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Autorinnen und Autoren
BIOGRAPHIES
Filiz Ali, founder and director of the Ayvalık International Music Academy, was born in Istanbul. She studied piano at the State Conservatory of Ankara. Receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study in the USA, she attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and the Mannes College of Music in New York. She also holds the Advanced Musical Studies degree from London University, King's College, Department of Musicology. She worked as piano teacher and accompanist at the Ankara State Conservatory (1962-65), korrepetitor (singing coach) at the City Opera and State Opera of Istanbul (1965-72), and piano teacher and korrepetitor at Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory (1972-85). In 1987, after receiving her degree on musicology, she became Professor of Musicology at the Musicology Department of Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory. She was the Head of Musicology Department of Mimar Sinan University from 1990 to 2005. Since 2006 she has been giving a course on the Master Works of Western Classical Music at Sabanci University. Prof. Filiz Ali was the music program producer for the Turkish Radio Television Corporation from 1962 to 1985 and for BBC Turkish section in London from 1985 to 1986. She has been the regular music criticcof major daily newspapers such as Cumhuriyet, Hurriyet, Yeni Yuzyıl, Radikal and Milliyet and monthly magazines such as Esquire, Marie-Claire, Vizyon, YK Kitaplık, and Müzikoloji Dergisi (‘Musicology Journal’). She was the Artistic Director of the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul from 1989 to 1993 and is still the Musical Advisor of the International Eskisehir Festival. She is one of the founders of the Balkan Music Forum and was Turkey's representative at UNESCO's 30th General Assembly of the International Music Council at Montevideo, Uruguay, in October 2003. She is the Turkish delegate of the European Music Council. Prof. Ali has eight published books to date. In 1995 she has received the title of Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Ministry of Culture and Francophony of the Republic of France.
Symposium 2010
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Composer, conductor and music historian whose research interests cover the Euro-Ottoman musical exchange and the history of European musical tradition in modern day Turkey. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh and for some time Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Aracı is the author of two biographies of Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1999), Turkey's most prominent twentieth-century composer of contemporary music, and of Donizetti Pasha (2006), brother of the celebrated opera composer and master of music to Sultan Mahmud II and Sultan Abdulmecid. Emre Aracı also recorded several albums representing the music of this era: European Music at the Ottoman Court, War and Peace: Crimea 1853-56, Bosphorus by Moonlight and Istanbul to London, the first two of which were later released internationally by Warner Classics under the title Invitation to the Seraglio, and the last two most recently by Brilliant Classics titled Euro Ottomania. Based in the United Kingdom, he regularly lectures, performs and broadcasts under the patronage of the Çarmıklı family and Nurol Holding Inc.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Konzert: Sultans at the Opera
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Tülay Artan
B. Arch. 1980, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara; M. Arch. 1982 METU; PhD 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has been teaching at Sabanci University Istanbul since 1999; previous teaching position at İstanbul University.
Areas of Interest: historiography; prosopographic studies of the Ottoman elite; applications of Ottoman law and its impact on social/family life; Ottoman elite households, consumption history and standards of living; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman and Middle Eastern history in comparative perspective; sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century art, architecture, and material culture.
Recent Publications: 'Arts and Architecture,' in The Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume III: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2006, 85-109; 'Questions of Ottoman Identity and Architectural History,' in Rethinking Architectural Historiography, eds. Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Ozkaya, London, 2006, p. 408-480.
Symposium 2009, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Gönül Bakay
Gönül Bakay is an assistant professor in Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul, Turkey, and holds a Ph.D. in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel from İstanbul University (1992). Her teaching expertise covers Women’s Studies and English Literature from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published two books in Turkish: Virginia Woolf ve İletişim (Virginia Woolf and Communication) and Günümüz Türk Kadını Başarı Öyküleri (Success Stories from Contemporary Women). She is planning to publish her third book, Women and Space, this fall. Bakay has published numerious articles both in Turkey and abroad, including “Female İmage in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters: Fact or Fiction?”, “Orwell’s 1984”, “Women in a Virtual Prison: The Castle of Otranto”, “Similitude or Difference? Turkish versus American İdentities”, and “Why The Atraction? The Deidre Legend Revisited in the Plays of Synge, Yeats and Lady Gregory”, to name a few. Bakay has contributed two chapters to two books, one on Wollstonecraft, the other on the enlightened women of the Republic published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. Her most recent publications are one article in the interdisciplinary journal Dialog, and two articles in Shakespeare Scene. Dr. Bakay is a member of the Women’s Studies Center of İstanbul University, M.S.E.A. (Multi Ethnic Studies Europe and America), Eighteenth-Century Studies, and K.A.D. (cultural studies club).
Symposium 2010
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Gerda Baumbach
In Thal, einem kleinen Ort im Thüringer Wald, ehemals DDR, 1950 geboren. Professorin für Theaterwissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig seit 1994. Promotion mit einer Arbeit über theatrale Qualitäten von Texten Heiner Müllers (Dramatische Poesie für Theater. Heiner Müllers BAU als Theatertext. Leipzig: Diss., 1978). 1993 Habilitation an der Universität Wien. Zwischen 1992 und 2003 regelmäßig Lehraufträge an der Universität Wien, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft. Geschäftsführende Direktorin des Instituts für Theaterwissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Theatergeschichtsforschung und Theatertheorie mit Akzent auf europäischen Theatertraditionen vom 11. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert; historische Theateranthropologie in europäischer und außereuropäischer Perspektive mit dem 20. Jahrhundert als Ausgangspunkt. Publikationen: Unter anderem Aufsätze zu Maske und Schauspielkunst: Seiltänzer und Betrüger? Parodie und kein Ende. Ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Theorie von Theater. Tübingen-Basel: Francke, 1995 (zugl. Habilitation, Universität Wien, 1993); (Hg.): Theaterkunst & Heilkunst. Studien zu Theater und Anthropologie. Köln-Weimar-Wien: Böhlau, 2002. Herausgeberin der Schriftenreihe Leipziger Beiträge zur Theatergeschichtsforschung.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Alev Karaduman Baysal
Dr. Baysal graduated from Hacettepe University (Turkey), Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature in 1990. In the same department, she received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in the fields of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novels. For her Ph.D.dissertation, she conducted research as a guest lecturer at Syracuse University (USA) in 2000 and at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) in 2001, spending three months at each institution. For her postdoctoral studies on Post-Colonial British Literature, she was at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena for three months in 2004 and instructed at the Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany) as a visiting lecturer in the Erasmus Programme for two weeks in 2006. Dr. Baysal still teaches at Hacettepe as an assistant professor. Her research interests are British cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial British literature, the British novel and non-fiction.
Symposium 2010
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Thomas Betzwieser
born in 1958 near Mannheim; studied musicology, German languages and philosophy at University of Heidelberg; 1989 Ph.D. in Musicology; 1990-1995 Assistant Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Musicology; 1995 DAAD-Fellowship at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; 1996-1998 DFG Research Scholarship; 2000 Habilitation; 1999-2001 Lecturer in Music at University of Southampton; since 2001 professor of musicology at University of Bayreuth. Research fields: French opera 18th and 19th centuries, German singspiel, "Mannheimer Schule", transformation of operatic genres, music and danse. Books: Exotismus und "Türkenoper" in der französischen Musik des Ancien Régime (Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 21), Laaber 1993; Sprechen und Singen: Ästhetik und Erscheinungsformen der Dialogoper, Stuttgart/ Weimar 2002.
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Ulf Birbaumer
Born 1939 in Waidhofen, Lower Austria. Senior professor of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. 1969 Dissertation on Viennese Popular Theatre in 18th century (Das Werk des Josef Felix von Kurz-Bernardon und seine szenische Realisierung. Versuch einer Genealogie und Dramaturgie der Bernardoniade, Wien 1971). 1983 habilitation on Theorie und Praxis alternativer theatralischer Kommunikation in Europa nach 1965 (Fo, Boal, Gatti). Since 1965 theatre critic in Austrian, German and French newspapers and Revues, 1983-1985 President of the AICT (Association Internationale des critiques de théâtre). Between 1979 and 1995 co-founder and co-director of Fo-Theater in den Arbeiterbezirken Wien (Gemeindehoftheater) (Fo-Theater in the Viennese Workers' Districts). 1986 and 1992 guest professor in Paris III and in Florence. 1995 Founding of the International Theatre Research Group "Spectacle Vivant et Science de l'Homme" in the Parisian MSH (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme). Vice President of INST (Institut zur Erforschung internationaler Kulturprozesse), Vienna. Since 1996 Chairman of Jura Soyfer Society.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Forschungsgespräch: Editionen dramatischer Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts, Tagung: Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz, Kooperationsprojekt: Don Juans Frauen übersetzen sich in Szene, Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Annemarie Bönsch
Born in 1939 in Vienna; studied theatre research, German philology and art history at the University of Vienna, followed by a master class study of stage and film design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts (then the Academy of Applied Arts). Since 1962 Annemarie Bönsch has taught at the University of Applied Arts, and since 1974 she has been a professor at the Institute of Costume Research. Since 1965 she has also taught at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. She is the author of many academic publications, as well as the scientific author of filmed documentaries, and a frequent lecturer on the history of costume. Having contributed to many exhibitions, since 2005 she has been the editor of the costume section of the Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen und Kostümkunde.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Forschungsgespräch: Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Born 1956 in Vienna. Studied History and English literature at the University of Vienna where he completed a doctorate in history. He has written widely on the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe, especially its nationality and minority conflicts, as well as on the problems and perspectives of Austrian and European identity. Together with the former Austrian deputy prime minister Erhard Busek, he wrote Projekt Mitteleuropa (1986). He worked for the Austrian Parliament and was Head of the Cabinet of the Austrian Minister of Science and Research (1986-1989). He served from 1990 to summer 1995 in the Austrian Foreign Service as the first Austrian Consul General in Cracow, Poland. From 1995 to 1999 he was Director of the Austrian Cultural Institute in London. At present he is Director General for Cultural Politics in the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs. He is also Deputy Chairman of the 'Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe' in Vienna and Secretary General of the 'Austrian Research Association'.
Publications include a book on liberalism (Liberalismus, Interpretationen und Perspektiven, co-edited with Wolfgang Mantl (Vienna-Cologne-Graz: Böhlau, 1998), a book about collective memory in Central Europe: Der Kampf um das Gedächtnis. Öffentliche Gedenktage in Mitteleuropa, co-edited with Hannes Stekl. (Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau, 1997) and the books Civil Society in Österreich (Vienna: Passagen, 1998), Organisierte Privatinteressen. Vereine in Österreich (Vienna: Passagen, 2000), Das Rechtssystem zwischen Staat und Zivilgesellschaft (Vienna: Passagen, 2001), Universitäten in der Zivilgesellschaft (Vienna: Passagen, 2001), Zivilgesellschaft zwischen Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus, co-edited with Peter Kampits. (Vienna: Passagen, 2003 and The Decline of Empires, co-edited with Klaus Koch and Elisabeth Vyslonzil. (Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik / Munich: Oldenbourg, 2001).
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Graduated from the University of Economics in Vienna and joined the Austrian Foreign Ministry in 1993. A year later, he was Attaché at the Austrian Embassy in Bratislava. From 1995 to 1999 he worked at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the European Union (EU) in Brussels. During the first Austrian Presidency of the EU-Council in 1998, he chaired the Council Working Groups on Southeast Europe (incl. Turkey), Maghreb/Mashrik and Middle East/Gulf. From 1999 to 2003 he worked as a Principle Administrator in the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in Brussels and was dealing with relations between the EU and Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus as well as Central Asia. Subsequently, he worked for four years as Head of Unit in the Directorate of personnel of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and was notably in charge of the Austrian Honorary Consulates abroad. Since September 2007, Christian Brunmayr is the Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Istanbul.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Reinhard Buchberger
Born in 1972 in Linz, he studied history and Czech language and literature at Vienna and Brno Universities. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a researcher on the history of Jews in Early Modern Hungary at the Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich. Since 2004 he has worked in the department of printed books of the Vienna City Library (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus). He has authored several publications on Early Modern history, the history of the Jews, and book and library history including, Reinhard Buchberger, Gerhard Renner, Isabella Wasner-Peter (eds.). Portheim - sammeln & verzetteln. Die Bibliothek und der Zettelkatalog des Sammlers Max von Portheim in der Wienbibliothek, Wien: Sonderzahl, 2007.
