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• 29 Sep '25 Publication NIT Annual Report 2024 is out!

• 17 Sep '25 Symposium Sustainable Futures for Rural Heritage: Opportunities and Threats in Türkiye and the Netherlands

• 27 Aug '25 General Obituary Jan Schmidt (1951-2025)

• 31 Jul '25 General In Memoriam Machiel Kiel (1938-2025)

• 31 Jul '25 General Machiel Kiel (1938-2025) [Türkçe]

• 3 Jul '25 Course Apply for NIT UHL 2025| Yazılıkaya Living Lab: Adaptive Futures for Rural Heritage

• 25 Jun '25 New Blog Post: A Dutch Family in the Ottoman World: Microhistory through the Case of the Keun

• 25 Jun '25 Newsletter NIT Newsletter 2025 - 1 is out!

• 25 Jun '25 General Summer schedule at NIT

• 17 Jun '25 Funding Apply for a NIT Fellowship for Autumn 2025

• 17 Jun '25 New Blog Post on Bibliopera: Introducing the Machiel Kiel Archive: A Glimpse into the Ottoman Balkans

• 5 May '25 New Blog post: Tracing Sa’dabad: Unfolding maps, Unfolding questions

• 24 Apr '25 New Blog Post: Who owns the past? Late Antique Epigrams from Asia Minor and the Construction of a New Past

• 21 Mar '25 General New Blog post: Istanbul: A City of Water

• 21 Mar '25 General From the NIT Blog: Through the Lens of Emilie Haspels. The Phrygian Highlands 1937-1958

• 18 Mar '25 Lecture Kil Ustalarının İzinde: Arkeolojide Parmak İzi Analizleri

• 5 Mar '25 Workshop Call for Papers: Connecting Constantinople

• 24 Feb '25 General Through the Lens of Emilie Haspels: The Phrygian Highlands 1937-1958 Exhibition

• 20 Feb '25 General Istanbul’s Water Heritage Tour

• 7 Jan '25 Publication Anatolica issue 50 is out!

• 9 Dec '24 Symposium Historic Ports, Future Cities: Proposals for Revalorization of Izmir's Port City Heritage

• 4 Dec '24 Funding Apply for a NIT Fellowship Spring 2025

• 27 Nov '24 Lecture Water Values ​​Past, Present and Future: How to bring the history and heritage of water management to the design of sustainable futures?

• 27 Nov '24 General NIT Day in Nijmegen

• 21 Nov '24 Publication Constantinople through the Ages. The Visible City from Its Foundation to Contemporary Istanbul

• 12 Nov '24 Lecture Historic Ports Future Cities| Public Engagement Projects

• 31 Oct '24 Lecture Historic Ports Future Cities| 568 Yıllık Miras Haliç Tersanesi

• 17 Oct '24 Lecture From Miklagard to Istanbul: Moving the Senses

• 2 Oct '24 Symposium Mediterranean Port Cities: Shared Heritage, Shared Challenges for Urban Sustainability

• 12 Sep '24 Publication Anatolica 51: Call for Contributions

• 12 Sep '24 Symposium Necropoleis Research Network Annual Meeting VII

• 4 Sep '24 Lecture The Dawn of Orientalism: Dutch scholars and Arabic classics in Ottoman Istanbul

• 3 Sep '24 Course DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for Historic Ports, Future Cities by 8 September

• 5 Jul '24 General Updates on Our Summer Plans

• 5 Jul '24 Library NIT Library will be closed between 19 August - 8 September

• 24 Jun '24 Funding Apply for a NIT Fellowship for Autumn 2024

• 24 Jun '24 Course Apply for NIT UHL 2024| Historic Ports, Future Cities: Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Urban Development

• 24 May '24 Workshop Call for Papers: Anatolian Chalcolithic Workshop

• 6 May '24 Symposium Call for Papers| Travelers in Ottoman Lands, Places Forgotten, Places Remembered

• 3 May '24 Symposium International Conference Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction: Challenges and Opportunities

• 3 May '24 Fieldwork Emilie Haspels at the Midas Monument and Yazılıkaya

• 16 Apr '24 General In Memoriam Sander de Groot (1943-2024)

• 4 Apr '24 Newsletter NIT Newsletter 2024 - 1 is out!

