RESULTS

PUBLICATIONS

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. “You Shall Speak My Language: In Defense of Linguistic Specificity and Rigorous Comparativism.” The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, vol. 65, 2023, pp. 233–258. https://doi.org/10.3138/ycl-65-010 (2023)

  • Kirill Zubkov. “Поражение как победа: Нарратив о Крымской войне и историческая память в Российской империи второй половины XIX века.” Acta Slavica Iaponica, vol. 44, 2023. (2023)

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca and Hazal Bozyer. “The Stakes of ‘Imitation’: Debating Modern Poetics and National Identity in Late Ottoman Literature.” Middle Eastern Literatures, 2024, pp. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2024.2425645 (2024)

  • Gokcen Gokceoglu, Devrim Çavuşoğlu, Emre Akbas, and Ozen Dolcerocca. “A Multi-Level Multi-Label Text Classification Dataset of 19th Century Ottoman and Russian Literary and Critical Texts.” Findings of ACL 2024. 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.393 (2024)

  • Mehtap Ozdemir. “Ethical Antinomies: The Problem of Realism in Ottoman Literary Modernity.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 44.2 (1 August 2024): 234–248. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11233104 (2024)

  • Kirill Zubkov. “Against the Rules of Literary Aesthetics: ‘In the Village’ and Literary Debates About Representations of the Common People.” Slavic and East European Journal 68.1 (2024). (2024)

  • Kirill Zubkov. “The History of a Plot: Nikolai Uspensky and the Representation of the Narod and Russian Radicals of the 1860s in Russian Fiction.” In Russian Radicals Today. Lexington Books, 2024. (2024)

  • Namık Kemal and Özen Nergis Dolcerocca. “On the Literature of the Ottoman Language.” Trans. Mehtap Özdemir. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 140.2 (2025): 283–292. https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812925000227 (2025)

  •  Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca and Jennifer Flaherty. “The Cry of the Heart: Russian and Ottoman Literary Enlightenments.” Comparative Critical Studies 22.1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2025.0545 (2025)

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. “A Conceptual Approach to the Late Ottoman-Turkish Literary Field: From the Issue Editor.” Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies, issue 8 (2025), pp. i–xi. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15280721 (2025)

  • Hazal Bozyer. “İhtiras değil hars: geç Osmanlı’dan erken Cumhuriyet’e şahsiyet kavramının dönüşümü.” Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy. 8 (30 April 2025): 31–59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15261067 (2025)

  • Kirill Zubkov. “Теккерей против нигилизма: Литературная полемика и романная форма во Взбаламученном море А. Ф. Писемского.” Slavic Literatures, vol. 158 (2025): 109–138. (2025)

  • Taka Oshikiri. “Translating Fūryū, Reappropriating Chanoyu: Japan’s Nation-building, Imperialist Ambitions and Meiji Modernisation.” The Journal of Asian Humanities, forthcoming 2026.

  • Kirill Zubkov. “Nihilism against Aesthetics: Towards the International History of a Concept.” Studies in East European Thought, forthcoming 2026.

  • Kirill Zubkov. “Кто отменит русского писателя: Споры о цензуре и институт критики в 1860-х годах.” Europa Orientalis, forthcoming 2026.

 

PRESENTATIONS 

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. “Nahda, Haskala, Tanzimat: Enlightenment and Building National Literatures in West Asia.” MLA Convention 2023, 7 January 2023.

  • Mehtap Ozdemir. “Adab as Literary-Political Ethics and Ottoman Moral Imagination.” MLA Convention 2023, 7 January 2023.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “A Voice from the Wall: Precarity of Being in the Existential Narratives of Ahmet Mithat.” PhD Symposium on Precarity for Humans and Things, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 29 March 2023.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Animal Diaspora in the Late Ottoman Literature.” Transnational & Global History Seminar, University of Oxford, 5 June 2023.

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. “Literature and Nation-Building in the Age of the Empire: Comparative Questions, Methodological Challenges.” New Directions in Modern Japanese Culture: Comparativism, Translation, and Nation-Building in the Age of Empire Workshop, Waseda University Brussels Office, Brussels, 4 September 2023.

