Thursday, November 28, INZ
09:00–09:15: Arrival and Registration
09:15–09:45: Arno Strohmeyer (INZ/ÖAW and University of Salzburg): Welcome and Introduction
09:45–10:45: Panel I: Biographics
Chair: Stephan Kurz (INZ/ÖAW)
Anders Ingram (National University of Ireland, Galway): History and Travelogues: the discourse of ‘Turkish History’ and English travellers’ accounts of the Ottoman world
Deniz T. Kilincoglu and Jörg Wettlaufer (Georg-August University Göttingen): The Reshuffling of Middle Eastern Identities in the Age of Nationalism: Insights from 19th-Century Travelogues
10:45–11:15: COFFEE BREAK
11:15–12:45: Panel II: Perceptions of Otherness (I)
Chair: Elisabeth Lobenwein (University of Klagenfurt)
Donna Landry (University of Kent): Known and Unknown Others: Early Modern Ottoman and British Travellers in Comparative Perspective (short presentation)
Gerald McLean (University of Exeter):Travels among the Kurds in the Seventeenth Century: British and Ottoman Accounts (short presentation)
Maria Endreva (Sofia University): Depictions of Foreignness and Othernness in Felix Kanitz‘ travelogues about Bulgaria
Barbara Haider-Wilson (INZ/ÖAW): “Prokesch and Goethe teach travelling like nobody else.“ Anton Prokesch’s travel account of the Holy Land (1831)
12:45–14:00: LUNCH BREAK
14:00–15:00: Panel III: Perceptions of Otherness (II)
Chair: Ilya Berkovich (INZ/ÖAW)
Christine Kämpfer (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Stefan Knost (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): A reluctant observer between two empires: The journeys of the botanist Carl Haussknecht to the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia
Michael Fisch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “From the Yemen. Hermann Burchardt’s last journey through southern Arabia”. The German-Jewish traveller Hermann Burchardt (1857–1909)
15:00–15:30: COFFEE BREAK
15:30–17:00 Panel IV: Gender Perspectives
Chair: Simon Edlmayr (INZ/ÖAW)
Betül İ. Argıt (Marmara University): Female Slavery and Harems in the Ottoman World
Konrad Petrovszky (INZ/ÖAW): Levantine Feminities in Hammer-Purgstall’s Travel Accounts and Memories
Anna Huemer (University of Salzburg):Foreign Masculinities? The Construction of Gender in Travelogues to Constantinople (Mid 17th Cent.)
17:00–17:30: BREAK
17:30–18:30: Key-Note
Chair: Arno Strohmeyer (INZ/ÖAW and University of Salzburg)
Michael Harbsmeier (Roskilde University): Travels from the Orient, travels to the Orient: does comparison make sense?
Friday, November 29, INZ
09:30–11:00: Panel V: Perceptions of Otherness (III)
Chair: Marion Romberg (INZ/ÖAW)
Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): Inherited or witnessed? Constructs of Otherness in letters and memoirs of Pavel Levashov (ca. 1719–1820)
Susanna Burghartz (University of Basel): The Orient – a blank space in the travel collection of the de Bry?
Johannes Gießauf (University of Graz): The Mongol Heritage in the Ottoman Empire through the eyes of European travelers
11:00–11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30–13:00: Panel VI: Intermateriality and Intermodality
Chair: Lena Oetzel (University of Salzburg)
Gabriele Leschke (Freie Universität Berlin): Representations of the Tomb of Christ in works written, designed and commissioned by Otto Friedrich von der Gröben (1656–1728)
Doris Gruber (INZ/ÖAW): Intermediality and German language Travelogues
Irini Apostolou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Oriental Images of Otherness: Fashion encounters in 19th century French travelogues
13:00–14:30: LUNCH BREAK
14:30–17:00 Panel VII: Circulation
Chair: Barbara Haider-Wilson (INZ/ÖAW)
Michiel van Groesen (Leiden University): Gasparo Balbi and the De Bry Collection of Voyages: Two European Perspectives on the Orient around 1600
Marcus Keller (University of Illinois): Broken Mirror Effects: The Ottoman Empire in French, Italian, and German Sixteenth-Century Travelogues
Volker Bauer (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel): Travelogues as raw material of political knowledge: The case of the 'Oriental' states in the Renger series (1707–1716)
17:30-18:30 Visit of the historical part of the Austrian National Library
Saturday, November 30, INZ
09:30–11:00: Panel VIII: Cultural Practices
Chair: Doris Gruber (INZ/ÖAW)
Frédéric Tinguely (Université de Genève): Radical Otherness? The Festival of Ashura according to European Travellers to Persia in the XVIIth Century
Dzenita Karic (University of London): Views from the province: Bosnian Muslims on Hajj from 17th to 19th century
Güllü Yildiz (Marmara University): “The West of the Orient": The Depiction of Ottomans' Capital in Persian Hajj Travelogues
11:00–11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30–12:30: Panel IX: Peripheries
Chair: Daniela Haarmann, INZ/ÖAW
Christine Nölle-Karimi (Institute of Iranian Studies/ÖAW): Shifting Peripheries: Iranian Envoys in Khiva
Nikita Khrapunov (Vernadsky Crimean Federal University Simferopol): The Orient in Europe? The Crimea in Western Travelogues from 1783–1810
12:30–13:00: Final Discussion; on publication
For organizational matters, please register until November 26 via: ulrike.rack@oeaw.ac.at.