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Previous activities

2010

Symposium: Conservation and Creativity: Comparative experiences of creativity for the conservation of Istanbul's World Heritage Sites, December 21-22, 2010 (more information)

Lecture: Correspondence between the Prince and the Pasha: Diplomatic and Personal letters between Halil Pasha and Prince Maurits of Netherlands, by Mehmet Tütüncü, December 15, 2010 (more information)

Symposium: When women enter the public space... Men and families in women's architectural heritage in East and West, November 25-26 (more information)

Lecture: From Roman Authepsa to Russian Samovar: Anatolian Crossroads, Chinese Tea, Dutch and British Commerce by Prof. Dr. Aleksandr K. Gavrilov (St. Petersburg University), November 8, 2010 (more information)

Lecture: Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet. Women in Proverbs from Around the World by Mineke Schipper, October 25, 2010
(more information)

Lecture: Luxury, Power Strategies and the Question of Corruption. Gifting in the Ottoman Elite (16th-18th Centuries) Hedda Reindl-Kiel, October 20, 2010 (more information)

Symposium: Fourth International Conference on Jewish Italian Literature (ICOJIL 4): Jewish migration: voices of the Diaspora 
June 23-25, 2010 (
more information)

International Workshop: History of Labour Relations,with IISG Amsterdam, June 18-19, 2010

PhD Course: Istanbul, city of contrasts. Cultural transfer between Europe and Turkey with Huizinga-Instituut Amsterdam, May 30-June 6, 2010

Lecture Cornelis de Bruijn (1652-1727) and the Rediscovery of Persepolis Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen University) May 4, 2010 (more information)

Literary Evening Voices from the Beyond. An Evening of Turkish and Dutch Poetry May 3, 2010 (more information)

Europa Nostra Experience sharing meetings of NGOs-The Netherlands April 9, 2010 (more information)

Lecture  Ottoman Tile Culture in the 18th Century: the Dutch Connection Hans Theunissen (Leiden University) 1 April 2010 (more information)

Lecture Dutch travel accounts on the Ottoman Empire 1590-1800 Jan Schmidt (Leiden University) 5 March 2010 (more information)

Lecture Qala’at Halwanji — a 4000 year old fortress in Syria Jesper Eidem (NINO) 18 February 2010 (more information)

Masterclass on Archaeobotany with Prof. René Cappers 15-26 February 2010

Lecture Doing research on Ottoman women and the International Women's Movement or, how to turn into an armchair scholar Nicole van Os (Leiden University) 10 February 2010 (more information)

2009

Symposium Connections in Past and present. Istanbul Graduate Symposium on Archaeology, 19 December, 2009 (more information)

Symposium Museums and Display. Stories in a showcase  13-14 November, 2009 (more information)

Seminars Archaeobotany Seminars at NIT with René Cappers 6, 7, 8 October, 2009 (more information)

Masterclasses New Approaches in Archaeobotany 5-9 October 2009 (read more)

Fifth Workshop of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations International Institute of Social History (IISG) with NIT 25-26 September 2009

Symposium Ottoman Biographical Sources I: The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer Aşık Çelebi and His Work June 19, 2009 
(more information)

Lecture Experimentalism in Turkish literature: Adalet Ağaoğlu's YazSonu Petra de Bruijn (Leiden University) June 11, 2009 (more information)

Lecture The 2nd Neolithic Revolution in Asia Minor: Evaluating Possible CauseBleda S. Düring (Leiden University) May 21, 2009 (more information)

Lecture Fritz Rudolf Kraus in Istanbul (1937-1949) and the development of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Turkey Jan Schmidt (Leiden University), May 11, 2009 (more information)

Lecture Depraved Borderlands - Love Affairs Between Muslims and non-Muslims in Dutch Literature from the Middle Ages until today Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (Groningen University), May 6, 2009 (more information)

Lecture On clocks and dreams: the novel Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü [Time Regulation Institute] by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Hanneke van der Heijden (translator)April 6, 2009 (more information)

2nd Workshop on Neolithic Anatolia, 2-3 March 2009 at Istanbul University, The Neolithic Period in Western Anatolia and Thrace: Attempt for Sharing Information and Constructing a Chronology. Organizing institutions: Department of Prehistory of Istanbul University - Department of Archaeology of Aegean University - Netherlands Institute in Turkey.

