Dr. Roxana Coman

Tel: +90 212 293 60 67 / 116
Mail: coman@oiist.org

Dr. Roxana Coman araştırmalarını, Osmanlı maddi kültürü ve Romanya’da, 19. ve erken 20. yüzyılda oluşturulmuş kişisel koleksiyonlar üzerinde sürdürüyor. Bükreş Üniversitesi Tarih Fakültesi’nde Sanat Tarihi alanında lisans ve yüksek lisans eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra doktora tezinde çok sayıda kaynaktan yola çıkarak, 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında şark veya Romen kültürüne ait olarak bina edilenin çeşitli anlatımlarını ve tasvirlerini inceledi. Lisans ve lisansüstü eğitim sırasında gönüllü olarak Romanya Ulusal Sanat Müzesi’nde staj yaptı ve 2016 ile 2022 arasında Bükreş Şehir Müzesi’nde küratör ve müze pedagogu olarak çalıştı.

Roxana Coman, 2016 yılında doktorasını tamamladıktan sonra Eflak ve Moldova’daki Osmanlı maddi kültürünün varlığı ile Romanya ulus-devletinin Osmanlı mirasıyla başa çıkma stratejileri arasındaki dinamikleri araştırdı. Bu bağlamda, Bölgelerarası Akademi “İmparatorlukların Gölgeleri. Orta Doğu Avrupa’da İmparatorluk Mirasları ve Mitolojileri”, 14-21 Eylül 2021, Sofya ve “Arşiv Olarak Şehir. Histories of Collecting and Archiving in and the Musealisation of Florence, Eighteenth Century to the Present”, 18-25 Eylül 2018, gibi çeşitli yaz okullarına katılmıştır. Ocak 2023’ten beri Orient-Institut Istanbul’da postdoc bursiyeri olarak çalışmaktadır.

18. ve 19. yüzyılda Osmanlı maddi kültür

Romanya ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda oluşturulmuş kamusal ve kişisel koleksiyonların tarihi

Orientalizm

Romen ve Osmanlı modern sanat tarihi

Osmanlı konut mimarisi

Romen milliyetçilik

23.11. 2023: “There and back again: Ottoman Imperial legacy and Dimitrie Papazoglu’s collection of Ottoman artefacts”. Lecture series Artefacts and Identities. Orient-Institut Istanbul.

30 June  –2 July 2022: “Entangled histories and materiality: The assemblage of the `Oriental room` in 19th century Romania”. AFEBalk Quatrièmes rencontres d’études balkaniques – Balkans connectés, Marseille (online).

4-6 May 2022: “Dressing as an Arab and searching for Romanian traces: textiles in Marcu Beza’s collection”. Europe through textiles COST Action, Clothing Identity Conference (online).

10–11 April 2022: “Re-thinking East-West dynamic in 18th century Wallachia: The informal assemblages of domestic environments”. Informal practices in Southeast Europe – Examples and Analyses. Institute for the Recent History of Serbia (Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije/INIS), Belgrade.

19.01.2022: Subjects and agents of Orientalism in 19th century Romania: Carol Popp de Szathmari and Theodor Aman, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul.

14.-21.09.2021: “Dealing with a contested past? Ottoman architectural influences in the Romanian countries”. Transregional Academy Shadows of Empires, Sofia.

6.-7.05.2021: “Din oameni ai premodernității în simboluri ale modernității: reprezentările lui Tudor Vladimirescu și Alexandru Ipsilanti”. Date noi în cercetarea artei medievale și premoderne de pe teritoriul României national session, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest.

12.03.2021: “The power of gifts and the gifts of power, PIMo online workshop `Emotion and Memory in Gift Exchanging Practices”`, Nicolae Iorga History Institute, Bucharest.

22.-23.01.2021: A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers in Early Modern Romanian countries. Single-Slide Sohbat, Yale University History of Art Department, online.

