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ICOM Türkiye and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye have announced the launch of the ICOM Red List of Cultural Objects at Risk – Türkiye. The Red List is an important tool in the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage in Türkiye. The Red List supports law enforcement, ...

ARIT Programs to Celebrate the American Semiquincentennial!   Türkiye and America are long-time friends and allies.  US history and culture are well represented in the context of Turkiye’s past and present.  ARIT’s Freedom250 programs.

Anadolu Medeniyet Müzesi / The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations presents a new exhibition, October 2 through November 12, 2025. “Alişar Höyüğün Anlatılmamış Hikayesi, 1927-1932” / “Alişar Höyük, the Untold Story, 1927-1932” This exhibition was produced with the cooperation of University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and ARIT.

Letter from ARIT President Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona; ARIT fellows named; ARIT Istanbul and Ankara projects; ARIT lectures and conferences; fellows report on the Polatli archaeological survey, the soundscape of Ottoman revolution; and nomadism in the 18th Century Ottoman Jazirah. Access issue 68 for 2025

Archaeological Institute of America:  Advocacy – Preserving Cameroon, Colombia, Türkiye, and Afghanistan Add your voice! Please write a letter to help protect the bilateral cultural property agreement between the US and Türkiye. Letters are due by September 8, 2025. Letter templates and submission access View related webinar

The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is eliminating the funding through the US Department of State that would have supported ARIT programs beginning 10/1/2025. The loss of 2025 State funding is an immediate blow to ARIT’s programs and operations.  We ask that those of you with US addresses, please contact your Congressional delegation and ...

TÜRK AMERİKAN İLMİ ARAŞTIRMALAR DERNEĞİ 2025 İLKBAHAR-YAZ DÖNEMİ PANEL SERİSİ “Görülen ve Görülmeyen Bizans” Moderatör: Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) Konuşmacılar: Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), Melike Sümertaş (ANAMED), Koray Durak (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) 29 Mayıs 2025 “Osmanlı Kitap ve Okuma Kültürü” Moderatör: Uygar Aydemir (Üsküdar Üniversitesi) Konuşmacılar: Irvin Cemil Schick (University of Massachusetts – Amherst), Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), Filiz Dığıroğlu (Marmara Üniversitesi), ...

Türk-Amerikan İlmî Araştırmaları Derneği 2025 yılında, Türkiye’de T.C. vatandaşı araştırmacılar tarafından yapılacak doktora araştırmalarına vereceği teşvik burslarıyla katkıda bulunacaktır. Müracaatlar olarak en geç 15 Eylül 2025 Pazartesi günü

A new series of publications of the American Board has been posted through SALT Research.  The materials, published in the 1870s – 1920s, include Armenian and Armeno-Turkish editions of the newspaper Avedaper , as well as books, booklets, and pamphlets in Armenian, Armeno-Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, and Karamanlidika (Greco-Turkish).   ARIT has made these materials ...

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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 to Early 19th Centuries. “Rural” Culture and Identity in Roman Bithynia. View volume 65 ...

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 immense potential of studying textiles in Turkish collections. March ...

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 in Turkey,  Orient-Institut Istanbul, Liszt Enstitüsü Macar Kültür Merkezi, ...

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 Armenian and Armeno-Turkish editions of the newspaper Avedaper ...

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

U.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 more

An 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 ...