Symposium 2009, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Bertrand Michael Buchmann
Born in 1949 in Vienna, he studied history and geography in Vienna, and since 1976 he has been teaching at the Gymnasium Wien 16. Attained the habilitation on the subject, 'Neuere Geschichte Österreichs' from the University of Vienna in 1987, and since then has worked as lecturer and researcher in the Department of History. In 1994 he was awarded the first prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His numerous publications on Austrian and European History, include Türkenlieder zu den Türkenkriegen und besonders zur zweiten Wiener Türkenbelagerung (Vienna: Böhlau, 1983); Österreich und das Osmanische Reich. Eine bilaterale Geschichte (Vienna: Facultas, 1999); and Kaisertum und Doppelmonarchie. Geschichte Österreichs 5 (Vienna: Pichler, 2003).
Symposium 2009, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Born in 1967 in Taranto, Italy. Studied piano in Taranto and Bari, and musicology at the Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale in Cremona/Pavia (Tesi di Laurea in 1993). Also studied musicology at the University of Regensburg 1990-91. In 1991-1993 he conducted research projects in Paris (he was a collaborator of RISM at the Bibliothèque Nationale), and from 1993 to 1997 he studied musicology, medieval Latin and romance studies at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, writing a dissertation about the ensemble in the Tragédie lyrique of the late Ancien Régime. From 1997 to 2001 he was Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Philipps-University Marburg, and from 2001 to 2005 he was Assistent and Oberassistent at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of the University of Zürich. In 2003 he did an Habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zürich about musical authorship from the middle ages to the modern period. In 2004 he won the Hermann Abert Award of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, and since 2005 he has been a professor of musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Recent publications include: Das Ensemble in der Tragédie lyrique des späten Ancien Régime, Eisenach 2000 (Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft aus Münster 14); Musikalische Autorschaft: Der Komponist zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, Habilitationsschrift Universität Zürich 2003; Joseph Joachim: Komponist, Virtuose, europäischer Bürger, edited with Christian Glanz, Kongressbericht Kittsee Juli 2007, Anklänge 3 (2008); Komponieren in Lehre und Praxis, edited with Lothar Schmidt (Handbuch der Musik der Renaissance Bd.2), Laaber 2009; Händels Kirchenmusik und vokale Kammermusik, edited with H.-J. Marx (Händel-Handbuch 4), 2009.
Symposium 2009
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Professor of theatre history at the Yeditepe University in Istanbul, she was born in Istanbul, and studied theatre at the University of Vienna and Suny Binghamton, USA. Worked as dramaturge of the Municipal Theatre in Istanbul, 1974-78. Wrote Yirminci Yüzyılda Öncü Tiyatro (Avant Garde Theatre of the Twentieth Century), 3rd edition, Bilgi University Press, 2003. Translated into Turkish The Secret Art of the Performer by Nicola Savarese and Eugenio Barba, and plays such as Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald by Horvath. Wrote many articles on drama for daily papers such as Cumhuriyet, Yeni Yüzyıl. Is currently working on Turkish theatre history from the 18th to 20th century.
Symposium 2008, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Kulturelle Dualität und deren Reflexion in den ländlichen und urbanen Gegensätzen des türkischen Theaters
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Necla Çıkıgil has a BA in English literature and language. Due to her interest in ballet (she is a graduate of Fenmen Ballet School in Ankara) and theatre she started research work on Shakespeare's ballets while working for an MA in Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University. While she was working for her MA degree she also studied Historical Dance. After receiving her MA, she conducted further research to get a PhD in Theatre at Ankara University. Dr. Çıkıgil's major interests and publications are in the transformation of literary works into dance, theatrical performances of Shakespeare's works, world theatre, English language, and academic oral presentation skills. She also writes ballet and play reviews for national and international journals. Currently, she is an instructor of the History of Theatre and English at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she has been teaching since 1981.
Symposium 2009
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Helga Dostal
Dr.; studied dramatics, musicology, philosophy and psychology at Vienna University. Assistant producer for some 50 operas, plays and concerts broadcast by the ORF. Co-organizer of major exhibitions in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, Museo teatrale alla Scala di Milano and for the Prague Quadriennale. Worked with Rudolf Nurejev at the Vienna State Opera, dramaturgue for the Austrian Länderbühne and the Tribune Theatre. For ten years Head of the Art University Department in the Federal Ministry for Science and Research, then Director of the Austrian Theatre Museum. Currently President of the Advisory Board of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre. President of the International Theatre Institute of the UNESCO, Centrum Österreich. Awarded the Ring of Honour of the Salzburg Mozarteum University.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Erich Duda
Dr. Erich Duda was born in 1929 in Vienna. Between the years 1943-1949 he studied at "Technisches Gewerbemuseum" in Vienna, majoring in electro-technics, then worked as engineer and finally as a corporate manager for "AG der Wiener Lokalbahnen" until 1989. As of 1989 he studied music and theatre research at the University of Vienna, having received his PhD degree in 1998. His dissertation, titled Datierung musikalischer Quellen des 18. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel von Franz Xaver Süßmayr was published in the year 2000 by International Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg with the title The Musical Works of Franz Xaver Süßmayr; A Thematical Register.
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Born from a Czech mother and a French father, Gertrude Durusoy obtained her Baccalaureat in Cambra, France in 1961. She graduated in 1965 from the Université de Lille, France, in German Philology and Czech Philology. She got her PhD in Comparative Literature in 1974 in Aix-en-Provence. Established in Turkey, she did her academic career in the German Language Department of the Universities of Hacettepe, Ankara and Ege. Since 1997 she has been Head of the Research Center on European Languages and Cultures. She also works as a literary translator from and into Turkish, German, and French. She translated from German into Turkish one play by Elias Canetti and two by Jura Soyfer, and from Turkish into German a play by Güngör Dilmen. In addition to her many academic publications, translating poetry from German to French (Hans Raimund), or from German into Turkish (Georg Trakl, Paul Celan) keeps her busy.
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Dr. Nina Ergin is a native of Graz, Austria, where she received a Magister der Philosophie in Art History and a translator’s certificate in English and Turkish from the Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz in 1996. She then entered the graduate program in Art History at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she received a second M.A. and then a Ph.D. in Islamic Art and Architecture in 2005. Her dissertation examined the life story of a hamam in Istanbul, and she specializes in Ottoman architectural history. She worked at Istanbul Bilgi University and taught at the University at Buffalo, New York State, before joining Koç University, where she has worked as Assistant Professor since 2008. In her publications, she has examined not only Ottoman bathhouses, but also contemporary Iranian art, Ottoman soup kitchens, Turkish perceptions of the region’s Classical and Byzantine past, the soundscape of Sinan’s mosques, and the depiction of Ottomans in a South Austrian palace’s ceiling paintings.
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Educated at the universities of Hamburg, Istanbul and Bloomington, Indiana, Suraiya Faroqhi has taught English (1971-72) and history at Middle East Technical University, Ankara (1972-87) and served as a professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich, Federal Republic of Germany (1988-2007). After retirement she now teaches at the Department of History, Bilgi University in Istanbul. Her Festschrift from her Ankara colleagues, Osmanlı'nın peşinde bir yaşam (A lifetime in the wake of the Ottomans), ed. Onur Yıldırım (Ankara: İmge Publications, 2008), has just been published. Principal publications: Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia, Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); Men of Modest Substance, House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri (Cambridge: CUP, 1987, reprint 2002); Pilgrims and Sultans, The Haj under the Ottomans (London: I.B. Tauris, 1994); Subjects of the Sultans, Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, tr. by Martin Bott (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000); Approaching Ottoman History, an Introduction to the Sources (Cambridge: CUP, 1999); The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it, 1540s to 1774 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004). Collected articles: Several volumes of collected articles: Peasants, Dervishes and Traders in the Ottoman Empire (London: Vario¬rum Reprints, 1986); Coping with the State, Political Conflict and Crime in the Ottoman Empire (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1995); Making a Living in the Ottoman Lands, 1480-1820 (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1995); Stories of Ottoman Men and Women, Establishing Status, Establishing Control (Istanbul: Eren, 2002). To be published in the fall of 2008: Another Mirror for Princes: The Public Image of the Ottoman Sultan and its Reception, (Istanbul: The Isis Press)
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009
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Lisa Feurzeig
Lisa Feurzeig is a musicologist whose studies focus on various genres of German-language vocal music—opera, lieder, folksong, and musical theater—particularly text-music relations, political implications, and the connections of music and philosophy. She is an associate professor of music at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. Recent publications include an article on concepts of knowledge in Wagner’s Lohengrin in Wagner Outside the Ring (McFarland, 2009); an article on Schubert’s settings of poetry by Schlegel and Novalis in The Unknown Schubert (Ashgate, 2008), and the critical edition Quodlibets of the Viennese Theater (A-R Editions, 2008).
Symposium 2010
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Bruna Filippi
Bruna Filippi, professore di Storia moderna all’Università di Perugia (Italia), conduce le sue ricerche sul teatro dei gesuiti (XVII sec.), sulle istituzioni scolastiche (XVII–XIX sec.) e sul teatro contemporaneo. Recentemente ha pubblicato: « L’emblème dans l’action dramatique. Les drames sacrés de Leone Santi S.J. (1632–1648) », in: Emblemata sacra, a cura di Ralph Dekoninck; Agnès Guiderdoni. Tournhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 381-395; « La mise en vision dans le théâtre jésuite de Rome », in: Plaire et instruire. Le spectacle dans les collèges de l’Ancien Régime, a cura di Anne Piéjus. Rennes: Presse Universitaire de Rennes, 2007, pp. 70-85; « L’istituzione del ‘liceo imperiale’ in Umbria: problemi e ipotesi di ricerca », in: L’istruzione in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento, a cura di Angelo Bianchi. Brescia: La scuola, 2007, pp. 397-417; « L’humilité est conditio prima. Le revers de l’excès chez Carmelo Bene », in: Théâtre/public, 178, 2005, pp. 31-35. Coordinatrice della sezione « Ouvertures italiennes » nel numero « L’avant-garde américaine et l’Europe », di Théâtre/public, 191, 2008; nello stesso numero ha pubblicato « L’archipel des performances théâtrales en Italie (1960–1990) », pp. 7-9 e « Le vertige de la performance en toutes choses: la Societas Raffaello Sanzio », pp. 18-21.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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(Perugia, 1946) professore associato presso il Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio dell’Università degli studi di Perugia, insegna Antropologia del teatro e dello spettacolo e Fondamenti di antropologia alla Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia della stessa università . Ha condotto ricerche su vari problemi – dalla devianza alla condizione giovanile, dalla solitudine abitativa alla partecipazione politica – prima di approdare al tema del rapporto tra Antropologia culturale e Cultura teatrale che è da tempo al centro dei suoi interessi scientifici. Ha fatto parte del comitato scientifico dell’International School of Theatre Anthropology (1981–1991), si è occupato del fenomeno del « teatro di gruppo » ed ha condotto una ricerca sul campo intitolata alla « Identità dello spettatore ». E’ stato il primo Presidente della Fondazione « L’Immemoriale di Carmelo Bene » (2002–2005).
Fa attualmente parte del comitato scientifico della quinta sezione di ricerca « Créations, Pratiques, Publics » della Maison de Sciences de l’Homme – Paris Nord e del Comité de Rédaction de « L’éthnographie. Noveaux objets, nouvelles méthodes. Revue de la Société d’Ethnographie de Paris ». E’ membro del Laboratorio di Ricerca Interdisciplinare dell’Istituto di Psicosomatica Psicoanalitica « Aberastury » di Perugia. Collaboratore de « Lo straniero » e di numerose altre riviste nazionali e internazionali, ha pubblicato, fra l’altro, Una nuova solitudine. Vivere soli fra integrazione e liberazione. Roma: Savelli, 1981; Lo spettatore partecipante. Contributi per un’antropologia del teatro. Milano: Guerini e ass., 1991; Carmelo Bene. Antropologia di una macchina attoriale. Milano: Bompiani, 1997 (riedito nel 2007); L’altra visione dell’altro. Una equazione tra antropologia e teatro. Napoli: L’ancora del mediterraneo, 2004.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Marian Gilbart Read studied French and Spanish Language and Literature at Oxford University before working in arts administration and in higher education in London and Winchester. She completed a multidisciplinary doctorate in 2004 at the University of Southampton with “Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera: An Approach through Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory of Carnival”, and has research interests in nineteenth-century opera in Italy and France. Dr. Read holds Patron memberships at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Glyndebourne Opera; Garsington Opera; Grange Park Opera; and Holland Park Opera. Her grandfather was born in Tarsus, Turkey.
