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...

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "Rescue Archaeology and Submerged Landscapes: A Conversation with Stuart Blaylock" ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/18-... ➖ Turkish subtitles available.

🔔 NEWS FROM STAFF Deniz Çit, a digital archivist working on the Lost Villages of the Upper Euphrates Project, supported by the Modern Endangered Archives Project, will participate in the BOBCATSSS 2026 International Conference, which will be held in Sibiu, Romania, from 20 to 23 January 2026.

📹 Did you miss the BIAA Ankara Lecture on 'Digital Approaches to Hellenistic Pottery: Modelling Material Networks' by Dr Dries Daems (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)? No worries, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel! 🔗 youtu.be/SANshtDFTo4

🌿 NEWS 🌾 The BIAA Welcomes Researchers from the “Resimli Türkiye Florası”(Illustrated Flora of Türkiye) Project 🗞️ Read more at biaa.ac.uk/visit-illust...

🔔 E-NEWSLETTER To learn about the BIAA's recent activities and upcoming events, please view our latest e-newsletter at mailchi.mp/06f4a7bbc940....

🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED - 23 January 2026 Call for Papers: "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions" Symposium, 13-14 April 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye ℹ Check the Call for Papers at biaa.ac.uk/cfp-ottoman-...

🚨 [PISIDIA HERITAGE TRAIL 2026] Bookings open for the upcoming tour! ℹ Details and bookings at biaa.ac.uk/pisidia-heri... ➖ Watch the BIAA Director, Dr Lutgarde Vandeput, discuss the marvels of the Pisidia Heritage Trail in Season 1, Episode 1 of the Heritage Türkiye Podcast: youtu.be/lEg83fPKwj0

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE Digital Approaches to Hellenistic Pottery: Modelling Material Networks 🗣 Dr Dries Daems (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 📆Wednesday, 14 January 2026 ⏰17:30 - 19:00 (Ankara UTC+3) 📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 | Zoom ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/digit...

📌 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE Last week, at the BIAA Ankara premises, Dr Selim S. Kuru (University of Washington) delivered a lecture on Enderunlu Fâzıl's taxonomy of human difference that unsettles gender binaries. 🔗 If you missed the live session, you can now watch the talk at youtu.be/1ITeniELnlc

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "From Salvage to Safeguarding: Heritage Practices in Türkiye" with Dr Gül Pulhan ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/17-... ➖ Turkish subtitles available.

📌 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE 📹 On 11th December, Prof Robin Skeates (Antiquity and Durham University) delivered a lecture at the BIAA premises in Ankara titled "Archaeology’s Place in the World: Old and New Challenges."

📹 Did you miss the BIAA London Lecture 'An Arabesk Triptych' by Prof. Martin Stokes on December 5th? No worries, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel! 🔗 Check the link at youtu.be/7_nzfCdmMJs

🚨 Call for Papers: "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions" Symposium, 13-14 April 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye ⏰ Submission deadline: 16 January 2026. ℹ Check the Call for Papers at biaa.ac.uk/cfp-ottoman-...

🚨 UPCOMING BIAA HYBRID TALKS Two weeks, three talks! Don't miss them; you can join us online or in person. See full details and registration links at biaa.ac.uk/our-events/.

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ "Masculinities, Mobility, and the Making of Place" with Janine Su ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/publication/... ➖ Turkish subtitles available.

📣 JOB OPPORTUNITY at Bilkent University, Department of Archaeology 📝Assistant or Associate Professor in Archaeology ⏰ January 16, 2026 Check the call for application at: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/HAR...

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ From Seeds to Civilisations: Andrew Fairbairn on Early Farming and Archaeobotany in Türkiye

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ From Seeds to Civilisations: Andrew Fairbairn on Early Farming and Archaeobotany in Türkiye ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/publication/...

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures Hybrid Event 🗣 Dr C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University) 📆Thursday, 13 November 2025 ⏰17:30 - 19:00 (Ankara UTC+3) 📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 / Zoom ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/the-o...

🔔NEWS FROM PROJECTS 📌Workshops on Researching, Writing, and Publishing about Gender, Culture, and Society kick off! Read the full article at biaa.ac.uk/workshops-on...

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE: The Intersection of Time, Space, and Heritage: Understanding and Managing Historic Rural Landscapes in AnkaraHybrid event ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/the-i... #CulturalHeritage #rurallandscape #historiccity #Ankara #BIAA

🎉Staff and students from Durham University Dept of Archaeology and BIAA met up at The British Academy on Monday 27th October during the #UniversityArchaeologyDay.

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ “Cultural Extimacy”: Reframing Turkish–Greek Relations with Dr Leonidas Karakatsanis ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/publication/... ➖ Turkish subtitles available.

