Monday, 27 September 2021
16:45-17:00 (CET) Welcome and Introduction
Florian Schwarz (Institute of Iranian Studies, ÖAW)
Christine Nölle Karimi (Institute of Iranian Studies, ÖAW)
Onur İnal (University of Vienna)
Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna)
17:00 – 19:00 (CET)
Panel I: Logistics and forms of organisation
Tilmann Walter (University of Würzburg)
Foreigners, Disguises and Passports: The German Physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?-1596) Travels the Middle East
Elvan Cobb (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Touring Western Anatolia and Southern Mesopotamia in the Age of Steam
Peyman Eshaghi (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies)
Pious Guides to Travel to Mecca: Rereading Two Treatises on the Logistics of Travel to Mecca in Qajar Iran
César Jacquier (University of Neuchâtel)
Hitting the Road: Travel Writing and Tourism Practices in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, 1929-1939
Yahya Nurgat (University of Cambridge)
Between the Sacred and the Mundane: Travelling Practices of Ottoman Hajj Pilgrims c.1650-1750
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
17:00 – 19:00 (CET)
Panel II: Description, performance and valuation
Shervin Farridnejad (Free University Berlin / Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Zoroastrian Priests at the Court of Karīm Khan Zand: An 18th Century Parsi Travelogue from Surat to Yazd
Güllü Yıldız (Marmara University)
Ḥajjī or Sayyāḥ: Persian Pilgrims Between Piety and Pleasure of the Road
Christine Nölle-Karimi (Institute of Iranian Studies, ÖAW)
Pilgrimage All Inclusive: From Kabul to Mecca and the Shiite Shrines on the Eve of the First World War.
Murat Yolun (Adıyaman University)
The Military Travellers of the Middle East: The Travelling Practices of the Ottoman Officers and Men during the First World War
Nadya Sbaiti (American University of Beirut)
In Guide We Trust: Leisure, “Summering”, and Tourism in the Making of Lebanon
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
17:00 – 19:00 (CET)
Panel III: Interaction with local residents
G. Carole Woodall (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
The Making of a British Hotelier in 19th century Istanbul
Thomas Ecker (University of Bamberg)
Royal Travel to Mecca – The Pilgrimages of Farhād Mīrzā and Husām as-Salṭana
Ufuk Adak (Altınbaş University)
British Travelers in Izmir (Smyrna) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Thursday, 30 September 2021
17:00 – 19:00 (CET)
Panel IV: Intertextuality and genre
Alptuğ Güney / Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna)
“Strolling Through Istanbul”: Early Modern Guides to the City
Andrea E. Duffy (Colorado State University)
Orientalism and the Interpretation of Seventeenth-Century French Travelogues of the Ottoman Empire
Björn Bentlage (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Travel Writing as Practice in the Ottoman Mashreq
Ömer Koçyiğit (Leiden University)
Between the Travelogue and Chronicle: The Extraordinary Work of an Ottoman Horseman Soldier
Sally Abed (University of Alexandria)
Between East and West: Ahmad Hassanein's The Lost Oases
19:00 – 20:00 (CET)
Final Discussion and Conclusion