The story of the rise of modern Arabic literature begins in the 19th century when the encounter with Europe instigates a far-reaching process of translation, adaptation, and transmutation against the backdrop of a wider move towards state-modernization on the one hand and incipient colonization on the other. In the throes of these sweeping changes, modern […]

Dr Ambra D’Antone (The Warburg Institute, London) “Karagöz is ours”: İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s Cultural Revivalism and the Long Turkish Modernity Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) By Kıvanç from İstanbul, Turkey – İstanbul Toys Museum ( Karagöz And Hacivat), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4092519 In 1939, the Turkish scholar and art critic […]

M. Merve Uca (Sadberk Hanım Müzesi) Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam: Sadberk Koç as a Rigorous Collector Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) Turkey’s first private museum is named after Sadberk Koç, who pioneered in the development of private museums in this country. She is not only a key figure in the […]

Dr. Theodor E. Ulieriu-Rostás (Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Ethnological Archive) Recovering the Provisional. Musealization and Photography in the Early Years of the Museum of Ethnography and National Art in Bucharest (1906 – 1912) Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) The 1900 Exposition Universelle and the 1906 Bucharest Jubilee Exhibition brought renewed interest […]

Dr. Roxana Coman (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Orient-Institut Istanbul) Antiquities and Rarities in mid-19th Century Wallachia: Dimitrie Papazoglu’s Collection for “The Feeling of Love of the Progress of my Nation” Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) In 1860, Dimitrie Papazoglu (1811 – 1892) opened a museum in his private residence on Calea Văcărești, no […]

Prof. Dr. Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) Hima in the House: Avian Architecture across the Islamic World Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT +3)   Through its recent ecological turn, the scholarly study of “Islamic” architecture has expanded to take into greater account both the animal and vegetal worlds. As nature’s most accomplished […]

ÇEVRİMİÇİ SUNUMA DAVET   Dr. phil. Nejla Melike Atalay Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster DFG-Projekt Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) Institut für Musikwissenschaft   Besteci Kadınların Türkiye Cumhuriyeti önce ve sonrasında Yaratım Koşulları. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne müzik tarihinde üç besteci üzerine bir vaka çalışması: Leyla Hanımefendi (1850?-1936), Nazife Aral-Güran (1921-1993) ve Yüksel Koptagel (d. 1931)’in üretim ve […]

Invitation to an Online Lecture The Iconography of Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Single Sheet Paintings   Suzanne Compagnon MA MA (University of Vienna)   Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 19:00 (Turkish time; GMT +3)   The talk presents some results of the author’s on-going PhD project on clothed figures and representation in Ottoman book painting with a […]

Invitation to an Online Lecture How to make a difference: Free 3D printed devices for earthquake victims Zeynep Karagöz Robotel Türkiye   Monday, 20 March 2023, 19:30 (Istanbul; GMT +3) / 17:30 (Berlin, GMT +1) / 11:30 a.m. (New York, EST) This lecture offers an opportunity to learn more about our work at Robotel Türkiye, […]

Invitation to an Online Lecture – OII Lectures in Iranian History and Culture Iranian Music in Ottoman Sources: Questions of Authenticity, Fidelity, and Cultural Transfer   Arastoo Mihandoust University of Tehran, School of Performing Arts and Music   Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 19:00 (Turkish time; GMT +3) The seminar investigates the early history of the […]