  • Hazal Bozyer. “İçerikten Biçime: Osmanlı Edebiyat Tartışmalarında Metot Fikri.” Turkologentag 2023, University of Vienna, 21–23 September 2023.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Ways of Saving an Empire: Reception of Enlightenment in the Ottoman Modernization Period.” Governing Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, University of Turin, 15 September 2023.

  • Kirill Zubkov. “There were Three Brothers There, in the Caucasus.” Comparing Colonial Discourses: Africa and the Caucasus in Russian Thought, University of Padova, 19 October 2023.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Stories Behind the Microscope: Microorganisms in the Late Ottoman Literature.” The Micro as Macro: Narrating World Histories of Science, Technology and Environment, University of California, Santa Cruz, 20 October 2023.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “The Loss of Heart: Beşir Fuad and Materialist Ideas in Ottoman Modernization.” First Forum 2023 Graduate Conference in Cinema & Media Studies, University of Southern California, 27–28 October 2023.

  • Hazal Bozyer. “Cumhuriyet Edebiyatının Kanon Kurucusu Olarak Yeni Mecmua.” Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Sanat ve Edebiyat Kanonu, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, 23–24 November 2023.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Finding ‘Hikmet’ in Enlightenment Thought.” A Conceptual Approach to the Late Ottoman-Turkish Literary Field, University of Bologna, 29 February 2024.

  • Hazal Bozyer. “Osmanlı Edebiyatında Özerkliğe Doğru.” A Conceptual Approach to the Late Ottoman-Turkish Literary Field, University of Bologna, 29 February–1 March 2024.

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. Annual Lecture of the Center for World Literatures, University of Leeds, 1 May 2024.

  • Kirill Zubkov. “It Is Impossible to Attack Them Directly.” The Dynamics of Censorship in Russian Literature, University of Parma, 16–17 May 2024.

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. “Modernizing Empires.” Invited Lecture, Università degli Studi di Milano, 17 May 2024.

  • Taka Oshikiri. “Developing a Database on Cultural and Literary Criticism in Meiji-Period Literary Magazines.” Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies, Berlin, 11–12 July 2024.

  • Kirill Zubkov. “World Literature and National Canon.” Russian Populism Revisited: Ideology, Discourse and Social Practices, 2–3 October 2024.

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. Radio Interview: Açık Radyo, 19 December 2024.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Fire of Malice or the Rising Sun from the West: Translating French Enlightenment into Ottoman Turkish.” MESA Annual Meeting, 12 November 2024.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “The Enlightenment of Ottoman Women: Shifting Perceptions and Intellectual Inclusion During Modernization.” Jadal Conference, Doha, 26 January 2025.

  • Taka Oshikiri. “Bungaku (文学).” Seminars in Comparative Literature, University of Bologna, 24 April 2025.

  • Marina Osipova. “Границы знания.” IFUSCO XL, Vienna, 22–25 April 2025.

  • Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca. “Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities.” Invited Lecture, University of Vienna, 22 May 2025.

  • Kirill Zubkov. “Do We Have Literature?” University of Bologna, 8 May 2025.

  • Taka Oshikiri. “Negotiating Bungaku.” BAJS Annual Conference, 9 May 2025.

  • Marina Osipova. “Shifting Loyalties of Grigoriy Vereshagin.” CIFU14, University of Tartu, 18–23 August 2025.

  • Hazal Bozyer. “Writing as a Turk: The Debate of National Aesthetics and the Limits of Acceptable Literary Work.” Turkologentag 2025, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 17–20 September 2025.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Mecmua as Encyclopedia: A Study on Encyclopedic Knowledge in Late Ottoman Journals” Turkologentag 2025, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 17–20 September 2025.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. “Dissecting Literature: The Concept of Teşrih in Late Ottoman Literary Criticism”. B2B Histories of Concepts, B2B Histories of Concepts, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 22–26 September 2025.

  • Zeynep Nur Simsek. "Voltaire Aleyhisselam, Rousseau Radıyallahu Anh”: The Islamification of Enlightenment Thought in Ottoman Modernization." BRAIS International Symposium, Boğaziçi University, 24-25 January 2025.