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Klemens Gruber è professore di Intermedialità al tfm | Institut für Theater-, Film und Medienwissenschaft dell’Università di Vienna e fa parte della redazione di Maske & Kothurn. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Die zerstreute Avantgarde. Strategische Kommunikation im Italien der 70er Jahre. Wien-Köln: Böhlau 1989, (riedito nel 2010; trad. it.: L’avanguardia inaudita. Genova: Costa e Nolan, 1997); con Christian Schulte (a cura di): Die Bauweise von Paradiesen. Für Alexander Kluge. Wien: Böhlau, 2007. Ha curato inoltre due volumi su Dziga Vertov e sta preparando un libro sull’avanguardia storica. Attualmente si occupa di Digital Formalism.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Matthew Head
Dr. Head, lecturer in music at King's College, London, is a graduate of Oxford and Yale, and a specialist in music of the European Enlightenment. He has published on C.P.E. Bach, Minna Brandes, Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Mozart, and Sophie Westenholz, exploring issues of musical character, performance, improvisation, genre, authorship, orientalism and gender. Matthew Head is currently working on a book of essays on music, gender and authorship in the late eighteenth century. Publications include: Orientalism, Masquerade and Mozart's Turkish Music (RMA Monographs 9) London: RMA, 2000; 'Musicology on Safari: Orientalism and the Spectre of Postcolonial Theory,' in Music Analysis, 22/1-2 (March-July 2003), pp. 211-230; 'Haydn's Exoticisms: 'Difference' and the Enlightenment' in The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, ed. C. Clark. Cambridge: CUP, 2005, pp. 77-94.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II, Konzerte: Lord Byron's Dream, Lord Byron's Pilgrimage
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Caroline Herfert
Born in 1983 in Feldkirch (Austria), she grew up in Liechtenstein. She graduated from the Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium, Vaduz, and was the 2003 scholarship holder of the Peter Kaiser commemoration foundation for the best high school diploma. From 2003 to 2009 she studied theatre, film and media studies, cultural studies as well as Arabic studies at the University of Vienna, gaining work experience in archives and theatres along with her academic education. She has lived in Buffalo (USA), Annecy (France), Melbourne (Australia) and Tunis (Tunisia), for language studies. In 2006 she participated in the Interplay Europe 2006 Festival of Young European Playwrights, and in 2007-08 participated in the exhibition project, 'Wissenschaft nach der Mode?' by Birgit Peter and Martina Payr at the department of theatre, film and media studies (TFM) at the University of Vienna. In 2008 she conducted archival research for the symposion Theater der Eliten?, held November 11, 2008, at the Theater in der Josefstadt in cooperation with the Vienna TFM department. She is currently writing her master thesis about the range of Viennese theatre history and Orientalism discourses on Murad Efendi (1836-1881).
Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Born in 1946; MA, Phil.Doc. Associate Professor, Theater Studies, Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Has conducted research travels to Italy, France and India. Bent Holm is a dramaturge and translator of plays, especially those by Dario Fo, De Filippo and Goldoni. His doctoral dissertation was about Comédie Italienne in a broad cultural, religious, and iconographic context, and He has published interdisciplinary studies on historical and dramaturgical issues in English, French, Polish and Italian. For the moment, he is preparing the English version of his book about the eighteenth-century playwright Ludvig Holberg viewed from a dramaturgical-historical perspective. Special research focuses include the relationship between visual arts and theater; drama analysis and creative theater production; and theatricality and rituality. He is a lecturer at several international universities and research centres, most recently in Torino, Paris, Frankfurt, and Stockholm. Bent Holm is also a member of scientific committees and networks in Paris, Mantova, and Torino, among other cities.
Recent publications include: 'Il Corvo canta. Una lettura dell'adattamento lirico di Hans Christian Andersen del Corvo di Gozzi,' in: A. Fabiani, ed., Carlo Gozzi entre dramaturgie de l'auteur et dramaturgie de l'acteur; un Carrefour artistique européen, Longo: Ravenna, 2007; 'Enlightened Nordic Knights. Text, body and space in Jens Baggesen and F.L.Ae. Kunzen's opera - Holger Danske,' 1789, in: North-West Passage 5, Torino, 2008); and on ritual and theatre, non-western theatre (co-ed., contributor, Religion, Ritual, Theatre, Peter Lang: Frankfurt-New York, 2008).
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Né en 1954 Wiener Neustadt, Basse Autriche. Maître de conférences au Département d’allemand et dans le Master Traduction T3L l’Université de Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis. Thèse: Aspekte des französischen Desillusionsromans im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Wien: Böhlau, 1981. Direction d’ouvrages sur Vienne et Budapest (Vienne, théâtre del’oubli et de l’étérnité. Paris: Autrement, 1991; Vienne-Budapest 1867–1918: deux âges d’or, deux visions, un Empire. Paris: Autrement, 1996), sur la littérature autrichienne (Continuités et ruptures dans la littérature autrichienne. Nîmes: Chambon, 1996) et sur Elfriede Jelinek (Jelinek, une répétition. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2009). Nombreuses traductions en sciences humaines et littérature du français vers l’allemand (Roland Barthes, Julien Gracq, Henri Michaux) et de l’allemand vers le français (Elfriede Jelinek). Co-fondateur du groupe de recherche « Spectacle vivant et sciences de l’Homme » la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris. Recherches sur la littérature autrichienne, les arts performatifs et la poétique et l’histoire de la traduction
Kooperationsprojekt: Don Juans Frauen übersetzen sich in Szene, Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Stefan Hulfeld
Prof. Dr.phil.; born in 1967. Awarded a Master of Arts in Theater Studies, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bern, and a PhD in Theater Studies with research concerning the culture and theater history of the eighteenth century, published as Zähmung der Masken, Wahrung der Gesichter (Zürich: Chronos Verlag 2000). Stefan Hulfeld's second book is called Theatergeschichtsschreibung als kulturelle Praxis. Wie Wissen über Theater entsteht (Zürich: Chronos Verlag 2007) and treats the development of theater history in Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. He has been Professor for Theater and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria) since 2006.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Forschungsgespräch: Editionen dramatischer Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts
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Mary Hunter
Mary Hunter is Professor of Music at Bowdoin College. She is the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna (Princeton University Press, 2000), which won the American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Prize; Mozart's Operas: A Companion (Yale University Press, 2008); and of numerous articles on eighteenth-century opera, Mozart, and Haydn, including "The Alla Turca Style: Race and Gender in the Symphony and the Seraglio," in Jonathan Bellman ed., The Exotic in Western Music (Northeastern University Press, 1997).
Symposium 2010
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Frank Huss
Dr. Frank Huss, born in Marbach am Neckar/Germany in 1971, studied Musical Education at the Academy of Music in Vienna and Percussion at the conservatory of Vienna as well as History, German Philology and Musicology at the University of Vienna. He wrote his doctoral thesis about The opera at the imperial court of Vienna under the Emperors Josef I. and Karl VI. tutored by Professor Herbert Seifert. He has published a number of historical books, the last one about the baroque imperial court of Vienna from 1657-1792. (Der Wiener Kaiserhof - Eine Kulturgeschichte von Leopold I. bis Leopold II., Katz Verlag 2008). Huss, who also writes for some historical magazines, has been a teacher at a grammar school in Vienna since 1999.
Symposium 2008, Forschungsliteratur online: Die Oper am Wiener Kaiserhof (1706-1740), Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Michael Hüttler
Dr.phil.; born in Tulln, Lower Austria. Studied theater, film and media studies as well as journalism and communication studies at Vienna University; worked in a bank for several years prior to studying. Teaches at Vienna University, in the Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies. Lectured at Yeditepe University Istanbul (2001-2003), and has been conducting research for the Da Ponte Institute and the Don Juan Archiv Wien since 2001. Since 2007, he has been head of Don Juan Archiv Wien Forschungsverlag. Current research focuses on forms of music and popular theater in the eighteenth century. He has published on Mozart, Theater Ethnology, Business Theater, and Experimental Theater in Austria, including (ed.) Aufbruch zu neuen Welten: Theatralität an der Jahrtausendwende (Frankfurt/Main: IKO, 2000); (ed.) Theater. Begegnung. Integration? (Frankfurt/Main: IKO, 2003); Unternehmenstheater. Vom Theater der Unterdrückten zum Theater der Unternehmer? (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2005); (ed.) Hermann Nitsch. Wiener Vorlesungen (Wien: Böhlau, 2005), and (ed.) Lorenzo Da Ponte (Wien: Böhlau, 2007).
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Forschungsgespräche: Wiener Repertoire im 18. Jahrhundert, Editionen dramatischer Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts, Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz, Bibliographien, Oper und Theater in Serbien, Publikationen: Theatermanifeste aus Österreich, Band I (1945-1975) (in preparation), Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II, Corps Du Théâtre, Maske und Kothurn: Lorenzo Da Ponte (Wien, 2007), Aufbruch zu neuen Welten: Theatralität an der Jahrtausendwende, Hermann Nitsch. Wiener Vorlesungen, Unternehmenstheater - vom Theater der Unterdrückten zum Theater der Unternehmer?, Theater. Begegnung. Integration?, Mozart. Experiment Aufklärung im Wien des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Chronik 1999-200
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Zeynep İnankur is a professor at the Art History Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. She is the author of 19. Yüzyıl Avrupasında Heykel ve Resim Sanatı, (Kabalcı Publishing, 1997, Painting and Sculpture in 19th Century European Art); “The Official Painters of the Ottoman Court”, Art Turc, 10e Congrès. Internationale d’art turc (Fondation Max van Berchem, 1999) and “Orientalisti Italiani”(Italian Orientalists), Gli Italiani di İstanbul: Figure, Comunita e Istituzioni dalle Riforme alla Repubblica 1839-1923, (Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 2007). İnankur, whose area of interest is nineteenth-century European and Ottoman art and Orientalist painting, is the co-author with Semra Germaner of Orientalism and Turkey (Turkish Cultural Foundation, Istanbul, 1989) and Constantinople and the Orientalists (Isbank Cultural Publications, Istanbul, 2002).
Symposium 2010
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Philippe Ivernel
Maître de conférences honoraires, Université de Paris 8, Département de germanistique.
Collaborateur du Laboratoire de recherche sur les arts du spectacle, CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). Orientation vers le théâtre moderne et la philosophie de langue allemande (Théorie critique). Dans le domaine du théâtre, études sur le théâtre expressionniste et le théâtre épique, sur le théâtre épique, sur le théâtre d’agitation et de propagande des années 1917–1933, sur le théâtre d’intervention en France après 1968. Traductions de Frank Wedekind, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harald Müller et d’autres auteurs, par exemple: Günther Anders: La haine. Paris: Ed. Payot & Rivages, 2009; Bertolt Brecht: Journal de travail. Paris: L’Arche, 1976; (avec d’autres traducteurs) Frank Wedekind: Théâtre complet. Paris: Éd. théâtrales, 1995–2001, 7 vols.; Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Le bouc; Les larmes amères de Petra von Kant; Liberté Brême. Paris: L’Arche, 1989; Harald Müller: Le radeau des morts. Paris: Edilig, 1988; Peter Weiss: Hölderlin: pièce en deux actes. Paris: Avant-scène, 1974.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Fikret Karakaya
Fikret Karakaya was born in Kayseri in 1955. When he was a student at Kayseri High School, he took music lessons for the first time. He continued to enrich his music culture during his period at the Fine Arts Academy (1973-1976) and the Faculty of Literature (1976-1980). He took kemençe lessons from Kâmran Erdoğru, and at the end of 1980 he joined the staff of the newspaper Hürriyet. In 1981 he passed the Radio-Television Institution of Turkey (TRT) examination in the “professional artist” category and began working as a kemençe musician for Istanbul Radio. At the same time he wrote articles on music for diverse encyclopedias and made translations from French between 1980-1996.
He worked on his book entitled The Encyclopedia of World Musical Instruments between 1994-1996. However, not having completed the book, he focused on the project Bezmârâ for the Bezmârâ Ensemble, which he founded with the aim of performing sixteenth and seventeenth-century Turkish music notated by Dimitrie Cantemir and Bobowski, using forgotten musical instruments of that era. He made cheng, santur, miskal, kemanche (rebab) and early kanun, which he designed from miniatures and written sources. Again drawing from written and visual sources, he prepared drawings and sketches and had instrument makers make shehrud, kopuz, early ud and early tanbur. The Bezmârâ Ensemble, conducted by Fikret Karakaya (who also played cheng after developing a technique based on the technique used to play the kanun), gave their first concert in 1998. Afterwards, by performing a great number of concerts at home and abroad and by publishing six CDs, Bezmârâ gave various examples to advance the understanding of the “interpretation of musical pieces with the instrument and style of their era”.
