Papers by Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
Historiography and War of Aggression
A Re-Enactment of the Second World War
National Russian Ne... more Historiography and War of Aggression
A Re-Enactment of the Second World War
National Russian Neo-Imperial "Deukrainisation"
Ukraine as Anti-Russia?
(Post- and De)Colonialist Perspectives
Colonialisms in Retrospective: Early Modern Times and Late Middle Ages
Transnational/ Transregional Approaches to Ukraine: The Example of a Transottoman Perspective
Geschichtsschreibung und Angriffskrieg
Ein Re-Enactment des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Nationalrussische neoimperiale „Deukrainisierung“
Die Ukraine als Anti-Russland?
(Post- und De)Kolonialistische Perspektiven
Kolonialismen in der Retrospektive: Frühe Neuzeit und Spätmittelalter
Transnationale/ Transregionale Zugänge zur Ukraine: Das Beispiel einer transosmanischen Perspektivierung
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Beyond the Shadows of the Past? Crises in Macedonia in the Early 1900s and 2000s: Between Remembered Entanglement and Disconnection in a Transottoman Perspective, 2023
Open Access: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=/ddo/artikel/84893/978... more Open Access: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=/ddo/artikel/84893/978-3-447-11771-5_Kostenloser%20Open%20Access-Download.pdf#pagemode=thumbs
The contribution aims at explaining two phases of the discourses about the historical region of Macedonia as a paradigmatic European conflict region: The constitution of it as such at the beginning of the 20th century and its re-production or re-invention thereafter, particularly in the 2000s. The article addresses the medialisation of crises in both time frames and the interlinkage of the two phases by practices of remembrance. Even if the discourses of around 1900 are re-produced in the 21st century, this does not prove the longevity of one and the same conflict, as the settings today are to a large degree different from the 1900s. For the argument invented traditions are key, with a focus on saints such as Cyril and Methodius or Clement of Ohrid, as they have played a central role in the formulation of Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian interests in the historical landscape of Macedonia. Practices of remembrance and their roles in generating space and identity and in configuring the „Oriental“ and then the „Macedonian question”, in shaping their development around 1900 as well as in framing the memories connected to this time, and their roles during the crises after 1991 up to the complication of the situation by the escalation of Russian nationalist warfare against Ukraine and it’s national practices of memory will be sketched out.
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Approaches to Polish-Lithuanian / Belarusian and Ukrainian History before 1800 in the Context of Local, Regional and Transregional Entanglements, in: Das historische Litauen als Perspektive für die Slavistik Verflochtene Narrative und Identitäten Herausgegeben von Monika Bednarczuk und Marion Rutz, 2022
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In this short essay I explore the multilingual1 and multireligious character of the multi- national Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern period. This state was home not only to significant Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish communities, but also to notable numbers of Armenians and Muslims. I set my study in the context of developments in historiography, which – in general works at least – has only recently turned its attention towards the abovementioned aspects of the the Early Modern Com- monwealth, even though they permeated all aspects of society. This applies, as I will show, on multiple scales, from individual cities4 through the regional level to the trans- regional. The primary focus of this study will be on the way historical research has ap- proached Poland-Lithuania, and in particular the Grand Duchy, and what imaginaries it has thus constructed. At the same time, or even more, this short piece is an outline of a prospective new approach drawing on a transregional and Transottoman perspective, influenced by the ongoing transnational turn in historiography. While historiography has played a key role in influencing current debates on memory cultures, I will only briefly touch upon those here.
This paper outlines some of the far-reaching, transregional connections that shaped Poland-Lithuania, thus pointing towards new research questions that recognition of this could inspire. Indeed, Poland and Lithuania, as well as the partitioned territories that joined the Russian Empire, should always be considered in both their local and trans- regional contexts,5 and thus in their interconnections with Rusʹ, Ruthenia, Muscovy and the Petersburg Empire, as well as with the northern Black Sea region, the Ottoman Empire and Persia.
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Call for Papers: Conference Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives, 2022
Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global ... more Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global Implications
A conference to mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica (DFG SPP 1981) and discuss new avenues of future research.
29 Feb–1 March 2024, Leipzig
At the end of 2023, the DFG Priority Program Transottomanica will draw to a close. We want to mark the end of the program with a conference that will reflect on Transottomanica’s outcomes and discuss new avenues of research.
