Collecting Islamic and Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums

Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Online

An online lecture by Dr. Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums

Time:  6 pm Istanbul, 11 am DST

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The Elusive Fashion Stories of Enslaved Women in late Ottoman Istanbul

Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: ARIT Istanbul - ANAMED and online

A hybrid lecture with Dr. Nancy Micklewright, US Fulbright research fellow, and independent scholar.

Time:  6 pm Istanbul, 11 am DST

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The Late Bronze Age Thera Eruption! New Perspectives from Çeşme – Bağlararası in Western Anatolia

Date: April 16, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Online

An online lecture by Dr. Vasıf Şahoğlu, Ankara University, Department of Archaeology and Ankara University Mustafa V. Koç Research Center for Maritime Archaeology (ANKÜSAM)

Travelers in Ottoman Lands: Places Forgotten, Places Remembered

Start date: April 9, 2025
End date: April 12, 2025
Time: 8:45 am
Location: Karakoy, Istanbul

Three days of presentation sessions in Istanbul in the historical neighbourhoods of Karaköy and Beyoğlu will be followed by one day of excursions.

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Topkapı Palace and the Ottoman Imperial Treasury

Date: March 6, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: ARIT - ANAMED and online

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Nilay Özlü, Architectural and Cultural History, Istanbul Technical University.

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Urban Dynamics in Roman Anatolia: Investigating the Emergence and Development of the Roman City in North-Central Anatolia

Start date: February 21, 2025
End date: February 22, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Middle East Technical University and online

A hybrid conference cosponsored by the Middle East Technical University, Boğaziçi University, the British Institute at Ankara, and ARIT.

Daily events beginning at 10 am in Ankara, 2 am EST.

Conference abstracts

 

Gordion after King Midas: Roman Soldiers, Eastern Wars and a Gothic Invasion

Date: February 19, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: ARIT Ankara and online

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Andrew L. Goldman, History Department, Gonzaga University.
ARIT Ankara and online

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An Innovated Mevlud: Music, the Turkish Woman, and Halide Edib’s Transnational Voice

Date: February 11, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: ARIT - ANAMED and online

A hybrid lecture by Lynsey Haught, English Literature, University of Birmingham.
ARIT Istanbul at ANAMED Auditorium and online.

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The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space

Date: January 8, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Online

An online seminar and book talk with Dr. Alexis Wick, History, Koç Unversity, cosponsored with the Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR) and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA).

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Remaking Society in the Early Bronze Age Upper Euphrates

Date: December 17, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: More information

An online lecture and book launch with author Dr. Akiva Sanders, Pratt Institute, for Violence and Imagination after the Collapse:  Encounters, Identity & Daily Life in the Upper Euphrates Region, 3200-2500 BCE.  Subartu 52.  ( Turnhout:  Brepols 2024)

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