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Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 — Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies

Call for Applications: at least 40 Doctoral Positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies

Application deadline: 2 March 2026, 14:00 CET

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January 15, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

21.01.2026, 5p.m (online)
Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University)
How to read a genealogical text: The Persianate nasab tradition as cultural archive and social practice

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January 15, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
GTOT Prize 2027 – Awards for Outstanding Theses and Dissertations in the Field of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies

The award celebration will be held at the Turkologentag 2027
in Paris.

Application deadline: 31 December 2026

Further information: gtot.org/en/gtot-call/
January 9, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
Turkologentag 2027!
Stay tuned: gtot.org/en/home-en/
January 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

14.01.2026, 5 p.m.
Bruno De Nicola (IfI, ÖAW)
Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th c. Badakhshan

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January 8, 2026 at 9:03 AM
We are delighted to share with you the very first issue of the ViHOPE Newsletter! vihope.univie.ac.at

ViHOPE Newsletter 2025/1: mailchi.mp/9605efbda141...
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

17.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Polina Ivanova (IfI, ÖAW)
Scribes without Scriptoria: Towards a Social History of Armenian Manuscript-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The application deadline is approaching!
Interested? Then apply by 15 December 2025.
CfA | Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship 2026

Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.

Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

10.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Philip Bockholt (University of Münster)
Elite Translation Projects in the Tulip Period: Material Evidence and Cultural Context

Zoom link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

3.12.2025, 5 p.m.
Jeanine Dağyeli (University of Vienna/ÖAW, IfI)

Tracing the oral-written interface: Vernacular crafts‘ codices in Central Asia (18th-early 21st centuries)

Zoom: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

We are looking forward to the next lecture

26.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Elvira Wakelnig (University of Vienna)
A Thousand and One Arabic Medical Manuscripts

Zoom link:
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November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

19.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Elif Sezer (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Materiality, Content, and Function of Kıra'ât Notes on Late Ottoman Popular Storybooks

Zoom link: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

12.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Tijana Krstić (CEU)
Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-c.1655)

Zoom and further information:
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November 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reposted by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna
📢 New Open Access Issue!

The latest Diyâr: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2025) is out!
Special issue on heritage practices, guest edited by Roxana Coman (NIAS).

Read online 👉 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

05.11.2025, 5 p.m.
Aysima Mirsultan (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Constructing Knowledge: The Formation of the Turkistan Collection at the Berlin State Library

Zoom link:
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October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

29.10.2025, 5 pm (Vienna), hybrid

Rıza Yıldırım (University of Vienna)
“The Question of Authorship and Religious Authority in Alevi Manuscripts"

Zoom link and further information
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October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

22.10.2025, 5pm (Vienna), hybrid

Ulfat Abdurasulov — “Paper Frontiers: Encountering the Turkic and Persian World in Muscovite Diplomatic Chancellery”

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October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We are delighted to present the latest Atlas-Blog contribution. Atlas is a platform for scholarly discussions on Armeno-Turkish manuscripts and prints.

"Reading Persian Advice Literature in Armeno-Turkish: Some Notes on the ‘Pearl-Adorned Pendnāme’" by Tobias Sick

atlas.univie.ac.at?p=488
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🎉 New FWF project at our Department!

Congratulations to Umut Türem, whose three-year project “Everyday Scandals & Community Making in Authoritarian Turkey” has just been funded by FWF.

For more details, see 👉 orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

#AuthorianTurkey, #rezalet, #EkşiSözlük
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
CfA | Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship 2026

Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.

Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026

Deadline: 6 October 2026.

Further information:
cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...
CEST Symposium 2025/2026, Naples – CEST
cest-turkey.org
September 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are looking forward to our upcoming lecture series!

Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

More information at: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
August 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Our conference (6-8 August) has just concluded —huge thanks to all participants for their inspiring contributions and discussions. A milestone for our project and motivation for future events.

Further information is available here: mekhitar.univie.ac.at/activities/c...
August 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📜 Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures

Our upcoming lecture series explores recent advances in the study of manuscript cultures across the Ottoman Empire, the Arabic-speaking world, and Central Asia.

Stay tuned:
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July 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna

ViCAS is dedicated to advancing innovative research in all fields, and encouraging dialogue that bridges academic disciplines, countries, and intellectual traditions.

Interested? Apply now: vicas.univie.ac.at
July 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM