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Fools, Poets and Misfits: Critique and Marginalization in the early-modern Ottoman Empire
Die Monographie widmet sich den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Wandlungen des Osmanischen Reiches von den späten Regierungsjahren Süleymans I. bis zur Ermordung İbrahims I. in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Im Zentrum stehen politische und soziale Kommentare, die jenseits des imperialen Zentrums zirkulierten. Auf der Grundlage von Archivquellen, narrativen und literarischen Texten arbeitet die Studie subalterne und subversive Stimmen heraus und zeichnet so ein Bild der frühneuzeitlichen osmanischen Dissidenz sowie einer breiteren Kritikkultur nach, als bisher angenommen. Damit eröffnet sie neue Perspektiven auf die Dynamiken von Herrschaft, Legitimität und Kritikräume im Osmanischen Reich.
Vorträge in Auswahl
“Between Truth-Making and Authority-Breaking: Epistemic Hegemonies and Collaborations on Local to Global Scales.” Max Weber Postdoctoral Programme Conference, European University Institute, Florenz, Juni 2025.
“Behind the Veil? Early Modern Ottoman Poetesses and What They Had to Say About State and Society.” Writing Women, Making History: Literature and the Study of Women’s Past Lives, organized by the Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group and Public History Working Group, Department of History, European University Institute, Florenz, März 2024.
“Genre-Speficity and Cross-Referencing in Nevʿizāde ʿAṭāʾī’s Ḥadāʾiḳu’l-ḥaḳāʾiḳ and Ḫamse.” Texts as Living Objects: Reconsidering Dhayls as a Means for the Study of Authorship and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Age, Paris, November 2023.
“Beyond Officialdom and Patronage: Alternative Careers and Self-Fashioning among the Ottoman Educated Elites during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.“ Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 56th Annual Meeting, Denver (CO), November 2022.
“Marginality or ‘Eigensinn’? On the Social Function of the Holy Fools and Village Idiots in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” The Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop (1200-1800), University of Chicago, Oktober 2022.
“Meryem with the Hanging Hat on the Run: Female Crime in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire as a Subversive Identity Statement.” The Making and Unmaking of Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean. European University Institute, Florenz, Mai 2022.
“Tımariots, raider lords and other disgruntled soldiers: Social critique in the military-administrative branch of the Ottoman Empire between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries.“ 3rd Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW). University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg (VA), April 2022.
“‘Do I want to fit in?’: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Jurist’s Search for Alternatives During a Time of Crisis.” Northwestern University Graduate Conference “The End of the World as They Knew It: Crisis and Collapse in History”, online, Mai 2021.
“Idiosyncratic Forms of Social Criticism in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire”. Forschungskolloquium am Orient-Institut, Istanbul, April 2020.