• 1 Apr '24 Symposium Call for Papers| Necropoleis Research Network Annual Meeting VII

• 1 Apr '24 Funding Connected World Social Impact Award

• 28 Mar '24 Lecture Freedom in slavery. Status and agency in inscribed epigrams from the Greek East, 3rd cent BC - 3rd cent AD

• 26 Mar '24 Lecture Barcın Höyük'te Mandıracılık

• 12 Mar '24 General Rosanne Baars to Demonstrate that Women Played a Significant Role in 18th-Century Diplomacy in Ottoman Empire

• 11 Mar '24 General In Memoriam: Rudolf E. de Jong (1958–2024)

• 11 Mar '24 General In Memoriam Frans Wiggermann (1948-2024)

• 21 Feb '24 Lecture Beyond Local and Non-Local: Bioarchaeology, Mortuary Practices, and Multifaceted Identities at Tell Atchana, Alalakh

• 14 Feb '24 Lecture Piety on screen. Increasing presentation of religion in Turkish television series

• 6 Feb '24 General 6 Şubat Depremi - Tüm Kayıplarımızı Saygıyla Anıyoruz

• 5 Feb '24 Lecture Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Identifying Communities of Clay Object Makers through Ancient Fingerprints

• 2 Feb '24 General NIT Blog: NIT Fellowship Chronicles: Unveiling the Tapestry of Religious Diplomacy and Academic Enrichment Across Istanbul

• 2 Feb '24 General NIT Blog: Community Politics and Urban Regeneration: Exploring Entrepreneurial Governance in the Left-Behind Areas of Istanbul

• 2 Feb '24 Publication NIT Blog: Introducing Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities: The Revalorization of the Valens Aqueduct in Istanbul

• 8 Jan '24 A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments

• 22 Dec '23 General Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! / Mutlu Yıllar! / Happy New Year!

• 20 Dec '23 General Introducing NIT's New Staff Member: Esen Kayan

• 13 Dec '23 Workshop NIT UHL: Re-Connecting Archaeological Heritage with the City: Proposals for Action in Today’s Ankara

• 9 Dec '23 General NIT day in Leiden

• 9 Dec '23 Publication Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities: Proposals for the Revalorization of the Valens Aqueduct in Istanbul

• 1 Dec '23 Lecture NIT UHL: METU TAÇDAM’s Studies of Post-Earthquake Antakya: From Hope for Recovery to Concerns over Loss

• 28 Nov '23 Lecture NIT UHL: Archaeology-Sustainable Building in a City Centre

• 24 Nov '23 General NIT Blog

• 21 Nov '23 Lecture NIT UHL: Mirror of the City. Amsterdam’s North/South metroline and its Archaeology

• 15 Nov '23 Lecture NIT UHL: Architectural Designs for Archaeological Heritage in Istanbul

• 9 Nov '23 Funding NIT Fellowships for Spring 2024 postponed!

• 8 Nov '23 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Urban Archaeological Heritage and Art - Artistic Encounters with Archaeological Heritage

• 31 Oct '23 NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Plural Heritages of Istanbul - Re-interpreting the Wall with Residents

• 26 Oct '23 General Accessing NIT on 26 October 2023

• 26 Oct '23 Funding Apply for a NIT Fellowship Spring 2024

• 17 Oct '23 Symposium Archaeology of Archaeology at Troy Symposium

• 9 Oct '23 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab| Urban Archaeology in Ankara: The Temple of Augustus in Past and Present

• 3 Oct '23 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Increasing Public Awareness and Engagement

• 25 Sep '23 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab Public Lecture Series

• 25 Sep '23 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Integrating archaeological heritage in urban planning, policy and design

• 20 Sep '23 Newsletter NIT Newsletter 2023 - 2

• 18 Sep '23 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Discovering and Documenting Urban Archaeological Remains

• 18 Sep '23 Workshop Using Science-based Archaeology to Investigate Daily Life at Barcın Höyük

• 18 Sep '23 Publication Anatolica: Call for Contributions

• 7 Aug '23 General In Memoriam Professor K.R. Veenhof

• 6 Jul '23 Library NIT Library will be closed between 21 August and 3 September

• 21 Jun '23 Course Apply for NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Archaeological Heritage and Liveable Cities

• 23 May '23 Newsletter NIT Newsletter 2023 - 1 is out!

• 23 May '23 Lecture The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery and Heritage of Monument Row Lecture

• 17 May '23 Funding Doe een aanvraag voor een journalistieke residency in Istanbul

• 16 May '23 Publication New publication: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities

• 22 Mar '23 Course Apply for NIT's Summer Course: Istanbul Up Close

• 22 Mar '23 Publication New article by NIT Staff: Revitalizing Istanbul’s Water Heritage: The Valens Aqueduct

• 23 Feb '23 Publication New article by NIT Staff: Studying Fingerprints in Archaeology: Potentials and Limitations of Paleodermatoglyphics as an Archaeometric Method

• 10 Feb '23 General Disaster Relief for Karahüyük (Reyhanlı, Hatay)

• 28 Dec '22 General Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! / Mutlu Yıllar! / Happy New Year!

• 23 Dec '22 General Introducing NIT's Upcoming Fellows for Spring 2023

• 10 Dec '22 Workshop Re-valorization of Valens Aqueduct and Its Water Supply Network in Today's Istanbul: Proposals for Action

• 23 Nov '22 NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Historic Water Systems in Gaziantep: Kastel and Livas

• 15 Nov '22 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East

• 3 Nov '22 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Water Heritage of Istanbul

• 3 Nov '22 Symposium The Ottoman Monuments in Greece Revisited: A Tribute to Machiel Kiel