In the past six years, Transottomanica conducted research on mobility dynamics and their spatial and societal consequences in all their dimensions between Eastern Europe and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twentieth century. We started from the observation that to date, social and (trans)cultural ties between Poland-Lithuania, Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Persia have not been the subject of systematic historical research. Therefore, the program focused on societal ties and communication practices in the context of a large transregional migration society, which emerged as a consequence of large scale mobility between these dominions. This approach promised to change our understanding of globalized European and Asian histories in a transcontinental context. Instead of constructing “one” new region, our “post-area studies” approach allowed us to look beyond the established area containers and focus on concrete contexts and fields of social interaction with different spatial and social ranges unified by the lens of mobility: Our focus was on reciprocal processes of migration, knowledge circulation, travel, trade and mobility of entire societies between Muscovy and then the Russian Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and Persia, always including military dynamics. In the program’s publication series, we proposed a research perspective in an introductory volume (2019) and gathered preliminary results in three more volumes: Knowledge on the Move (2021), Transottoman Matters (2022), Transottoman Biographies (forthcoming 2023).
The conference will give opportunity to the working groups and research projects assembled in the program to discuss their results. Moreover, the event wants to open the horizon again and invite researchers with a similar approach to reflect on their relationship with Transottomanica. This can include a critical assessment of common concepts, a reflection on difficulties and avenues of future research that would productively enlarge and deepen the Transottoman approach.
Unfortunately, as our research developed, so did (not only) military entanglements between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, involving e.g. Syria, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan: We are not least interested in discussing Transottoman, transregional perspectives on today’s shared history across the continents.
Having said this, we invite papers on
conceptually similar approaches such as Area Studies, Crossroads or Transregional Studies, Mobility or Migration Studies;
comparisons with/on the conceptual rivalries of partially related/overlapping (trans)epochal area studies concepts such as the Ottoman or Mediterranean World, Indian Ocean World, Eurasia, MENA or (South) Eastern Europe, Silk Roads, Caspian or Black Sea and Balkan Studies, Persianate, Islamicate, the Orthodox Commonwealth etc. seen from a meta, post-area studies, i.e. Transottoman, perspective;
hitherto less or unexplored topics in Transottoman settings from the past to the 21st century such as visuality, disease, climate, environment and animals, music, new materialism, assemblage, memory, post- and neo-imperial, post- and decolonial perspectives, imagined geopolitics, contemporary literary studies, etc.;
studies on long distance mobility dynamics or transregional shared history across and/or well beyond Transottomanica, e.g. connecting India with Europe, or Africa with Russia;
global histories of Transottoman localities, e.g. Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Iranian, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Crimean Tatar Glocal history in and beyond Transottomanica etc.;
any conceptually instructive case study discussing Transottoman perspectives.
Please send a short proposal (abstract) and an academic CV by 15 April 2023 to: florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
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Der Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel von Fernhändlern und deren situativer Teilhabe an lokalen und überr... more Der Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel von Fernhändlern und deren situativer Teilhabe an lokalen und überregionalen Formen von Adeligkeit oder insgesamt sozialen Eliten-gerade auch durch den kompetenten Zugriff auf in entsprechend kompatiblen Regimes of Value geschätzte Waren-, wie gerade Angehörige von Sondergruppen, die in unterschiedlichen politischen Herrschaftsgebieten gleichermaßen vertreten waren, vor Ort und transimperial an zentralen Vergesellschaftungsprozessen mitwirkten. Mit diesem und weiteren Argumenten wird insgesamt für die Überwindung der Vorstellung weitgehend isolierter, prioritär von politischen Grenzen definierten Gesellschaften durch die Wahrnehmung migrationsgesellschaftlicher Zusammenhänge im transkontinentalen Kontext plädiert.
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Diyar. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 2021
Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann:
Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-P... more Stefan Rohdewald, Albrecht Fuess, Stephan Conermann:
Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics 5
Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan: On the Appropriation of Lexicographic Methods of Kemālpaşazāde’s (1468–1534) Glossary Daḳāyiḳu l-ḥaḳāyiḳ 14
Robert Born: The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia: Reflections on the Mobility of Objects and Networks of Actors 27
Taisiya Leber: The Early History of Printing in the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Mobility 59
Veruschka Wagner: Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves: Female Slaves from the Black Sea Region in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul 83
Dennis Dierks: Mediatising Violence and Renegotiating Commonality: Bosnian Muslim Press Reporting on the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) 105
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-5/transottomanica-eastern-european-ottoman-persian-mobility-dynamics-jahrgang-2-2021-heft-1
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Intro: Transottoman Infrastructures and Networks across the Black Sea, 2020
Open Access to all contributions to the issue:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/balkar/issue/5824... more Open Access to all contributions to the issue:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/balkar/issue/58241
Here: Introduction to the Special Issue:
Transottoman Infrastructures and Networks across the Black Sea
Lyubomir Pozharliev, Florian Riedler, and Stefan Rohdewald
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Radovi : Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2019
Florian Riedler, Stefan Rohdewald: Migration and Mobility in a Transottoman Context, in: Radovi –... more Florian Riedler, Stefan Rohdewald: Migration and Mobility in a Transottoman Context, in: Radovi – Zavod za hrvatsku povijest 51 (2019) 1, 201-219 in the special issue: Between Europe and Middle East: Migrations and Their Consequences in Southeast Europe and Anatolia in Transimperial and Intercultural Context, ed. by Vjeran Kursar, pp. 201-219. Open Access: https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=18790&fbclid=IwAR1zIpUBC9s1KRQVJ2IIMtsr6inpMhC2hqipP_CyIedltgS7UOxrfeQ8-ts&lang=en
Recent research in historical migration studies has the potential to revise our under- standing of Early Modern societies and states. The research program Transottomanica focuses on the historical entanglement between the Middle East and Eastern Europe by examining migration processes from a transregional and transimperial perspective. In the Early Modern period, various types of migration, especially from and across inter-imperial buffer zones such as the northern Black Sea region, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, connected the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Merchants, refugees and slaves not only created an overarching migration society, especially in the cosmopolitan cities, for transregional migration was also visible in the self-description and identities of imperial elites. The effects of inter-imperial migration, which was ingrained in societal and identitarian structures, can be followed until the early 20th century.
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Transottomanica, call for projects for the second phase Call for Projects Priority Programme "Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics" , 2019
Please also refer to the official version in German at http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissensc... more Please also refer to the official version in German at http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2019/info_wissenschaft_19_50 In 2016, the Senate of the German Research Council (DFG) created the six year priority programme "Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics" (SPP 1981). With this call for projects the DFG invites applications for the second three-year phase (2020-2023) of the programme. To date, social and (trans)cultural ties between Russia, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and Persia from the early modern period to the beginning of the twentieth century have not been the subject of systematic historical study. The historical societies of the above-mentioned regions developed relationships that evolved and interconnected over centuries. The program will focus on the "Transottoman" ties and communication practices which emerged as a consequence of mobility between these dominions and which have not previously become visible in studies of individual regions or bilateral relations. This approach promises to change our understanding of globalised European and Asian histories in a transcontinental context. Instead of constructing "one" new region, our "post-area studies" approach allows us to focus on several different contexts and fields of social interaction with different spatial and social ranges unified by the lens of mobility: Our focus will be on reciprocal processes of migration, knowledge circulation (travelling concepts), travel, trade and mobility of entire societies between Muscovy i.e. the Russian Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and Persia. Similar to the first phase of the programme, applications for the second phase should be in one of the three thematic research lines: 1) mobile actors, 2) circulation of knowledge, and 3) exchange of goods/mobility of objects. These research lines offer different perspectives on similar phenomena which they put into a causal relation by examining them through the lens of mobility. We define mobility as the interplay of social and spatial flows of humans and objects (material and immaterial resources, ideas, knowledge or values) by relations of exchange inside and between networks. The programme investigates the historical period between the 16th and the 19th centuries. This period started when the Ottoman Empire developed into a cross-regional hub due to its expansion into northern and eastern Africa, East Central Europe and the Near and Middle East. It terminated when the major European powers expanded their political and economic influence and the entire area was increasingly integrated into altered and/or new spaces of communication and interaction. In the light of new mobility dynamics and structures, Transottoman spatial configurations lost their significance and merged into increasing global and nationalised contexts. The priority programme investigates these transitions until the beginning of the 20th century. In its second phase, projects will focus on how long-term (infra)structural formations and concrete practices were created, reproduced and vanished again. Mobility in networks did create junctions and hubs in central positions. These hubs either prevailed over competing hubs in other places or lost their central functions and became peripheral. Not only new projects, but also those that already were part of the first phase of the programme can show how mobility dynamics consolidated and transformed over a long period of time. Additionally, project applications are welcome that examine the transformation of Transottoman contexts up until ca. 1950. Please hand in your application until 31 December 2019 via the online elan-system where your data as well as documents concerning the application can be uploaded. For a new application chose "Antragstellung-Neues Projekt-Schwerpunktprogramm" in the online form and specifically "SPP 1981".. As a first-time applicant, please note that you have to register with the elan-system at least two weeks before you submit your application. You cannot submit an application without being registered at least until 17 December 2019. In the registration form, please chose SPP 1981 from the list of possible applications. In general, your registration will be confirmed on the next working day.
