📫 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...

🎧 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...