Lecture Empires, Cities, Sanctuaries. Imperial Patronage of Sanctuaries in Asia Minor and beyond, ca. 550 BCE-950 CE Rolf Strootman January 28, 2009 (more information)

2008

Lecture 'None of the Infidels, Apart from the Englishman, Are Reliable.' Stratford Canning and the Turkish-Russian Peace Treaty of Bucharest, 1811-1812 Steven Richmond, 28 november 2008 (more information)

NIT 50th Anniversary Symposium Ancient Anatolia Leiden, Holland 22 november 2008

Lectures Homer in Modern Europe Pim den Boer Homer in Modern Turkey Günay Uslu 23 October 2008 (more information)

Symposium Comparing Notes: Current Research on Ottoman History and Literature in the Netherlands and Turkey A symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey 16-17 October 2008 (more information)

Symposium The Ottoman Balkans: A Symposium in Honour of Machiel Kiel 27 June 2008 (more information)

Symposium Orient & Occident / West meets East in Istanbul
organized jointly with Utrecht University, Université de la Picardie, Amiens & Ankara University 25-26 June 2008 (more information)

Lecture
René Rouwette The changing  perspective?
Pragmatists and Opportunists in Dutch-Turkish relations, 1947-1974 16 June 2008 (more information)

Lecture Dr. Alexander de Groot The Nature of the Dutch Capitulations (1612-1634-1680) 6 May 2008
(more information)

Symposium and Workshop Museums Engaging Communities organized with Bilgi University 11-12 April 2008 (more information)

Symposium Culture, religion and identity: Current Groningen Research on the Postclassical City (300BC-300AD) 24 January 2008 (more information)

Lecture Hanneke van der Heijden While the furniture whispers and the clouds cry out loud: Aşk-ı Memnû: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’s novel (‘Forbidden love’, 1900) through the eyes of a Dutch translator 21 January 2008 (more information)

2007

New Year’s wishes 2008

Workshop The Astrolabe, Wilfred de Graaf and Hüseyin Şen (Utrecht University) 14 November, 2007 (more information)

Symposium Conservation, Restoration, and Re-usage of Ottoman Architecture
Practices and Problems in Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Balkans
October 9, 2007
(more information)

Lecture Dr. Joanita Vroom (RCAC fellow, Sheffield University) Mr. Turkey goes to Turkey, or: how the 18th century Dutch diplomat Cornelis Calkoen lunched at the Ottoman court  May 23, 2007 (abstract)

Lecture Prof. Dr. Onno van Nijf (Groningen University) Public Space and Political Culture in Roman Termessos May 10, 2007 (abstract)

Lecture Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden U., U. of Amsterdam) Whose identity? Material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Commagene April 11, 2007 (abstract)

Kraliçe Beatrix Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü ziyaret ediyor
Queen Beatrix visits the Netherlands Institute in Turkey

2 Mart – March 2, 2007
(briefing for Her Majesty)

Sempozyum - Symposium
Türkiye’de Endüstri Arkeolojisi
Industrial Archaeology in Turkey

Jointly organized with the Turkish History of Science Society 2 Mart - March 2, 2007 (program)

 

2006

Annual Report
NINO-NIT Annual Report 2006
(links to NINO website)

Lecture and Documentary Evening
7 Aralık - December 7, 2006
Lecture: Joris Oddens on the 17th c. travel diary of Gerard Hinlopen
Documentary: Karadeniz

Jointly organized with the Netherlands Consulate-General

Konferans Dr. Lucinda Dirven (University of Amsterdam) Deities, Cults and Dogs in Hatra. Religious Continuity and Change in a pre-Islamic Desert City June 8, 2006 (poster)