Research Project

13 May 2022 | Author: Roxana Coman

Is it Westernization? The historiographical debate

A close look at 18th century Wallachian archival records for house sales, wills and dowry lists provides insight into the owner’s social status, aesthetic and personal preferences, but also about various social and cultural conventions.

24 February 2022 | Authors: Judith I. Haug; Kamyar Nematollahy; Katja Rieck; Melike Şahinol; Esther Voswinckel Filiz

After almost three years, the International Standing Working Group “Iran and Beyond: Breaking Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration” (IRSSC) held its final conference on 10-12 February 2022 in a closed on-line event that brought together researchers from Denmark, France, Germany, India, Iran Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. 

7 January 2022 | Author: Paulina D. Dominik

For over a century the Ottoman Empire and subsequently the Republic of Turkey played an important role in the geopolitical imagination of Polish independence activists and statesmen. Even before the demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a sovereign state in 1795, one can observe Polish-Ottoman attempts to cooperate against the Russian Empire’s expansionist ambitions in Eastern Europe. 

10 December 2021 | Author: Heinrich Hartmann

At the heart of what became my habilitation lies a fierce interest in European demographic anxieties about Turkey’s fast-growing population in the 20th century, especially in the immediate post-Second World War decades.

17 Eylül 2021 | Yazarlar: Karin Schweissgut & Melissa Sivri

Traugott Fuchs’un Orient-Institut Istanbul’daki mirasını kataloglama projesi, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İstanbul Arşiv ve Dokümantasyon Merkezi ile iş birliği içinde, Kültürel Koruma Programının bir parçası olarak Dışişleri Bakanlığı ve Orient-Institut Istanbul fonları ile finanse edildi.

4 JUNE 2021 | Author: Esther Voswinckel Filiz

Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together/ some say he was never here at all… (Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone)

30 APRIL 2021 | Author: Roxana Coman

Ottoman material culture in Romania underwent significant paradigm changes with many symbolical implications during the 18th and 19th centuries, most notably if we take into consideration the westernization and nation building processes.

23 APRIL 2021 | Author: Sebastian Willert

“Since I arrived at Halep [Aleppo] I have been seeing valuable antiquities in many houses. Telegrams I receive from Raqqa indicate that antiquity smuggling is pervasive.” In his telegram of 24 October 1910, Hüseyin Kâzım Kadrî (1870–1934) reported on the treatment of antique objects and ancient remains in the region which constituted Halep Vilâyeti (Vilâyet Aleppo).

9 APRİL 2021 | Author: Salih Demirtaş

Studies on ocularcentric aspects of visual culture in modernity cover broad epistemological areas that focus on priority to the eyesight over other senses; in other words, a vision-oriented construction of knowledge, truth and reality. As part of anti-ocularcentric discourses across the social sciences including multisensory research methods, listening sounds of our environment through soundwalks could also develop distinctive creative sensitivities in relation with the subjects and the methodologies of our research areas.