ARIT is please to announce the establishment of the Evan and Leman Fotos Fellowship. As the funds become available, ARIT will make new awards for advanced research in Turkey. Dr. Evan Fotos, a U.S. career foreign service officer, completed a Ph.D. in International Affairs from American University.
Read more →The organizers are calling for contributions to Travellers in Ottoman Lands Seminar Three (TIOL3), Places Forgotten, Places Remembered, to be held in Istanbul, Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 April 2025. Submission deadline is November 15, 2024 More information
Read more →Letter from ARIT President Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona; new facilities in Istanbul and Ankara; summer program in Turkish language, fellowships and donors. Fellows report on Ottoman poetry in Turkish language, analysis of dental remains from Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük, music production of the Roman (Gypsy)
Read more →The ARIT Ankara offices and library have relocated to Atatürk Bulvarı 154/13. The ARIT Istanbul Library remains in ANAMED, but the Annex has moved to a new suite in the same building in Karaköy.
Read more →Heritage conservation at the Feriköy Cemetery and digital library projects in Istanbul. Language program returns to Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Online lectures are accessible via YouTube ARIT fellows reports: Fashion and the Camera in the Late Ottoman Empire. Greek Schools and Ottoman Patronage in the Late 18th
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A workshop for graduate students on the study of textiles organized by Ivana Jevtić (Koç University) and Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia). The one-day event focused on material from the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific aim of spurring dialogue across periods and disciplines, as well as the
Read more →The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative has released issue 2 of The Ledger. Reports cover research on the lives and monuments of two British families and the current activities at the Cemetery. The project is a collaboration of the American Research Institute in Turkey – ARIT, NIT-Netherlands Institute
Read more →With funding through the British Library’s Endangered Archives Project, ARIT Istanbul Library will digitize and post online a special collection of works produced and distributed by the Istanbul publishing department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) between 1857 and 1933. The publications include
Read more →View video of ARIT lectures on YouTube, including The Role of the American Center of Research, Amman Jordan, a lecture by Dr. Barbara A. Porter, director of ACOR, 2006-2020
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