Announcements

Letter from ARIT President Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona and new ARIT awards; ARIT Ankara celebrates opening of new facilities; Istanbul collaborative programs.  Fellows report on the language of Roman inscriptions in Anatolia, Savafid and Anatolian carpets, local justice in Mardin, the Six Regiments – Ottoman household cavalry Access issue 67 for 2024

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.  Dr. Leman Yolaç Fotos had a career in teaching ...

ARIT is taking applications for fellowships for the summer program in intensive Turkish language at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, 2025. Apply by February 28, 2025, 5 pm EST For more information

The organizers are calling for contributions to Travelers 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

Türk-Amerikan İlmi Araştırmalar Derneği 2024 Yılı Doktora Araştırma Bursları Müracaatlar 16 Eylül 2024 Pazartesi günü saat 17.30’a kadar ulaştırılmalıdır

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) families. Access issue 66 for 2023

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.

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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