ARIT Istanbul
The ARIT Istanbul Library Annex is located in Karaköy. Most ARIT lectures and book talks are in-person and hybrid. The growing resources of the American Board Library and Archive are always accessible through the ARIT Istanbul Digital Library.
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ARIT Ankara
ARIT Ankara and Friends have offered a strong series of online lectures on the Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of Turkey over the past year. Most ARIT events are accessible on ARIT’s new YouTube channel. The staff at both centers are waiting for students, researchers, and friends to visit.
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Library Resources
In addition to their focused research collections, ARIT libraries offer digital research resources through SALT Research and the Digital Library for International Research. Affiliated institutions provide diverse K-14 curriculum materials.
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Turkish Language Program
ARIT fellowships for participation in Boğaziçi University’s Turkish Language and Culture Program For summer 2025, 17 students participated in the program of intensive classes and enrichment activities at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
Collaborations
ARIT in collaboration with five other Turkey-based research centers have undertaken The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative. The project aims to preserve, document, and study Istanbul’s main Protestant cemetery as an important local historic landmark.
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Fellowships
ARIT NEH research fellow Dr. Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, analyzing research data from her home office in Istanbul, summer 2020. Her project, Negotiating Matrimony: Marriage, Divorce, Children and Property in Istanbul, 1750-1920, focuses on the history of the marital bond in the late 18th to early 20th-century Ottoman Istanbul.
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Your support builds new knowledge, protects heritage, and promotes academic exchanges among students, scholars, and friends in Turkey. A legacy gift will keep ARIT’s research programs and services strong for future generations.
With great sorrow, we at ARIT extend our deepest condolences to Türkiye and share the sorrow of all those who lost family and loved ones in the recent earthquakes.
Türkiye’deki depremlerde yakınlarını ve sevdiklerini kaybeden herkesin üzüntüsünü paylaşır, tüm Türkiye’ye başsağlığı dileriz.
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ARIT Events
Sunum: Ankara Tümülüsleri Araştırmaları Ela Alanlyalı Aral ve Proje Ekibi
Yönetmen: Kadir Uluç
Sponsorlar: Arkeoloğlar Derneği, 06 06 Ankara Günü, Ankara Kültür Sanat Platformu, ARIT
An online lecture in the Joint Lecture Series: Hubs, networks and trajectories. The making of global cooperation in the humanities in Istanbul and beyond.
Time: 7 pm Istanbul, 1 pm EDT
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In cooperation with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Istanbul, the Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA), the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) and Pera Müzesi.
A hybrid lecture with Dr. Erin Hyde Nolan and Dr. Emily L. Voelker.
Time: 6 pm Istanbul; noon EDT.
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