The British Institute at Ankara

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As this week marks , today’s is this collection of essays entitled ‘The Turkic Languages’ edited by Lars Johnson and Éva A. Csató. Did you know Turkish is one of twenty literary languages in the Turkic language family?

Become a member and read 'The Turkic Languages' in the BIAA's Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

Last week, BIAA assistant director Işılay Gürsu participated at this exciting roundtable at the EAA, European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Rome!

Co-organised by Eleni Stefanou and Aris Anagnostopoulos, from the Heritage Management Organization, the session was titled ‘Community Engagement in Archaeological Heritage: best practices, objectives, conflicts and plans for the future’.

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Today's is Uğur Z. Peçe's fascinating new study which narrates a connected history of international intervention, mass displacement, and popular mobilisation to explore how events that took place in Crete in the 1890s affected not only the Ottoman Empire but transformed the Middle East as we know it.

Become a member and read 'Island & Empire' in the BIAA's Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

The next Pisidia Heritage Trail Tour on 9-13 October is ideal for nature lovers interested in and hiking along unspoiled beautiful landscapes.

You will be passing through stunning landscapes and off-the-beaten-track archaeological sites including Sia, Melli, Kocain Cave and Selge led by BIAA Assistant Director and certified tour guide Dr. Işılay Gürsu.

Learn more: biaa.ac.uk/pisidia-heritage-trail-2024/ or book now with Equinox Travel at: www.equinox.com.tr/en/pisidia-heritage-trail

Did you know BIAA members get a discount? Become a member today from just £12.50: biaa.ac.uk/support-us/join/

The Pisidia Heritage Trail Tour is organised by Equinox Travel.

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Today's is "Metropolis: A City, Its People, Their Way of Life", a celebration of thirty years of Metropolis excavations, in which more than 11 thousand historical artifacts were unearthed, as well as many valuable structures such as the Acropolis, Theatre, Agora, Bath Complexes, and the Araplıtepe Church.

This book, a product of five years of work, follows a clear narrative that follows traces of the different civilizations living here and includes contributions from 22 local and foreign researchers who are experts in their fields.

Read more books in the BIAA's David French Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

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August is month so today we are highlighting Annick Payne's 'Hieroglyphic Luwian', an excellent introductory to the script along with original texts.

Explore more books on at the BIAA's David French Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

Happy ! Meet Sparrow, the cat-in-charge at the BIAA.

Have you visited us and met Sparrow yet?

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Today's celebrates tomorrow's ! What better author to read this week than the Turkish author Bilge Karasu who is well known for using cats in his fiction.

feature in his novels 'Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi' (The Garden of Departed Cats) and 'Troy'da bir Ölüm Vardı' (Death in Troy) which were both translated into English by Aron Aji, but today we've chosen Karasu's selection of essays 'Ne Kitapsız, Ne Kedisiz' which translates as 'Neither Without Books nor Without Cats' which ruminates on cats, writing and books.

Explore the BIAA's David French Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

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Today's is Kinet Höyük 2: The early Bronze Age and Earlier Occupations collected by Christine Eslick.

This book includes final reports from Bilkent Üniversitesi excavations in Kinet Höyük in Hatay and information on pottery and architectural findings from the Early Bronze Age and earlier occupations.

Learn more about in the BIAA library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

The BIAA is delighted to announce the signing of a new Memorandum of Agreement with Bilkent Üniversitesi, Ankara for the establishment of a joint fellowship scheme. The first BIAA-Bilkent University Joint Fellowship will commence in September 2024.

Learn more about this : https://biaa.ac.uk/new-biaa-bilkent-university-joint-fellowship/

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Today's is The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity edited by Brian Graham and Peter Howard. This book brings together authors from across the world to explore what is meant by heritage and how that plays a key role in shaping identity.

Learn more about in the BIAA's David French Library: biaa.ac.uk/library/

🚨📢 JOB ALERT: Ankara Manager
The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) is searching for a candidate to fill the permanent, full-time position of Ankara Manager at the Research Centre in Ankara.

📍 Ankara, Türkiye
⏰ 12th August 2024
ℹ️ biaa.ac.uk/grants/biaa-ankara-manager/

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Today's is Faisal H. Husain's Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire.

