Description du projet
Comprendre l’histoire intellectuelle de la Méditerranée orientale
L’Empire ottoman, une des dynasties les plus durables de l’histoire, a contrôlé une grande partie de l’Europe du Sud-Est, de l’Asie occidentale et de l’Afrique du Nord entre le XIVe et le début du XXe siècle. Il s’est désintégré au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, mais avait déjà commencé son lent déclin avant cette époque. Le projet SIHAFA, financé par l’UE, analysera l’idéosphère arabe de la Méditerranée orientale de la fin de l’Empire ottoman (entre les années 1890 et 1918) par le biais de sa presse périodique. Pour ce faire, le projet examinera sept journaux arabes de Bagdad, Beyrouth, Le Caire et Damas, entre autres actions phares. Le travail de SIHAFA permettra de cartographier les champs discursifs des auteurs et des textes grâce à des approches informatiques, et de publier des recherches révolutionnaires en langue anglaise et arabe.
Objectif
"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."
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
20148 Hamburg
Allemagne