Reading Native American Portraits in Ottoman: Photographic Diplomacy and Imperial Intimacies on the Album Page

Date: June 23, 2026
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: ARIT Istanbul - ANAMED and online
Event

A hybrid lecture with Dr. Erin Hyde Nolan and Dr. Emily L. Voelker.

Time:  6 pm Istanbul; noon EDT.

Please register for online access.

Screening of “Antoine the Fortunate”

Date: June 15, 2026
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Soho House Istanbul
Event

ARIT and The Hollings Center present an in-person event, a screening of the documentary film, Antoine the Fortunate (2021) followed by a discussion with the director Nefin Dinç.

At Soho House Screening Room (Floor 0), Evliya Çelebi Mah. Meşrutiyet Cad. No: 56, Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu

The Great Games of Pandemics. Sanitary Internationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942

Date: June 11, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Online
Event

An online lecture in the Joint Lecture Series:  Hubs, networks and trajectories.  The making of global cooperation in the humanities in Istanbul and beyond.

Time:  7 pm Istanbul, 1 pm EDT
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In cooperation with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Istanbul, the Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA), the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) and Pera Müzesi.

Ankara Tümülüsleri Belgesel Gösterimi

Date: June 6, 2026
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ARIT Ankara
Event

Sunum:  Ankara Tümülüsleri Araştırmaları Ela Alanlyalı Aral ve Proje Ekibi
Yönetmen:  Kadir Uluç
Sponsorlar:  Arkeoloğlar Derneği, 06 06 Ankara Günü, Ankara Kültür Sanat Platformu, ARIT

The Ambassador’s Notebook: Western Merchants, French Diplomacy, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Date: June 3, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Online
Event

An online lecture by Dr. Viorel Panaite, Senior Researcher at the Institute for South-East European Studies (Romanian Academy), Professor Emeritus, Doctoral School of History, University of Bucharest, and former ARIT Mellon research fellow.  This talk is based on his recent book.

Time:  7 pm Türkiye, noon EDT

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Archaeology and the Coloniality of Knowledge in the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon

Date: May 7, 2026
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Online
Event

An online lecture by Professor Sarah Griswold (History, Oklahoma State University and Associate Director of OSU’s Center for the Humanities)

 

Time:  6 pm Türkiye, 11 am EDT
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Second lecture of the Joint Lecture Series: “Hubs, Networks, and Trajectories.  The making of Global Cooperation in the Humanities in Istanbul and Beyond”

 

In cooperation with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Istanbul, the Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA), the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) and Pera Müzesi.

Alcohol at Empire’s End: The Politics of Prohibition in Post-WWI Ottoman Empire

Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: ARIT Ankara and online
Event

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Emine Evered, Department of History, Michigan State University

7:00 pm Türkiye, noon EDT

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Hungarian-Related Historical Sites in Türkiye

Date: April 17, 2026
Time: 7:30 pm
Event

A hybrid lecture by Áron Sipos, Director of Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center and Gergő Máté Kovács, Deputy Director of Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center

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Echoes of 1776 in Ankara: The American Declaration of Independence and the Birth of Modern Türkiye

Date: April 9, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: ARIT Ankara and online
Event

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Işıl Acehan, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University

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The Unharvested Sea: Ten Years of Underwater Archaeological Research in the Phournoi Archipelago

Date: April 2, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Online
Event

An online seminar with Dr. George Koutsouflakis, University of Thessaly.