BMBF-Project „Europe from the outside“

Our latest publication now available, Open Access!

Muslims in Interwar Europe|A Transcultural Historical Perspective » Brill Online This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Muslims in Interwar Europe, various contributors argue that Muslims constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space of that time.

Exhibition by ou partner BMBF-project in Berlin!

MY EUROPEAN MIND_TEASER TEASER OF MY EUROPEAN MIND, A BOFA DA CARA FILM. Written & Directed by: Pere Ortín & Nástio Mosquito

PhD workshop on Travel Writing 4-5 September - Department of Literature, Area Studies and...

PhD Workshop on Travel Writing
(University of Oslo, Norway: 4-5 September, 2014)
Deadline: 15 May 2014

Organized by Department of Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) , University of Oslo/

This workshop is designed for doctoral students working within the broadly defined field of Travel Writing. The workshop will provide them with the opportunity to discuss their current work and receive feedback from two eminent scholars in the field: Prof. Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo) and Prof. Tim Youngs (Centre for Travel Writing, Nottingham Trent University). Students will also develop critical assessment skills through their peer-reviewing of other participants’ work.

The students are required to submit a chapter or article draft (approx. 5000 words) and to complete the assigned reading list of relevant articles and/or book chapters.

How to apply:

* Send an email to organizers Janicke S. Kaasa and Mieke Neyens.

* The email should provide information on the university and study program the applicant is enrolled in.

* A one-page abstract on the dissertation topic must be sent as an attachment to the email.

The number of participants is limited. Applications from MA students in the field of Travel Writing will also be considered.

Deadline for application: 15 May 2014

Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2014

Deadline for submitting draft (admitted participants): 1 August 2014

hf.uio.no This workshop is designed for doctoral students working within the broadly defined field of Travel Writing. The workshop will provide them with the opportunity to discuss their current work and receive feedback from two eminent scholars in the field: Prof. Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo) and…

Borders & Crossings 2014

CONFERENCE!
Borders and Crossings/Seuils et Traverses: n International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing (University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria: 11-13 September 2014)
Deadline: 1 May 2014
Website: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=38601

Organised by:
Department of English and American Studies, University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria)
Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, University of Wolverhampton (UK).

Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 May 2014

We invite all with an interest in the study of travel writing to the thirteenth Borders and Crossings conference from 11-13 September 2014. Proposals for 20-minute papers and for full panels are sought from scholars working in all areas of travel writing, including literary studies, book history, geography, art history, translation studies, anthropology, history, and media studies. Current travel writers are also very welcome and there will be space for readings.

Papers on all aspects and periods of travel writing are welcome, and areas of enquiry might include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Representations of travel through South East Europe
* Travel and translation/interpretation
* Globalization, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism
* Travel writing and ethics
* Representations of travel and the new media
* Travel illustration and multimedia
* Narratives of pilgrimage
* Travel writing and autobiography
* Travel writing and science
* Travel writing and intertextuality

The conference languages are English and French. Please indicate in which language you’d like to deliver your paper.

Please send a 250-word abstract by email to addresses listed below. Please include a note of your institutional affiliation and your preferred e-mail address.

Information about accommodation costs and the conference fee will be e-mailed to all potential participants in April. Postgraduate students and unsalaried participants will pay reduced fees.
Contact details:
Replace [at] with the appropriate symbol in email addresses where applicable

ludmillak3[at]gmail.com Email: ludmillak3[at]gmail.com
B.Colbert[at]wlv.ac.uk Email: B.Colbert[at]wlv.ac.uk
G.Hambrook[at]wlv.ac.uk Email: G.Hambrook[at]wlv.ac.uk

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Afternoon Map: Anavatan 1927

One of the last Ottoman script maps of the motherland from 1927...

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Mit Allah für den König

"Ist der Islam ein Teil Deutschlands? Ja – und wie! Die Ausstellung »Türcken, Mohren und Tartaren« im Wustrauer Brandenburg-Preußen-Museum zeigt, wie sehr muslimische Einwanderer Militär und Kultur in Deutschland geprägt haben."

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Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR): Old Maps Online Portal

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stambouline: Buildings and Objects

Stambouline is looking for new authors...
http://www.stambouline.com/p/list-of-buildings-and-objects.html

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Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe | Götz Nordbruch | Umar Ryad | Palgrave Macmillan

Announcing a new edited book by our former fellow Prof. Umar Ryad. Congratulations!

palgrave.com Addressing a gap, this volume brings together the insights of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine Muslim networks and actors in interwar Europe with a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of their activities.

website of Jelle Verheij

Interesting website/ressources!

jelleverheij.info History and historical geography of Turkey and the late Ottoman Empire & Ottoman-Armenian-Kurdish relations before the First World War

Tagber: Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge; Wissensgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte...

Tagungsbericht!

hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de H-Soz-u-Kult: Communication and Information Services for Historians

Before Orientalism | Phillips, Kim M.

