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Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:15 AM<br>Subject: Call for Applications: Ottoman Studies Budapest<br>To: <a href="mailto:H-MEDITERRANEAN@h-net.msu.edu">H-MEDITERRANEAN@h-net.msu.edu</a><br><br><br>From: Tijana Krstic <<a href="mailto:tijana.krstic@gmail.com">tijana.krstic@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Call for Applications: Ottoman Studies Budapest<br>Date: January 6, 2010<br><br>CALL FOR APPLICATIONS<br><br>GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY AND GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES<br>AT CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY<br>
<br>The Departments of History and Medieval Studies at Central European<br>University (Budapest, Hungary) are proud to announce the introduction<br>of courses in Ottoman and Turkish history, culture, and languages to<br>their respective teaching and research offers.<br>
<br>Administered through the Departments of Medieval Studies and History,<br>the curriculum in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at CEU draws on a wide<br>range of graduate courses in early Islamic, Byzantine, Renaissance<br>European, Habsburg, Russian, modern Balkan and Middle Eastern history<br>
which highlight the Departments' particular strength in comparative<br>history of empires from medieval to modern eras (see below for the<br>list of sample courses and affiliated faculty). Taught by an<br>international faculty with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and<br>
regional specializations, courses at CEU approach Ottoman history from<br>an angle that neither privileges the perspective of the imperial<br>center nor views the Ottoman past through the lenses of its numerous<br>successor nation-states. Rather, the students are encouraged to think<br>
about the role of the empire's many regions in the overall imperial<br>system as well as these regions' contribution to the articulation of<br>the Ottoman ideology and culture over time. Moreover, the courses at<br>
CEU situate the study of the Ottoman Empire into the lager framework<br>of medieval, early modern and modern history by exploring the Empire's<br>relationships to its predecessors (Byzantium, medieval Islamic<br>states), contemporaries (especially Venice, the Habsburg and Russian<br>
Empires), and successors (in the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East).<br><br>The curriculum in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at CEU combines<br>empirical research and reflection on cutting-edge methodological and<br>theoretical developments in social sciences and humanities with<br>
intensive language study. In academic year 2010/11 the University<br>plans to debut its Source Language Center which will offer intensive<br>courses in modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, modern and<br>classical Greek, Latin, and Russian, while Old Church Slavonic,<br>
Bulgarian, BCS (Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian), Armenian and Hebrew<br>might be offered according to the students' needs. Graduate students<br>interested in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at CEU would thus have an<br>opportunity to learn not only the languages of the Ottoman<br>
administrative and literary sources but of the Empire's diverse<br>peoples as well.<br><br>In addition to offering an exciting combination of courses in Ottoman<br>history and languages, CEU is also ideally placed for research in some<br>
of the premier archives and libraries in close proximity to the<br>university (in Budapest, Vienna, Sofia, Sarajevo, etc.). Moreover,<br>Hungary boasts of a long tradition in Ottoman and Oriental studies<br>currently represented by a dynamic community of scholars and<br>
researchers at the Eötvös Loránd University, University of Szeged, the<br>Historical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and other<br>local institutions.<br><br>Central European University is a graduate institution, accredited in<br>
both the USA and Europe, with faculty and students coming from over<br>100 countries (<a href="http://www.ceu.hu/about/whyceu" target="_blank">www.ceu.hu/about/whyceu</a>). There is no predominant<br>national majority. CEU is committed to promoting merit, not<br>
privilege, and its unparalleled financial aid program has therefore<br>always been extensive and generous - enabling equal opportunity for<br>admission, regardless of income. With a 6:1 student/professor ratio<br>and an extremely international group of students and faculty CEU<br>
provides an excellent forum for intense dialogue and exchange across<br>cultural, linguistic, geographic and disciplinary boundaries. The<br>language of instruction is English!<br><br>Application Information:<br><br>Students interested in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at CEU have a<br>
