The SENSIS Team organized an international conference titled Sensescapes of War and Ritual in the Early Modern Islamic World in Utrecht on February 13–14. This two-day event brought together scholars for engaging presentations and thought-provoking discussions.
Professor Christian Lange is welcoming the conference audience.
Yusuf Ünal (Utrecht University), “Mobilizing Emotions, Conquering the Senses: Experiencing the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict and Sectarian Violence During the Seventeenth Century”
Zeinab Abdelhamed (Vienna Museum), “The Multisensory Dimensions of the Ottoman Siege of Vienna: Insights from the Objects at the Vienna Museum”
Hussein Keshani (University of British Columbia), “Visualizing Violence Under the Safavids”
Colin Mitchell (Dalhousie University), “Celebration and Lament: Corporeal Moments in the Early Safavid Movement”
Mark Smith (University of South Carolina), “Echoes of War: How Martial Senses Linger and Why They Matter”
Damla Gürkan Anar (Independent Scholar), “Poetry, Flavors, and Odors in the Mosque: Multisensory Royal Mevlid Ceremonies in Sultan Ahmed Mosque in the 17th Century”
Philip Hahn (Saarland University) & Denise Klein (The Leibniz Institute of European History), “Istanbul: The Culinary Capital of the Ottoman Empire”
Işın Taylan (Rijksmuseum), “Janissary Plunder: The Sound and Fury of Ottoman Diplomacy”
Zeynep Oktay (Boğaziçi University), “The Sensory Regime of the Saint’s Body in the Hagiography of Hacı Bektaş”
Reza Daftarian (University of London), “Shimmering Sanctity: Ayeneh-Kari and Ritual Embodiment in Shah Cheragh”
Bronwen Gulkis (University of St Andrews), “Sensory Dimensions of Mughal Ceremony: The Windsor Padshahnama”
Gianni Sievers (Utrecht University), “Sensing the City’s Misfortune: Tracing the Audible Past in Shahr Ashob Poetry on Late Mughal Delhi, c. 1739-1857”
Linda Pearse (Mount Allison University), “The Trumpets Cried: Sound and the Senses in Processions during the Thirteen Years’ War (1593–1606)”