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DFG Call for Projects. Zweite Phase SPP Transottomanica 2020-2023, 2019
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Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
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Mobilitätsdynamiken und ihre Schnittpunkte in einer vergleichenden Geschichte der Imperien Stuchtey.in Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess Transottomanica, 2019
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Einführung: Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Mobilität als Linse für Akteure, Wissen und Objekte in
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Papers by Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
A Re-Enactment of the Second World War
National Russian Neo-Imperial "Deukrainisation"
Ukraine as Anti-Russia?
(Post- and De)Colonialist Perspectives
Colonialisms in Retrospective: Early Modern Times and Late Middle Ages
Transnational/ Transregional Approaches to Ukraine: The Example of a Transottoman Perspective
Geschichtsschreibung und Angriffskrieg
Ein Re-Enactment des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Nationalrussische neoimperiale „Deukrainisierung“
Die Ukraine als Anti-Russland?
(Post- und De)Kolonialistische Perspektiven
Kolonialismen in der Retrospektive: Frühe Neuzeit und Spätmittelalter
Transnationale/ Transregionale Zugänge zur Ukraine: Das Beispiel einer transosmanischen Perspektivierung
The contribution aims at explaining two phases of the discourses about the historical region of Macedonia as a paradigmatic European conflict region: The constitution of it as such at the beginning of the 20th century and its re-production or re-invention thereafter, particularly in the 2000s. The article addresses the medialisation of crises in both time frames and the interlinkage of the two phases by practices of remembrance. Even if the discourses of around 1900 are re-produced in the 21st century, this does not prove the longevity of one and the same conflict, as the settings today are to a large degree different from the 1900s. For the argument invented traditions are key, with a focus on saints such as Cyril and Methodius or Clement of Ohrid, as they have played a central role in the formulation of Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian interests in the historical landscape of Macedonia. Practices of remembrance and their roles in generating space and identity and in configuring the „Oriental“ and then the „Macedonian question”, in shaping their development around 1900 as well as in framing the memories connected to this time, and their roles during the crises after 1991 up to the complication of the situation by the escalation of Russian nationalist warfare against Ukraine and it’s national practices of memory will be sketched out.
In this short essay I explore the multilingual1 and multireligious character of the multi- national Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern period. This state was home not only to significant Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish communities, but also to notable numbers of Armenians and Muslims. I set my study in the context of developments in historiography, which – in general works at least – has only recently turned its attention towards the abovementioned aspects of the the Early Modern Com- monwealth, even though they permeated all aspects of society. This applies, as I will show, on multiple scales, from individual cities4 through the regional level to the trans- regional. The primary focus of this study will be on the way historical research has ap- proached Poland-Lithuania, and in particular the Grand Duchy, and what imaginaries it has thus constructed. At the same time, or even more, this short piece is an outline of a prospective new approach drawing on a transregional and Transottoman perspective, influenced by the ongoing transnational turn in historiography. While historiography has played a key role in influencing current debates on memory cultures, I will only briefly touch upon those here.
This paper outlines some of the far-reaching, transregional connections that shaped Poland-Lithuania, thus pointing towards new research questions that recognition of this could inspire. Indeed, Poland and Lithuania, as well as the partitioned territories that joined the Russian Empire, should always be considered in both their local and trans- regional contexts,5 and thus in their interconnections with Rusʹ, Ruthenia, Muscovy and the Petersburg Empire, as well as with the northern Black Sea region, the Ottoman Empire and Persia.
A conference to mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica (DFG SPP 1981) and discuss new avenues of future research.
29 Feb–1 March 2024, Leipzig
At the end of 2023, the DFG Priority Program Transottomanica will draw to a close. We want to mark the end of the program with a conference that will reflect on Transottomanica’s outcomes and discuss new avenues of research.
In the past six years, Transottomanica conducted research on mobility dynamics and their spatial and societal consequences in all their dimensions between Eastern Europe and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twentieth century. We started from the observation that to date, social and (trans)cultural ties between Poland-Lithuania, Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Persia have not been the subject of systematic historical research. Therefore, the program focused on societal ties and communication practices in the context of a large transregional migration society, which emerged as a consequence of large scale mobility between these dominions. This approach promised to change our understanding of globalized European and Asian histories in a transcontinental context. Instead of constructing “one” new region, our “post-area studies” approach allowed us to look beyond the established area containers and focus on concrete contexts and fields of social interaction with different spatial and social ranges unified by the lens of mobility: Our focus was on reciprocal processes of migration, knowledge circulation, travel, trade and mobility of entire societies between Muscovy and then the Russian Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and Persia, always including military dynamics. In the program’s publication series, we proposed a research perspective in an introductory volume (2019) and gathered preliminary results in three more volumes: Knowledge on the Move (2021), Transottoman Matters (2022), Transottoman Biographies (forthcoming 2023).
