Dear Vienna: If you want to come see what the EurAsia cluster of excellence is all about, check out our poster session today. I'll be there with Portraits of Empires to talk about the watermarks on sixteenth century marbled papers :)

Perfect timing as I wrap up some loose ends on a short article about vineyards in the Habsburg/Ottoman borderlands in Hungary. Prost! Şerefe!

May be going a bit overboard with three cakes for the Habsburg Material Culture class today on Habsburg foodways 😍🍰

Next week! Really looking forward to sharing the book with NYC

Off to Chicago for #RENSA24! If you have time Friday afternoon, come to our round table on the Place of Central and Eastern Europe in Early Modern Studies!

Today in NYC :) excited to share this with old and new friends. Marbled papers, costume books, and alba amicorum in a transimperial context. Rethink the geography of the renaissance!

Looking forward to this session on career diversity in Islamic Art with @Yael_Rice - April 17 via Zoom!

We are looking for two postdocs in EurAsian history (with a focus on the areas from Central Europe to South Asia) between c. 800 and c. 1850, based on expertise in one or more languages used locally or regionally. Deadline May 15th! ceu.edu/job/post-docto…

Excited to spend a day thinking about Ottoman #networks! April 26th, CEU

Ben de görsel ve sosyal netvörkler hakkında konuşuyorum elçi hanının albumlarında.

Şehir Tarihi Konuşmaları’nın üçüncüsünde konuğumuz Central European University’dan Doç. Dr. Robyn Dora Radway (Robyn Dora Radway). Dr. Ayşegül Çimen moderatörlüğünde yapılacak etkinliğimiz çevrimiçi ve İngilizce olacak. Okuma Önerisi: bit.ly/4bfilBd Detaylar⬇️

This Wednesday I will be giving an online talk about the urban context of #PortraitsofEmpires. How did different types of album owners experience, engage with, and imagine Constantinople? City views, monuments, and drinking parties on the Bosphorus are all on the menu :)

The seventeenth-century German orientalist Hiob Ludolf’s working copy of the Qur’an, which had been looted in 1664 from Pécs, in Ottoman Hungary, during the winter campaign of Miklós Zrínyi. GSA-Weimar, ms Q 660. haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/image/4…

Two tenure track job openings at the University of Bologna, one in Slavistic Studies, other in History of the Muslim World, deadline end of May, info here: bandi.unibo.it/s/apos5/rif-26… bandi.unibo.it/s/apos5/rif-25…

Our Latvian data now includes the addition of 172 new records and 800 new copies. You can check them out here: shorturl.at/ulrzR #USTCUpdates

How common is it for the name in the pençe to not match the name of the letter writer? Ahmed bey of Szécsény here with an (amateurish) Mustafa pençe. Or is there an "Ahmed bin" hiding in there?

Newly arrived: the first English translation Gorgias Press of the landmark trilingual study of Ottoman architecture (Turkish, French, German) commissioned for the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair, with reproductions of the original edition’s stunning lithographed plates.

My paper on "East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900" is out now in Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46-1: doi.org/10.4000/11y0s With many thanks to MartinH, Robyn Dora Radway & peilles, each for introducing me to a fascinating source! 🙏 1/

The Austrian Academy of Sciences Cluster of Excellence #EurAsian Transformation invites you to the workshop MEDIEVAL ORIGIN MYTHS IN EURASIAN COMPARISON: RELIGION & IDENTITY Vienna, 19-20 Sept. 2024 organized by IMAFO #IKGA FWF Central European University Universität Wien @[email protected] oeaw.ac.at/eurasian-trans…

My book is out and published! I got my hands on it a few weeks ago, and if you want to order it you can use the code SHAFIR20 to get a 20% discount if you buy it directly from the press. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! Only took 7 years :D sup.org/books/title/?i…