Fikret Karakaya has a book ready to be published entitled Turkish Music Throughout History, and has also published many articles in the newspapers Yeni Yüzyıl and Yeni Binyıl, as well as in several magazines and anthologies. He frequently gives talks at musicology symposiums at home and abroad, and is currently working on his book entitled Perdes, Intervals, Makams and Jins’ (Ajnas) in Turkish Music. With this book, the author aims to turn Turkish music that has suffered from erroneous theory and an inadequate notation system for over a hundred years, into a notation system and theory that are respectful and suitable to its soul. He also plans in the near future to divide his collection The Encyclopedia of World Musical Instruments, the product of two years’ effort, into two volumes, Introduction to Organology and The Musical Instruments of Turkish and Islamic World.
Having taught kemenche at the Conservatory of Sakarya University between 2000-2005, Karakaya began to give lectures on organology at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in 2005. Also active as an instrument maker since 1974, Karakaya produced nearly a hundred kemenches and repaired ones produced by former makers, besides remaking ancient instruments for Bezmârâ.
In addition to his pesrevs, saz-semais and oyun-havasıs that he composed as samples of the four makams he invented and conceived for his album titled With the Breeze of Ancient Music, he also performed those works composed in the makams ferahnâk, nishabur and early sipihr.
Symposium 2010
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Aydın Karlıbel
Born 1957 in Istanbul, Dr. Karlıbel began his piano lessons at the age of four; at the age of nine he became the private student of Cemal Resid Rey (1904-1985), with whom he worked until Rey's death. Along with his piano studies Karlıbel graduated from the Lycée du Saint-Michel (Prix d'Excellences) and the Robert College (1976) and finally received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Boğaziçi University. Aydın Karlıbel also received the 'L.R.S.M. Diploma' from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools. Additionally, he participated in the Wiener Meisterkurse (1991-93) and the Summer Courses of the Accademia Chigiana. He was also awarded with the '2000 Outstanding Musician of 20th Century Prize' by the Cambridge Biographical Center. Karlıbel's compositions are printed and published as CDs by the Keturi Publishers in Germany. Karlıbel has been active in the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet since 1986, and his works and performances have been recorded on over eight CDs for Kalan Label, TRT and Iton Records. Over the years, he has won several prizes and mentions of the Municipal Conservatory and the Nejat Eczacıbaşı Contest. His works have been performed in England, Italy, Georgia and Germany. A concert pianist with an extensive repertoire, Karlıbel has composed two operas, an oratorio, two piano concertos, numerous original works and transcriptions for piano solo, choral, vocal, chamber works, and marches. He recorded, restored, orchestrated and computer printed many works of his master Cemal Resid Rey. Having also translated Ian Kemp's book on Berlioz's Les Troyens into Turkish (Pan Editions, 2009), he received his doctoral degree from Istanbul Technical University/MIAM in February 2009. His art aspires to fuse universal culture with Turkish aesthetics and colours. Dieter Paier Dieter Paier was born in Stiefing, Styria in Austria. Under the guidance of Otto Niederdorfer and Gerhard Zeller he studied music education and piano-vocal correpetition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. During his study he was given a training order for correpetition at the singing department in Graz, and he worked there in song and oratorium classes until the end of 1996. In 1997 he was appointed as solo correpetitor to the University of Music and Art in Vienna. He has been assistant in the song class of K.S. Edith Mathis, and from 2007 in the class of K.S. Gabriele Fontana. Dieter Paier took lessons with Charles Spencer, and played in master classes with singers such as Gundula Janowitz, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Zadek, Sona Ghazarian and Thomas Quasthoff. He has regular concert obligations as a song accompanist throughout Europe. Recordings for broadcast, television and CD enrich his musical work.
Konzert: Haydn meets sultans - a musical voyage
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Nadja Kayali, stage-director and dramaturge, was born in Vienna and studied Musicology and Opera directing at the University of Music Vienna. Engagements a.o. Opera Lucerne, Opèra du Rhin (Strasbourg/France), National Opera Skopje Macedonia. Nadja Kayali programs for Music festivals, such as the 'Morgenland Festival Osnabrück' in Germany and directed several festivals in Austria and Switzerland. She writes programs and articles for the Vienna State Opera ('Otello' and 'Die Omama im Apfelbaum') and the Hamburg State Opera, a.o. In 2006 she led several projects on the theme of 'Mozart and the Orient', among them the concert 'Mozart und die Türken' for the 'Mozart Jahr 2006' at the Konzerthaus Vienna and a concert at the Almaty State Opera in Kazakhstan. She also participated at the Al-Bustan Festival in Beirut.
Nadja Kayali is a frequent lecturer and presenter of concerts and operas in the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Musikverein and at the Salzburg Festival. For the Turkish Embassy she presented last year the 'Ahmed Adnan Saygun Memory Concert' with the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra at the Konzerthaus. Nadja Kayali is heard regularly as a host of the radio program 'Pasticcio' on Austrian Radio Ö1.
Symposium 2008, Konzert: Turkish scenes, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Hans-Peter Kellner
Born in 1963 in Vienna. Works as a stage director, dramaturge and literary translator. He studied Scandinavian languages and theater studies at the University of Vienna, and film studies at the University of Copenhagen, for which he received a scholarship from the Austrian government. Since 1986 he has worked extensively in theater, film, television, and circus. Starting as Assistant Director, Dramaturge and Stage Manager in Vienna, he continued as Assistant of the former Royal Shakespeare Company with director Terry Hands in Berlin. Since 1993 he has directed around thirty plays at several venues in Austria and Germany, as well as in London, where he was based between 1995 and 2000 and where he worked with Tom Stoppard, David Farr and Michael Kingsbury. In 2000 Hans-Peter Kellner moved to Copenhagen, where he directed, among other plays, the first ever site specific production of Shakespeare's Hamlet at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. He has translated around twenty plays into German, many of them by contemporary Scandinavian playwrights, and he is regularly adapting classic plays for the modern stage. In recent years he has resumed Theater Studies, mainly related to the Scandinavian stage of the eighteenth century.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Darja Koter
Born in 1959 in Maribor, Slovenia, she studied at Ljubljana University, Academy of Music, Department of Music Pedagogy, and graduated from Ljubljana University with a specialization in the musical instrument makers in Slovenia. She is an assistant professor for Music History at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. From 1990 to 2003 she was a curator of the Slovene National Musical Instruments Collection at the Regional Museum Ptuj, and did post-doctoral study at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota; the Metropolitan Museum in New York; and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Her monograph on instrument making in Slovenia was published in 2001. She works on various topics in the Slovene history of music and music iconography. Her special branch is musical life from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Some articles about Slovene music history of that period have been published in music reviews and monographs, and she has collaborated at international symposiums in Europe and USA, and on other projects at the Bonn University (2005-2007). Since 2006 she has been an editor of the special numbers of the review Glasbeno-pedagoški zbornik Akademije za glasbo Ljubljana. Important publications include Glasbilarstvo na Slovenskem (Instrument Making in Slovenia), 2001; Musikinstrumente österreichischer Klavierbauer im Landesmuseum Ptuj/Pettau (Slowenien), 1997; Entwicklung der Bläsermusik und des Instrumentenbaus in Slowenien, 2004; Turqueries and Chinoiseries with Musical Symbols: Examples from Slovenia, 2004; Evidence Relating to the Influences on Musical Instrument Making in Slovenia: the Intermingling of Schools and Migration of Organ Makers, 2005; Pettauer Männergesangverein and its Political and Socio-cultural Context, 2007; and Musica coelestis et musica profana: glasbeni motivi v likovni dediščini od severne Istre do Vremske doline, Koper: Pokrajinski muzej, 2008.
Symposium 2010
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Prof. Dr. Markus Köhbach studied between 1968-1976 at the University of Vienna (Turkish, Arabian, Byzantine and Jewish Studies, Eastern European History), making repeated study trips to Turkey and in 1975 conducting library and archive research in Istanbul. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. degree in Turkish Studies from the University of Vienna. In the 1975-76 academic year he became an assistant at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna; between the years 1976-1991 he worked as Assistant Professor at the same institute, where he received in 1991 tenure and rank of Associate Professor after his Habilitation. In the 1991-92 academic year he was visiting professor at the Department of Turkish Philology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Since 1992 he has been Full-Professor, Chair of Turkish and Islamic Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna. He also held administrative positions at the University of Vienna; between 1993-1999 as Head of Department of Near Eastern Studies; between 2000-2004 as Vice Dean for Studies of the Faculty of Humanities; and between 2004-2008 as Director of Diploma Programmes, responsible for regular Diploma Programmes in African Studies, Ancient Semitic Studies and Oriental Archeology, Arabian Studies, Indology, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Turkish Studies, and the individual International Development Diploma Programme.
Symposium 2010
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Dr. Evren Kutlay Baydar was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Bachelor degrees from Istanbul University Conservatory Piano Department and Bogazici University Mathematics Department. From 1999-2001, she studied (with full-scholarship) at University of West Georgia, where she received an M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration) and M.M. (Master of Music) in Piano Performance degrees with honor, and worked as a GRA both in business and music departments as well as for the university president. During her studies in the US, she received an Award of Excellence at the Georgia Music Teachers Association (GMTA) piano competition and Star of the Year award from the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). She performed as a pianist in Turkey and the US. She completed her Ph.D. in Musicology at Istanbul University in 2007. Since 2003, she has been teaching at Koc University, researching Western music in the Ottoman Empire. She gives seminars, presents papers at conferences, and her articles are published in national and international journals. She continues giving solo recitals related to her research subject and is the pianist of the Trio Ad Libitum. Evren Kutlay Baydar has a book titled Western Musicians of the Ottoman Empire published by Kapi Yayinlari, Istanbul.
Symposium 2010
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Alexandre Lhâa
Doctoral research student and research assistant (2006 - 2009) at the History Department of l'Université de Provence and the TELEMME research institute, France. In October 2006, he commenced PhD research on "Exoticism in the operas performed in the Teatro alla Scala from Cleopatra (1779) to La donna serpente (1942)", pursuing the reflexion developed in his MA thesis in History (for which he was awarded a high distinction). In the April 2008 "intervention" at the "The Sword of Judith" conference at the New York Public Library, he presented Giuditta (1860) by Marco Marcello and Achille Peri.
Symposium 2010, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Tatjana Marković
Assist. Prof. Dr. Tatjana Marković teaches at the Department of Musicology, University of Arts in Belgrade. She has also been affiliated with the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz as a postdoctoral fellow (Lise-Meitner-, Elise-Richter-Stipendiatin) and the Filozofska fakulteta in Ljubljana, and has collaborated with universities in Helsinki, Paris, Bonn, Vienna, and New York. She is a member of the editorial board of Nutida Musik (Stockholm) and Glasbeno-pedagoški zbornik (Ljubljana). She has published on Serbian and European music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially on southeast European opera regarding issues of national cultural identity, nationalism, politics and music. Her book Transfiguracije srpskog romantizma: Muzika u kontekstu studija kulture (‘Transfigurations of Serbian Romanticism: Music in the context of cultural studies’) was published in 2005, and Istorijske i analitičko-teorijske koordinate stila u muzici (‘Historical and analytical-theoretical coordinates of the style in music’) was published in 2009.
