Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Happening tomorrow!

We are happy to invite you to our next Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture by Niel Gauls (The University of Edinburgh)

Both in person and on zoom: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-05-02/anna-christidou-memorial-lecture-empires-learning-comparative-approaches-byzantium-and

We are happy to invite you to our next Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture by Niel Gauls (The University of Edinburgh)

Both in person and on zoom: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-05-02/anna-christidou-memorial-lecture-empires-learning-comparative-approaches-byzantium-and

Please come and join us next Thursday to celebrate and talk about CEMS Director M. Brett Wilson's new publication!

Both in person and zoom!

Details are here:

https://events.ceu.edu/2024-03-21/book-talk-nur-baba-sufi-novel-late-ottoman-istanbul

Please come and join us next Thursday to celebrate and talk about CEMS Director M. Brett Wilson's new publication!

Both in person and zoom:

https://events.ceu.edu/2024-03-21/book-talk-nur-baba-sufi-novel-late-ottoman-istanbul

TOMORROW: Don't miss it!

We are excited to host Görkem Akgöz to discuss her new book:

In the Shadow of War and Empire:
Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

CEU Vienna
7 March, 17.30

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-03-07/book-talk-shadow-war-and-empire-industrialisation-nation-building-and-working-class

We are excited to host Görkem Akgöz to discuss her new book:

In the Shadow of War and Empire:
Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

CEU Vienna
7 March, 17.30

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-03-07/book-talk-shadow-war-and-empire-industrialisation-nation-building-and-working-class

TOMORROW: don't miss it!

Sailing Beyond the Epic: The Wanderings of Odysseus as Paradigm of Spiritual Virtue in the Writings of Manuel Gabalas

Juan Bautista Juan-López

CEU Vienna
22 February, 17.30
Both in person and on Zoom
Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/.../sailing-beyond-epic-wanderings..

We are happy to host Juan Bautista Juan-López next week:

Sailing Beyond the Epic: The Wanderings of Odysseus as Paradigm of Spiritual Virtue in the Writings of Manuel Gabalas

CEU Vienna
22 February, 17.30
Both in person and on Zoom

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-02-22/sailing-beyond-epic-wanderings-odysseus-paradigm-spiritual-virtue-writings-manuel

Happening TOMORROW:

From Dubrovnik to Istanbul: The Evolution of a Catholic Diplomatic Family in the Ottoman Empire

Vjeran Kursar (University of Zagreb)

CEU, Vienna
February 13, 17.30

Both in person and on Zoom

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-02-13/dubrovnik-istanbul-evolution-catholic-diplomatic-family-ottoman-empire

We are happy to invite you to a very exciting talk next Tuesday:

From Dubrovnik to Istanbul: The Evolution of a Catholic Diplomatic Family in the Ottoman Empire

Vjeran Kursar (University of Zagreb)

CEU, Vienna
February 13, 17.30
Both in person and on Zoom

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-02-13/dubrovnik-istanbul-evolution-catholic-diplomatic-family-ottoman-empire

Don't miss our Research Seminar with Janos Galamb tomorrow:

Bestseller hadith commentaries in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The reception of the works of Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605) in the Balkans and Anatolia

CEU, Vienna
January 18, 17.30
Both in person and on Zoom

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2024-01-18/bestseller-hadith-commentaries-early-modern-ottoman-empire-reception-works-mulla-ali-al

We continue our research seminars with János Galamb next week:

Bestseller hadith commentaries in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The reception of the works of Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605) in the Balkans and Anatolia

CEU, Vienna
January 18, 17.30
Both in person and on Zoom

Details are here:

Bestseller hadith commentaries in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The reception of the works of Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605) in the Balkans and Anatolia Seminar Thursday, January 18, 2024, 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Speaker János Galamb Bestseller hadith commentaries in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The reception of the works of Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605) in the Balkans and Anatolia Very few authors had such a far-reaching influence on the...

CEU'da harika bir yeni program: Müze Çalışmaları:

MA Museum Studies (Two Year) | Department of History The two-year master’s degree in Museum Studies is a unique cooperation between Central European University and the Wien Museum, providing students with rigorous academic training in historical studies combined with practical, hands-on museum experience. It combines opportunities for experiential l...

CEU has a wonderful new program together with the Wien Museum:

CEU and the Wien Museum Launch New Museum Studies Master’s Program | Central European University An interview with Jan Hennings, Head of CEU’s Department of History, and Nathaniel Prottas, Director of Education, Wien Museum, and program co-director of the MA in Museum Studies.

