🎧 Season 2 Wrap-Up! ➖ In this final episode, Dr Işılay Gürsu and Dr Peter Cherry look back on the highlights of Season Two, reflect on key themes and memorable conversations, and share a glimpse of what’s to come in Season Three. ➖ 🎙️ Listen to the wrap-up episode at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/sea...

Last year, Bettany joined Dr Isilay Gursu and Dr Peter Cherry on the #heritagetürkiyepodcast to discuss life on and off camera, how she communicates research to the general public and her passion for bringing the ancient past to life through television and writing.

🌅 Bettany Hughes' Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisation BIAA Honorary Patron Bettany Hughes premieres on Channel 4 with her latest instalment of the Lost Worlds series. Don't miss the two episodes on Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th of August at 8 pm (UK time)!

📚 BLOG POST In this post, Sean the Librarian invites you behind the scenes of our newest archival treasure—28 original, hand-drawn caricatures captured in the vibrant heart of Beyoğlu (Pera) in 1918.

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ “Living with Byzantium: Heritage of the 'Other'", with Dr Hakan Tarhan ➖ Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/liv... ➖ Turkish subtitles available

📚 Missives from the Collections The David H. French Library is pleased to announce that it has recently received a generous gift to enhance its reading room space: a hand-crafted "vitrin", or exhibition case.

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"?

🚨 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-...

📆 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...

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

Thanks to this scholarship and its generous funders, Olivia participated in the excavation project at #Mendiktepe. They also visited other sites in the Taş Tepeler region, such as Göbeklitepe, as well as the Batman Museum, which holds artefacts from Başur Höyük, a key part of their PhD thesis.

📬 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.