choice of applying to a One Year MA, Two Year MA or PhD. For research<br>topics that focus on the period up to the end of the 17th century<br>students are encouraged to apply to the Medieval Studies Department<br>(<a href="http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu/" target="_blank">medievalstudies.ceu.hu</a>), which will also offer an additional<br>
Specialization in Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies.<br>Those interested in later topics should apply to the History<br>Department (<a href="http://www.ceu.hu/history" target="_blank">www.ceu.hu/history</a>).<br>
<br>Applications are accepted through an on-line system at<br><a href="http://www.ceu.hu/admissions/apply" target="_blank">http://www.ceu.hu/admissions/apply</a><br>beginning on November 10, 2009 (all<br>details on what an application package should include are described<br>
here). Candidates applying by January 25, 2010 are eligible to take<br>the CEU-administered institutional Test of English as a Foreign<br>Language (TOEFL). Candidates who can provide evidence of proficiency<br>in English or organize their own TOEFL examination may apply by March<br>
15, 2010.<br><br>Full fellowships and stipends are available!<br><br>For more information, please visit our website at<br><a href="http://www.ceu.hu/ots" target="_blank">http://www.ceu.hu/ots</a> or contact Tijana Krstic (<a href="mailto:krstict@ceu.hu">krstict@ceu.hu</a>) or<br>
Tolga Esmer (<a href="mailto:tuesmer@ceu.hu">tuesmer@ceu.hu</a>)<br><br>Sample courses:<br><br>*Sources for Ottoman History (I-II)<br><br>*The Ottomans and the Challenges of Building a Multi-Confessional Empire<br><br>*Social Discontent and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire<br>
<br>*Islamic Borderlands<br><br>*Constantinople/Istanbul<br><br>*Islam in the Balkans<br><br>*The Late Ottoman Empire and Balkan Nationalism: The View from Istanbul<br><br>*Topics in modern Balkan History<br><br>*Ottoman Istanbul and Arab Provincial Capitals<br>
<br>*Secularism and Islam-Comparative Perspectives and Case Studies<br><br>*Imperial Order and Nationalism in Contiguous Empires<br><br>*The Ottomans and Europeans in the Early Modern Era<br><br>*Religious Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean<br>
<br>*From Empire to Republic<br><br>Associated CEU Faculty:<br><br>Aziz al-Azmeh (Medieval Studies)-Islam, historical anthropology<br><br>Nadia al-Bagdadi (History, Director of the Religious Studies<br>Program)-Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, History and Culture<br>
of the Late Ottoman Empire, Comparative Religion<br><br>Tolga Esmer (History)-social and cultural history of the Ottoman<br>Empire (18th-19th centuries); rebellion and social discontent in the<br>Ottoman Empire; Islamic frontiers and borderlands; modern Middle<br>
Eastern and Balkan history; modern Turkey<br><br>Niels Gaul (Medieval Studies, Director of the Center for Hellenic<br>Studies)-Late Byzantine history, Greek paleography and Byzantine<br>manuscript studies<br><br>Andras Gero (History, Director of the Institute of Habsburg<br>
Studies)-history of the Habsburg Empire<br><br>Constantin Iordachi (History, Head of the Department of<br>History)-modern history of Southeast Europe; transition from the<br>Ottoman Empire to nation states in the Balkans<br>
<br>Tijana Krstic (Medieval Studies)-social and cultural history of the<br>Ottoman Empire, 14th-17th centuries (especially Ottoman<br>historiography; Ottoman Islam; inter-confessional relations); early<br>modern imperial encounters in Central Europe and the Mediterranean<br>
<br>Michael Miller (Nationalism Studies Program; Jewish Studies<br>Program)-Jewish and Central European History; impact of nationality<br>conflicts on the religious, cultural and political development of<br>Central European Jewry in the nineteenth century<br>
<br>Istvan Perczel (Medieval Studies)-Byzantine history and philosophy<br><br>Carsten Wilke (History, Medieval Studies, Jewish Studies<br>Program)-intellectual and cultural history of European Jewry; medieval<br>Jewish mysticism, Jewish-Christian relations, Iberian crypto-Judaism,<br>
19th century religious modernization.<br><br>Balazs Trencsenyi (History)-intellectual history, nationalism, East<br>Central Europe, history of political thought<br><br>Selim Deringil (recurrent visiting professor, Nationalism<br>
Studies)--cultural and intellectual history of the late Ottoman<br>Empire; religious conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire;<br>comparative themes in Ottoman/European history.<br><br>Roumen Daskalov (recurrent visiting professor, History)--Modernization<br>
of the Balkans, Cultural and Social History of Modern Eastern Europe,<br>Anthropological Theories of Culture<br></div><br>