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International conference, November 16-18, 2023

The Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH and the Research Project GHOST: Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities, European Research Council Consolidator Grant 771766, are happy to announce an international conference on “Knowing and controlling nature in Ottoman culture: scientific and occultist approaches in a global perspective“. The conference will take place in Rethymno, Greece in November 16-18, 2023.

For registration see below. All hours in Greek time – EET.

Thursday, November 16

17:45-18:00 Addresses

Chair: Gelina Harlaftis

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GHOST team to participate in the 34. Deutsche Orientalistentag, Berlin

Marinos Sariyannis, Zeynep Aydoğan, Feray Coşkun and Işık Demirakın will participate in the 34. Deutsche Orientalistentag in Berlin (September 12-17, 2022) with a panel entitled "The dynamics and limits of nature and its knowledge in the Ottoman Empire". Full program and abstracts: https://dot2022.de/

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GHOST at the ENSIE Conference

Two members of the GHOST team, Marinos Sariyannis and Dimitris Giagtzoglou, participate with papers in a conference on "Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts", organized by the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE), on December 3-5, 2020 (online at Zoom): http://ensie.site/2020conference.html

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Read more about the article International workshop “Nature and the supernatural in Ottoman culture”, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-15 December 2019.

International workshop “Nature and the supernatural in Ottoman culture”, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-15 December 2019.

https://www.academia.edu/41268246/Nature_and_the_supernatural_in_Ottoman_culture https://djinns.hypotheses.org/1387 From the point of view of cultural history, one may describe reality as a continuum, ranging from tangible objects to natural phenomena, from things of everyday experience to things felt but unseen, up to things (commonly) unfelt and unseen but, nevertheless, considered to exist. All these categories are divided by most human cultures into different spheres, some explicable, some ordinary, but with causes unattainable for the human intellect, and some completely inexplicable as pertaining solely to the will and actions of a supreme being. We name these spheres, whose borders and extent shift in history (e.g. through a…

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