2.-6.09.2019: “Balkan merchant houses in the 18th and 19th centuries. From cosmopolitanism to nationalism”, 12th International Congress of South-European Studies. 2-6 September 2019, Bucharest, Romania

18.-25.09.2018: “Memory making and memory keeping: the use of the past in local and national heritage” The City as Archive. Histories of Collecting and Archiving in and the Musealisation of Florence, Eighteenth Century to the Present, Studienkurs/Summer School, Florence.

10/2014: “Oriental representations in Carol Popp de Szathmari’s watercolours: documents from a Western perspective?” 4th International Balkan Annual Conference Turkey and Romania. Historical ties and future collaborations in the Balkans, Bucharest.

09/2013: “Cultural role-play in defining national identities: Romania between East and West”. International Society for Cultural History Annual Conference Artefact, Culture, and Identity, Istanbul.

Makaleler

`Between the sultan and the boyars: gifts in the negotiation of the power dynamic in the investiture of a Phanariot in Wallachia and Moldavia`, Diyar 4, Autumn edition, November 2022, 242-261.

`A Spaghetti Western and the Contradictions of Memory. Radu Jude’s Aferim! (2015) and Ottoman Heritage`. East European Film Bulletin, vol. 127. Romanian Architecture Special Issue, September 2022. https://eefb.org/perspectives/radu-judes-aferim-2015-and-ottoman-heritage/.

`Ottoman residential architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries and the Romanian countries. From cosmopolitanism to nationalism`. Revue des Études Sud-Est Européennes, no LIX, 2021, 217-245

`Eros and Thanatos: Instinctual and Emotional Responses to the Plague Epidemic in Ion Ghica’s Letters`. BRUKENTHALIA. Romanian Cultural History Review No.10, Sibiu, 2020, 851-861.

`Acculturation through migration in the Romanian countries: Ottoman products and social change`. in Journal of Ottoman Heritage Studies (OMAD), 6/16, Turkey, November 2019, 487-495.

`Sense or Sensibility: Emotions between Practice and Intimate Expression in 19th century Romanian Society`. BRUKENTHALIA Romanian Cultural History Review no 7, Sibiu, 2017, 916-924.

`Romanian 19th Century Historical Painting and Collective Memory`. Art Readings, 2017, Institute of Art Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2017, 109-118.

`The Past in the Present. The case of nineteenth century Romanian Historical Painting`. Time and Culture, Ed Ecaterina Lung, Etienne Bourdon, Christopher Heath, Laurence Shee, Cécile Vallée, Editura Universității din București, 2017, 171-181.

`Oriental Representations in Carol Popp de Szathmari’s Watercolours: Documents from a Western Perspective?`. BRUKENTHALIA. Romanian Cultural History Review, no 5, Sibiu, 2015, 713-720.

`Le modèle culturel français et le projet identitaire roumain. Représentations de l’Orient dans les discours politiques et dans les actions diplomatiques de la Roumanie (1856-1878)`. Les constructions identitaires dans les espaces francophones d’Europe orientale et d’Afrique, Ed Ecaterina Lung, Yahia Abou el Farah, Corina Iosif, Daniela Zaharia, Simona Corlan, Publications de l’Institut des Etudes Africaines, Rabat, 2015, 355-363.

`Romanian Travellers to the East between the Quest for the Exotic and Diplomatic Mission`. in BRUKENTHALIA Romanian Cultural History Review, no 4, Sibiu, 2014, 92-101.

`Theodor Aman și ispita orientală`. in Imaginarul. Teorii și aplicații, Ed. Prof. Mihaela Pop, Ed. Universității din București, 2011, 344-358.

Başka Yayınlar

“A crackling sound and the smell of burnt wood: Ottoman braziers and the Romanian countries,” Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 30 April 2021. https://www.oiist.org/a-crackling-sound-and-the-smell-of-burnt-wood-ottoman-braziers-and-the-romanian-countries/