Ms. orient. T 186, fol. 252r
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From the perspective of some of the key findings of the project Rewriting Global Orthodoxy, Oriental Christians in Europe (1970-2020) Professor Murre-van den Berg will revisit some of her earlier work on Syriac Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Insights in how, in the contemporary period, travel and transnational connectivity, within confessional Christian communities and among them, had a major impact in how these communities put reading and writing, learning and teaching to work as a major tool for the stability and flourishing of their communities, in new diasporic communities as much as in homelands in turmoil.
Rather than taking the writing of books and manuscripts for granted as a standard element of the cultural production of these Christian communities, Professor Murre-van den Berg proposes to see this literary production and the accompanying learning strategies as the kernel of how these communities renew themselves over time, in different locations and contexts. A new look at the Syriac communities of the Ottoman period will situate these contemporary trends in a historic context, and will put new light on the developments of that period, in which similar processes of mobility and inter-confessional exchange stimulated literary and communal renewal in which the production of texts played a crucial role.
Ein Vortrag von Professor Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Radboud University of Nijmegen) in der Reihe Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung des Münchner Mittelost-Mittelmeer-Mittelasien-Zentrums (4MZ).
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der 4MZ Website.