Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting a delegation from the British Academy at our premises for a wonderful day of connection, collaboration, and celebration of research excellence.

📣PUBLICATION! The Institute is proud to share the news about the publication of Dr Isilay Gursu's new volume, titled "Public Dialogues in Archaeology: New Methodologies from Turkey" (Bloomsbury Academic).

We're happy to share that our very own Dr Peter Cherry, BIAA Assistant Director, will be presenting two papers at the "35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf", hosted by İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi. You can check the programme at www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...

🚨 [PISIDIA HERITAGE TRAIL-OCTOBER 2026] Bookings open for the upcoming tour! 📣 October 14-18, 2026. ℹ Details and bookings at biaa.ac.uk/pisidia-heri...

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "At the Edges of Empire: Landscapes, Power, and the Roman World", with Prof Hugh Elton ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/22-... ➖ Turkish subtitles available

Looking for your next podcast binge? 🎧 Discover the Heritage Türkiye Podcast! ✨ 2 Seasons 🎙️ 25 Episodes 👥 Fascinating expert guests Follow & listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube! 👇 biaa.ac.uk/publication/... #HeritageTürkiye #Podcast #History #Archaeology

📹 LECTURE RECORDING Have you missed the last BIAA lecture by Dr Ellinor Morack (Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg) on "Memoirs, Novels, Oral History: The Politics of Remembering the War of 1919-1922 in post-Ottoman Turkey"?

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Ever wondered what happens to your research data after you collect it? Images, Excel sheets, GIS files—data is everywhere in archaeological research, but how do we organise, store, and publish it properly? Info and registration at www.dainst.org/newsroom/nos...

🚨 ANKARA WORKSHOP: Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean Hybrid Event From 4th – 10th June 2026, the BIAA will host the “Philosophy in the Roman Period” workshop. ℹ Read more about the event at biaa.ac.uk/philosophy-i...

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🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "Rethinking Secularism and Identity in Contemporary Türkiye", with Dr Ceren Lord ➖ In this episode, Dr Ceren Lord discusses religion, identity, and political change in contemporary Türkiye.

🚨For those in Ankara today, please feel free to join Dr Aytek Soner Alpan (BIRI Postdoctoral Fellow - Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project) as he discusses the Prophecy of Mehemed Emin Efendi and the Intellectual Origins of the Population Exchange!

❗️If you are around Oxford this Wednesday, don't miss out Dr Işılay Gürsu's talk on Public Dialogues in Archaeology! ℹ️ www.arch.ox.ac.uk/world-archae...

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE "Memoirs, Novels, Oral History: The Politics of Remembering the War of 1919-1922 in post-Ottoman Turkey" 🗣 Dr Ellinor Morack (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) 🔗 Register for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/memoi...

🚨Call for Conference Abstracts "Bioarchaeology in Türkiye" Conference, 18-20 March 2027, Ankara Bilkent Üniversitesi, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, the BIAA and Deutsches Archäologisches Institut-Istanbul invite scholars to submit abstracts for the "Bioarchaeology in Türkiye" Conference.

🚨 NEWS FROM PROJECTS Dr Peter Cherry (BIAA Assistant Director) and the BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows for the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project (Aytek Soner Alpan, Mehmet Dogar, Gizem Tongo and Ahmet Tekin) report on the Symposium held in Istanbul last month.

📹 FILM SCREENING+Q&A In-person Event "Remembering Traugott Fuchs: German Exile, Artistic Legacy, and Intellectual Life in Turkey" 🔗 Register for in-person attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/remem...

📆 BIRI-BIEA LECTURE Hybrid Event - Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project "The Global Geopolitics of Holy Spaces from Ottoman Jerusalem to the Red Sea Basin" 🗣 Prof Mostafa Minawy (Cornell University) 📆Friday, 22 May 2026 ⏰14:00 - 15:00 (Nairobi UTC+3) 📍BIEA, Nairobi, Kenya

"My time at the BIAA totally changed the trajectory of my life. I had no idea that I would be leaving the BIAA with a path for carving out a career in the humanities.” — Chris, 2023-4 intern ℹ Read more at biaa.ac.uk/internships-...

We’re at BANEA 2026! 🤩 CBRL & The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) @thebiaankara.bsky.social are at the conference. Come say hello 👋 📍 Find us at the BIRI stand, UCL Roberts Building foyer Learn how we can support your research!

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE Hybrid Event "The House of Kybele and the last pagans of Aphrodisias: Recent excavation, discoveries, and research" 🔗 Register for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/the-h...

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP IN ISTANBUL Co-organised by the BIAA, ANAMED, and Boğaziçi Üniversitesi This in-person event is open to the public, and no registration is required for attendance. ℹ️ biaa.ac.uk/events/rethi...

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE Hybrid Event "In the Shadow of the Great Altar? Human-Environment Interaction in Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon" 🗣 Felix Pirson (German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul) 📆Tuesday, 21 April 2026 🔗 Register for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/in-th...

Delighted to deliver the keynote speech at the Ottoman Mobilities Symposium organized by @thebiaankara.bsky.social and @sabanciuniversity.bsky.social My sincere thanks to the organizer @peterjcherry.bsky.social for the invitation and for such a stimulating and well-organized event.

Fascinating presentation by Dr Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar on the careers and contributions of Ottoman archaeologists including Theodore Macridy, Haydar Bey and Bedri Bey - part of the second panel at the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Symposium in Istanbul: biaa.ac.uk/events/ottom...