The conference will give opportunity to the working groups and research projects assembled in the program to discuss their results. Moreover, the event wants to open the horizon again and invite researchers with a similar approach to reflect on their relationship with Transottomanica. This can include a critical assessment of common concepts, a reflection on difficulties and avenues of future research that would productively enlarge and deepen the Transottoman approach.
Unfortunately, as our research developed, so did (not only) military entanglements between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, involving e.g. Syria, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan: We are not least interested in discussing Transottoman, transregional perspectives on today’s shared history across the continents.
Having said this, we invite papers on
conceptually similar approaches such as Area Studies, Crossroads or Transregional Studies, Mobility or Migration Studies;
comparisons with/on the conceptual rivalries of partially related/overlapping (trans)epochal area studies concepts such as the Ottoman or Mediterranean World, Indian Ocean World, Eurasia, MENA or (South) Eastern Europe, Silk Roads, Caspian or Black Sea and Balkan Studies, Persianate, Islamicate, the Orthodox Commonwealth etc. seen from a meta, post-area studies, i.e. Transottoman, perspective;
hitherto less or unexplored topics in Transottoman settings from the past to the 21st century such as visuality, disease, climate, environment and animals, music, new materialism, assemblage, memory, post- and neo-imperial, post- and decolonial perspectives, imagined geopolitics, contemporary literary studies, etc.;
studies on long distance mobility dynamics or transregional shared history across and/or well beyond Transottomanica, e.g. connecting India with Europe, or Africa with Russia;
global histories of Transottoman localities, e.g. Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Iranian, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Crimean Tatar Glocal history in and beyond Transottomanica etc.;
any conceptually instructive case study discussing Transottoman perspectives.
Please send a short proposal (abstract) and an academic CV by 15 April 2023 to: florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics 5
Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan: On the Appropriation of Lexicographic Methods of Kemālpaşazāde’s (1468–1534) Glossary Daḳāyiḳu l-ḥaḳāyiḳ 14
Robert Born: The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia: Reflections on the Mobility of Objects and Networks of Actors 27
Taisiya Leber: The Early History of Printing in the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Mobility 59
Veruschka Wagner: Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves: Female Slaves from the Black Sea Region in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul 83
Dennis Dierks: Mediatising Violence and Renegotiating Commonality: Bosnian Muslim Press Reporting on the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) 105
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-5/transottomanica-eastern-european-ottoman-persian-mobility-dynamics-jahrgang-2-2021-heft-1
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/balkar/issue/58241
Here: Introduction to the Special Issue:
Transottoman Infrastructures and Networks across the Black Sea
Lyubomir Pozharliev, Florian Riedler, and Stefan Rohdewald
Recent research in historical migration studies has the potential to revise our under- standing of Early Modern societies and states. The research program Transottomanica focuses on the historical entanglement between the Middle East and Eastern Europe by examining migration processes from a transregional and transimperial perspective. In the Early Modern period, various types of migration, especially from and across inter-imperial buffer zones such as the northern Black Sea region, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, connected the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Merchants, refugees and slaves not only created an overarching migration society, especially in the cosmopolitan cities, for transregional migration was also visible in the self-description and identities of imperial elites. The effects of inter-imperial migration, which was ingrained in societal and identitarian structures, can be followed until the early 20th century.
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Einführung: Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Mobilität als Linse für Akteure, Wissen und Objekte in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken: Akteure – Wissen – Waren
in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg Stefan Rohdewald
in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
A Re-Enactment of the Second World War
National Russian Neo-Imperial "Deukrainisation"
Ukraine as Anti-Russia?
(Post- and De)Colonialist Perspectives
Colonialisms in Retrospective: Early Modern Times and Late Middle Ages
Transnational/ Transregional Approaches to Ukraine: The Example of a Transottoman Perspective
Geschichtsschreibung und Angriffskrieg
Ein Re-Enactment des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Nationalrussische neoimperiale „Deukrainisierung“
Die Ukraine als Anti-Russland?
