Arguing about the Munāẓara On 10–12 June, the workshop „Munāẓara – Seeing Eye to Eye? Theological and Literary Arguing Practices in Comparison“ took place at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Münster, discussing ...

*Newly Published* Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire The newest TRANSOTTOMANICA publication has been released! The collective volume featuring contributions by Philip Bockholt and Tobias Sick from TRANSLAPT, ...

TRANSLAPT presenting in Strasbourg Last week, four members of the TRANSLAPT team presented their research within the panel 'Transferts de savoirs et processus de traduction entre l'arabe, le persan et le turc en Méditerranée orientale et au Moyen-Orient (XIIIe-XIXe siècles)' ...

Discussing the TRANSLAPT Book Series On 3 July, Torsten Wollina, Acquisitions Editor of the academic publisher De Gruyter Brill, visited the TRANSLAPT team to present on the publishing programme and discuss the upcoming TRANSLAPT book series. The team used this opportunity to...

Annual Emmy Noether Meeting in Potsdam 2025 The annual Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leaders meeting took place in Potsdam from July 10 to 12. Philip Bockholt attended the event, which included ...

End of summer term 2025 On 22 July, the TRANSLAPT team, alongside the institute's secretary Vildan Yaşar and student assistants Aischa Mahmoud and Amina Catic, celebrated the end of the summer term of 2025 in Münster at ...

Workshop at USP in São Paulo From 16 to 18 September, Philip Bockholt will participate in the workshop “New Approaches to the History of the Middle East in Germany and Brazil,” where ...

New Approaches to the History of the Middle East in Germany and Brazil The three-day workshop held at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) featured more than twenty papers presented by Master’s and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors. It was ...

Workshop at UFF in Rio de Janeiro On 23-24 September, Philip Bockholt and Hülya Çelik will take part in the workshop “New Approaches to the Middle East in Germany and Brazil,” where they will each deliver lectures on multilingual textual traditions in ...

Exploring New Avenues of Collaboration in Brazil During the workshop at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, held on 23-24 September, Philip Bockholt and Hülya Çelik, together with ...

TRANSLAPT Panel at the Turkologentag On 19 September, the TRANSLAPT team featured with their own panel at the Turkologentag 2025 at Mainz University. Under the title ...

Discussions on Archival Practices and Multilingualism in Rosario On 2–3 October, Philip Bockholt and Hülya Çelik held discussions on archival practices and multilingualism with Silvia Montenegro and her team at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). In addition ...

Workshop on Islamic Calligraphy in Berlin From 22–26 September, Muhammed Sofu participated in the international workshop Scriptorium 2025 – Paleographical Aspects of Islamic Manuscripts: Script and Calligraphy Styles and Usage organised by ...

New book publication on Ottoman Poets and Poetics In September 2025, TRANSLAPT member Kristof D’hulster’s new book was published with Edinburgh University Press, titled Ottoman Poets and Poetics in the Sixteenth Century. Dealing with ...

New Research Endeavours in Japan On 30 September, Sacha Alsancakli officially left the TRANSLAPT research group to begin a fellowship at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, working on ...

Endowment Notes Workshop in Istanbul From 24 October to 28 March 2026, an “Endowment Notes Workshop” will take place at the Ayasofya Yerleşkesi of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi, which is a 17-week lecture series organised in collaboration ...

Workshop on Translation Choices in Hamburg On 24-25 October, Philip Bockholt took part in the workshop 'Translation Choices in Multilingual Written Artefacts: Navigating Visual and Cultural Layers', held at the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts' at ...

Blog Entry on Armeno-Turkish Translation Recently, Tobias Sick published a blog entry with the Armeno-Turkish Literary Archives & Studies (ATLAS) blog, which is a scholarly platform for discussions of Armeno-Turkish manuscript and print culture. The blog entry deals ...

"Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures“ edited by Stefanie Brinkmann For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts, paraphrasing, explaining, criticising, and ...

Conference "Imagining Nordic Paganism" On 6–7 November, Philip Bockholt will participate in the conference "Imagining Nordic Paganism: Cultural Memories and Scholarly Thought since the Middle Ages," organised by ...