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ARIT Istanbul
The ARIT Istanbul Library Annex has relocated to Karakoy and access is limited for the time being. ARIT lectures and book talks continue online, however, and the growing resources of the American Board Library and Archives 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 return in person.
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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 were suspended for the summer of 2020. For summer 2021, a double cohort of students will participate in a program of intensive classes and enrichment activities online.
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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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ARIT News
ARIT Istanbul Library Annex Moves to Karaköy
March 22, 2021ARIT lectures featured on our YouTube channel!
March 17, 2021ARIT Ankara 41st Lecture Series: Art and Archaeology in Turkey
March 16, 2021A Brief Guide to Istanbul’s Feriköy Protestant Cemetery
March 1, 2021US and Turkey Sign a Memorandum of Understanding to Protect Turkish Cultural Property
January 22, 2021
ARIT Events
A book talk with author Professor Carolyn McCue Goffman, English Literature, DePaul University, cosponsored with the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
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Lecture by Dr. Zehra Tonbul, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at İstiniye University in Istanbul. The event is cosponsored with the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
An ARIT-Ankara 41st Annual Lecture Series on Archaeology in Turkey by Prof. Dr. Bilge Hürmüzlü, Department of Archaeology, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta and Director of Seleukeia Sidera Excavations, Isparta. This online event is cosponsored with the Turkish American Association.
