Based at Bonn University, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, this project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education from 2010-2014.
Europe from the Outside
The project “Europe from the outside – Formations of Middle Eastern views on Europe from inside Europe” focuses on travel accounts by Ottoman, Arab and Persian travelers to examine the changing and the enduring elements of Middle Eastern perceptions of Europe from the 19th century until the end of World War II. The project also examines the functions of mediated images of
13/10/2015
Our latest publication now available, Open Access!
Muslims in Interwar Europe|A Transcultural Historical Perspective » Brill Online This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Muslims in Interwar Europe, various contributors argue that Muslims constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space of that time.
08/05/2014
Exhibition by ou partner BMBF-project in Berlin!
MY EUROPEAN MIND_TEASER TEASER OF MY EUROPEAN MIND, A BOFA DA CARA FILM. Written & Directed by: Pere Ortín & Nástio Mosquito
10/04/2014
PhD Workshop on Travel Writing
(University of Oslo, Norway: 4-5 September, 2014)
Deadline: 15 May 2014
Organized by Department of Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) , University of Oslo/
This workshop is designed for doctoral students working within the broadly defined field of Travel Writing. The workshop will provide them with the opportunity to discuss their current work and receive feedback from two eminent scholars in the field: Prof. Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo) and Prof. Tim Youngs (Centre for Travel Writing, Nottingham Trent University). Students will also develop critical assessment skills through their peer-reviewing of other participants’ work.
The students are required to submit a chapter or article draft (approx. 5000 words) and to complete the assigned reading list of relevant articles and/or book chapters.
How to apply:
* Send an email to organizers Janicke S. Kaasa and Mieke Neyens.
* The email should provide information on the university and study program the applicant is enrolled in.
* A one-page abstract on the dissertation topic must be sent as an attachment to the email.
The number of participants is limited. Applications from MA students in the field of Travel Writing will also be considered.
Deadline for application: 15 May 2014
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2014
Deadline for submitting draft (admitted participants): 1 August 2014
PhD workshop on Travel Writing 4-5 September - Department of Literature, Area Studies and... This workshop is designed for doctoral students working within the broadly defined field of Travel Writing. The workshop will provide them with the opportunity to discuss their current work and receive feedback from two eminent scholars in the field: Prof. Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo) and…
10/04/2014
CONFERENCE!
Borders and Crossings/Seuils et Traverses: n International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing (University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria: 11-13 September 2014)
Deadline: 1 May 2014
Website: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=38601
Organised by:
Department of English and American Studies, University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria)
Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, University of Wolverhampton (UK).
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 May 2014
We invite all with an interest in the study of travel writing to the thirteenth Borders and Crossings conference from 11-13 September 2014. Proposals for 20-minute papers and for full panels are sought from scholars working in all areas of travel writing, including literary studies, book history, geography, art history, translation studies, anthropology, history, and media studies. Current travel writers are also very welcome and there will be space for readings.
Papers on all aspects and periods of travel writing are welcome, and areas of enquiry might include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Representations of travel through South East Europe
* Travel and translation/interpretation
* Globalization, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism
* Travel writing and ethics
* Representations of travel and the new media
* Travel illustration and multimedia
* Narratives of pilgrimage
* Travel writing and autobiography
* Travel writing and science
* Travel writing and intertextuality
The conference languages are English and French. Please indicate in which language you’d like to deliver your paper.
Please send a 250-word abstract by email to addresses listed below. Please include a note of your institutional affiliation and your preferred e-mail address.
Information about accommodation costs and the conference fee will be e-mailed to all potential participants in April. Postgraduate students and unsalaried participants will pay reduced fees.
Contact details:
Replace [at] with the appropriate symbol in email addresses where applicable
ludmillak3[at]gmail.com Email: ludmillak3[at]gmail.com
B.Colbert[at]wlv.ac.uk Email: B.Colbert[at]wlv.ac.uk
G.Hambrook[at]wlv.ac.uk Email: G.Hambrook[at]wlv.ac.uk
Borders & Crossings 2014 Borders & Crossings conference Home page
10/04/2014
One of the last Ottoman script maps of the motherland from 1927...
10/04/2014
"Ist der Islam ein Teil Deutschlands? Ja – und wie! Die Ausstellung »Türcken, Mohren und Tartaren« im Wustrauer Brandenburg-Preußen-Museum zeigt, wie sehr muslimische Einwanderer Militär und Kultur in Deutschland geprägt haben."
06/03/2014
Stambouline is looking for new authors...
http://www.stambouline.com/p/list-of-buildings-and-objects.html
06/02/2014
Announcing a new edited book by our former fellow Prof. Umar Ryad. Congratulations!
Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe | Götz Nordbruch | Umar Ryad | Palgrave Macmillan Addressing a gap, this volume brings together the insights of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine Muslim networks and actors in interwar Europe with a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of their activities.
05/02/2014
Interesting website/ressources!
website of Jelle Verheij History and historical geography of Turkey and the late Ottoman Empire & Ottoman-Armenian-Kurdish relations before the First World War
27/12/2013
Tagungsbericht!
Tagber: Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge; Wissensgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte... H-Soz-u-Kult: Communication and Information Services for Historians
04/12/2013
New book! "Before Orientalism. Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510"
Before Orientalism argues that medieval travelers were not and could not have been writing from an imperialist perspective as later 'Orientalist' writers are alleged to have done. Kim M. Phillips proves her case most convincingly, and following these travel writers through her examination of their texts is an exceedingly interesting journey."—David O. Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made—or claimed to have made—journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring.
In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how Europeans' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peoples and societies. Phillips gives particular attention to the texts' known or likely audiences, the cultural settings within which they found a foothold, and the broader impact of their descriptions, while also considering the motivations of their writers. She reveals in rich detail responses from European travelers that ranged from pragmatism to wonder. Fear of military might, admiration for high standards of civic life and court culture, and even delight in foreign magnificence rarely assumed the kind of secular Eurocentric superiority that would later characterize Orientalism. Placing medieval writing on the East in the context of an emergent "Europe" whose explorers sought to learn more than to rule, Before Orientalism complicates our understanding of medieval attitudes toward the foreign.
Before Orientalism | Phillips, Kim M. 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4548-6 | $79.95s | £52.00 | Ebook 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0894-8 | $79.95s | £52.00 | | A volume in the View
10/03/2014