Announcements

Türkiye’de Amerikan İlmi Araştırmalar Enstitüsü/ARIT 2026 yılında Ilse Böhlund Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, ve Machteld Johanna Mellink adları altında burslar verecektir.  Son teslim tarihi 2 Mart 2026. Ayrıntılar ARIT announces the Ilse Böhlund Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, and Machteld Johanna Mellink Fellowships for 2026.  Application deadline March 2, 2026 For more information

Türk Amerikan İlmi Araştırmalar Derneği 2025-2026 Sonbahar – Kış Donemi Panel Serisi Türk Amerikan İlmi Araştırmalar Derneği olarak, tarih öncesi arkeoloji, Bizans, Osmanlı, Modern Türkiye araştırmaları ve ilgili güncel konularda, hem akademisyenlerin hem de kamuoyunun ortak ilgi alanına giren bir dizi panel tartışması düzenlemekteyiz. Panellerin her biri, yurt içi ve yurt dışındaki akademik kurumlarla bağlantılı bir ...

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, ...

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.

PLEASE NOTE:  ARIT remains committed to supporting and growing the fields of Turkish Studies and Archaeology in the United States and in Türkiye. Due to federal funding cuts, however, ARIT is rethinking what fellowship support for travel and research we can offer.  The details of the next competition and awards are still being finalized, and we ...

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.  See here ARIT programs highlighting the connections between the two countries in recognition of the American semiquincentennial.

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 ...

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