Zoom Lecture by Marinos Sariyannis with the topic “Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities”

The lecture is part of a series launched in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH and the Institute of European Studies of the University of California, Berkeley for the research in history undertaken in both establishments to enhance communication, knowledge and exchange of ideas. This is one of four ERC projects carried out by the research groups of IMS-FORTH. https://ims.forth.gr/el/news-item/view?id=1005

Continue ReadingZoom Lecture by Marinos Sariyannis with the topic “Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities”

ANAMED Kütüphanesi ve Tarih Vakfı ortaklığında düzenlenen ANAMED Kütüphane Konuşmaları’nın Mart ayındaki konuğu Marinos Sariyannis, Zeynep Aydoğan, Feray Coşkun, Güneş Işıksel, B. Harun Küçük ve A. Tunç Şen – GHOST projesi

Tarih: 2 Mart 2021, saat 18:00 Garip vakalar, gizli bilimler ve büyü Osmanlı bilim ve kültür tarihi içinde yeni bir alan oluşturmaktadır. Bugün bizim için doğa ve doğaüstü çok net bir biçimde birbirinden ayrı alanlar olmasına rağmen modern öncesi kültürlerde bu sınır daha belirsizdi: Bir yandan bilinebilen ilebilinemeyen arasında, öte yandan da normal (döngüsel) süreç ile mucize (ya da keramet) arasındaki farklar daha önemliydi. Bu konuşmada, Rethymno’da (Girit) yürütülmekte olan GHOST projesi üzerinden Osmanlı’da doğaüstü denilen vakaların ve olayların algılanışı ele alınacaktır. Konuşmanın moderatörlüğü Marinos Sariyannis tarafından yapılacaktır. Konuşma uzaktan erişimle gerçekleşecektir. Konuşmaya kayıt olmak için lütfen linke tıklayınız. https://kocun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GKJK_ZbwRwWTyQEIV0uFgA…

Continue ReadingANAMED Kütüphanesi ve Tarih Vakfı ortaklığında düzenlenen ANAMED Kütüphane Konuşmaları’nın Mart ayındaki konuğu Marinos Sariyannis, Zeynep Aydoğan, Feray Coşkun, Güneş Işıksel, B. Harun Küçük ve A. Tunç Şen – GHOST projesi

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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An Interview in the website The Thinker’s Garden

The Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: An Interview in the website The Thinker's Garden, a digital storytelling project that aims to explore the rarely frequented corridors of cultural history, edited by J. Locksley http://www.thethinkersgarden.com/2020/10/the-ottoman-supernatural-tradition/

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Participation of Marinos Sariyannis at the Workshop “Early Modern Encyclopedism in South-Eastern Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, 17-18 February 2020)

Paper title: Mapping the knowledge of the world in Ottoman encyclopaedias

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Participation of Marinos Sariyannis at the Osmanistischer Studienkreis: “Sprache und Sprachen im Osmanischen Raum” (Bonn, 14-15 February 2020)

Paper title: Studying Ottoman views of the supernatural: languages and sources Available at: https://www.academia.edu/41939169/4th_Ottoman_Studies_Circle_4._Osmanistischer_Studienkreis_Bonn_14th-15th_February_2020

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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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Public lecture of Marinos Sariyannis: “Studying Ottoman views of the supernatural: the state-of-the-art and a research agenda”, Vienna, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2 October 2019)

https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/news-events/event-archive/detailed-view-archive/news/einladung-zum-vortrag-3/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=938cc54efbaa714ff11fc994da669f7a https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_orientalistik/Einladungsblatt_INZ-Balkanforschung-Vortrag-Marinos-Sariyannis-V12-09-2019-1.pdf

Continue ReadingPublic lecture of Marinos Sariyannis: “Studying Ottoman views of the supernatural: the state-of-the-art and a research agenda”, Vienna, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2 October 2019)