🎨 Meet Gizem, one of the BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project. 🌐 biaa.ac.uk/about/people...

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE: Canals and colonialism: Trans-Palestinian waterways from the Ottoman era to social media Hybrid event 🗣 Sarah Irving (University of Staffordshire) 📆Wednesday, 22nd October 2025 ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/canal...

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🎉 Meet Mehmet, one of the new BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows of the Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Project. 🌐https://biaa.ac.uk/about/people/mehmet-dogar/

🎉 Meet Aytek, one of the new BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows of the Ottoman Mobilities & Interactions Project. Aytek, cross-appointed with the British School at Athens, will focus on the Ottoman refugee politics and the global emergence of modern population management.

🚨 Are you a UK Higher Education Institution-affiliated researcher working within the humanities and social sciences and planning a project in Türkiye and/or the Black Sea region next year? If so, join us for a webinar on how the BIAA can support your research: biaa.ac.uk/events/webin...

📚 Meet Emrah Dinç, Library and Archive Assistant 👋 Become a member and you can enjoy the many collections of the Institute: 📸 Photographic Collection 📜 Squeeze Collection 🫎 Animal Bone Reference Collection 🌿 Botanical Reference Collection and many more... Further details at biaa.ac.uk/library/

📆 BIAA LONDON LECTURE: An Arabesk Tryptych Hybrid event 🗣 Prof Martin Stokes (King's College London) 📆Friday, 5th December 2025 ⏰18:30 - 20 (London GMT) 📍Society of Antiquaries of London, London / Zoom ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/an-ar...

🚨 The BIAA Digital Repository Office is excited to share a glimpse into the past from the ‘Lost Villages of the Upper Euphrates (Türkiye)’ collection! 🗞 Read the news at biaa.ac.uk/lost-village... 📸 (1968-1980) Digitised by The BIAA and @uclalibrary.bsky.social Digital Collections

🎧 The first episode of Season 2 of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ Bringing the Past to the Public: A conversation with Bettany Hughes ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/publication/... ➖ Turkish subtitles available.

📆WORKSHOP: Res Sacra in Byzantium: Definitions, Identifications, Interpretations In-person event 💭 Organised by Dr Elif Neyzi (BIAA-Bilkent Postdoctoral Fellow) 📆 Friday, 26th September 2025 - Ankara ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/works...

👋🏽 Meet Dr Batuhan Özdemir, newly appointed BIAA-Bilkent Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-26 Batu, who got their PhD from Durham University, will focus on "The British Empire and its ‘National Museum’: Charles Fellows’s Lycian Expeditions and Imperial Collecting in the 1840s." ℹ biaa.ac.uk/biaa-bilkent...

📬 BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows Appointed The British International Research Institutes (BIRI) are pleased to announce the appointment of four postdoctoral research fellows within the project 'Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions.' 🔴Read the news at biaa.ac.uk/ottoman-mobi...

🚨📢 GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES The BIAA is pleased to offer a number of different funding opportunities, grants and awards to support academics at all stages of their career. Find out more: biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor... ⏰ Deadline: November 2, 2025

🎉 Meet Sean, the BIAA Librarian! Sean joined the Institute at the beginning of this month, and they're ready to help you dive into our collections, support your research, and make the library a welcoming space for all 📚✨ Become a member at biaa.ac.uk/support-us/j...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATIONS! We're excited to announce the publication of two Volumes: 1⃣ Routes and Roads in Anatolia from Prehistory to Seljuk Times ℹ biaa.ac.uk/publication/... 2⃣ Anatolian Studies, Volume 75 (2025) ℹ biaa.ac.uk/publication/...

🤯 Did you know that if you join the BIAA now till the end of the year, you will get membership until December 2026?! Don't miss this deal! For details and joining, please visit biaa.ac.uk/support-us/j...

🚨 BIAA-led Workshops on Researching, Writing, and Publishing on Gender, Culture, and Society🚨 ➖ @martynweeds.bsky.social, #BIAA Director of Development, Communications and Operations, will be one of the tutors of the workshops. ➖ Apply by September 13 at biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...

📰 NEWS FROM MENDİK TEPE ℹ www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/mend... Mendik Tepe is tied to other Taş Tepeler settlements, such as Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, but may actually predate them. ➡ Read the preliminary report on the Mendik Tepe excavations at biaa.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

📆 BIAA LONDON LECTURE: Adrift in Time: Istanbul’s Theodosian Land Walls in the Urban Fabric of the Modern Megacity 🗣 Alexander Christie-Miller (Journalist and Writer) 📆Friday, 7th November 2025 ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/adrif...