Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
22.04.2026, 5 p. m.
Houchang Chehabi (Boston University)
Music and Charismatic Authority in the Revolutionary Decade
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Call for papers
100 Years of Script Reform in Turkey
Special edition of Diyâr, Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies to be published in 2028
Editors: Ruth Bartholomä (Essen), Astrid Menz (Istanbul), Christoph Schroeder (Potsdam)
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
15.04.2026, 5 p. m.
Mustafa Avcı (Koç University, Istanbul)
Music, Dance, and Ecstasy: The Cultural Meanings of Ecstasy from the Ottoman Era to Contemporary Turkey
Zoom-Link:
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Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
We are looking forward to the next lecture in our series.
25.03.2026, 5 p.m.
Pierre Hecker (University of Marburg)
"Satan's Zionist Children" The Subcultural Evolution of Heavy Metal in Turkey
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📢 Universität Wien: Lehrvertretung Türkisch (12 SWS) ab WS 2026/27 (Start: 1.9.2026).
Sprachpraktische Lehre BA/MA. Verlängerung bis zu 4 Jahre möglich.
📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 1.5.2026
Diyâr Successfully Accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Diyâr Issue 1 (2026) to be released in May!
All issues of Diyâr are now also fully open access!
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We are pleased to share with you the first issue of the ViHOPE Newsletter for 2026.
Here is the link to the newsletter: mailchi.mp/c914a0318eb5...
To subscribe to the ViHOPE newsletter, please visit: vihope.univie.ac.at
Our hybrid lecture series brings together an outstanding international lineup exploring musical cultures across interconnected regions, from Central Asia to the South Caucasus and the Ottoman world.
For further details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
"A scene from the harem" (Female musicians and dancers) Franz Hermann, Hans Gemminger, Valentin Mueller (1654), Pera Museum https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Franz_Hermann,_Hans_Gemminger,_Valentin_Mueller_-_A_Scene_from_the_Turkish_Harem_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
There is music in the air! 🎶
Our summer lecture series "Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, the Caucasus & Central Asia" brings together an international group of scholars exploring musical cultures, sound, and exchange across regions.
Details coming soon — stay tuned!
Hagop Ayvaz, Ref.No. 1.1.7.285, Hagop Ayvaz Collection, Hrant Dink Foundation Archive, Istanbul
New on the ATLAS Blog:
Emre Görkem Onur, “Hagop Ayvaz’s Armeno-Turkish Monologue ‘Sizi Seviyorum’ (1932): Archival Context and Transcription.”
The post offers new insights into Turkey's cultural and theatrical history.
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Save the date!
Turkologentag 2027 in Paris
September, 15-17
University of Vienna
Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 — Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies
Call for Applications: at least 40 Doctoral Positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies
Application deadline: 2 March 2026, 14:00 CET
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
21.01.2026, 5p.m (online)
Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)
How to read a genealogical text: The Persianate nasab tradition as cultural archive and social practice
orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
GTOT Prize 2027 – Awards for Outstanding Theses and Dissertations in the Field of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
The award celebration will be held at the Turkologentag 2027
in Paris.
Application deadline: 31 December 2026
Further information: gtot.org/en/gtot-call/
Turkologentag 2027!
Stay tuned: gtot.org/en/home-en/
https://cipgs.princeton.edu/projects/badakhshan-manuscript-digitization-project
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
14.01.2026, 5 p.m.
Bruno De Nicola (IfI, ÖAW)
Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th c. Badakhshan
orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
We are delighted to share with you the very first issue of the ViHOPE Newsletter! vihope.univie.ac.at
ViHOPE Newsletter 2025/1: mailchi.mp/9605efbda141...
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
17.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Polina Ivanova (IfI, ÖAW)
Scribes without Scriptoria: Towards a Social History of Armenian Manuscript-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
The application deadline is approaching!
Interested? Then apply by 15 December 2025.
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
10.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Philip Bockholt (University of Münster)
Elite Translation Projects in the Tulip Period: Material Evidence and Cultural Context
Zoom link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
3.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Jeanine Dağyeli (University of Vienna/ÖAW, IfI)
Tracing the oral-written interface: Vernacular crafts‘ codices in Central Asia (18th-early 21st centuries)
Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
We are looking forward to the next lecture
26.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Elvira Wakelnig (University of Vienna)
A Thousand and One Arabic Medical Manuscripts
Zoom link:
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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
19.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Elif Sezer (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Materiality, Content, and Function of Kıra'ât Notes on Late Ottoman Popular Storybooks
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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
12.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Tijana Krstić (CEU)
Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-c.1655)
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📢 New Open Access Issue!
The latest Diyâr: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2025) is out!
Special issue on heritage practices, guest edited by Roxana Coman (NIAS).
Read online 👉 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
05.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Aysima Mirsultan (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Constructing Knowledge: The Formation of the Turkistan Collection at the Berlin State Library
Zoom link:
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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
29.10.2025, 5 pm (Vienna), hybrid
Rıza Yıldırım (University of Vienna)
“The Question of Authorship and Religious Authority in Alevi Manuscripts"
Zoom link and further information
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Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures
22.10.2025, 5pm (Vienna), hybrid
Ulfat Abdurasulov — “Paper Frontiers: Encountering the Turkic and Persian World in Muscovite Diplomatic Chancellery”
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We are delighted to present the latest Atlas-Blog contribution. Atlas is a platform for scholarly discussions on Armeno-Turkish manuscripts and prints.
"Reading Persian Advice Literature in Armeno-Turkish: Some Notes on the ‘Pearl-Adorned Pendnāme’" by Tobias Sick
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🎉 New FWF project at our Department!
Congratulations to Umut Türem, whose three-year project “Everyday Scandals & Community Making in Authoritarian Turkey” has just been funded by FWF.
For more details, see 👉 orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
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