After numerous guest speakers, fruitful presentations, engaging discussions, and an exciting field trip since the beginning of the course in September, we have come to the last week of the Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course. This week at N ...
DetayYou are cordially invited to the Adaptive Reuse: Perspectives and Strategies for Sustainable Architectural Transformations Symposium on 16 June 2022 at METU Faculty of Architecture Amphitheater. This symposium brings together practitioners and a ...
DetayEnno Maessen (Utrecht University) will talk about his new book on the urban history of Beyoglu: Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu, published by I.B. Tauris. He will present case st ...
DetayThe Workshops on Urban Memory Walks series, organized in collaboration with the Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul, continues with its third meeting. The workshop entitled "Ways of walking, ways of knowing. Heritage interactions at the Reinwar ...
DetayThis online panel, part of the Meetings on Diversity and the Livable City co-organized by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and the Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul, will deal with the reproduction of the intangible cultural heritage in th ...
DetayImage: Couple of musicians. Alabaster statuette Mari, temple of Inanna, chamber of the priests. Sumer 2450 BC, Museum of the Louvre AO 17568. Wikipedia. Abstract We all love a good story. The urge to hear stories and recount t ...
DetayThis online lecture titled "From the Khān to the Sultān: the Shaybānid Shāhnāma in the Topkapi (mss. H.1488) and Gift Exchange between Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire" will focus on an isolated copy of Firdausī’s Shāhnāma, a work of Persian poetr ...
DetayEnis Dinç, who was an NIT fellow in 2017 while turning his dissertation into a book, finished this project and his manuscript has been published as a volume by I.B. Tauris. The book analyzes the film footage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk produced in the e ...
DetayThe Netherlands Institute in Turkey has been organizing the event series "Meetings on Diversity and the Livable City" that started in 2019 in collaboration with the Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul. "Queer Spaces" mini-symposium is a part of ...
DetayIn November 2019, Ömer Fatih Parlak gave a lecture at the NIT on the decline of the appearance of Turks and Turkey in historic board games produced in Europe beginning with the 19th century. This coming lecture complements the November talk by loo ...
DetayThis panel intends to bring narratology and its possibilities to the agenda. Narratology, as a discipline that deals with the structure and function of narrative with themes, symbols, and conventions, examines the specificity of literary narrative fo ...
DetayThe NIT invites you to the two lectures on the afterlife of antiquities by Ketty Iannantuono (Radboud University/ NIT&RMO fellow) and Dr. Mariëtte Verhoeven (Radboud University)."Collecting sculptures, displaying identities: Roman archaeological ...
DetayThis workshop, the fourth of the "Meetings on Diversity and the Livable City" series co-organized by the NIT and the Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul, will concentrate on the changing patterns of diversity that have characterized Beyoğlu/ Pe ...
DetayThis workshop aims at bringing together scholars who study water supply in Ottoman cities from the angle of pious foundations as one of the main financing tools. The event will be held in the Anamed auditorium. To see the details, please visit here. ...
DetayThis lecture by Ömer Fatih Parlak (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) will explore the reflection of the Turk and Turkey in historic board games produced in Europe. The image of the Turk lost its thematic value in board games from the beginning ...
Detay"No Seat At The Table", awarded by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and supported by the NIT, is a graphic novel project dealing with one of the most poignant problems of our current cities. The project involves the collection and ...
DetayThe Netherlands Institute in Turkey has been organizing the event series titled "Meetings on Diversity and the Liveable City" throughout 2019 in collaboration with the Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul. The second event of the series, which a ...
DetayThis lecture will address the construction of national images of Turkey and how those images have been given new meanings by contemporary artists over the past three decades. As can be seen in many nation states, symbols have also been created to rep ...
DetayBetween 2016 and 2021 the NWO-funded VICI-project 'Innovating Objects. The impact of global connections and the formation of the Roman Empire (ca. 200-30 BC)' is conducted at Leiden University under the direction of Miguel John Versluys. In this symp ...
DetayThe Netherlands Institute in Turkey cordially invites you to the public lecture: "Beyond East & West. Nemrud Dağ and Hellenistic-Roman Commagene in its local and global Eurasian context" by Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University). The ancie ...
