Ankara Tumuli: Pursuing the Remnants of a Historical Landscape in Maps and Aerial Photographs

Date: March 29, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

A lecture by Dr. Ela Alanyalı Aral, Department of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, as the first in the 42nd Annual Lecture Series:  Art and Archaeology in Turkey.  The event is cosponsored with the Turkish American Association (TAA) – Türk Amerikan Derneği (TAD).

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Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey

Date: March 15, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

A lecture by Dr. Nathan Young, Ohio State University.  Dr. Young demonstrates how sentiments for small-scale, rural lifeways continue to shape Turkish identity and national formation.

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The Architecture of the Caucasus in the Global Middle Ages

Date: February 20, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm
Event
Lecture by Professor Robert Ousterhout.  The stunning architecture of the medieval Caucasus is normally discussed in isolation, often limited by current national boundaries between eastern Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia.  This talk attempts to view the architectural developments of the region more broadly, looking at critical moments in its history and how the monuments might be situated within a global perspective for the Middle Ages.
The lecture is cosponsored with Bilkent University Department of Archaeology.

Rethinking Economic Sources of Hamidian Legitimacy

Date: February 10, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

Presented by Naz Yücel, this study looks at the financial underpinnings of the Hamidian regime that enabled its sustenance for over three decades, with a focus on the Sultan’s Privy Purse, and the property and concessions Sultan Abdulhamid II acquired. Cosponsored with the Istanbul Friends of ARIT.

The Classical Shipwreck at Tektaș Burnu, Turkey

Date: January 26, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

A lecture on the excavation and study of a small Greek merchant ship that sank off the Aegean coast of Turkey around 425 B.C. presented by Dr. Deborah Carlson, INA.

This event is a collaboration with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and the Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR)

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From History to Poetry: Reframing Islamic Art

Date: December 8, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

A discussion of how we understand and engage with Islamic art, presented by Dr. Wendy M. K. Shaw, Professor of the Art History of Islamic cultures at the Free University Berlin.

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Defining Tin Ore Provenance for the Bronze Age Mediterranean

Date: December 2, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

Defining Tin Ore Provenance using Sn and Pb Isotopes:  a New Look with Prof. Dr. K. Aslıhan Yener

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Digital Archaeology and the Heroon at Erythrae

Date: November 24, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

A Data-Driven Conservation Action Plan using Heritage Building Information
Modelling (HBIM) presented by Dr. Tuğba Sarıcaoğlu

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Mary Mills Patrick’s Cosmopolitan Mission and the Constantinople Woman’s College

Date: June 16, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

A book talk with author Professor Carolyn McCue Goffman, English Literature, DePaul University, cosponsored with the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.

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‘Oriental Refugees’: An Academical Geographical History

Date: June 10, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Event

Lecture by Dr. Zehra Tonbul, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at İstiniye University in Istanbul.  The event is cosponsored with the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.

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