OTTOMAN EMPIRE & EUROPEAN THEATRE

VII. Culture of Politics or Cultural Politics - Act Two:


Representation, Theatricality
and
Cultural Transfer
in the Ottoman-European Diplomatic Relations


On the Occasion of
the 630th Anniversary of the first Ottoman Envoy
to Venice in 1348

 

International Symposium organized by
Don Juan Archiv Wien

Forschungsverein für Theater- und Kulturgeschichte

 

Under the patronage of

Exc. Hasan Göğüş

Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in Vienna

&

Exc. Dr. Klaus Wölfer

Ambassador of the Republic of Austria in Ankara

 

In cooperation with

Pera Museum Istanbul,
The UNESCO International Theatre Institute in Vienna (ITI)
and
The Austrian Cultural Forum in Istanbul

Vienna 2014

 

Vienna:
Dates: June 5-6, 2014
Venue: Don Juan Archiv Wien, Trautsongasse 6/6, 1080 Wien

Vienna

 

Conference Convenors:

Michael Hüttler, Matthias J. Pernerstorfer, Suna Suner, H. E. Weidinger

 

 

10:00–11:00 Opening Ceremony

 

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

 

11:30–12:45 Session I “Encompassing Centuries”

 

Matthias J. Pernerstorfer

 

From Second Row to the Wide Stage. The Counts of Kuefstein in the Diplomatic Service of the Imperial Dynasty and their Impact on Cultural Affairs

 

Luca Scarlini

 

Il Gran Teatro di Ragusa: The Town as a Stage for the Relationships between East and West from Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

 

12:45–14:00 Lunch Break

 

14:00–15:15 Session II “The Sixteenth Century”

 

Nevin Zeynep Yelçe

 

Friends and Foes: Ambassadorial Receptions at the Ottoman Camp in Niš and Belgrade (1532)

 

Maria Alberti

 

The Mirror of Politics: Turqueries at the Medici Court (1589–1620)

 

15:15–15:30 Coffee Break

 

15:30–17:00 Session III “The Seventeenth Century”

 

Arno Strohmeyer

 

Staging – Representation – Reminiscence: Imperial Diplomats on the Way to Constantinople in the Seventeenth Century (ca. 1600–1700)

 

Nedret Kuran-Burçoğlu

 

Reflections of the Image of the Turk in the 17th Century Baroque Plays of Andreas Gryphius (1616–1664) and Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein (1635–1683)

 

Dirk Van Waelderen

 

The pamphlet ‘Klagten des Turksen Keysers Sultan Mahomet gedaan aan Louis de XIV’ or how the French-Ottoman relations are portrayed by the Habsburgs in the Spanish Netherlands (1688)

 

18:00 onwards Symposium Dinner

 

10:00–11:30 Session IV “The Eighteenth Century”

Martin Nedbal

Censoring the Harem: The Suppression of the ‘Handkerchief’ Moments in Viennese Türkenopern in the Late Eighteenth Century (1764, 1770, 1799)

Suna Suner

Ottoman Diplomats in Vienna during the Eighteenth Century and the Visit of Süleyman Efendi (1774)

John Plemmenos

Interpreting Thoughts, Expressing Sentiments: Greek Dragomans for European Embassies in Eighteenth Century Kostantiniyye and their Representation in Literature and Music (1776, 1792, 1797)

 

11:30–11:45 Coffee Break

 

11:45–13:15 Session V “The Nineteenth Century”

Irena Fliter

“A Home away from Home” – Ottoman Diplomats’ Private Suites as a Stage for Cultural Representation in Late Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century Prussia (1763–1806)

Luca Zuccolo

In the Mirror of the Others: Ottoman Ambassadors in France between 1850 and 1870

Bent Holm

'Politician in spite of himself'. Mehmet Ali Pasha’s visit to Copenhagen seen in a political and cultural context (1859)

 

13:30–15:00  Lunch Break

 

Closure of the sessions

 

15:00–16:00 Book Presentation by Hollitzer Publishing

 

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

 

16:30–18:30 Ottoman Round Tables – II

Themes: Melchior Lorck Project, Story of Vildan Hanım as an Ottoman painter, Sefâretnâmes Edition

 

18:30 onwards Closing Dinner

 

Symposium Full Programme incl. Abstracts

 

 

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