DetayThe Netherlands Institute in Turkey and the Netherlands Consulate-General in Istanbul cordially invite you to the panel discussion: Urban Encounters: Everyday Experience ofDiversity in the City The panel will take pla ...
DetayRepurposing the buildings and urban complexes that have lost their original function – from individual buildings such as workplaces, schools or churches to former factories and complete harbour fronts – has gained popularity in recent decades in citi ...
DetayImage info: “Red-penciled” image of a woman at the river, in a copy of Kadınlar Alemi, 11 June 1914. Ottoman intellectuals of various ideological backgrounds continuously mentioned the problem of moral decline at the turn of the twentie ...
DetayImage: Babylonian astronomical tablet and night sky featuring Jupiter, Cover photo, Science Magazine, Vol 351, Issue 6272. Numerous clay tablets from Babylon and other sites in ancient Iraq written between 750 BCE and 75 AD inform us about ...
DetayImage: Hittite Ivory Figurine (1400-1200 BC), British Museum, SOC.151In traditional societies, status differences are even more rigid and conspicuous than in industrial societies, so that whatever an individual’s body displays is very meaningful. In ...
DetayVere Gordon Childe (1892-1957) is widely credited for laying the foundations of European prehistory. More a political activist than a prehistorian at the beginning of his career, Childe started off as a man without aff ...
DetayHomer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scho ...
DetayDestruction of cultural heritage has escalated in Syria and Iraq as the ongoing armed conflict has spread to ancient cities. The violence of this conflict is not, or course, limited to the destruction of cultural property, and has first and foremost ...
DetayThe Shāhnāma, or Book of Kings originally written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi in the early 11th century CE, has generated a legacy of illuminated manuscripts chronicling the pre-Islamic history of Iran and Central Asia (Transoxiana). More broa ...
DetayPhoto source: eski.istanbulium.net Are there novels in modern Turkish literature depicting immigrants in Istanbul in a way compatible with the philosophical idea of the right to the city? If so, through which themes and with the use of w ...
DetayKnown as ebru in Modern Turkish today, the earliest evidence for marbling paper dates to the late-fifteenth-century. It emerges from a context of prodigious and multifarious decorated paper production during the Timurid era. In this lecture, Ja ...
DetayThe material culture of Europeans living in the Ottoman Empire has not been widely studied. Nor has the Dutch ‘nation’ of Istanbul received much attention by academics. This talk by Marloes Cornelissen focuses specifically on the women of thi ...
DetayBased on extensive research in Turkish and foreign archives, this presentation illuminates the relationship between media and power, and more specifically the role of film in the making of Atatürk's myth and the modern Turkish nation-state in t ...
DetayThe monumental fountains of eighteenth-century Istanbul captured everyone’s attention. Ottoman poets, foreign travelers, and visual artists all marveled at their beauty and masterful craftsmanship, portraying them as wonderful pleasure spots. B ...
DetayOn Saturday 29 April, the third NIT / Leiden University Turkish Studies in Istanbul Network Meeting will be held at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey, İstiklal Caddesi No:181, Beyoğlu, Turkey. At this meeting current and graduated PhD candida ...
DetayGünümüz kentleri toplumsal hareket ve ilişkilerin kesişme noktalarıdır. Hızlı değişim, kentleri unutuş ve yabancılaşma mekanları yaparken, birbirleriyle yarışan kültürel tezatlar ve taleplerle bir arada yaşayabilmek için gerekli bakış açıları g ...
DetayWalking, strolling, running errands and getting lost in the streets: walking and Istanbul belong together. Also in literature. Some of the characters of the most well-known novels and short stories from Turkish literature ...
DetayThis book launch co-organized by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul will be held on February 10 at the Swedish Institute in Istanbul.There will be introductions by Fokke Gerritsen (Netherlands Institute ...
DetayRecent years have seen an increasing archaeological and historical interest in Bronze and Iron Age Western Anatolia. In the wake of this development scholars have developed a range of new interpretative frameworks that challenge long-held views of th ...
DetayThis symposium presents the results of the excavations that took place at the Neolithic site of Barcın Höyük in the Yenişehir Valley between 2007 and 2015. The excavations aimed to find out more about the start of sedentary farming life in northwest ...
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