Descrizione del progetto
Comprendere la storia intellettuale del Mediterraneo orientale
L’Impero ottomano, una delle dinastie più longeve della storia, controllava gran parte dell’Europa sud-orientale, dell’Asia occidentale e dell’Africa settentrionale tra il XIV secolo e gli inizi del XX secolo. La sua disintegrazione è avvenuta nel corso della prima guerra mondiale, ma il suo declino è precedente. Il progetto SIHAFA, finanziato dall’UE, analizzerà l’ideosfera araba tardo-ottomana (tra il 1890 e il 1918) del Mediterraneo orientale attraverso la sua stampa periodica. A tal fine, il progetto esaminerà sette riviste arabe provenienti da Baghdad, Beirut, il Cairo e Damasco e intraprenderà altre azioni chiave. Il lavoro di SIHAFA condurrà alla mappatura di campi discorsivi di autori e testi mediante approcci computazionali e alla pubblicazione di ricerche rivoluzionarie in inglese e arabo.
Obiettivo
"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."
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
20148 Hamburg
Germania