New book! "Before Orientalism. Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510"

Before Orientalism argues that medieval travelers were not and could not have been writing from an imperialist perspective as later 'Orientalist' writers are alleged to have done. Kim M. Phillips proves her case most convincingly, and following these travel writers through her examination of their texts is an exceedingly interesting journey."—David O. Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made—or claimed to have made—journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring.

In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how Europeans' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peoples and societies. Phillips gives particular attention to the texts' known or likely audiences, the cultural settings within which they found a foothold, and the broader impact of their descriptions, while also considering the motivations of their writers. She reveals in rich detail responses from European travelers that ranged from pragmatism to wonder. Fear of military might, admiration for high standards of civic life and court culture, and even delight in foreign magnificence rarely assumed the kind of secular Eurocentric superiority that would later characterize Orientalism. Placing medieval writing on the East in the context of an emergent "Europe" whose explorers sought to learn more than to rule, Before Orientalism complicates our understanding of medieval attitudes toward the foreign.

upenn.edu 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4548-6 | $79.95s | £52.00 | Ebook 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0894-8 | $79.95s | £52.00 | | A volume in the View

old postcards

Ottoman postcards

ottomancosmopolitanism.wordpress.com old postcardsAlexandria: Ramleh CasinoConstantinople: Constantine’s Burnt ColumnConstantinople: Courtyard and Fountain of Bayazid MosqueConstantinople: Dolma BatcheConstantinople: E.G’s FountainPort Said: Street in Arab VillagePort Said: The HarbourSalonica: English Troops arriving in SalonicaSaloni...

International Conference 2014

CfP: "Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories", 26- 27 June 2014, Birkbeck College, University of London, Deadline: 1, January 2014.

ottomancosmopolitanism.wordpress.com Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories AHRC Research Network International two-day conference 26- 27 June 2014, Birkbeck College, University of London Plenary spe...

Aktuelles - Infos, Termine, Veranstaltungen — Universität Bonn

Interesting guest lecture at the Institute for Historical Science on 'Die Medialität diplomatischer Kommunikation. Das habsburgisch-osmanische Gesandtschaftswesen (16.-18. Jahrhundert)' by Prof. Arno Strohmeyer from the University of Salzburg. This Friday (22 Nov), 4-6 pm.
http://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/aktuelles

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Professor Marc David Baer, Professor of International History - Academic Staff - Who's who -...

Join us for the talk by our project's guest Marc David Bear (The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK): Rethinking the History of Muslim-Jewish Relations: Muslim Responses to Na**sm in Germany
Friday, November 15th, 2013, 12:30-14:00, Library IOA

lse.ac.uk Professor Baer’s research focuses on the connected histories of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in European and Middle Eastern history, from the early modern era to the modern. His first book, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford, 2008, Turkish translation,…

Transpacific Mexico in the Age of Steam

Interesting!

dissertationreviews.org A review of Transpacific Mexico: Encounters with China and Japan in the Age of Steam (1867-1914), by Ruth Mandujano López. Between 1867 and 1914, the advent of the steamship provided Mexico with a ...

UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies

Postdoctoral Fellowships 2014/2015: "Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600–1830",
Deadline Feb. 1 2014.
This theme-based UCLA resident fellowship program is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs.

c1718cs.ucla.edu

CFP: Women's Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Institute of...

CFP: Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, , London, 27-28 June 2014.
Deadline: January 31, 2014

bshs.org.uk Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware)Professor Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University)Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been...

BRISMES_Panel CfP: "Travelling Literature, World Literature: The Eastern Journey from Local to Global. Deadline 28th Oct.

Papers are invited to participate in a panel for the BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) Conference due June 2014 in Sussex around the theme ‘The Middle East in Global Perspective’.

To view the Middle East in the world is to consider simultaneously the connections between the linked nodal points of towns and centres within the Middle East that define it as a cohesive region, and its own connections with ‘other’ regions that locate it in a global cultural dialogue. Departing from an interest in world literature and world history, this panel will discuss the fluid and integral concept of travel as genre, structure, motif or canon in the encounters of the diverse cultures and lingua francas of the Middle East. Rihla or safar accounts have been for various reasons some of the earliest, most circulated, and most sustained prose narratives. The region’s often multilingual readers and writers created ‘canons’ of travel narratives which intersected over centuries of reciprocal reading, translation, reappropriation and reinterpretation. Although by no means an organised, agreed upon or unchanging list of works, such narratives often posited a cadre of authorities which subsequent serious travellers and scholars felt obliged to cite and plagiarise. Questions the panel hopes to pose include: Can we speak of a consistent core concept of the rihla-safar in Middle Eastern literatures and belles-lettres from early times to the present? How did travel writing segue into the rise of ‘modernity’ and modern prose forms? How did travellers construct an integrated ecumenical world view for their multi-lingual and multi-cultural audiences, thereby constructing what we now think of as the ‘Middle East’, and how might they have also resisted the exclusionary, hegemonic identities propagated by local or foreign rulers and states, thereby pushing back the region’s boundaries?

