4MZ-Vortragsreihe 2025: Prof. Dr. Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Radboud University of Nijmegen): "Writing Travel: Ottoman Christian Mobility and the Production of Texts"
08.07.2025 um 18:15 Uhr
Bild: Alexander the Great and the Flying Machine from the Alexander Legend. Gotha FB. Ms. orient, T 186, BI. 252a.
Datum: 08.07.2025
Zeit: Di. 18:15
Ort: Hörsaal M010 LMU-Hauptgebäude, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
From the perspective of some of the key findings of our project Rewriting Global Orthodoxy, Oriental Christians in Europe (1970-2020) I will revisit some of my earlier work on Syriac Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Insights in how, in the contemporary period, travel and transnational connectivity, within confessional Christian communities and among them, had a major impact in how these communities put reading and writing, learning and teaching to work as a major tool for the stability and flourishing of their communities, in new diasporic communities as much as in homelands in turmoil. Rather than taking the writing of books and manuscripts for granted as a standard element of the cultural production of these Christian communities, I propose to see this literary production and the accompanying learning strategies as the kernel of how these communities renew themselves over time, in different locations and contexts. A new look at the Syriac communities of the Ottoman period will situate these contemporary trends in a historic context, and will put new light on the developments of that period, in which similar processes of mobility and inter-confessional exchange stimulated literary and communal renewal in which the production of texts played a crucial role.
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Gesellschaft der Freunde Islamischer Kunst und Kultur e.V.
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