Check out CEU Summer University Courses:

The first application deadline is February 14, 2024

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Happening tomorrow:

We are delighted to host Eric Fournier next week:

Exegesis, Exempla and Invective: The Use of Scripture in Facundus’ In Defense of the Three Chapters

CEU Vienna
December 7, 17.30

Both in person and on Zoom

For further details: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-12-07/exegesis-exempla-and-invective-use-scripture-facundus-defense-three-chapters

We are delighted to host Eric Fournier next week:

Exegesis, Exempla and Invective: The Use of Scripture in Facundus’ In Defense of the Three Chapters

CEU Vienna
December 7, 17.30

Both in person and on Zoom

For further details: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-12-07/exegesis-exempla-and-invective-use-scripture-facundus-defense-three-chapters

Telling Byzantine History: Current Trends and New Directions Conference Friday, May 24, 2024, 9:00 am – Saturday, May 25, 2024, 8:00 pm Speaker Panagiotis Agapitos Johannes Preiser-Kapeller It is not particularly controversial to observe that the history of the Byzantine Empire has, for the most part, been told through a distinct lens. Despite its linguisti...

We are delighted to invite you to our next lecture:

Andrew Hammond
The brief rise and fall of the late Ottoman Islamists and their legacy

CEU Vienna
30 November, 17.30

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-11-30/brief-rise-and-fall-late-ottoman-islamists-and-their-legacy

Save the date:

We are pleased to invite you to our next lecture this week:

Youshaa Patel,
Imagining Muslim Difference: Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (d. 1651) on Mimesis and Alterity in Islam

CEU Vienna
19 October, 17.30

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-10-19/imagining-muslim-difference-najm-al-din-al-ghazzi-d-1651-mimesis-and-alterity-islam

Happy to invite you to a keynote lecture:

The Lateran Synod of 649 and the Council of Constantinople of 680-81: Concord and Divergence

by Richard Price

Thursday (12 October), 17.00

Details are here: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-10-12/keynote-lecture-lateran-synod-649-and-council-constantinople-680-81-concord-and

Don't forget the book launch tomorrow for Volker Menze's new book:

Wednesday (11 October), 17.40, CEU Vienna:

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire (Oxford, 2023)

with Richard Price as discussant

https://events.ceu.edu/2023-10-11/patriarch-dioscorus-alexandria-last-pharaoh-and-ecclesiastical-politics-later-roman?fbclid=IwAR01JKjZ8i1RsZx8nEcfQR3AlWT8ceo2tzL2DBcOGlpSZGR0weNV6XgU0Eg

Come and join us for a book launch next Wednesday (11 October), 17.40, CEU Vienna:

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire (Oxford, 2023)

by the one and only Volker Menze

with Richard Price as discussant

https://events.ceu.edu/2023-10-11/patriarch-dioscorus-alexandria-last-pharaoh-and-ecclesiastical-politics-later-roman

Mark your calendars for our next conference with an amazing line-up:

From Ctesiphon to Toledo:
A Comparative View on Early Church Councils in East and West

12-13 October 2023,
CEU, Vienna

With a keynote lecture by Richard Price

Details are here: https://cems.ceu.edu/ctesiphon-toledo-comparative-view-early-church-councils-east-and-west-2

Hot off the press!

Check out CEMS member Prof. Radway's new publication

We congratulate her on her new book :)

https://cems.ceu.edu/article/2023-09-22/new-publication-cems-member-robyn-dora-radway

Publication alert!

Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul
By Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

Edited, introduced and wonderfully translated by CEMS Director Brett Wilson

We congratulate Brett on his publication :)

https://www.routledge.com/Nur-Baba-A-Sufi-Novel-of-Late-Ottoman-Istanbul/Karaosmanoglu-Translator/p/book/9781032463902

Check out CEU faculty and students presenting at Turkologentag and DAVO this month, Vienna

Check out CEU faculty and students presenting at Turkologentag and DAVO 2023, Vienna | Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies Cankat Kaplan (together with Hasan Karataş), Deconstructing İcazetnames: The Rise and Fall of the Suhrawardi Heritage in the Formation and Periodization of Ottoman Sufism

CEMS Best Thesis Award for MA students in the Advanced Certificate Program in Eastern Mediterranean Studies goes to Andrei Dumitrescu this year.

We congratulate Andrei :)

Andrei Dumitrescu wins CEMS Best Thesis Award 2023 | Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies CEMS Best Thesis Award for MA students in the Advanced Certificate Program in Eastern Mediterranean Studies this year goes to Andrei Dumitrescu (Medieval Studies, 2YMA) for his thesis "The Visionary Emperor: Constantine the Great and the Archangel Michael in Late Fifteenth-Century Moldavian Represen...

Had an amazing Graduate Conference with Nükhet Varlık and inspiring young scholars :)

CEMS Graduate Conference starting tomorrow:

Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape

Keynote Speaker: Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University-Newark)

May 30-31, 2023
Central European University, Vienna

For the conference program and further details, please visit:

CEMS Graduate Conference: Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape Conference Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 10:00 am – Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 4:40 pm CEMS Graduate Conference Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape Keynote Speaker: Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University-Newark) May 30-31, 2023 Central European University, Vienna The consequences of global warmin...