Descripción del proyecto
Comprender la historia intelectual del Mediterráneo oriental
El Imperio otomano, una de las dinastías más duraderas de la historia, controló gran parte de Europa suroriental, Asia occidental y África del norte entre el siglo XIV y principios del XX. Se desintegró en la Primera Guerra Mundial, pero había ido decayendo lentamente antes de esto. El proyecto SIHAFA, financiado con fondos europeos, analizará la ideosfera árabe otomana tardía (entre 1890 y 1918) del Mediterráneo oriental a través de su prensa periódica. Para ello, el equipo del proyecto estudiará siete revistas árabes de Bagdad, Beirut, El Cairo y Damasco, entre otras actividades clave. El trabajo que se realizará en SIHAFA dará lugar al mapeo de los campos discursivos de autores y textos mediante métodos informáticos y la publicación de investigaciones innovadoras en inglés y árabe.
Objetivo
"SIHAFA explores the late Ottoman (1890s–1918) Arabic ideosphere of the Eastern Mediterranean through its periodical press. SIHAFA transcends the individual periodical for a systematic and computational study of the periodical press as a discursive field and at scale in order to better understand both the intellectual history of the Eastern Mediterranean at a crucial historical juncture and periodical production itself. As MSCA fellow, Dr. Grallert will receive crucial training at Universität Hamburg and will scrutinise a digital corpus of seven Arabic journals from Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo and Damascus with more than 7 million words (the result of his current research) through a combination of stylometric authorship attribution, social network analysis, and close reading of bio-bibliographical dictionaries. He will evaluate theoretical and methodological approaches, workflows, and tools developed in the Global North for their applicability to cultural heritage of the Global South. A secondment at Uniwersytet Jagielloński will provide methodological training in stylometry. The research objectives are to: (1) fill a gap in research by developing and evaluating methods for the study of Arabic periodicals; (2) challenge established narratives of the Arabic Renaissance (nahda) by re-introducing non-Syrian and Muslim authors and periodicals from beyond Cairo and Beirut commonly ignored by scholarly literature through the leading research question ""What were the core nodes of authors and periodicals in this ideosphere and how did they change over time?""; (3) help establish the field of Arab Periodical Studies through community building across the postcolonial north-south divide. SIHAFA is committed to FAIR data and open access. Dr. Grallert will produce and publish: ground-breaking research to be published in English and Arabic; improved digital scholarly editions; authority files; an OCR model for Arabic periodicals; and a plain text corpus of authorship candidates."
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
20148 Hamburg
Alemania