Collaborations and Wider Network

Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in the Early Modern World

The Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS)

The Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS) at the University of Oxford is host to the largest, most vibrant early modern scholarly community in the world, and a natural home for the TIDE@Oxford network.

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Prof Farah Karim-Cooper and Nandini Das

Farah’s collaborative project with Nandini during the Fellowship period will be a major, year-long inquiry into future directions in race and identity in early modern drama.

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Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO)

EMLO is a combined finding-aid and editorial interface for descriptions of early modern correspondence. Built and maintained by Oxford’s ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ research project in collaboration with the Bodleian Library, its contributors and users include scholars, students, projects, and archives worldwide.

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GHOST

Currently, as part of an ERC project 'Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition', Prof. Aslı Niyazioğlu is exploring how early modern Ottomans viewed Istanbul's ancient statues, columns, and obelisks as talismans. For many Ottoman writers, Istanbul's antiquities were not insignificant remains of a distant past, but had significant messages and uses. This project aims to understand why.