(Post- und De)Kolonialistische Perspektiven
Kolonialismen in der Retrospektive: Frühe Neuzeit und Spätmittelalter
Transnationale/ Transregionale Zugänge zur Ukraine: Das Beispiel einer transosmanischen Perspektivierung
The contribution aims at explaining two phases of the discourses about the historical region of Macedonia as a paradigmatic European conflict region: The constitution of it as such at the beginning of the 20th century and its re-production or re-invention thereafter, particularly in the 2000s. The article addresses the medialisation of crises in both time frames and the interlinkage of the two phases by practices of remembrance. Even if the discourses of around 1900 are re-produced in the 21st century, this does not prove the longevity of one and the same conflict, as the settings today are to a large degree different from the 1900s. For the argument invented traditions are key, with a focus on saints such as Cyril and Methodius or Clement of Ohrid, as they have played a central role in the formulation of Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian interests in the historical landscape of Macedonia. Practices of remembrance and their roles in generating space and identity and in configuring the „Oriental“ and then the „Macedonian question”, in shaping their development around 1900 as well as in framing the memories connected to this time, and their roles during the crises after 1991 up to the complication of the situation by the escalation of Russian nationalist warfare against Ukraine and it’s national practices of memory will be sketched out.
In this short essay I explore the multilingual1 and multireligious character of the multi- national Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern period. This state was home not only to significant Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish communities, but also to notable numbers of Armenians and Muslims. I set my study in the context of developments in historiography, which – in general works at least – has only recently turned its attention towards the abovementioned aspects of the the Early Modern Com- monwealth, even though they permeated all aspects of society. This applies, as I will show, on multiple scales, from individual cities4 through the regional level to the trans- regional. The primary focus of this study will be on the way historical research has ap- proached Poland-Lithuania, and in particular the Grand Duchy, and what imaginaries it has thus constructed. At the same time, or even more, this short piece is an outline of a prospective new approach drawing on a transregional and Transottoman perspective, influenced by the ongoing transnational turn in historiography. While historiography has played a key role in influencing current debates on memory cultures, I will only briefly touch upon those here.
This paper outlines some of the far-reaching, transregional connections that shaped Poland-Lithuania, thus pointing towards new research questions that recognition of this could inspire. Indeed, Poland and Lithuania, as well as the partitioned territories that joined the Russian Empire, should always be considered in both their local and trans- regional contexts,5 and thus in their interconnections with Rusʹ, Ruthenia, Muscovy and the Petersburg Empire, as well as with the northern Black Sea region, the Ottoman Empire and Persia.
A conference to mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica (DFG SPP 1981) and discuss new avenues of future research.
29 Feb–1 March 2024, Leipzig
At the end of 2023, the DFG Priority Program Transottomanica will draw to a close. We want to mark the end of the program with a conference that will reflect on Transottomanica’s outcomes and discuss new avenues of research.
In the past six years, Transottomanica conducted research on mobility dynamics and their spatial and societal consequences in all their dimensions between Eastern Europe and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twentieth century. We started from the observation that to date, social and (trans)cultural ties between Poland-Lithuania, Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Persia have not been the subject of systematic historical research. Therefore, the program focused on societal ties and communication practices in the context of a large transregional migration society, which emerged as a consequence of large scale mobility between these dominions. This approach promised to change our understanding of globalized European and Asian histories in a transcontinental context. Instead of constructing “one” new region, our “post-area studies” approach allowed us to look beyond the established area containers and focus on concrete contexts and fields of social interaction with different spatial and social ranges unified by the lens of mobility: Our focus was on reciprocal processes of migration, knowledge circulation, travel, trade and mobility of entire societies between Muscovy and then the Russian Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and Persia, always including military dynamics. In the program’s publication series, we proposed a research perspective in an introductory volume (2019) and gathered preliminary results in three more volumes: Knowledge on the Move (2021), Transottoman Matters (2022), Transottoman Biographies (forthcoming 2023).
The conference will give opportunity to the working groups and research projects assembled in the program to discuss their results. Moreover, the event wants to open the horizon again and invite researchers with a similar approach to reflect on their relationship with Transottomanica. This can include a critical assessment of common concepts, a reflection on difficulties and avenues of future research that would productively enlarge and deepen the Transottoman approach.
Unfortunately, as our research developed, so did (not only) military entanglements between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, involving e.g. Syria, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan: We are not least interested in discussing Transottoman, transregional perspectives on today’s shared history across the continents.
Having said this, we invite papers on
conceptually similar approaches such as Area Studies, Crossroads or Transregional Studies, Mobility or Migration Studies;
comparisons with/on the conceptual rivalries of partially related/overlapping (trans)epochal area studies concepts such as the Ottoman or Mediterranean World, Indian Ocean World, Eurasia, MENA or (South) Eastern Europe, Silk Roads, Caspian or Black Sea and Balkan Studies, Persianate, Islamicate, the Orthodox Commonwealth etc. seen from a meta, post-area studies, i.e. Transottoman, perspective;
hitherto less or unexplored topics in Transottoman settings from the past to the 21st century such as visuality, disease, climate, environment and animals, music, new materialism, assemblage, memory, post- and neo-imperial, post- and decolonial perspectives, imagined geopolitics, contemporary literary studies, etc.;
studies on long distance mobility dynamics or transregional shared history across and/or well beyond Transottomanica, e.g. connecting India with Europe, or Africa with Russia;
global histories of Transottoman localities, e.g. Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Iranian, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Crimean Tatar Glocal history in and beyond Transottomanica etc.;
any conceptually instructive case study discussing Transottoman perspectives.
