After over a decade of work.... so happy to set it free into the world! Portraits of Empires is available now! Via IUP, your local bookstore, Amazon, and even on Project Muse! Related data is also available on my faculty page! @iupress#portraitsofempires
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My book is out and published! I got my hands on it a few weeks ago, and if you want to order it you can use the code SHAFIR20 to get a 20% discount if you buy it directly from the press. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! Only took 7 years :D
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The @oeaw Cluster of Excellence #EurAsian Transformation invites you to the workshop
MEDIEVAL ORIGIN MYTHS IN EURASIAN COMPARISON: RELIGION & IDENTITY
Vienna, 19-20 Sept. 2024
organized by @imafo_oeaw#IKGA@FWF_at@ceu@univienna@uniinnsbruck
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@CA_Helvetiorum Is this one of the Crusius notebooks? @richardcalis will know, but this is probably written by one of his contacts from the Ottoman Empire or copied from an album amicorum that was signed by a member of the Greek Orthodox Elite
My paper on "East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900" is out now in Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46-1: https://t.co/FXiL5Eitux
With many thanks to @MartinH49009792, @RadwayRobyn & @inyeong_heo, each for introducing me to a fascinating source! 🙏 1/
Newly arrived: the first English translation @gorgiaspress of the landmark trilingual study of Ottoman architecture (Turkish, French, German) commissioned for the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair, with reproductions of the original edition’s stunning lithographed plates.
How common is it for the name in the pençe to not match the name of the letter writer? Ahmed bey of Szécsény here with an (amateurish) Mustafa pençe. Or is there an "Ahmed bin" hiding in there?
Two tenure track job openings at the University of Bologna, one in Slavistic Studies, other in History of the Muslim World, deadline end of May, info here: https://t.co/p6lCsz8kzR
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The seventeenth-century German orientalist Hiob Ludolf’s working copy of the Qur’an, which had been looted in 1664 from Pécs, in Ottoman Hungary, during the winter campaign of Miklós Zrínyi. GSA-Weimar, ms Q 660. https://t.co/JDglx1wb4r
This Wednesday I will be giving an online talk about the urban context of #PortraitsofEmpires. How did different types of album owners experience, engage with, and imagine Constantinople? City views, monuments, and drinking parties on the Bosphorus are all on the menu :)
Assoc. Prof. Robyn Dora Radway (@RadwayRobyn) from @ceu is our guest in the third event of “Urban History Talks”. Program is going to be online and in English under the moderation of Asst. Prof. Ayşegül Çimen.
Suggested reading: https://t.co/ZallcecA9D
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Şehir Tarihi Konuşmaları’nın üçüncüsünde konuğumuz @ceu’dan Doç. Dr. Robyn Dora Radway (@RadwayRobyn). Dr. Ayşegül Çimen moderatörlüğünde yapılacak etkinliğimiz çevrimiçi ve İngilizce olacak.
Okuma Önerisi: https://t.co/ZallcecA9D
Detaylar⬇️
EMOS Workshop 2024 (Vienna)
"Networks in the Ottoman World (1400-1900)"
Date: April 26, 2024
Location: Central European University
Organizer: Günhan Börekçi
We are looking for two postdocs in EurAsian history (with a focus on the areas from Central Europe to South Asia) between c. 800 and c. 1850, based on expertise in one or more languages used locally or regionally. Deadline May 15th! https://t.co/B5Gh8Xu5oG
Today in NYC :) excited to share this with old and new friends. Marbled papers, costume books, and alba amicorum in a transimperial context. Rethink the geography of the renaissance!
📣HAPPENING TODAY!📣
At 6:10 today in Room 807, Schermerhorn Hall, the #SakıpSabancıCenter will be hosting @RadwayRobyn for a talk on her new book, Portraits of Empires! We've been looking forward to this all month and we're excited to see you there!
Off to Chicago for #RENSA24! If you have time Friday afternoon, come to our round table on the Place of Central and Eastern Europe in Early Modern Studies!
REMINDER! Next Monday, March 25, we will be hosting @RadwayRobin for a discussion of her new book Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. She will be joined by discussants Pier M. Tommasino, Nebahat Avcıoğlu and moderator Tunç Şen.