NEWS

New publication by CEMS Director M. Brett Wilson

September 13, 2023

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

M. Brett Wilson (Editor and Translator)

This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

Check out CEU faculty and students presenting at Turkologentag and DAVO 2023, Vienna

September 10, 2023

CEU faculty and students are presenting papers and chairing sessions at Turkologentag and DAVO this month! Don't miss!

21 September:

Papers:

Cankat Kaplan (together with Hasan Karataş), Deconstructing İcazetnames: The Rise and Fall of the Suhrawardi Heritage in the Formation and Periodization of Ottoman Sufism

Raife Cemre Kumla, Being, Belonging: Gendered Mechanisms of Sexual Violence in Nation-Making

Andrei Dumitrescu wins CEMS Best Thesis Award 2023

June 21, 2023

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 Representations," supervised by Prof. Baukje van den Berg.

Congratulations, Andrei :)

Rethinking Arab History, Society, and Culture - A Conference in Honor of Aziz Al-Azmeh (2022)

May 17, 2023

Call for Papers: Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape

February 22, 2023

Call for Papers

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

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

January 30, 2023

Call for Papers

From Ctesiphon to Toledo:
A Comparative View on Early Church Councils in East and West
October 12-13, 2023
Central European University, Vienna

New publication by Sona Grigoryan, Neither Belief nor Unbelief

January 11, 2023

Neither Belief nor Unbelief: Intentional Ambivalence in al-Maʿarrī's Luzūm (De Gruyter, 2023)

Sona Grigoryan

Summer course: "Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts," directed by Tijana Krstić (CEU) and Bruno De Nicola (Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

December 16, 2022

Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools In Islamic Studies

Course dates: July 3–7, 2023
Venue: Vienna
Application deadline: February 24, 2023

Scholarships are available!