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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New online scholarly edition of Rıza Nur’s Ermeni Tarihi (1914–23), now on Transkribus: manuscript images + İA-based transcription, preserving revisions and planned illustrations. A critical source on nationalism and anti-Armenianism. app.transkribus.org/en/sites/edi...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 Migration and Mobility in the (Post-)Ottoman Borderlands, 19th–21st c. Vienna, 13–14 Nov 2026. Two days on mobility, borders, minority cultures, networks & memory in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world. Programme: ottomanborderlands.univie.ac.at/programme
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📢 Call for Papers: Diyâr 8.1 (Spring 2027) We welcome original contributions on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire & successor states, Iran, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. 🗓 Deadline: 18 Sept 2026 🌐 Gold Open Access Details in the attached CfP.
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New on the ATLAS Blog Hülya Çelik and Ani Sargsyan explore Mary G. Hollister’s Armeno-Turkish work Kızların Talim u Terbiyesi (1880)—a striking contribution to late Ottoman debates on girls’ education, reform, and social change. atlas.univie.ac.at?p=603
Ḳızların Talim u Terbiyesi. İstanbol: Matba’ai Aramyan, 1880 (from the front page)
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Statement by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies On the Dismissal of Prof. Dr Bülent Bilmez and Academic Freedom in Turkey
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/de...
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Deutsches Museum für Migrationsgeschichte „SELMA“ ausreichend finanzieren!
„Es geht um einen Ort, an dem Deutschland sich als Einwanderungsland entdecken und verstehen lernen kann“, so Rita Süßmuth, frühere Schirmherrin des Projekts und Bundestagspräsidentin. Ein solches Mus...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are pleased to conclude our series Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia on 24 June: Will Sumits (Orient-Institute Istanbul), 5 pm From Manuscript to Microphone Followed at 6:30 pm by an evening concert with the Tuna Quartet. orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that Edhem Eldem will join ViCAS as Senior Fellow (Oct. 2026–June 2027). His project explores archaeology, museology, and heritage in the late Ottoman Empire. Congratulations! vicas.univie.ac.at/fellows/deta...
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Eldem, Edhem
Columbia University, USA ___ History and Archaeology
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 17.06.2026, 5 p. m. Rıdvan Aydınlı (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) Inscribing the Ottoman Soundscape: Byzantine Notation in 19th-century Greek-script Music Publishing Zoom-Link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Lecture: Order of Debt: Power, Wealth, and Death in the Ottoman Empire, 1700–1830 Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University) 11 June 2026, 6 p.m., Lecture Hall, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna Further information: vihope.univie.ac.at/news/vihope-...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A heartfelt thank you to all participants in “Mecmuas in the Ottoman World” for making the conference in Vienna such an inspiring and intellectually rewarding event. Your papers, comments, and discussions made it a truly memorable gathering.
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 10.06.2026, 5 p. m. Ingeborg Baldauf (Humboldt University) No More Words to Sing of Joy and Grief... A Folklorist's Look Back on Half a Century of Song and Music in Afghanistan Zoom-Link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Bangecha Tashqurghani (left) performs on the dambura alongside Baba Nur (right) on the ghichak. Photo courtesy of the author, in Mark Slobin, “Musical Instruments of Afghanistan: An Ethnomusicologist's Journey,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 26, 2016.https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/mark-slobin-on-musical-instruments-of-afghanistan
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 03.06.2026, 5 p. m. Cüneyt Ersin Mıhcı (University of Münster / OIIST) Forging National Music on Both Sides of the Aegean Zoom-Link and further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
A publication of Ottoman Turkish music from Kamarados’s Archive, Greek Music Archive, Music Library of Greece “Lilian Boudouri” as published in  Evangelia Chaldaeaki, Ottoman Greeks who Studied and Transcribed Ottoman Turkish Music:The Case of Nilevs Kamarados, MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023.
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 27.05.2026, 5:00 p. m. Philipp Ther (University of Vienna) Compositional Encounters between the post-Habsburg Musical Modernism, Turkey and Egypt Zoom-Link and further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Bartók during his collecting trip in Turkey, November 1936.
https://rodosto.hu/en/osmaniye.html
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The latest issue of Diyâr (OA) focuses on ‘Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late and Post-Ottoman Context’. Many thanks to Veruschka Wagner and Anna Kollatz for preparing this exciting and richly illustrated issue. Read the latest issue here: www.inlibra.com/en/document/...
Cover of Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 20.05.2026, 5 p. m. Jeanette Kilicci (University of Vienna) When Melodies Evoke Memories: Shared Songs, Cultural Memory, and Musical Destruction in the South Caucasus and Beyond Zoom-Link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Bild "Sayat-Nova" von Martiros Saryan
https://www.wikiart.org/en/martiros-sarian/sayat-nova-1923
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 13.05.2025, 5:00 p.m. Nejla Melike Atalay (University of Münster) Tracing Women Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through Archival, Printed, and Musical Sources Zoom - Link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Upcoming conference: Mecmuas in the Ottoman World. Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research 4–6 June 2026 mecmuaconference.univie.ac.at
Poster "Mecmuas in the Ottoman World" Conference
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 06.05.2026, 5 p.m. Angelika Jung (Weimar) On the Origin and Significance of Central Asian Classical Music: Shashmaqam (in German) Zoom-Link and further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia "What does it mean to dream of music or other sonic experiences?" 29.04.2026, 5 p. m. Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge) On Dreamsound: Istanbul 1600, Vienna 1900 CE Information and Zoom orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Dancing women. Franz Hermann, Hans Gemminger, Valentin Mueller (1654), Pera Museum
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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 Zoom-Link and further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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)
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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 orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📢 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
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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! www.nomos-elibrary.de/en/zeitschri... If you would like to submit an article: www.nomos.de/en/journals/...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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!
"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
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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. atlas.univie.ac.at?p=484
Hagop Ayvaz, Ref.No. 1.1.7.285, Hagop Ayvaz Collection, Hrant Dink Foundation Archive, Istanbul
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Save the date! Turkologentag 2027 in Paris September, 15-17
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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/
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Turkologentag 2027! Stay tuned: gtot.org/en/home-en/
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
https://cipgs.princeton.edu/projects/badakhshan-manuscript-digitization-project
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The application deadline is approaching! Interested? Then apply by 15 December 2025.
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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 Zoom link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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) Zoom and further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📢 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/...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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 orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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” Zoom und further information orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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 atlas.univie.ac.at?p=488
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🎉 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... #AuthorianTurkey, #rezalet, #EkşiSözlük
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