Dr. Esther Voswinckel Filiz

Akdeniz coğrafyasında din antropolojisi

Dinî mimari

1925 sonrası İstanbul’un dinî tarihi

Türbe emanetleri ve Tâcname literatürü

Din, Zanaat ve Sanat

“Doku”: dinî pratiklerin tekstil ve dokusal tarafları

18.2.2025: The Mantle of the Prophet (Hırka-i Şerif) in Fatih: Enquiries into a Fabric of Traditions and its Intertwined Threads.“ Nafi Baba Tasavvuf, Tarih ve Kültürel Miras Araştırma Merkezi Tasavvuf Konuşmaları/Sufism Talks. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

30.01.2025: „Sublime Textures: Heavenly Elements and Earthly Travels of the ‚Mantle of the Prophet‘ (Hırka-i Şerif) in Fatih“. Oberseminar am Zentrum für Islamische Theologie (ZITh), Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen.

18.10.2024: „Not Even a Handkerchief Got Lost: Textile Elements of a Sufi Saint Shrine in Istanbul“. Workshop Material Religion in Turkey. Historical, Contemporary and Future Trajectories. Organized by Esther Voswinckel Filiz, Gökçen Beyinli and Christoph K. Neumann. Orient-Institut Istanbul. 17./18.10.2024.

14.10.2023: „Havadan Sudan/ Of Air and Water: Material and Immaterial Elements of a Saintly Place in Istanbul“. Workshop Atmospheres – Multisensorial Research in Istanbul. Artistic and Academic Research in Dialogue. Organized by: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Concordia-Universität Montreal and Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), Istanbul, 13.-14.10.2023.

21.09.2023: „The Mantle of the Prophet: Textual and Textile Traditions related to the Hırka-i Şerif in Istanbul“. Panel Materialities of Text (OII). Vierter Deutscher Turkologentag der GTOT, Vienna University.

08.09.2023: „Ziyaret-i Evliyâ. Multisensorial Encounters at Saint Shrines (türbe) in Istanbul“. Workshop The Mediterranean Senses. Sensual Knowledge and Perceptive Culture in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Berlin, Freie Universität, 8. September 2023 (online).

07.09.2023: „Artefacts, Objects, Things: Nonlinguistic Phenomena and Material Culture as a Source for the History of Concepts?“ Summer Academy on the Entangled Histories of Bengal to Balkans Complex. Orient-Institut Istanbul (4.-15.9.2023). 

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: Oturum başkanı: „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.“  Konferans Entangled Sufism in (Post-) Ottoman Europe. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Viyana, 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.“ Uluslararası Workshop Materialities of Everyday Religiosity: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics in Turkey and Iran. 17.-20. Orient-Institut Istanbul, Juni 2021 (online).

17.3.2021: “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, Istanbul (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 Kolokyumu.

29.11.2019: “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”. Prof. Dr. Semih Ceyhan (Marmara Üniversitesi) ile. Konferans The Sacred Patrimony of Sufism: Architecture, Objects and Symbols from the Maghreb to China. IFEA/CNRS/ Orient-Institut Istanbul (17-18 Ekim 2019).

4.05.2019: “Holy places of Sufism in Istanbul: the saint’s tomb as a threshold.” Seminer 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 Mayıs 2019).

28.10.2018: Workshop “Religiöse Praxen als alternative Ressourcen im Kontext gesellschaftlichen Umbruchs”. Konferans Unsere Zeit denken: Interkulturelle Gegenwartsanalysen und Handlungsperspektiven. Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Weingarten (26-28 Ekim 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 Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/University of Salento. Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam (24-26 Mart 2016). 

Kitap

Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi in Istanbul – Biographie eines Ortes. Istanbuler Texte und Studien 48. Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2022.

Makaleler

“Turban”. Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, Glossary. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/khamseen/glossary/2023/turban/.

(Semih Ceyhan ile:) „Headgear“. Brill Handbook of Sufi Material Culture (yayına hazılanıyor).

„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. Derl. Rosita D’Amora ile Tineke Rooijakkers. Leiden/London (Yayına hazırlanıyor).

„Der kreisende Himmel über Konya. Tranceriten der Sufis zwischen Universum und Untergrund. Ein Feldbericht.“ Begeisterung und Blasphemie, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2/2015. Derl. Martin Zillinger ve 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. 

Kitap eleştirisi:

Bigelow, Anna:  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, 420 S. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 65(1), 2013. Leiden/Boston. 79-81.

Blog yazıları

“Threads of Tradition: Textile practices and material culture of Sufism in Istanbul. Some field notes,” Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 4 Haziran 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/

Başka Yayınlar

Voswinckel Filiz, Esther. „Eis tin pólin. Istanbul bir geçişler coğrafyası.“ Turkish Airlines Empathy 1 (2019). Istanbul. 114-117.