Tag: publication
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Vom Bosporus an die Donau: Das Orient-Institut Istanbul bringt den ungarischen Hofmusiker Géza Hegyei und Club Teutonia an die Ferenc Liszt-Akademie für Musik in Budapest – Autor: Richard Wittmann
Richard Wittmann 31. Mai 2024 Im Herbst 2018 klingelte das Telefon in Gábor Fodors Büro im ungarischen Kulturzentrum in Istanbul. Am anderen Ende der Leitung war ein ungarischer Mann mittleren Alters, der sich vorstellte und Dr. Fodor fragte, ob er jemals von Géza Hegyei gehört habe? Der Anrufer war sicherlich etwas verblüfft, als er dies…
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Behold, here comes the bride: textiles, women, and marriage in the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture – Author: Roxana Coman
Behold, here comes the bride: textiles, women, and marriage in the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture Author: Roxana Coman 21 July 2023 Supported by a Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant in the COST Action Europe Through Textiles: Network for an Integrated Research, and the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the two months spent in the Benaki Museum of Greek…
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Women Composers’ Creative Conditions Before and During the Turkish Republic – Author: Nejla Melike Atalay
Women Composers’ Creative Conditions Before and During the Turkish Republic A Case Study on Three Composers: Leyla [Saz] Hanımefendi, Nazife Aral-Güran, and Yüksel Koptagel Author: Nejla Melike Atalay 4 January 2023 My book[1] focuses on three Istanbulite composers, Leyla [Saz] Hanımefendi (1850?-1936), Nazife Aral-Güran (1921-1993), and Yüksel Koptagel (b. 1931), who lived and produced in…
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Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War – Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora
Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora 26 March 2021 What did it mean to individuals of different ethnic and religious backgrounds to participate in World War I under the Ottoman crescent and star banner? Focusing on a wide array of…
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Muslim Woman: The Translatability of a Patriarchal Order – Authors: A. Ebru Akcasu and Maha Abdelmegeed
Muslim Woman: The Translatability of a Patriarchal Order Authors: A. Ebru Akcasu and Maha Abdelmegeed 9 October 2020 The research carried out over the course of June 2018 – January 2019, conducted with one of us being based at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, and the other at the American University in Beirut, contributed to an article…
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Approaching Ottoman Athens – Author: Maria Georgopoulou
Approaching Ottoman Athens Author: Maria Georgopoulou 17 July 2020 The Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation have published Ottoman Athens. Archaeology, Topography, History, a collection of essays edited by Maria Georgopoulou and Konstantinos Thanasakis. Pulling together sources that highlight unknown facets of Ottoman Athens, piecing together little-known accounts and archaeological artifacts alongside better-known engravings…
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Some have left behind a name, and some have not – A Brief Guide to Istanbul’s Feriköy Protestant Cemetery – Authors: Brian Johnson, Richard Wittmann
Some have left behind a name, and some have not – A Brief Guide to Istanbul’s Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Authors: Brian Johnson, Richard Wittmann 12 JUNE 2020 What do a famous German engineer, American author, Hungarian soldier, British scholar, and Swiss brewer who left their mark on Istanbul and beyond have in common with many…
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A visual life narrative of 1830s Ottoman Izmir/Smyrna: The Harvard Fulgenzi Album – Author: Richard Wittmann
A visual life narrativeof 1830s Ottoman Izmir/Smyrna: The Harvard Fulgenzi Album Author: Richard Wittmann 29 MAY 2020 A beautiful album, conceived in Smyrna, modern-day Izmir, blends the Ottoman world of the mid-19th century with that of the new national state of Greece. This combination constitutes the subject of the 25 illustrations which portray the human form and…
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Approaching the mysteries of late-nineteenth century Istanbul: the publication of the serial novel ‘Beyoğlu Sırları’ in Karamanlidika Turkish – Authors: Evangelia Balta, Sada Payır
Approaching the mysteries of late-nineteenth century Istanbul: the publication of the serial novel ‘Beyoğlu Sırları’ in Karamanlidika Turkish Authors: Evangelia Balta, Sada Payır 30 APRIL 2020 The publication of the Karamanlidika translation of the novel Τα Απόκρυφα του Πέρα [The Mysteries of Pera] by Epaminondas Kyriakides is part of a Project launched in 2017 by…