Please send a short proposal (abstract) and an academic CV by 15 April 2023 to: florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics 5
Hasmik Kirakosyan, Ani Sargsyan: On the Appropriation of Lexicographic Methods of Kemālpaşazāde’s (1468–1534) Glossary Daḳāyiḳu l-ḥaḳāyiḳ 14
Robert Born: The Ottoman Tributaries Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia: Reflections on the Mobility of Objects and Networks of Actors 27
Taisiya Leber: The Early History of Printing in the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Mobility 59
Veruschka Wagner: Mobile Actors, Mobile Slaves: Female Slaves from the Black Sea Region in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul 83
Dennis Dierks: Mediatising Violence and Renegotiating Commonality: Bosnian Muslim Press Reporting on the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) 105
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-5/transottomanica-eastern-european-ottoman-persian-mobility-dynamics-jahrgang-2-2021-heft-1
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/balkar/issue/58241
Here: Introduction to the Special Issue:
Transottoman Infrastructures and Networks across the Black Sea
Lyubomir Pozharliev, Florian Riedler, and Stefan Rohdewald
Recent research in historical migration studies has the potential to revise our under- standing of Early Modern societies and states. The research program Transottomanica focuses on the historical entanglement between the Middle East and Eastern Europe by examining migration processes from a transregional and transimperial perspective. In the Early Modern period, various types of migration, especially from and across inter-imperial buffer zones such as the northern Black Sea region, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, connected the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Merchants, refugees and slaves not only created an overarching migration society, especially in the cosmopolitan cities, for transregional migration was also visible in the self-description and identities of imperial elites. The effects of inter-imperial migration, which was ingrained in societal and identitarian structures, can be followed until the early 20th century.
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Einführung: Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Mobilität als Linse für Akteure, Wissen und Objekte in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Transosmanische Mobilitätsdynamiken: Akteure – Wissen – Waren
in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg Stefan Rohdewald
in
Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Perspektiven und Forschungsstand
A re-enactment of the Second World War
National Russian Neo-Imperial "Deukrainization"
Ukraine as an Anti-Russia?
(Post- and De)Colonialist Perspectives
Multiple Colonialisms: Superimpositions of imagined internal colonizations of the outside?
Colonialisms in Retrospective: Early Modern and Late Middle Ages
Transnational/ Transregional Approaches to Ukraine: Transottoman Perspectives
Geschichtsschreibung und Angriffskrieg
Ein Re-Enactment des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Nationalrussische neoimperiale „Deukrainisierung“
Die Ukraine als Anti-Russland?
(Post- und De)Kolonialistische Perspektiven
Multiple Kolonialismen: Überlagerungen imaginierter innerer Kolonisierungen des Äußeren?
Kolonialismen in der Retrospektive: Frühe Neuzeit und Spätmittelalter
Transnationale/ Transregionale Zugänge zur Ukraine: Das Beispiel einer transosmanischen Perspektivierung
The programme explores “Transottoman” ties and communication practices which emerged as a con- sequence of mobility between the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Poland-Lithuania and Persia from the 1 6th to the early 20th century.
For more information visit:
www.transottomanica.de
The contributions in this volume document various dynamics between the Eastern European states and those of the Middle East. They deal with political, interreligious and economic aspects as well as mutual perceptions. The volume is based on a conference organized by the Association of Eastern European Historians in Germany and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe.
https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Mobility-Dynamics-between-Eastern-Europe-and-the-Near-East/9783515137362
Ukraine und Ukrainische Geschichte unter Beschuss. Historische Perspektiven im transepochalen und transregionalen Zugriff
Unter Mitarbeit von Stefan Rohdewald (guest ed.)
