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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...
September 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
📢 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
September 15, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
📢 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.
August 10, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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
July 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
Statement by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
On the Dismissal of Prof. Dr Bülent Bilmez and Academic Freedom in Turkey
July 13, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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.

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June 18, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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...
Eldem, Edhem
Columbia University, USA ___ History and Archaeology
vicas.univie.ac.at
June 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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...
June 11, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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-...
June 11, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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.
June 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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...
June 5, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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...
June 2, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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...
May 20, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
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/...
May 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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...
May 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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...
May 7, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Upcoming conference: Mecmuas in the Ottoman World.
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research
4–6 June 2026
mecmuaconference.univie.ac.at
May 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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...
April 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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...
April 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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...
April 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
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)
March 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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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March 26, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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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March 18, 2026 at 8:09 PM
📢 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
March 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM