Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 5.2 (Day 2)

D2-S5-A7

14 May 2026, 16:30

A7 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 5.2 (Day 2): Tarih / History

• Aliye Erol (Istanbul University)

The Crisis of the Scholastic Model of Knowledge and the Overcoming of Dogmatism in 17th-Century England (D2-S5-A7)

Georgii Shpak (Ural Federal University)

14/05/2026, 16:30

Oral Presentation

This presentation examines the pivotal intellectual shift in seventeenth-century England, where the burgeoning practice of translating classical texts into the vernacular precipitated a crisis of epistemic authority. While the proliferation of translations in medicine, law, and theology made knowledge more accessible, it also exposed irreconcilable contradictions within the authoritative...

Epistemic Rupture in the Ottoman Semiosphere: Evidence of Semiocrisis in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Music Culture (D2-S5-A7)

Peter Salvucci (Istanbul Technical University)

14/05/2026, 16:50

Oral Presentation

This study employs historical musicology and Juri Lotman’s cultural semiotic theory to examine eighteenth-century Ottoman society as a pivotal point of socio-political transformation. Darling’s novel and alternative proposal for three main historical periods of Ottoman society demonstrates clear parallels Ottoman music culture. The first period of Expansion in Ottoman history establishes a...