Programme

Day 1, 4 June 2026

10:00–11:00 Welcome and Introduction

Tijana Krstić (CEU representative on the Board of Directors of the Cluster of Excellence "Eurasian Transformations" (EurAsia), Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna), Hülya Çelik (Ruhr University Bochum)

11:00–12:15 Panel 1: Mecmuas as Archives and Curated Collections

Chair: Mariya Kiprovska (University of Vienna)

Ercan Akyol (University of Vienna)
The Concept of Mecmūʿa-i Yapışdırma and Its Curation as an Archival Source
İsmail Emre Pamuk (Istanbul University)
Mecmua-Keeping as an Archival Practice: Provincial Chanceries and Mecmuas (15th–17th Centuries)
Nimet İpek (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Collecting Seals, Collecting Selves: Curiosity and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Ottoman Mecmuas and Manuscripts

12:15–14:00 Lunch Break

14:00–15:15 Panel 2: Mecmuas in Relation to Other Manuscripts

Chair: Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University)

Arif Erbil (Brown University, Providence)
Mapping the Ottoman Mecmua: A Network Analysis of Miscellanies and Their Textual Ecosystems
Mehmet Kalaycı (Ankara University)
Metin, Mecmua ve Koleksiyon İlişkisi Üzerinden Müellifin İzini Sürmek: Anonim Bir Menāzilu’l-Ḥacc Metninin Şeyhülislam 'Āşir Efendi’ye (ö. 1219/1804) Aidiyeti (Tracing the Author through the Interconnection between Text, Majmūʿa and Collection: The Attribution of an Anonymous Manāzil al-Ḥajj Text to Shaykh al-Islām ʿĀşir Efendi (d. 1219/1804)
Nurdan Şahin (Istanbul University)
Takriz mi, Hatıra mı, İmza mı? İsmail Hakki Bursevi’nin (ö.1725) Mecmualara Yazdığı Manzumeler Üzerinden Bir İnceleme (Takriz, Memoir, or Signature? An Examination of Poems written by İsmail Hakkı Bursevi (d. 1725) in Mecmuas)

15:15–15:35 Coffee Break

15:35–16:25 Panel 3: Mecmuas as Notebooks and Individual Compilations

Chair: Tijana Krstić (Central European University)

Hülya Çelik (Ruhr University Bochum) & Gisela Procházka-Eisl (University of Vienna)
Writing and Compiling for Practical Use: A Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Turkish–Arabic Multiple-Text Manuscript
John Curry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Tracking the Lives of Sufi Leaders Through Their Mecmua Collections

18:00 Reception

Day 2, 5 June 2026

10:00–10:50 Panel 4: From Single Texts to Text Collections and Works

Chair: Bruno de Nicola (Institute of Iranian Studies, ÖAW)

Sadık Yazar (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
Osmanlı’da Çok Metinli Mecmuaların Yapısı/Tertibi ve İçeriklerine Dair Giriş Niteliğinde Bir İnceleme (An Introductory Study on the Structure/Arrangement and Contents of Ottoman Multi-Text Mecmuas)
Kadir Turgut (Istanbul University)
Constructing the Külliyāt: Structure and Knowledge Order in Mecmuas

10:50–11:10 Coffee Break

11:10–12:25 Panel 5: Didactical Text Collections in Continuous Use

Chair: Marijana Mišević (Central European University)

İclal Ekinci (The Turkish Directorate of Manuscript Institutes, Ankara branch)
Didaktik Derlemeler Olarak Mecmualar: 19. Yüzyılda Dolaşımda Olan 22 Risalelik Mantık Mecmuası Üzerinden Tipolojik Bir Değerlendirme (Mecmuas as Didactic Compilations: A Typological Evaluation through a Mecmua on Logic with 22 Treatises Circulating in the 19th Century)
Mykhaylo Yakubovych (University of Freiburg)
Transmitting or Interpreting? Didactical Features of the Risale Collections in Khalwati Sufi Networks
Eren Pilgir (Marmara University, Istanbul)
Osmanlı’da Kıraat İlmi Mecmuaları: Tophâneli Duhânîzâde Mehmed b. Mustafa’nın (ö. 1296/1879) Kıraat İlmi Mecmuaları Örneği (Ottoman Mecmuas on the Science of Recitation: The Example of Tophâneli Duhânîzâde Mehmed b. Mustafa (d. 1296/1879))