Dr @peterjcherry.bsky.social - BIAA Assistant Director and PI of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project - discusses the figure of ‘the Dandy’ in late nineteenth-century Ottoman literature and shows some examples of the original caricatures in the @thebiaankara.bsky.social collection

Dr Lutgarde Vandeput - Director of @thebiaankara.bsky.social - welcomes delegates to the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Symposium at Sabancı Üniversitesi, and introduces the work of the nine British International Research Institutes supported by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "The Politics of Collecting and Heritage in the Ottoman Mediterranean", with Batuhan Özdemir

📬 NEWS RELEASE We are delighted to share our interview with Olivia Arkley (Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool), recipient of the 2025 #BIAA Doughty-Wylie Scholarship.

📫 OTTOMAN MOBILITIES AND INTERACTIONS SYMPOSIUM ▶️ Programme and registration link (free attendance) available! The symposium brings together one keynote lecture and twenty-four papers that explore the Ottoman Empire as a dynamic web of circulation biaa.ac.uk/events/ottom...

👩‍🏫 NEWS The second set of workshops for the British Academy-funded "Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture and Society" has just concluded at the BIAA in Ankara. 📖 Read our full recap here: biaa.ac.uk/building-aca...

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE Hybrid Event "Why Anatolian Antiquities were Less Abandoned than We Thought: Finding (Semi-)Nomads in Travelogues" 🗣 Sean Paxton Silvia (Princeton University and BIAA-ANAMED Fellow)

🚨 NEWS FROM PROJECTS Exciting news from Prof Douglas Baird and his team: new results from their excavations, published in 2 papers in Nature, identify very early #dogs discovered during University of Liverpool/BIAA excavations in central Anatolia. 🔗Read more at biaa.ac.uk/ancient-dna-...

🚨 BANEA 2026 We would like to remind you that you can still submit a poster abstract by 30th March and/or register to attend by 1st April! ➖ ℹ www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-2026

🚨 Are you an undergraduate, postgraduate or PhD student in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences studying Türkiye and/or the Black Sea region at a UK university? Are you interested in making a research trip to the region, and/or participating in a fieldwork project?

🔔 NEWS FROM FELLOWS AND STAFF Dr Işılay Gürsu (BIAA Assistant Director) and Dr Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez (BIAA Digital Repository Office Manager) are pleased to share their involvement in a UNESCO Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on "Preventing illicit trafficking of cultural property".

🎉🎓 WINNER: BIAA 2025 MASTERS DISSERTATION PRIZE 🎉🎓 Congratulations to Zeynep Igmen (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) for their thesis “A practice of Fishing along the Bosphorus: Mapping Dalyans as Sites of Collective Making and Memory.” ℹ️https://biaa.ac.uk/biaa-masters-dissertation-prize-2025/

📯 NEWS FROM FELLOWS Dr Mehmet Doğar (BIRI Postdoctoral Fellow in Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions) presented his research at the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, on 26 February 2026.

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE Hybrid Event "Colonial Complicity, Exceptionalism, and Decoloniality: An Examination of Scandinavian National Museums’ Displays" 🗣 Dr Muhammed Topdaş (Hacı Bayram Veli University)

🚨📢 OPPORTUNITIES TO #FUND YOUR TRAVELS AND RESEARCH 🚨📢 The BIAA is thrilled to announce seven grant and scholarship opportunities for students and junior and senior researchers! Don’t miss your chance to advance your academic career! ℹ️ biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor...

Did you miss the BIAA-CTS London Event on 'Hydraulic mission accomplished? Water infrastructure, policy and scarcity in Türkiye"?  No worries, you can now watch it on the CTS YouTube channel or listen to it on Spotify. Links can be found at biaa.ac.uk/events/hydra...

🚨 BANEA 2026 CONFERENCE We're pleased to announce that registration for the BANEA 2026 Conference is now open. The event, supported by the BIAA, will be held at University College London from 22-24 April. For info and registration, check at www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-2026

Feel free to join BIAA-Bilkent Joint Research Fellow Batuhan Özdemir at the Anatolian Civilizations Museum this Friday. They will be giving a talk about the process of collecting Lycian monuments for the British Museum.

📆 BIAA-UoE EDINBURGH EVENT Hybrid Talk "Long-term Urban Change at Aphrodisias: New Results from the Place of Palms and Governor’s House" 🗣 Prof Ben Russell (School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh)

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "Music, Identity and Popular Culture in Türkiye" with Professor Martin Stokes ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/19-... ➖ Turkish subtitles available.

🔔 Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Symposium 🗣 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED! Dr İlkay Yılmaz (Freie Universität Berlin) will give the keynote lecture at the upcoming OM&I Symposium (13-14 April, Istanbul), focused on "Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire."

🚨 NEWS 🏺 BIAA Reference Collections in Action: Supporting Research at Türkmen-Karahöyük 🗞️ Read more at biaa.ac.uk/biaa-referen...

🚨 NEWS: Last November, a BIAA team visited the village of Geldibuldu (Adıyaman) to share the project and gather perspectives from local communities. 🔗 biaa.ac.uk/community-en...

📆 BIAA-CTS LONDON EVENT Hybrid Panel "Hydraulic Mission Accomplished? Water Infrastructure, Policy and Scarcity in Türkiye" 🗣 Dr Arda Bilgen (Middle East Centre, LSE) and Prof Jim Crow (BIAA and University of Edinburgh) ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...