Schlagwort: Türkei

Countdown to 9/11 – Author: Maurus Reinkowski

Aug. 27, 2021

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in Essay

Countdown to 9/11 Author: Maurus Reinkowski 27 August 2021 I am sitting here at my desk that the Orient-Institut Istanbul has graciously provided me with for the month of August in an attempt to pursue a project of mine from olden times, that is, to make sense of the varying nature of “peripheries” in the…
Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes – Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz

Juni 7, 2021

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in Forschungsprojekt

Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz 4 June 2021 Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together/ some say he was never here at all… (Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone) The above quoted lines of a song lingered in my…
A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries – Author: Roxana Coman

Mai 1, 2021

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in Forschungsprojekt

A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries Author: Roxana Coman 30 April 2021 Ottoman material culture in Romania underwent significant paradigm changes with many symbolical implications during the 18th and 19th centuries, most notably if we take into consideration the westernization and nation building processes. Insofar, the…
A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire – Author: Sebastian Willert

Apr. 23, 2021

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in Forschungsprojekt

A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire Author: Sebastian Willert 23 April 2021 “Since I arrived at Halep [Aleppo] I have been seeing valuable antiquities in many houses. Telegrams I receive from Raqqa indicate that antiquity smuggling is pervasive.”[1] In his telegram of…
Historical Resonances of Nichori – Author: Salih Demirtaş

Apr. 8, 2021

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in Forschungsprojekt

Historical Resonances of Nichori Author: Salih Demirtaş 9 April 2021 Studies on ocularcentric aspects of visual culture in modernity cover broad epistemological areas that focus on priority to the eyesight over other senses; in other words, a vision-oriented construction of knowledge, truth and reality. As part of anti-ocularcentric discourses across the social sciences including multisensory…
Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War – Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora

März 27, 2021

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in Publikation

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…
CMO Brings Together Music Editors of the Hampartsum Notation in a Virtual Event – Author: Nevin Şahin

Jan. 29, 2021

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in Workshop

CMO Brings Together Music Editors of the Hampartsum Notation in a Virtual Event Author: Nevin Şahin 29 January 2021 The long-term project Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae, after having initiated the online publication platform www.corpus-musicae-ottomanicae.de in 2018, is now happy to publish the pre-prints of the first music and text editions of the project on music sources…
Fortuities of an online search and the complexities of Ottoman feminism – Author: Gülşah Torunoğlu

Dez. 5, 2020

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in Workshop

Fortuities of an online search and the complexities of Ottoman feminism Author: Gülşah Torunoğlu 4 December 2020 In a less than a week Hülya Adak, Richard Wittmann and I will be holding a virtual workshop on „Mapping Gender in the Near East: What’s New and What’s Ahead in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality…
Mundane and Basic, But Existential – On the Everyday Challenges of Building International Scholarly Collaborative Networks – Author: Katja Rieck

Nov. 20, 2020

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in Reflexionsaufsatz

Mundane and Basic, But Existential – On the Everyday Challenges of Building International Scholarly Collaborative Networks Author: Katja Rieck 20 November 2020 In my previous blog post in July (https://www.oiist.org/building-sustainable-scholarly-collaboration-with-iran-and-beyond-of-covid-19-and-other-challenges/) I wrote about the various challenges, not least those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, in building networks of scholarly collaboration with colleagues in Iran and…
Blue mohawk and the whirling dervish: a glimpse into contemporary Mevlevi soundscapes – Author: Nevin Şahin

Sep. 25, 2020

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in Musik

Blue mohawk and the whirling dervish: a glimpse into contemporary Mevlevi soundscapes Author: Nevin Şahin 25 September 2020 Authenticity in the performance of Mevlevi whirling rituals has long been discussed and for a few decades, a new tradition of commemorating Mevlana Rumi (1207-73) has been established. With the foundation of state ensembles solely for performing…