Symposium 2010, Forschungsgespräch: Oper und Theater in Serbien
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Claudio Meldolesi
Claudio Meldolesi (1942–2009), professore ordinario di Drammaturgia all’Università di Bologna e socio dell’Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Da allievo di Giovanni Macchia e da attore diplomato all’Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica, ha preso a rinnovare gli studi sul lavoro di scena non senza indagare sui nessi forma-metodo in vari libri, fra cui: Profilo di Gustavo Modena. Teatro e rivoluzione democratica. Roma: Bulzoni, 1971; Fra Totò e Gadda. Sei invenzioni sprecate del teatro italiano. Roma: Bulzoni, 1987. Ha inoltre esteso il suo campo di ricerca alla nascita della regia in Italia in: Fondamenti del teatro italiano. La generazione dei registi. Firenze: Sansoni, 1980 (e Roma: Bulzoni, 2008) e al rapporto regia drammaturgia con LauraOlivi in: Brecht regista. Memorie del Berliner Ensemble. Bologna: il Mulino, 1989. Ha così ottenuto il premio IDI 1981 quale coautore di Negli spazi oltre la luna. Stramberie di GustavoModena, messo in scena da Renato Carpentieri, e il Premio Pirandello-Palermo per la saggistica 1990 con Ferdinando Taviani per Teatro e spettacolo nel primo Ottocento. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1991. E, appunto su questa linea di rivalorizzazione delle risorse sceniche ha poi scritto, fra l’altro, con Renata M. Molinari: Il lavoro del dramaturg. Milano: Ubulibri, 2007; e ha curato con Angela Malfitano e Laura Mariani: La terza vita di Leo. Gli ultimi vent’anni del suo teatro a Bologna. Corazzano: Titivillus Edizioni, 2009.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Adam Mestyan
Adam Mestyan is an Arabist and a historian, his main interest being nineteenth-century Middle Eastern and European cultural history. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate both in aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and in comparative history at the Central European University, Budapest. Having worked as Instructor of Arabic at the Mediaeval Studies department at CEU, he is a Research Fellow in the Opera and History Project (2009-2011) of the European University Institute, Florence. Mestyan is also a member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Dayka Gabor Society, Erasmus College, and the József Attila Circle (JAK). He received the Prize of the Republic of Hungary for Academic Excellence (2004), and the 'Ernő Kállai' Scholarship for Historians of Art of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (2006-2008). He is the editor of Látvány / színház: performativitás, műfaj, test ('Spectacle and Theatre: Genre, Body, Performativity'), Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2006; and of a special issue on Modern Arabic Literature of the Hungarian Literary Journal Kalligram, 2 (2008); and since 2008 he has been Associate Editor of the European Review of History, London: Routledge.
Symposium 2009, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Professor in Literature and Performing Arts at the University of Tours (France). She is the author of La Représentation d'Opéra, Poétique et Dramaturgie (Presses Universitaires de France: 1993), L'Opéra seria ou le règne des castrats (Fayard: 1993, 2d ed 1998). She has also edited Le Spectaculaire dans les arts de la scène du Romantisme la Belle Epoque (CNRS-Editions, 2006) and is presently coordinating the centenary celebrations of Victorien Sardou (Victorien Sardou, le théâtre et les arts, Tours-Paris BnF, Marly le roi: 2008). She has also written many contributions for several opera houses (Opéra de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Staatsoper Stuttgart).
Symposium 2009, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Cesare Molinari
Nato a Venezia 1935. Studi alla Scuola Normale di Pisa. Redattore per lo spettacolo della rivista Critica d’arte fino al 1966. Poi nel comitato di redazione di Quaderni di teatro e direttore di Biblioteca teatrale con F. Marotti. Gi presidente dell’Istituto Internazionale per la ricerca Teatrale di Venezia e successivamente dell’Istituto Zorzi per le Arti dello spettacolo di Firenze. Ha presieduto il Network « Theatre Iconography » della European Science Foundation. Gi professore di Storia del Teatro all’Università di Firenze, dove ha diretto il Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti e dello Spettacolo e il progetto Dionysos di iconografia del teatro. Professore invitato all’Institut des Etudes Théâtrales, Université de Paris III, alla Pontificia Universidad Catolica di Santiago de Cile e all’Università di Toronto.
Tra le opere di maggiore impegno: Spettacoli fiorentini del Quattrocento. Venezia: Neri Pozza 1961; Le Nozze degli dei. Roma: Bulzoni, 1968; Storia di Antigone. Bari: De Donato, 1978; Storia universale del teatro. Milano: Mondadori, 1982; L’attrice divina. Roma: Bulzoni, 1985; La commedia dell’arte. Milano: Mondadori, 1985; L’attore e la recitazione. Roma: Laterza, 1992; Bertolt Brecht. Roma: Laterza, 1994; Teatro e antiteatro. Roma: Laterza, 2008.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Andreas Münzmay
Andreas Münzmay was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and holds degrees as a scholar and teacher of musicology, music and French language and literature; he is also a jazz musician. He taught musicology in Berlin, Stuttgart and Potsdam, and did research on the project “Musik und Bühne am Stuttgarter Hoftheater im 19. Jahrhundert” (University of Heidelberg/University of Music Stuttgart). Since summer 2009 he has been editor in the editorial project “OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters” of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz and the University of Bayreuth. His doctoral dissertation Musikdramaturgie und Kulturtransfer. Eine gattungsübergreifende Studie zum Musiktheater Eugènes Scribes in Paris und Stuttgart (University of Arts, Berlin) will be published in 2010 (Schliengen: Argus-Verlag); his most recent publications include articles on compositional form in Satie’s Parade (“That Mysterious Rag. Wie Satie in Parade das eigenartige Verhältnis von Theater und Wirklichkeit komponierte”, in: Missverständnis / Malentendu: Kultur zwischen Kommunikation und Störung, Actes du colloque GIRAF/IFFD Köln 2007, ed. Sidonie Kellerer et al., Würzburg 2008), and on jazz performances in early sound movies (“Visual Jazz: Performative Mittel afroamerikanischer Identitätsrepräsentation in Dudley Murphys St. Louis Blues and Black and Tan Fantasy”, in: Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung 4, appearing in early 2010). Andreas Münzmay is co-editor of Tanz im Musiktheater - Tanz als Musiktheater. Bericht eines internationalen Symposions über Beziehungen von Tanz und Musik im Theater, Würzburg 2009.
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Born in 1947 in a refugee camp in Austria, as the son of a Crimean Tartar family. He finished his elementary and secondary schooling in Istanbul and Ankara. In 1965 he graduated from Ankara Atatürk High-School. In 1968 he finished his studies at Ankara University, School of Political Science, as well as the Department of History at Ankara University, School of Languages, History and Geography. He then studied Slavistics and Orientalism at the University of Vienna, Austria. İlber Ortaylı did his Master's work at Chicago University under Professor Halil Inalcık. He received his PhD at Ankara University, School of Political Science with his dissertation Tanzimat Sonrası Mahalli İdareler ('Local Governments after the Reformation', 1978). With his State doctorate, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Alman Nüfuzu ('The German Influence on the Ottoman Empire', 1979), he became Associate Professor. In 1989 he became full Professor.
Lectured and served as visiting professor at universities in Vienna, Berlin, Princeton, Moscow, Rome, Munich, Strasbourg, Yanya, Sofia, Kiel, Cambridge, Oxford and Tunis. He has published in Turkish and in international scientific journals, articles on 16th-19th century Ottoman history and the history of Russia. Between 1989-2002 he served as the Chairman of the Administrative History Department at Ankara University, School of Political Science. In 2002 he joined the faculty of Galatasaray University, Istanbul. Two years later he transferred to Bilkent University, Ankara. İlber Ortaylı is President of the Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul. He is a member of the Board of the International Committee on Ottoman Studies and a member of the European Association of Iranolgy.
Symposium 2008, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Born 1964 in Adapazarı; Dr. Cemal Öztaş graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences. Following that, he received his M.A. degree from Istanbul University Institute of Humanities, Faculty of Political Sciences, and Department of Public Administration, having completed a thesis on The Correlations of Population and Economic Growth - the Cide Case. He pursued doctoral studies at Sivas Cumhuriyet University Institute of Humanities, Faculty of Economics, and Department of Economic Growth; and received his PhD degree with a dissertation on Local Authorities in the light of Rural Growth. After his posts at the Governorships of the provinces Kocaeli, Kastamonu, Ordu, Yozgat and Elazığ, he worked as deputy head and then head of Turkish Grand National Assembly Department of National Palaces until 2007. He is currently deputy secretary general at the Turkish Grand National Assembly. He published three volumes on a research conducted on rural growth in Turkey. He was accorded with many letters of commendation and was also awarded with the order of merit of Chivalry (Cavaliere-Classe III) by the Italian Republic. Cemal Öztaş also worked as guest lecturer at the Okan University in the academic years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.
Symposium 2010, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Nazende (Öztürk) Yılmaz was born in 1975. After obtaining her B.A. degree in Interior Design at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in 1999, she obtained her M.A. degree in Turkish Art from the Turkology Research Institute, Marmara University, in 2001. She completed her Ph.D. at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Western and Contemporary Art, and since 2004 has been lecturing on art history (graduate and undergraduate level) and cultural history at Marmara University and Mimar Sinan University. Dr. Yılmaz is currently a part time lecturer at both universities. Publications include “Fatih Külliyesinde Çorba Kapısı” (‘The “Çorba” Gate in the Fatih Complex’), Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi (Journal of Academic Studies), 16, February-April 2003; “Bir Fatih Devri Avlu Kapısında Baba Nakkaş Üslubu” (‘Baba Nakkaş Style on a Fatih Period Court Door’), Arkitekt, May-June 2003; “Bilinmeyen Sanat Değerimiz: Sultan Abdülaziz” (‘Our Unknown and Distinguished Figure in Art: Sultan Abdulaziz’), Okumuş Adam, 17, June 2003; “Osmanlı Sarayında Beethoven: Avrupa’da Bir Şehzade” (‘Beethoven in the Ottoman Court: An Ottoman Prince in Europe’), Okumuş Adam, 18, July 2003; “Batı Resminde Müzik Teması” (‘Theme of Music in Western Art of Painting’), RH+ Sanat, 6, September-October 2003. She also presented a paper entitled "An Italian Musician Family in Istanbul: The Lombardis" for the From Administrative Reforms (Tanzimat) to The Turkish Republic, The Italians of Istanbul and The Community's Representative Unit, Societa Operaia Italiana (1839-1923) congress in October, 2006.
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Guido Di Palma è attualmente professore aggregato presso il dipartimento di Arti e Scienze dello Spettacolo dell’ Università di Roma « Sapienza ». Per quindici anni è stato professore di Storia dello spettacolo nelle Accademie di Belle arti e ha insegnato a Sassari, Frosinone, Brera e Urbino. È stato professore a contratto all’Università di Roma 2 e ha insegnato presso ilCorso di laurea in Teorie e tecniche dell’Antropologia dell’ Università di Roma « Sapienza ». Collabora con diverse riviste scientifiche ed èamembro del comitato di redazione di « Biblioteca Teatrale ». Ha realizzato diversi documentari audiovisivi prodotti dall’ Ente Teatrale Italiano, dal Centro Teatro Ateneo e dalla RAI. I suoi interessi si concentrano sull’Antropologia del teatro, il teatro popolare, il teatro di marionette, la storia della regia. In questo periodo hainiziato una ricerca sulla formazione dell’attore che, per il momento, si concentra sulle vicende pedagogiche dei Copiaux. Un altro asse dei suoi interessi riguarda le relazionitra teatro e tecnologie audiovisive nel campo della ricerca e della didattica. È membro del Consiglio Accademico dell’Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica « Silvio d’Amico » dove insegna anche Storia della Regia.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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William F. Parmentier is a graduate student at Bogazici University (Istanbul) in the M.A. Program in European Studies (MAPES). His passion for musical and cultural history led him to host and produce a daily radio program for the Canadian Forces Network-Europe (CFN) and to study jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt with celebrated Dutch gypsy guitarist Lollo Meier. His current project is teaching his 8-month old son to hum Lully's "Marche pour la Ceremonie Turque."