This book breaks new ground in by offering a history of the Ottoman Empire’s management of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the early modern period. It was also one of the recipients of 2022's Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Book Prize.

Learn more about in the BIAA's David French Library: biaa.ac.uk/library/

We are pleased to share that BIAA Honorary Research Fellow Gizem Tongo has received a grant from Gingko for her research “The Ottoman Empire at the 1900 Paris Exposition: Orientalism, Representation, and Identity”.

Learn more: www.gingko.org.uk/past-grant-recipients/

📢🚨 There are only two weeks left to submit abstracts for Archaeo-Informatics 2024!

Learn more: biaa.ac.uk/call-for-papers-archaeo-informatics-2024-use-and-challenges-of-ai-in-archaeology/

📢🚨 : Archaeo-Informatics 2024 “Use and Challenges of AI in Archaeology”

We invite you to join us in deliberating the uses and challenges of in . We welcome papers on topics about the application of in archaeological projects and research, fieldwork, and training archaeologists.

Please send your abstract (max. 200 words) to [email protected] by the 31st of July.

Learn more: https://biaa.ac.uk/call-for-papers-archaeo-informatics-2024-use-and-challenges-of-ai-in-archaeology/

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This week’s is Cornelius Holtorf’s From Stonehenge to Las Vegas: Archaeology as Popular Culture. This book brings together archaeology and cultural studies to explore the past affects our present culture.

Explore the David French Library: biaa.ac.uk/library/

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, our assistant director from 2019 to 2023, is giving a talk on ‘Remembering and Forgetting: Britain, Turkey, and the Occupation of Istanbul, 1918-1923’ at the Royal Anthropological Institute on the 9th July at 18:00 UK Time. This is a hybrid lecture hosted by the Anglo-Turkish Society / Levantine Heritage Foundation, for more information:https://www.angloturkishsociety.org.uk/doc/Daniel-Joseph-MacArthur-Seal-lecture.pdf
and registration:
https://daniel-joseph-macarthur-seal-lecture.eventbrite.co.uk

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Today our is Yusuf Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli/Motherland Hotel.

Learn more about the novel today from our Assistant Director for Ottoman and Contemporary Turkish Studies, Dr Peter Cherry, who is presenting a paper entitled ‘Dark Rooms of the Nation: Masculinities and Modernities in Yusuf Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli’ at . Join him in the Frankland Lecture Theatre at Lancaster University today at 14:30.

Visit the BIAA and read the novel in our library: biaa.ac.uk/library/

For , BIAA interns translated ICOM's definition of a museum into Turkish as part of ICOM's 'Translation Challenge' with the support of the Wikimedia Türkiye User Group (WMTR) and The Müzeciler Derneği Association.

Read the translation here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Museum_Day_2024/Translation_call/tr

Projects such as WikiGLAM Museums of Türkiye and 'Connecting Archives, Connecting People' are important for archives as they make knowledge richer and more open access and standardising terminology for cultural heritage.

Learn more about the Connecting Archives Connecting People project here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:GLAM/Connecting_Archives,_Connecting_People_Project

Learn more about the GLAM/Museums of Türkiye: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:GLAM/T%C3%BCrkiye_M%C3%BCzeleri/en

BIAA stajyerleri, için, ICOM'un 'Çeviri Yarışması' kapsamında Wikimedia Türkiye Kullanıcı Grubu (WMTR) ve Müzeciler Derneği'nin desteği ile ICOM'un yeni müze tanımını Türkçeye çevirdi.

Çeviriyi buradan okuyabilirsiniz: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Museum_Day_2024/Translation_call/tr

‘WikiGLAM Türkiye Müzeleri’ ve ‘Bağlı Arşivler, Bağlı Kişiler’ gibi projeler, kültürel miras alanındaki terimlerin standart hale getirilmesi, bilginin artırılması, açık erişim gibi konulara katkı vermesi açısında önemlidir.

‘Bağlı Arşivler, Bağlı Kişiler’ projesi hakkında daha fazla bilgiye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:GLAM/Connecting_Archives,_Connecting_People_Project

‘WikiGLAM Türkiye Müzeleri’ projesi hakkında daha fazla bilgiye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: Vikipedi:GLAM/Türkiye Müzeleri - Vikipedi (wikipedia.org)

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Tomorrow we will be hosting a talk by Mostafa Minawi based on his award-winning study Losing İstanbul which traces the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in the capital between 1878 and the First World War.

