Report of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on sites and museums in the earthquake zone.
February 9, 2023EnglishARIT Ankara center and ARIT Istanbul Library Annex relocate!
April 6, 2023The 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.- December 22, 2022Heritage 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 to Early 19th Centuries. “Rural” Culture and Identity in Roman Bithynia. View volume 65 ...
Interdisciplinary textile studies: past, future, potential
May 23, 2022A 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 immense potential of studying textiles in Turkish collections. March ...New issue of The Ledger from the Feriköy Cemetery Initiative
January 22, 2022The 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 in Turkey, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Liszt Enstitüsü Macar Kültür Merkezi, ...ARIT Istanbul begins new library grant project
October 19, 2021With 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 Armenian and Armeno-Turkish editions of the newspaper Avedaper ...ARIT lectures featured on our YouTube channel!
March 17, 2021View 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, 2006-2020US and Turkey Sign a Memorandum of Understanding to Protect Turkish Cultural Property
January 22, 2021U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield made remarks on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Turkey to Protect Turkish Cultural Property, with comments from Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary or State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. See moreHanfmann and Mellink Fellows Conference in Honor of Crawford H. Greenwalt
March 12, 2019An ARIT conference in memory of Sardis Excavation Director Professor Crawford H. Greenewalt. The event was cosponsored with Istanbul University and Koç University in May 2019. Fifteen former Hanfmann and Mellink fellows gave papers on their ARIT-sponsored research. The event is opened here by ANAMED Director Professor Christopher Roosevelt, who worked with Professor Greenewalt at ...
