Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference

Session

S.1.1. Staging Knowledge: Performance, Play and Cultural Adaptation

16 Sept 2025, 16:15

MAIN HALL (Kurul Odası) (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

S.1.1. Staging Knowledge: Performance, Play and Cultural Adaptation

• M. Fatih Çalışır (Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies)
• Matthias Roick (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Adam Rzepka (Montclair State University)

Description

Chair: Samuel Gessner

“This Under Globe”: Proprioceptive Worldmaking in Shakespeare’s Public Theaters

Adam Rzepka (Montclair State University (USA))

16/09/2025, 16:15

Individual papers

My paper treats Shakespeare’s public theaters as microcosmic focal points for macrocosmic feeling. Specifically, I establish a relationship between the architecture of public theaters like Shakespeare’s Globe, which was explicitly designed and named to reflect its representational scope, and the theatrical manipulation of its audiences’ sense of proprioception—the sensation of weight,...

Cultural Encounters and Adaptations in the Late Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Theater, Portraiture, and Knowledge Transmission

M. Fatih Çalışır (Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies)

16/09/2025, 16:35

Individual papers

The late seventeenth century witnessed a dynamic phase of cultural exchange between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, particularly in the realms of theater, portraiture, and intellectual engagement. European theatrical performances gained prominence in Ottoman diplomatic circles, with plays staged in Galata as early as 1612 and later at the French embassy in Istanbul. In 1675, efforts to...

Playing at the World: Students, Chess Knowledge, and Its Global Dimension

Matthias Roick (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

16/09/2025, 16:55

Individual papers

The game of chess is a transnational and global phenomenon, with a long and complicated history of how knowledge of the game was transmitted, transformed, and translated. My paper will zoom in on one particular episode in the transmission of chess to the modern world. In 1604, Lucas Wielius, student at Strasbourg, dedicated a copy of his commented edition of Marco Girolamo Vida’s Schacchia to...