen: Teilnehmende Beobachtung der islamischen Heiligenverehrung in Istanbul“. 10. Symposion Religion & Psychoanalyse. Spiritualität und das Unbewusste. Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft. 27 – 28 May, 2022, Munich.
10.02.2022: Organization and chairing of the panel: „Ziyāra Revisited: Explorations of the Multisensorial and Material Dimensions of Pilgrimage in Iran and Beyond“. IRSSC Closing Conference. Orient-Institut Istanbul (online).
22.10.2021: “Meftune Hanım’s Threads: Textile Entanglements of Sufism in Istanbul.” International Conference Entangled Sufism in (Post-) Ottoman Europe. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Vienna, 21.-23.10.2021 (online).
18.06.2021: “The Materiality of Sufi Saint Shrines in Istanbul: The Case of the Türbe of Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi (1541-1628) in Üsküdar.” International Workshop Materialities of Everyday Religiosity: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics in Turkey and Iran. 17.-20.6. 2021 (online).
17.03.2021: “Textile Belongings of a Sufi Saint in Istanbul”. Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (online).
16. 11. 2020: “On the Other Shore: The Things of a Sufi Saint in Istanbul”. Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (online).
24.09.2020: “A landscape of tastes and melodies: aşure distribution at Istanbul’s tekkes”. Workshop The Ingredients of Aşure, Orient-Institut Istanbul (online).
22.06.2020: “Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi in Istanbul – Biographie eines Ortes”. Orient-Institut Istanbul Research Colloquium.
29.10.2019: “Collecting Thread Ends. Some Introductory Remarks”. Threads of Tradition – Textile Metaphors: a Workshop with Prof. Dr. Tim Ingold. CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
18.10. 2019: “The tâç in Ottoman Sufi culture: literature, design, symbolism and ritual.” With Prof. Dr. Semih Ceyhan (Marmara University). Conference The Sacred Patrimony of Sufism: Architecture, Objects and Symbols from the Maghreb to China. IFEA/CNRS/ Orient-Institut Istanbul.
04.05.2019: “Holy places of Sufism in Istanbul: the saint’s tomb as a threshold.” Seminar Holiness. Threshold of the “proximity” of the divine to the human and of the human to the divine. Dost-I (Domenican Study Istanbul (1.-5. Mai 2019).
28.10.2018: Workshop “Religiöse Praxen als alternative Ressourcen im Kontext gesellschaftlichen Umbruchs”. Conference Unsere Zeit denken: Interkulturelle Gegenwartsanalysen und Handlungsperspektiven. Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (26.-28.10.2018).
13.05. 2016: “Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi in Istanbul – Ethnographie eines Ortes”. Materialwerkstatt/Research Colloquium a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, Universität zu Köln.
25.03.2016: “Sufi Turbans in Istanbul – the Textile and Textual Production of Ritual Headgear at Saintly Gravesites.” Conference The Politics of Dress and Identiy in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/University of Salento. Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam (24.-26.3.2016).
Publications
Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi in Istanbul – Biographie eines Ortes. Istanbuler Texte und Studien 48. Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2022.
“Turban” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/khamseen/glossary/2023/turban/
(with Semih Ceyhan): „Headgear“. Brill Handbook of Sufi Material Culture (submitted for publication).
“Sufi Turbans in Istanbul – the Textile and Textual Production of the Tâc-ı Șerîf.” The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present. Edited by Rosita D’Amora and Tineke Rooijakkers. Leiden/London (Forthcoming 2023).
“Der kreisende Himmel über Konya. Tranceriten der Sufis zwischen Universum und Untergrund. Ein Feldbericht.” Begeisterung und Blasphemie, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2/2015. Edited by Martin Zillinger and Erhard Schüttpelz. Bielefeld. 139-143.
“Looking Inside. The Windows of Sufi Saint Shrines in Istanbul.” Kunstlicht. Journal for Visual Arts and Architecture 1 (2014). Amsterdam. 126-141.
Bigelow, Anna (Ed.): Islam Through Objects. London et al: Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion), 2021. Die Welt des Islams 63 (2023) 127–144. doi:10.1163/15700607-20220002.
Kreinath, Jens (Ed.): The Anthropology of Islam Reader, London/New York: Routledge, 2012. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 65(1), 2013. Leiden/Boston. 79-81.
“Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes”. Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 4 June 2021. https://www.oiist.org/threads-of-tradition/
Voswinckel Filiz, Esther. „>Saint Anthony’s Bread< in Istanbul and >Problem-Solving Chickpeas< in Iran: July’s Religion-Related Research Get-Together Dedicated to Food and Religion“ Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 14 August 2020. https://www.oiist.org/saint-anthonys-bread-in-istanbul-and-problem-solving-chickpeas-in-iran-julys-religion-related-research-get-together-dedicated-to-food-and-religio/
Voswinckel Filiz, Esther. „Eis tin pólin. Istanbul bir geçişler coğrafyası.“ Turkish Airlines Empathy 1 (2019). Istanbul. 114-117.