Russia's extremely brutal war of aggression against Ukraine is directed against all Ukrainians and everything Ukrainian, against Ukrainian history and its ideas of an independent belonging to Europe. This volume brings together perspectives from international scholars living in Germany, including Ukrainian historians who have fled, on Ukrainian history under the conditions of the Russian war of aggression. Staged as a re-enactment of the so-called "Great Patriotic War", Russia's war has the obviously national-Russian and neo-imperial goal of "de-Ukrainizing" Ukraine. This sharpens the focus on historical distinctions between Ukraine and Russia. The contributors work out these differences and discuss (anti-/post-/ and de-) colonial perspectives on recent and modern history, the early modern period and the late Middle Ages. In addition, they outline transnational and transregional approaches to Ukrainian history within the framework of postcolonial historiography using the example of a Transottoman perspective, which makes a common Middle Eastern and Eastern European history the object of investigation.
Table of contents: https://media.dav-medien.de/toc/9783515135917_i.pdf?v2
https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Historische-Mitteilungen-33-2022/9783515135917
Contributions by Denise Klein, Anna Vlachopoulou, Nana Kharebava , Veruschka Wagner, Andreas Helmedach , Stanislav Mohylnyi , Lyubomir Pozharliev , Elke Hartmann
Alexandra Gerykova , eds. Denise Klein / Anna Vlachopoulou
Transottomanica. Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken, vol 3. Edited by Stephan Conermann, Albrecht Fuess and Stefan Rohdewald
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The volume investigates flows of knowledge that transcended social, cultural, linguistic and political boundaries. Dealing with different sources such as dictionaries, early printed books, political advice literature, and modern periodicals, the case studies in this anthology cover a time frame from the 15th to the early 20th century. Being concerned with a wide variety of geographical areas, including the Ottoman capital Istanbul, provincial settings like Ottoman Palestine, and also Egypt, Bosnia, Crimea, the Persian realm and Poland-Lithuania, this volume gives transepochal and transregional insights in the production, transmission, and translation of knowledge. In so doing it contributes to current debates in transcultural studies, global history, and the history of knowledge.
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Knowledge on the Move in a Transottoman Perspective
Dynamics of Intellectual Exchange from the Fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Evelin Dierauff, Dennis Dierks, Barbara Henning, Taisiya Leber, Ani Sargsyan
This volume investigates flows of knowledge that transcended social, cultural, linguistic and political boundaries. Dealing with different sources such as dictionaries, early printed books, political advice literature, and modern periodicals, the case studies in this anthology cover a time frame from the 15th to the early 20th century. Being concerned with a wide variety of geographical areas, including the Ottoman capital Istanbul, provincial settings like Ottoman Palestine, and also Egypt, Bosnia, Crimea, the Persian realm and Poland-Lithuania, the book gives transepochal and transregional insights in the production, transmission, and translation of knowledge. In so doing it contributes to current debates in transcultural studies, global history, and the history of knowledge.
This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility – as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement and translation – involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, we hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.
Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c.
This book studies the impact of mobility on the lives of people who moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, through the lens of their biographies. Depending on who moved where and their circumstances, mobility could mean brutal uprooting or homecoming; a loss of freedom or the opening of new opportunities; marginalization or a path to wealth and power. Beyond the individual level, Transottoman biographies inform us about the local societies that both shaped and were shaped by mobile people. Mobile biographies show the entanglements between di"erent regions and empires and make comprehensible what this speci#cally meant for the people on the ground.
Filastin was published from 1911 onwards in the coastal town of Jaffa by the cousins Yusuf and Isa al-Isa, Arab Palestinians of Greek Orthodox confession. Soon, it had established itself as a ‘forum of debate’ in late Ottoman Palestine, serving a pool of authors from different ethnic and confessional but similar educational backgrounds and moral values as a public medium to which they contributed through publishing articles, protest letters, petitions, etc. On its pages, these authors controversially discussed concepts of collective identity, society-building, political order and all kinds of reforms that they perceived progressive and as fitting the ‘spirit of the age’, as they called it: the age of Ottoman Constitutionalism and modernity. This study explores local debates on Palestinian group relations through Filastin during the years 1911 until 1914 which is relevant since, during this period of time, the Arab Middle East in general and Palestine in specific underwent a so-called ‘saddle period’; a deep and fundamental change with regard to social relations and political concepts that is still rather unexplored in today’s scholarship.
The history of the great empires in Eastern Europe and in the Near and Middle East was not only marked by conflicts and competition but also by a futile exchange leading to intensive interconnections. From the 16th until the beginning of the 20th century a large number of social and cultural ties between Poland-Lithuania, the Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Persia can be found. Supported by several groups and individuals such as merchants, scholars, diplomates, migrants, militaries or slaves a strong exchange of humans, products and ideas were realised. Therefore, “transottoman” interactive relationships evolved during different time periods and different social spaces. The present volume presents not only a methodical research overview but also transregional ties, which have not been the subject of a systematic historical study so far.