Managing Multilingualism: Officers, State Servants and Clergymen in the late Habsburg and Ottoman Empires

INVITATION to a Panel Discussion

Managing Multilingualism: Officers, State Servants and Clergymen in the late Habsburg and Ottoman Empires

Priv. Doz. Dr. Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna)

and

Prof. Dr. Abdulhamit Kırmızı (Marmara University Istanbul)

Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 19:00 at the Orient-Institut Istanbul

Since earning her doctorate in History from the University of Vienna in 2007, Tamara Scheer has taught and conducted research at the National Defence Academy in Vienna, the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, the Faculty of Central European Studies at Andrássy University Budapest, the Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science, the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna, and the Pontifical Institute of Eastern European Studies Santa Maria dell‘ Anima in Rome. She has also held short-term teaching assignments at the University of Southampton and the University of Ljubljana (through ERASMUS Mobility), as well as a Dobrovsky Fellowship at the Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. During the winter semester of 2024–25, she is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of History at the University of Hradec Kralove.

In addition to her teaching, which focuses on the history of the Habsburg monarchy and Central Europe from the long 19th to the 20th century, she is currently working on her fourth monograph. This work explores language diversity and national identities in the Austro-Hungarian army (1868–1914/18) and is being supported by a second research grant from the FWF (Hertha Firnberg, 2013–2016; Elise Richter, 2017–2022).

Abdulhamit Kırmızı is a Professor of History at Marmara University, Istanbul.

He studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University. He received his MA degree from the History Department of Hacettepe University and earned his PhD in History from Boğaziçi University. He was Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia in Winter 2022/23, Visiting Professor at the Institut für Orientalistik, University of Bamberg in 2020/21, Professor of History at the Istanbul Şehir University for ten years between 2010 and 2020, and a Visiting Fellow of The British Academy at SOAS, University of London, in 2009.

This event is a joint event between the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul and the Orient-Institut Istanbul.

It is free of charge, the event language is English. To join this invitation please register. Photos or videos will be taken during the event. By participating, you agree that these may be used on the OII website, newsletter and social media. The event will not be recorded.

VENUE

Orient-Institut Istanbul

Galip Dede Cad. 65, Şahkulu Mah., TR – 34421 Istanbul

Tel: +90 212 293 60 67 oiist@oiist.org www.oiist.org

REGISTRATION