The book has also recently been translated into Turkish and published by FOL as İstanbul'u Kaybetmek.

Become a member and explore the David French Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

Happening next week:

HYBRID TALK: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists of Istanbul with Mostafa Minawi

📆 Thursday 27th June 2024
⏰ 19:00 - 21:00 (Ankara UTC+3), 17:00 - 19:00 (London BST)
📌 BIAA, 154 Atatürk Bulvarı, and ONLINE
ℹ biaa.ac.uk/events/arab-ottoman-imperialists-of-istanbul/

In this talk, Prof. Minawi will discuss his latest book, Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire, and celebrate its release in Turkish with FOL under the title ‘Istanbul’u Kaybetmek’

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This week we are highlighting a collection of essays that explore all the ways that heritage is shaped by . Come read Elisa Giaccardi's collection Heritage and Social Media at the David French Library: biaa.ac.uk/library/

📢🚨 : Archaeo-Informatics 2024 “Use and Challenges of AI in Archaeology”

We invite you to join us in deliberating the uses and challenges of in . We welcome papers on topics about the application of in archaeological projects and research, fieldwork, and training archaeologists.

Please send your abstract (max. 200 words) to [email protected] by the 31st of July.

Learn more: https://biaa.ac.uk/call-for-papers-archaeo-informatics-2024-use-and-challenges-of-ai-in-archaeology/

İyi Bayramlar! The BIAA wishes all followers a happy and relaxing Kurban Bayramı holiday. Please note the library will be closed until Monday 24th June.

HAPPENING TOMORROW: The Ancient Anatolia Day will now be livestreamed on YouTube from 12pm (BST).

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/live/3OSXe9C3pyQ

The Ancient Anatolia Network is hosting an Day to celebrate the breadth of the field of Anatolian Studies, as well as the fascinating connections with other areas of study of the ancient world.

📆 Monday 17 June 2024
⏰ 9:15am-6:30pm (GMT+1)
📍, Oxford and Online
ℹ️ Learn more and register: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/ancient-anatolia-day #:~:text=The%20Ancient%20Anatolia%20Network%20is,study%20of%20the%20ancient%20world.

HYBRID TALK: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists of Istanbul with Mostafa Minawi

📆 Thursday 27th June 2024
⏰ 19:00 - 21:00 (Ankara UTC+3), 17:00 - 19:00 (London BST)
📌 BIAA, 154 Atatürk Bulvarı, and ONLINE
ℹ biaa.ac.uk/events/arab-ottoman-imperialists-of-istanbul/

In this talk, Prof. Minawi will discuss his latest book, Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire, and celebrate its release in Turkish with FOL under the title ‘Istanbul’u Kaybetmek’

📖BOOK OF THE WEEK📖

As last Saturday was , we would like to highlight not one but two books that represent our work in the Black Sea region. Today we are featuring Edhem Eldem and Sophia Laiou's edited volume Istanbul and the Black Sea Coast: Shipping and Trade (1770-1920) and Vladimir Stolba and Lise Hannestad's edited collection Chronologies of the Black Sea Area in the Period c.400-100 BC

Learn more about and explore the David French Library: https://biaa.ac.uk/library/

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For today's , we highlight a new acquisition - 'An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal' is a reassessment of existing research and new data on traditional from across - a region which includes parts of Eastern Türkiye, Iraq and Kuwait.

To learn more about ancient medicine, become a member and explore our David French Library: biaa.ac.uk/library/

The BIAA is extremely saddened by news of the death of Dr. Sabine Ladstätter, Director of the excavations at Ephesus, and offers deepest condolences to Dr Ladstätter’s family and colleagues at this difficult time.

BIAA Honorary Research Fellow Michele Massa has received a permit to start a new archaeological excavation at Türkmen-Karahöyük, a Bronze and Iron Age site in the Konya Plain.

Read more in our latest blog post: biaa.ac.uk/new-excavation-to-launch-at-turkmen-karahoyuk/