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Patrice Pavis
Patrice Pavis est professeur l’Université de Paris 8. Spécialiste de théorie théâtrale, il a publié le Dictionnaire du théâtre (édition revue et corrigée, Paris: Colin, 2003), traduit en une trentaine de langues, ainsi que des livres sur la dramaturgie contemporaine française. Il prépare un livre sur la mise en scène contemporaine. Écrit chaque année une chronique sur le festival d’Avignon. OEuvres récentes choisies: Le théâtre contemporain: analyse des textes de Sarraute Vinaver. Paris: Nathan, 2002; L’analyse des spectacles: théâtre, mime, danse, danse-théâtre, cinéma. Paris: Colin, 2005; Vers une théorie de la pratique théâtrale. Voix et images de la scène. 4e édition. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2007; La mise en scène contemporaine: origines, tendances, perspectives. Paris: Colin, 2007.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Matthias J. Pernerstorfer
Born in 1976, in Eggenburg, Lower Austria. He studied theater, film and media in Vienna and Munich, having completed a dissertation on the character of the parasite in ancient Greek comedy (2001). He received a fellowship (DOC) from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for a thesis on the 'Colax' of Menander from 2003 to 2005. Afterwards he worked for the Viennese Da Ponte Institute for Libretto Studies, Don Juan Research and History of Collecting from 2005 to 2006. He is currently working on a research project on different aspects of the popular theater in Vienna in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the Don Juan Archiv Wien.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Forschungsgespräche: Wiener Repertoire im 18. Jahrhundert, Editionen dramatischer Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts, Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz, Bibliographien, Oper und Theater in Serbien, Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz II, Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz III, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ferdinand Raimunds inszenierte Fantasien, Wissenschaft nach der Mode"? Die Gründung des Zentralinstituts für Theaterwissenschaft an der Universität Wien 1943, Menanders Kolax. Ein Beitrag zu Rekonstruktion und Interpretation der Komödie. Mit Edition und Übersetzung der Fragmente und Testimonien sowie einem dramaturgischen Kommentar
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Gabriele C. Pfeiffer
Mag. Dr.phil, is a theater researcher and lecturer at universities and independent institutions in Austria (University of Vienna, INST Research Institute for Regional and Transnational Cultural Processes, Jura Soyfer Gesellschaft), Germany (University of Leipzig), Italy (University of Catania) and France (Groupe international de recherches interdisciplinaires, 'Spectacle vivant et sciences de l'homme' at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris). Most recently, she was a contributing scholar for the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards' 'Tracing Roads Across' Documentation Team (2003-2006). Dr. Pfeiffer conducted extensive postdoctoral research on Austrian experimental theater, 1945-1983, and her current fields of research include eighteenth-century Austrian theater history, experimental and intercultural performance, theater of the neo avant-garde in twentieth century Austria and Italy, and theater anthropology. At the moment she is researcher at the Don Juan Archiv Wien (Project: Komplex Mauerbach), lecturer at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, and working on the research project 'Documentation Fo-Theater in den Arbeiterbezirken Wien'.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Forschungsgespräche: Wiener Repertoire im 18. Jahrhundert, Editionen dramatischer Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts, Kooperationsprojekt: Don Juans Frauen übersetzen sich in Szene, Publikationen: Documentation Fo-Theater in den Arbeiterbezirken Wien, Corps Du Théâtre, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Kısmet Deniz Polat
Kısmet Deniz Polat is a dance researcher and a member of Movement Atelier. Between the years 2000-2007 she undertook intensive studies on movement with the Contemporary Turkish Dance Research Laboratory. She gives workshops on “body consciousness and creativity” and has organized an interdisciplinary project, From Learning to Creating: <...my Istanbul...> (2003 - 2006). She holds an M.A. degree in Ethnomusicology (2006-2008) and is currently a doctoral student in Ethnomusicology at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), Istanbul Technical University (2008 to the present).
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Jean-Marie Pradier
Né Marrakech, 15 mars 1939. Professeur émérite de l’Université de Paris 8. A codirigé le Département de théâtre jusqu’à son départ la retraite (2009). Docteur en psychologie et docteur ès lettres. La thèse en psychologie (1969) a pour objet l’analyse du discours de jeunes comédiens en apprentissage. La thèse d’État (1980) est consacrée l’approche interdisciplinaire du phénomène théâtral. Il a tout d’abord enseigné l’Institut de Psychologie de l’Université de Toulouse. Il a co-organisé le premier colloque international sur les aspects scientifiques du théâtre, tenu Karpacz en septembre 1979 auquel ont participé notamment Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Henri Laborit, l’éthologiste Guy Busnel, Abraham Moles, Janusz Degler, Krystian Lupa. Membre permanent de l’International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) depuis sa fondation en 1979 par Eugenio Barba. Affecté au Laboratoire de l’Imaginaire de Jean Duvignaud son retour en France, puis nommé au Département de théâtre de l’Université de Paris 8, J.-M. Pradier y a fondé et dirigé le groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les comportements humains spectaculaires organisés (OHPB), devenu Laboratoire d’ethnoscénologie (1995). Président du LIPS (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Pratiques Spectaculaires). Il a réalisé plusieurs universités internationales d’été pour la recherche associant artistes et scientifiques. Directeur scientifique de la revue L’éthnographie. Il est l’auteur de nombreuses publications. Parmi les plus significatives: « Toward a Biological Theory of the Body in Performance », in: New Theatre Quarterly, 6/21, février 1990, pp. 86-98; « Ethnoscénologie manifeste », in: Théâtre/public, 123, 1995, pp. 46-48; Fànic, Fàllic, Fàtic – Vers una teoria neurocultural dels espectacles vius. València: Universitat de València, 1998; La scène et la fabrique des corps. Ethnoscénologie du spectacle vivant en Occident (Ve siècle av. J.-C.– XVIIIe siècle). Talence: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1997; «aEthnoscenology: the Flesh is Spirit », in: New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis, éd. Günter Berghaus. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001, pp. 61-81.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Walter Puchner
Born in Vienna in 1947, he studied theater science at the University of Vienna. In 1972 he was nominated Doctor of Philosophy at the same university with a dissertation on Greek shadow theater, and in 1977 became Dozent in theater studies with a habilitation on the evolution of theatrical forms in Greek folk culture. In 1977-1989 he taught theater history at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete, then theater theory in the newly founded Department of Theater Studies at the University of Athens where he is currently dean. He has also taught theater history for thirty years at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the University of Vienna. He has been an invited guest professor at many European and American universities. In 1994 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in 2001 he was decorated with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. He has published more than sixty books and about three hundred publications in scientific periodicals. His research topics are the history of theater of the Balkan Peninsula, comparative folklore and ethnography of the Mediterranean area, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, as well as theory of drama and theater.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: European Drama and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Strother Purdy
Retired professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, American University of Beirut, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA.; author of Henry James: the Hole in the Fabric and articles on literary history and lit-film.
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Günsel Renda
Received her BA degree from Barnard College, Columbia University, an MA from Washington University, and her PhD from Hacettepe University in Art History.
She has worked at Hacettepe University and chaired the department of History of Art for many years. She is presently teaching at Koç University in Istanbul. She has served as advisor to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and organized several international exhibitions. She was a Fulbright visiting scholar in U.S.A. and guest professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes à la Sorbonne in Paris. She has been a member of the governing board at IRCICA. She has lectured on Turkish art in the United States and several countries in Europe and Asia and has participated in many international research projects. She is the author or co-author of books published in U.S.A., Europe and Turkey, and of many articles. She specializes in Ottoman art, Ottoman painting and interactions of European and Ottoman cultures.
Some of the books she edited, coedited and wrote are The transformation of Culture. The Atatürk Legacy (ed. G. Renda, M. Kortepeter), Princeton 1986; A History of Turkish Painting (Grabar, Renda, Turani, Ozsezgin) Genève-Istanbul 1988; Woman in Anatolia. 900 Years of the Anatolian Woman (ed. G. Renda) Istanbul 1994; The Sultan's Portrait. Picturing the House of Osman (Neciboglu, Raby, Majer, Meyer-zur-Capellen, Bagcı, Mahir, Renda), Istanbul 2000; The Ottoman Civilization (ed. H. Inalcik, G. Renda), Istanbul 2002; Minnet av Konstantinople. Den osmansk-turkiska 1700-talssamlingen pa Biby, (Achlund, Adahl, Brown, Karlsson, Kaberg, Laine, Renda), Stockholm 2003; Image of the Turks in the 17th Century Europe, (Neumann, Stepanek, Yerasimos, Renda, Gardina, Grothaus, Vidmar) Istanbul 2005; and Osmanlı Resim Sanatı (Ottoman Painting) (Serpil Bagcı, Filiz Çagman, Günsel Renda, Zeren Tanındı).
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Sultan Selim III as a Patron of Arts, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Né en 1954 Athènes (en Grèce). Il a fait des études de langue et de littérature allemandes et de science politique l’École normale supérieure, l’Université de Paris 4 Sorbonne et l’Institut d’études politiques Paris. Thèse de doctorat sur Le cas Otto Weininger (publiée en français en 1982; en allemand en 1985). 1989: habilitation sur Modernité viennoise et crises de l’identité (première édition en 1990). 1990–1999: professeur à l’Université de Paris 8 Saint-Denis. Depuis 1999, directeur d’études à l’École pratique des Hautes Études à Paris, Département des sciences historiques et philologiques. Il a obtenu plusieurs prix: en 2000, le Prix de la recherche Humboldt – Gay-Lussac; en 2006, le Prix Gabriel Monod de l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques pour Malwida von Meysenbug. Une Européenne du XIX e siècle. Paris: Bartillat, 2005; en 2009, le Prix Guizot de L’Académie française pour L’Allemagne au temps du réalisme. De l’espoir au désenchantement (1848–1890). Paris: A. Michel, 2008. Publications sur l’idée de l’Europe centrale. Publications choisies (traduites en plusieures langues): Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995; Les couleurs et les mots. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997; Nietzsche in Frankreich. München: Fink, 1997; Journaux intimes viennois. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000; Freud, de l’Acropole au Sinaï. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002; Schnitzler ou la Belle Époque viennoise. Paris: Belin, 2003.
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Born in 1947 in Copenhagen. Associate professor of Dramaturgy at the Department of Aesthetic Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. 1991–1993 member of the Universities Commission in the IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research). 1995–1999 vice president of The Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars (Foreningen Nordiske Teater for skere). Co-founded in 2002 the Centre for Theatre Laboratory Studies (CTLS) at Aarhus University and led it until 2005. She is co-editor of the standard work Dansk teaterhistorie (‘History of Danish Theatre’). Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1992–1993, 2 vols. She has published widely in English on past and present theatre and acting in Europe and in Asia, for instance on the approaches to acting of Henry Irving, Meyerhold, Mei Lanfang, and Odin Teatret. 2010 dissertation in English on the guest appearance of the Chinese male performer of female roles Mei Lanfang and his Beijing opera troupe in Moscow in 1935 and its effects (The Mei Lanfang Effect).
Publikation: Corps Du Théâtre
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Dr Geoffrey Roper is an international bibliographical and information consultant, specialising in the Middle East and Muslim world. He was from 1982 to 2003 head of the Islamic Bibliography Unit at the University of Cambridge, and editor of Index Islamicus, the major current comprehensive bibliography and search tool for publications on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. He has also been editor of Al-Furqān Foundation's World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Chairman of the Middle East Libraries Committee (MELCOM-UK) and contributor to various reference works. He has researched, written and lectured extensively on bibliography and the history of the book in the Muslim world, has curated exhibitions on the subject at Cambridge University Library and the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, and has been a convener of all three of the Symposia on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East (Mainz 2002, Paris 2005, Leipzig 2008). He is a contributor and adviser to the Khatt Foundation (Centre for Arabic Typography), the MuslimHeritage.com project of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), and Associate Editor (Muslim world) of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to the Book.
Symposium 2009, Publikationen: Printing in Europe and around the Mediterrranean - Theatralia, Musicalia & Orientalia, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Claudia Römer
Prof. Dr. Claudia Römer was born in 1956 in Vienna. After her studies of Turkish and Arabic Studies, she received her Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Vienna. She received scholarships between 1974-1980, working on the editing of Ottoman documents from the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Vienna. Since 1984 she has worked as lecturer at the Oriental Institute of the University of Vienna, having become Assistant Professor in 1985, and Associate Professor in 1992 with her Habilitation from the Faculty of Humanities of Vienna University. Since 2008 she has been Department Head of the Oriental Institute of Vienna University. She holds memberships with the Balkankommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wiener Archäographisches Forum, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Executive Committee and Executive Board of the International Association of Ottoman Social and Economic History, and is the General Secretary of CIEPO (Comité international des études pré-ottomanes et ottomanes; president: Michael Ursinus, Heidelberg).
Symposium 2010
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Born in 1970 in the town Shumen, Bulgaria, and originally named Orhan Salih. In 1985 he was renamed Orlin Sabev by the then regime and this remains his official name. In 1995 he obtained an MA degree from the University of Veliko Tarnovo, and in 2000, a PhD with a study on Ottoman educational institutions at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since May 2000 he has been Research Fellow at the the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was awarded the 'Marin Drinov' Academic Prize of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for young research fellows. Since October 2005 he has held an Associated Professorship at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His publications include: Ottoman Schools in Bulgarian Lands, 15th-18th Centuries, Sofia, 2001 (in Bulgarian); First Ottoman Journey in the World of Printed Books (1726-1746). A Reassessment, Sofia (in Bulgarian); and İbrahim Müteferrika ya da İlk Osmanlı Matbaa Serüveni (1726-1746). Yeniden Değerlendirme, İstanbul: Yeditepe Yayınevi, 2006 (in Turkish).
Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Mustafa Fatih Salgar
Born in Adana in 1954. In 1972 he attended Istanbul Belediye Conservatoire where he received formal education on Turkish classical music. He also attended choral training during those years. He continued his choral practice in the University Chorus during his undergraduate program of study in Istanbul University in the Faculty of Letters, the Department of Ancient History and Archeology. In 1976, he became a chorist of Istanbul Klasik Devlet Turk Muzigi Korosu appertained to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He has given lectures at Istanbul University and Istanbul Teknik University and he has been lecturing in private institutions since 1978. He has written several articles and conducted considerable research on Turkish classical music. He has written three books named, respectively, Dede Efendi, Sultan Selim III and The Lives of Fifty Turkish Composers. He has been the maestro of Istanbul Klasik Devlet Turk Muzigi Korosu since 2006 and has been continuing his authorship on Turkish classical music.
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Luca Scarlini
Born in Florence, 1966. After obtaining a degree in Florence (History of Theatre), he continued his studies in England. He is a playwright, essayist, translator, art administrator and editorial consultant for many publishing houses, and writes and teaches at many universities in Italy and abroad about twentieth-century playwriting, and relationships between literature and music. Writing regularly for publications of the Teatro Regio (Torino), Sistema Musica (Torino), and Amici della Musica of Perugia and Ravenna Festival, he works also for Radio 2 (Atlantis) and Radio 3 in Rome, and for Radio 3 Suite; and he creates the music programme for Rete Toscana Classica, a 24-hour a day classic music network between Florence and Prato. He has taught subjects in Orientalism in Italy and abroad, and in dance and culture in Italy and Egypt. He wrote La paura preferita (2004), a book about the relationship between Islam and Italian political and gender imagery, with many references to dance, theatre and music. In this field he also did the edition of Costantinopoli by Edmondo De Amicis, the most important nineteenth-century Italian book on Istanbul, with a note by Orhan Pamuk. He has also written about turquerie in many theatre programmes, and wrote about Karl Henrici in the catalogue of the Bozen 1600-1700 exhibition held by Museo Civico in 2005. He is a teacher of playwriting from different angles, in many schools and academies in Europe, including the Paolo Grassi school in Milano. He is also a teacher of History of Performing Arts for Fine Arts Academy, Brera, in Milano.
Symposium 2010
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Memo G. Schachiner
Dr. Memo G. Schachiner was born 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey, with Kurdish and Greek origins. He immigrated in 1971 to Austria. He studied singing, acting, political economy, philosophy, orientalistic studies and musicology. He is on researching duty of several universities and institutes and author of several books in several languages. Currently he is working as composer, singer (bass), conductor, music and culture historian, orientalist.
Symposium 2008
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Ulrike Schneider
Ulrike Schneider, born 1977 in Hanover, Germany, studied Music Education at the Academy Liszt School of Music Weimar, and at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki, Finland, as well as German Literature and Language at the Friedrich Schiller-University in Jena. Between 2004 and 2006 preparation of "stage for school" at Hanover. Since 2006 she has worked as an assistant at the Department of Music Education of the Academy of Music and at the new Franz Liszt Museum in Weimar. She is writing her PhD entitled Wielands Oberon in der Vertonung von Paul Wranitzky. Studien zur Inszenierungspraxis in Weimar um 1800.
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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John Sienicki
John Sienicki studied philosophy at Harvard University with Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who turned his interests toward literature, music, theater and film. He is now an independent scholar in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, with a particular interest in genres where classical and popular cultures intersect, such as Viennese theater and Indian film. He is the co-editor (with Lisa Feurzeig) of Quodlibets of the Viennese Theater (2008).
Symposium 2010
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Dr.phil., born in 1948 in Vienna. Studied pedagogy and psychology at the University of Vienna. Works as author and editor. Became chief editor of Redaktion Tagbau (Hollitzer Baustoffwerke Graz GmbH) in Vienna in 1999. Specialises in the research field of the history of post, media and travelling, associated with Don Juan Archiv Wien.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Kooperationsprojekt: Don Juans Frauen übersetzen sich in Szene, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Stefanie Steiner
Dr. Stefanie Steiner studied musicology, German literature and philosophy at Regensburg University and Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale Cremona (M.A., 1994). She graduated from TU Dresden in 2000 with a Dr. phil. degree in musicology. Since May 2001 she has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Max-Reger-Institute, Karlsruhe. Teaching assignments include TU Dresden, University of Music Karlsruhe, and Zürich University.
Publications include: Stefanie Steiner, Zwischen Kirche, Bühne und Konzertsaal. Vokalmusik von Haydns “Schöpfung” bis zu Beethovens “Neunter”. Kassel, Basel, London, New York und Prague (Bärenreiter), 2001; “In Mohrenland gefangen…“ – Bilder des Orients und Aspekte der Aufklärung in Mozarts Opern, in: Mozart und die europäische Spätaufklärung, ed. Lothar Kreimendahl, Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt (frommann-holzboog), in print; “Most musical, most melancholy! – Händels L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato nach Milton“, in: „true to life“ – Händel, der Klassiker, ed. Ute Jung-Kaiser and Matthias Kruse (= Wegzeichen Musik Bd. 5), Hildesheim 2009, pp. 159–185; “Schiller ist von jeher ein für die Componisten gefährlicher Dichter gewesen.“ – Zu einigen Parallelvertonungen von Zumsteeg, Reichardt und Schubert, in: Schubert-Jahrbuch 2003–2005, ed. Michael Kube, Duisburg 2007, pp. 139–172.
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Suna Suner
Born in Ankara, Suna Suner (MA) is a performing arts researcher and a performer. She received her BA in Conference Translation and Interpretation (Turkish and English) from Hacettepe University. Having worked as an instructor of English for six years, and as a teaching assistant at the Management of Performing Arts department for two years at Istanbul Bilgi University, she received in 2004 her MA degree in Performing Arts from the Middlesex University in London. She worked as a stage performer for seven years at the Istanbul-based Kumpanya Theater Co., having also devised her own performances. She sang in polyphonic choirs, and also with miscellaneous bands including Istanbul Blues Company, and performed in numerous Turkish festivals and venues. In 2006 she was invited as a performance artist to the first International Sinop Biennial, Sinopale. Between 2004-2007 Suner worked as archive associate at the Viennese Da Ponte Institute and in January 2007 she joined the team of Don Juan Archiv Wien as performing arts researcher. Suner currently continues her doctoral studies at the Institute of Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, and continues her performance work both in Vienna and Istanbul.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Forschungsgespräche: Wiener Repertoire im 18. Jahrhundert, Editionen dramatischer Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II
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Nina Trauth
Nina Trauth studied art history, literature and classical archaeology at Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Vienna, Basel, and Trier. A graduate student in the Identity and Difference: Gender Constructions and Interculturality doctoral programme at Trier University from 2000-2003, in 2005 she received her doctorate with her dissertation Maske und Person. Orientalismus im Porträt des Barock and was awarded “Nachwuchsförderpreis” of Trier University. After a Fellowship as an Assistant Curator at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, since 2009 Nina has been a Curator of the Sonderforschungsbereichs 600 Fremdheit und Armut (Collaborative Research Centre 600 ‘Strangers and Poor People’) exhibition at Trier University.
Publications include: Maske und Person: Orientalismus im Porträt des Barock, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2009; Dorit Schäfer, Nina Trauth: Gotthard Graubner – Radierungen, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008; Siegmar Holsten, Nina Trauth: Von Houdon bis Rodin: Französische Plastik des 19. Jahrhunderts, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007; “Madame de Pompadour als Türkin? Maskeraden zur kulturellen und geschlechtlichen Selbstdarstellung im orientalisierenden Porträt des Barock”, Weiße Blicke. Geschlechtermythen des Kolonialismus, (Eds.) V. Schmidt-Linsenhoff, K. Hölz, H. Uerlings, Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2004, pp. 75–96.
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Marianne Tråvén
Marianne Tråvén studied musicology at the University of Stockholm. Her dissertation dealt with Mozart's opera Don Giovanni and the interrelationship between verbal text, music and different libretto translations. She has since her graduation in 1999 taken part in a number of international conferences with papers on Mozart-related topics, musical gesture, musical rhetoric and the method of libretto translation as well as 18th century music, especially opera, and the training of singers in this era. She is now a lecturer in musicology at Uppsala University. Marianne Tråvén has also studied applied Voice, Choral conducting as well as Vocal instruction at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She has performed regularly in the fields of oratorio, opera, operetta, musical and chamber music and is active as a soprano, particularly in opera, operetta and lied. She has a Masters degree from the University of Stockholm in cultural sciences and art history, and has also studied social anthropology and museology.
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Laura Tunbridge is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester. She studied at the Universities of Oxford and Nottingham before gaining her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2002. Her publications include Schumann’s Late Style (Cambridge, 2007) and The Song Cycle (Cambridge, forthcoming); she is also co-editor of Rethinking Schumann (Oxford, 2010). A member of The Byron Centre at the University of Manchester, Dr. Tunbridge has published articles about musical adaptations of Byron’s Manfred, including “From Count to Chimneysweep: Byron’s Manfred in London Theatres”, Music and Letters 87 (2006); “Schumann as Manfred”, Musical Quarterly 87 (2004); and “Schumann’s Manfred in the Mental Theatre”, Cambridge Opera Journal 15 (2003).
Symposium 2010
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B. Babür Turna
Obtained his BA (1992) and his first master's degree (1995) in theater (history and theory of theater) at Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. Courses he has taken include History of Turkish Theater, History of Western Theater, Modern Art and Literature, Literary Theories and Criticism, and Dramaturgy. In 2000, he obtained a second MA in history (Ottoman history) at Bilkent University. Currently he is working on a PhD dissertation under Prof. Halil İnalcık. His most recent publication, 'Paths to God within the Poet: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and his mystical poetry', in: Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures (Routledge, 2006, edited by Glenda Abramson, Hilary Kilpatrick), deals with the mystical dimensions of Turkish poetry during the early Republican era.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Himmet Umunç
Professor Himmet Umunc received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of London (King’s College). He was promoted associate professor in 1981 and full professor in 1987. He teaches British culture and literature in the Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, Ankara, with which he has been affiliated for over forty years. So far he has had various administrative tasks in the university and currently serves as the Chair of the Department for the third three-year period. Also, in different periods, he has taught, on a part-time basis, at Bilkent, Van Yuzuncu Yil, Manisa Celal Bayar, Kutahya Dumlupinar and Denizli Pamukkale Universities. His research interests include British studies, American studies, representation of Turkey in British and American writings, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, and comparative literature. He has published in learned journals and presented papers at national and international conferences.
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Born in Kadıköy, İstanbul. Received her B.A. Honours in History and Ph.D. in History (1980) from Istanbul University. In 1985 she also received a diploma in Operatic Singing from the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg, having studied under Prof. Rudolf Knoll. Previously, her tutor at the Conservatoire in İstanbul was French soprano Madame Ren Gelenbevi (formerly a primadonna in the Paris Opera House and also tutor of Leyla Gencer). Gülgûn Üçel-Aybet has been a concert soloist in Europe and Turkey since the 1970s. She recorded an album at the Gateway Studios in Kingston, Surrey, England (1990) and was invited as soloist by the Glyndebourne Opera in 1989. She has lectured on “Social Position of Musicians in Europe” at the Department of Musicology, Mimar Sinan University. Dr. Üçel –Aybet was invited by the Istanbul State Opera to be dramaturge and translator for productions of the operas Merry Wives of Windsor” and Nabucco, and worked with Polish director Brezinsky and American conductor Peter Ash in 1990. Between the years 1970-1974 she took post-graduate courses on European painting, art and Ottoman historiography at the Universities of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and she took painting courses at the Mackintosh School of Art, Glasgow. She also continued her original research work on European sources of Ottoman history”. She taught History and History of Civilisation at the American Robert College in İstanbul, Ege University in İzmir, and Mimar Sinan University in İstanbul. Dr. Üçel –Aybet specializes in European travellers in Ottoman lands and their observations about the people in the Middle East, Balkans and Eastern Europe; the image of the Turk in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, music and drama in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the history of medicine, and women in the Ottoman Empire. Her work on European travellers in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their observations on social and cultural life was published by Iletisim Yayınları in 2003 (Avrupalı Seyyahların Gözünden Osmanlı Dünyası ve İnsanları, 1530-1699, pp.656, including maps and sketches).She was invited by international institutes and congresses to present papers on her work from 1983 to 2009 at conferences organized by BRISMES, MESA, CIEPO, ICANAS, IREMAM, IRCICA-UNESCO,ISHM, and CEROMDI at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, SOAS London, LSE London, California (Berkeley), Aix-en Province, Heidelberg, Vienna, Prag, Warsaw, Toronto, Hong-Kong, İstanbul, and İzmir. In 2008 she was awarded with the “Lifetime Achievement Award – Exellence in History” by the United Cultural Convention, USA, for her work on European and Ottoman social and cultural history. Previously she won an award in operatic singing at the Glasgow Music Festival in 1972.