12:25–13:30 Lunch Break

14:00–15:30 Visit to the Manuscript Collection, Austrian National Library

15:30–16:20 Panel 6: From Manuscript Mecmuas to Printed Books

Chair: Gülfem Alıcı (University of Hamburg)

Ali Benli (Marmara University, Istanbul)
Yazma Kültüründen Basılı Kültüre Mecmualaşan Kitaplar: Osmanlıların Arapça Öğretiminde Kullandığı Mecmuaların Tarihi Serüveni (Mecmuas Transformed to Books from Manuscript Culture to Print Culture: The Historical Journey of Mecmuas Used in the Teaching of Arabic by the Ottomans)
Mahmut Taşçı (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University)
Between Current Issues and Intellectual Activity: The Mecmûa-yı Resâili İbn Âbidîn within the Ottoman Mecmua Tradition

16:20–16:40 Coffee Break

16:40–17:30 Panel 7: Mecmuas as Corpus-Organizers

Chair: Janina Karolewski (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig)

Furkan Yalçınkaya (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Compendiums as a Legal Genre in the Ottoman Empire: An Examination of Three Copies of a Kânun Mecmûası from the 17th-Century
Sacha Alsancakli (Kyoto University)
Anatolian Majmū’as as Storytellers’ Booklets: Materiality and Performance in the Destān-ı Muḥammed Ḥanīfe Manuscripts

18:30 Dinner

Day 3, 6 June 2026

10:00–11:15 Panel 8: Studying Mecmua-Compilers: Potentials and Limits

Chair: Grigor Boykov (University of Vienna)

Evangelia Chaldæaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Nazlı Vatansever (University of Münster)
Between Scripts and Sounds: Comparative Perspectives on Turkish Song-Text Collections in Arabic and Greek Alphabets in the 19th Century
Tatjana Paić-Vukić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
Researching Ottoman Personal Notebooks: From Neglect to (Perhaps Excessively) Optimistic Expectations

11:15–11:35 Coffee Break

11:35–12:25 Panel 9: Mecmuas as Notebooks and Individual Compilations

Chair: Florian Schwarz (Institute of Iranian Studies, ÖAW)

Cüneyt Ersin Mıhcı (Orient Institute Istanbul)
Manuscript as Archive: Unlocking Ottoman Music History Through a Mixed Collection in Post-Byzantine Notation
Ahmet Muaz Kömür (Istanbul University)
Hidden in the Margins: Notes left by Ottoman Jurists in Sakk Manuscripts

12:25–14:00 Lunch Break

14:00–14:50 Panel 10: Aesthetic Aspects of Text Collections

Chair: Katharina Ivanyi (University of Vienna)

Elif Sezer-Aydınlı (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Ottoman Mecmua-Writing in 18th Century: A Case Study on İsmail Hakkı Bursevî’s Autograph Mecmuas
Hüseyin Örs (Istanbul University and The Turkish Directorate of Manuscript Institutes, Istanbul)
Görsel Metin, Metinsel Görüntü: Mecma‘ü’l-Letâif ve Sundûkü’l-Me‘ârif Adlı Mecmuada Mikrografi (Visual Text, Textual Image: Micrography in the Compilation Mecma‘ü’l-Letâif ve Sundûkü’l-Me‘ârif)

14:50–15:10 Coffee Break

15:10–16:10 Wrap-up & Concluding Remarks by Organisers