Freie Lektorate, Dozenturen und Sprachassistenzen - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst

daad.de Datenbank mit aktuellen Ausschreibungen für Lektorate (DAAD-, IC- und Fachlektorate), Dozenturen und Sprachassistenzen.

Two PhD Positions in the ERC Starting Grant: Study of Islam in Interwar Europe - PhD-posities -...

Apply for PhD positions in this fantastic project of our former fellow Umar Riyad!

werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl The Faculty of Humanities hosts a wealth of expertise in fields including philosophy, history, art history, literature, linguistics, and area studies, covering practically the entire world. The Leiden Institute for Religious Studies (LIRS) is one of seven research institutes within the Faculty of Hu...

Afternoon Map: Istanbul for Academics

Istanbul Map for Academics:
"Now that the academic year is almost upon us, I wanted to highlight a mapping project of contemporary Istanbul for Ottoman historians, by Ottoman historians. The Google map "Istanbul for Academics" was specifically designed for scholars (whether they be grad students, professors, or independent academics) who are coming to work in Istanbul for the first time. Rather than focus on historical sites, this resource has information about all of the relevant research institutes, libraries, museums, as well as places to shop, have a coffee, etc. The result of a collective effort of contributions, primarily from graduate students residing in Istanbul, this initiative was inspired by a similar resource created by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

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a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne

20 Promotionsstipendien und 10 Kollegiatenstellen in der 'Humanities' Graduiertenschule der Uni Köln für drei Jahren! Bewerbungsschluss: 18.10.2013


Die in der Exzellenzinitiative erfolgreiche Graduiertenschule will durch ein strukturiertes Angebot unter besonderer Berücksichtigung interdisziplinärer Fragestellungen den Abschluss der Promotion innerhalb von drei Jahren ermöglichen. Hierbei orientiert sich die Graduiertenschule an einem Konzept der 'Humanities' jenseits der Dichotomie von Geistes-, Kultur- und Naturwissenschaften. Eine besondere Bedeutung kommt hermeneutischen und historisch-kontextuellen Wissensmodellen zu, welche die Entstehungsbedingungen und Genese von
Wissen ebenso umfassen wie die Rezeptions- und Transkulturationsprozesse und die gegebenen anthropologisch-ethischen Bedingungen

Bewerbungen richten Sie bitte bis zum 18.10.13 (Bewerbungseingang) an:

a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne
Universität zu Köln
Dr. Artemis Klidis-Honecker
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Köln

Weitere Informationen zu a.r.t.e.s. und zum Bewerbungsverfahren unter
www.artes.uni-koeln.de.

artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de Das Programm der a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School richtet sich an Studierende, die während der Masterphase - und mit Blick auf eine anschließende Promotion - forschungsorientiert studieren wollen. Die Teilnehmer des Research Master-Programms durchlaufen eine fachliche Ausbildung auf der Grundlage der teil...

Iran/Persian + Ottoman/Turkish on DR

Reviews of new dissertations.

dissertationreviews.org Half-way through our previous season, we launched the Iran and Persian Studies series on Dissertation Reviews. Iran and Persian Studies will come back stronger this academic year, and together with...

Abstracts Iranistik | Deutscher Orientalistentag 2013

Join the Persian travelogue panel on the Deutscher Orientalistentag in Münster on 23, September 2013. Jasmin Khosravie will give a talk on "Everyday life in Paris. The travel memoirs of a Qajar aristocrat (1912/13)"

dot2013.de Im Fokus dieses Beitrags stehen die anonym verfassten Reiseaufzeichnungen, die einen Aufenthalt in Frankreich schildern und dabei den Zeitraum von Juni 1912 bis April 1913 umfassen. Eine Reise nach Europa war zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits eine etablierte Unternehmung in den Kreisen der qajarischen Eli...

We are proud to announce that the Research Prize of the Annemarie Schimmel Foundation has been awarded to Jasmin Khosravie, current head of our project!

In search of missing link in Islamic and European history - News - News & Events

Fantastic new research project of our former fellow Umar Riyad (Leiden University)! Congratulations!

news.leiden.edu In the period between the First and the Second World War, many Muslim intellectuals came to Europe. What impact did they have on each other’s, as well as on European thinking, and how were they in turn influenced? The Leiden Islam expert Dr Umar Ryad will be using his ERC Starting Grant to investiga...

The Mediterranean Seminar

Call for Contributors: "Mediterranean Voyages". The purpose of this special issue of Mediterranean Studies is to generate a discussion of the Mediterranean voyage as a way of eludicating the field of Mediterranean Studies today. The deadline for articles of 15 to 25 pages in English is January 1, 2014.

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Dr David Motadel — Faculty of History

We are pleased to announce our new International Fellow Dr. David Motadel from Cambridge University! Dr. Motadel will be part of our team from mid of September to mid of November 2013.
His current research focuses on imperial Qajar Shahs' visits to Europe.

hist.cam.ac.uk David Motadel is a Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He studied history at the University of Freiburg (2002-5) and completed his MPhil (2006) and PhD (2010) in history at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. His work was awarded…