Symposium 2010
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Vassilis Vavoulis (M.Mus., D.Phil.) is the UK co-ordinator for the RILM international project of music scholarship and bibliography (Nottingham University and British Library, London). His research interests lie in seventeenth-century Venetian opera, baroque performance practice, rhetoric and opera poetics, and the management of humanities bibliography. He has taught musicology and early music at Nottingham University, Oxford University, and Trinity College, Dublin, and has published with the journals Notes, the RMA Research Chronicle, Music & Letters, Early Music, and with the publishers A-R Editions and Berliner-Wissenschafts Verlag.
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Dr. Polona Vidmar teaches art history at the Faculty of Education of the University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her publications include Die Herren von Pettau als Bauherren und Mäzene (Graz, 2006), and Turqueries, Orientals and Virtuous Heroes (Ptuj, 2007). She was one of the curators of the exhibition Image of the Turks in the 17th Century Europe (Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, 2005) and the curator of the exhibiton Turqueries: immagini del mondo Ottomano nell'Europa del XVII secolo (Trieste, 2006). Her current research focuses on the role of patrons of the arts.
Symposium 2010
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Michael Walter is Professor of Musicology at the University of Graz. He heads the Department of Musicology and the Center for Cultural Studies. He has edited and co-edited several books, among them three volumes of the Jahrbuch für Opernforschung (1985, 1986, 1990) and Text und Musik: Neue Perspektiven der Theorie (Munich, 1992). He is author of Hitler in der Oper: Deutsches Musikleben 1919-1945 (Stuttgart, 1995/2000), "Die Oper ist ein Irrenhaus": Sozialgeschichte der Oper im 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1997/Tokyo 2000), Richard Strauss und seine Zeit (Laaber, 2000), and Haydns Sinfonien: Ein musikalischer Werkführer (Munich, 2007). He has also published numerous articles and book contributions on the music history of the Middle Ages, the history of opera, classical music, Richard Strauss, and on music and musical life in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Derek Weber
Born 1947 in Knittelfeld / Austria. Studies in history, German philology and political science. He holds an assistant professorship in history. Teaches in many Austrian universities, and contributes to the cultural sections of different European newspapers and periodicals. Directs and conducts research projects, a recent project with the theme "Arisierung" in frame of the Commission for History of the Republic of Austria. Since 1990 contributor to different festivals (Macerata Opera, Musikfest Bremen, "Mozart in Schönbrunn" in Vienna) and opera houses (Volksoper Wien, Kammeroper Wien, Opéra Comique Paris, Luzerner Theater) as free-lance opera dramatist as well as translator of diverse opera texts.
Symposium 2008, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I
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Hans Ernst Weidinger
Gewerke, Dr. phil., born in 1949 in Vienna. Studied law, classical languages, theater studies and art history at Vienna University, and dance, voice and piano in Vienna and Prague; has conducted study trips to Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo, London and Prague; taught at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Mozarteum University Salzburg; ISSEI, Pamplona. Founder of Don Juan Archiv Wien in 1987. Projects include Wiener Brut (film, Vienna 1982); Constitutionis Theresianae Revocatio (performance, Vienna 1982); La Prétendante Chante (performance, Berlin 1984); Il Giudizio di Don Giovanni (opera - librettist and director, Ratisbon 1986); HIC SAXA LOQVVNTVR (architectural competition, Pfaffenberg - Berlin - Vienna - Venice, 1993-96); Eine Oper für Büropa (opera - librettist and director, Linz 1998); Fermata Greve Piazza (opera - librettist and director, Greve in Chianti, 2002). His PhD was on IL DISSOLUTO PUNITO. Untersuchungen zur äußeren und inneren Enstehungsgeschichte von Lorenzo da Pontes & W. A. Mozarts DON GIOVANNI.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Forschungsgespräche: Bibliographien, Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz II, Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz III, Tagung: Der 30jährige ABC-Schütz, Publikationen: Il dissoluto punito. Bd. V-XVI Dokumentarischer Anhang, Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II, Maske und Kothurn: Lorenzo Da Ponte (Wien, 2007), "Schwellen", in: Herbert Lachmayer, Peter Plica (Hrsg.): Über die Schwelle. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2003, S. 207, Video: Eine Oper für Büropa. Vorspiel im Büro, LP: Aus dem Gebetbuch singt Kantor Mosche Blum, Vortrag: Don Juan auf der Reise durchs Mittelmeer
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Daniel Winkler studied comparative literature and Romance studies in Aix-en-Provence, Paris and Vienna. His PhD research was on Marseille as a cinematic city (Transit Marseille. Eine Mittelmeermetropole im Film. Bielefeld 2007). Current research interests include popular culture, migrant cinema and literature, and theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
His publications in English and French include: 'Empereurs de Californie' Blaise Cendrars et Luis Trenker à la recherche littéraire et cinématographique de L'Or, in Ritm. Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes 36 (2006); 'Marseille: Cinematic Sites of Imaginary and Globalisation,' in Sinn-haft. Zeitschrift zwischen Kulturwissenschaften 14-15 (2003); 'The Cinema of Irregular Migration and the Question of Space: France, Italy and Spain' (with Verena Berger; in print).
Symposium 2009, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Larry Wolff
Larry Wolff is professor of history at New York University and director of the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. He received his AB from Harvard in 1979 and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. His research concerns issues of East and West in Europe, especially in the culture of the Enlightenment. Wolff has received Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and in 2003 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 he presented the keynote lecture in Vienna at the conference 'Wie europäisch ist die Oper?' The lecture was titled 'Turkey and Europe: The Operatic Perspective.'
Publications include: The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, co-edited with Marco Cipolloni, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, 2001; paperback edition, Stanford, 2002; Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 2006 (Venezia e gli Slavi); Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996; Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000 (Inventarea Europei de Est); Moscow: Historia Rossica, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2003; (Izobretaia Vostochnuiu Evropu: Karta tsivilizatsii v soznanii epokhi Prosvescheniia) Sofia: Kralitsa Mab, 2004; Le Mirage russe au XVIIIe siècle, co-edited with Serguei Karp Ferney: Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2001; 'The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions' in: Diplomatic and Cultural Encounters at the Warsaw Nunciature, Boulder East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 1988; Postcards from the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna, New York: Atheneum, 1988; London: William Collins Sons, 1989; Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1992 ('Ansichtskarten vom Weltuntergang'); Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1993; and the Introduction to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs. Translation by Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Penguin Classics, 2000.
Symposium 2009, Publikation: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Professor of Education at Ankara University Faculty of Letters, History Department, Turkey (BA), Birmingham University, Faculty of Arts, Ottoman Studies, UK (BA and PhD). Alaaddin Yalçınkaya's thesis was titled The First Permanent Ottoman-Turkish Embassy in Europe: The Embassy of Yusuf Agah Efendi to London (1793-1797), Birmingham, 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Head of the History Department, in 2001-2004 he was Director of Social Sciences Institute, and since 2005 he has been Head of the History Department at Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon.
His most recent publications in English include: 'Mahmud Raif Efendi as the Chief Secretary of Yusuf Agah Efendi, The First Permanent Ottoman-Turkish Ambassador to London (1793-1797)', in: OTAM 5, 1994, pp. 385-434; 'İstanbul as an Important Centre of European Diplomacy (According to British Sources During the Period, 1792-1798)', in Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, vol. I Politics, Ankara, 2000, pp. 523-537; 'The Eighteenth Century: A Period of Reform, Change and Diplomacy (1703-1789)', in: THE TURKS, 4, ed. Kemal Çiçek-Cem Oğuz. Ankara: Yeni Turkiye yayınları, 2002, pp. 91-123; 'The Modernisation of the Ottoman Diplomatic Representations in Europe: The Case of the Embassy of İsmail Ferruh Efendi to London (1797-1800)', in: A Bridge Between Cultures, Studies on Ottoman and Republican Turkey in Memory of Ali İhsan Bağış, ed. Sinan Kuneralp, İstanbul 2006, pp. 51-67.
Symposium 2009
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Ambassador Selim Yenel was born in Istanbul in 1956. After his studies at the University of Ankara, Faculty of Political Science, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979 and in between his services in Ankara was posted to OECD in Paris, Kabul, the United Nations, New York, Delegation to the European Union, Brussels. Since 2006 he is Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in Vienna. He has dealt with Turkish - EU relations between 1994-2005.
Symposium 2008, Symposium 2009, Symposium 2010, Publikationen: Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. I, Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol. II
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Associate professor Dr. Netice Yıldız is a graduate of Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters where she gained degrees in English Literature and Language (BA) in 1980 and Archaeology and History of Art (PhD) in 1987, with a thesis on British-Ottoman Artistic Exchanges, 1583-1914. She has been working as art historian at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) (North Cyprus) since October 1987 as assistant professor and as associate professor since 1992. Her research interests are every aspect of British - Ottoman artistic exchanges; Cyprus Medieval and Ottoman culture, art and architecture; western artists and the Turkish image in England; women in Cyprus through the ages; and medieval iconography in Cypriot Art. Her honours and awards include having been awarded the research grant of the Barakat Foundation, Oriental Research Centre, Oxford University (2000) and the Ministry of Education and Culture Funding Award for the project 'Catalogue of Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts in North Cyprus'.
Netice Yıldız's memberships include being a member of the Standing International Committee of International Congress of Turkish Arts since 1991; fellow member of BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Society); member of Historian of Islamic Art (HIA); member of Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA); fellow member of Europa Nostra; Board of Antiquities and Monuments (1998-2000); Executive Board for Centre for Woman Studies (EMU) (1998-2004) (2006- ); She published several articles and proceedings on her research topics in the areas of British- Ottoman relations, and Cyprus Art History and worked as the editor-in-chief for KADIN/WOMAN 2000, Journal for Woman Studies, a refereed and indexed journal (2000-2008). Recent Publications include: 'The Vakf System in Cyprus as a Philanthropy and Religion Institution and a Special Case for Housing the Poor: The Complex of Saman Bahçe Houses in Nicosia (Cyprus)', in: Guiliana Gemelli (ed.), Religions and Philanthropy, Global Issues in Historical Perspectives, Legacy of MISP, Bologna: Baskerville UniPress, 2007, pp. 217-266; 'Documents Regarding the Supplies of Dolmabahçe and Other Palaces in the Archive of the Turkish Embassy in London', in: Bildiriler (Proceedings), International Symposium for the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Dolmabahce Palace in İstanbul, organised by Milli Saraylar (National Palaces) 23-26 November 2006., Vol. I, pp.107-122; 'Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İngiliz Saatleri ve Topkapı Sarayı Koleksiyonu', in Belleten, LXX, 259 (Aralık 2006). pp. 919-973 (British Clocks and Watches in Ottoman Empire and Topkapi Palace Collection); 'Wakfs in Ottoman Cyprus', in: Imber, Colin; Kiyotaki, Keiko; Murphey, Rhoads (eds.) Frontiers of Ottoman Studies, Vol. 2, I.B. Tauris Publications, 2004 pp. 179-196; 'A Mark of Modernity: The Role of Turkish Cypriot Women Artists in the Evolution of Modern Art', in: KADIN/WOMAN 2000, III (2) December 2003, pp.1-36; 'İngiliz Yaşamında Türk İmgesi ve Etkileri', in: Türkler, ed. Hasan Celal Güzel, Kemal Çiçek, Salim Koca, Ankara: Türkiye Yayınları, 2002, 21 Volumes, in Vol. 11, pp. 921-933. (21 Volumes, Reference section Book). 'İngiliz Kültüründe Osmanlı Etkileri', in: Türkler, ed. Hasan Celal Güzel, Kemal Çiçek, Salim Koca, Ankara: Türkiye Yayınları, 2002, Vol. 15, Part: 75, pp. 564-580 (a twenty-one-volume reference book).
Symposium 2009
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Mi Zhou
Mi Zhou is a Mellon post-doctoral research fellow based at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London. Her current research concentrates on the representation of the Balkans in photography and literature from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. She is interested in the way in which, during this period, photography of, and writing on, the Balkans have been bound up with war and conflict, as subject, theme, and means of production. Her research examines the implication of this relationship and theorises the role of artistic media in the construction of the Balkans as a political entity. She previously obtained her Ph.D. from University of Cambridge with a dissertation on the use of music in E. M. Forster’s novels.
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