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NIT Lecture Series Autumn 2011: Ritual Space and Sound. Interlinked Sacralities in Turkey and its Historical Environs Passing through a variety of settings, this new series offers a unique angle on a subject of increasing interest, namely both the historical ethno-religious diversity of Turkey (in its wider context: the Turkic world and the former Ottoman cultural region) and its tradition of ritual bricolage, particularly at a popular level. The talks in the series span from classical to contemporary periods, with some emphasising the directly informative and others taking a more analytical approach to the sacred landscapes and soundscapes of this diversity-rich region. From Turkic Shamanism and Sufism to the Modern Practice of Music and Movement Therapy Oruç Güvenç  (Tumata Institute) October 20, Thursday, 18:00 Dr. Güvenç will share an introduction to the development of Turkish music and movement therapy highlighting its developmental process beginning with its early phases in Shamanic Central Asia and later Turkish Sufism to its modern manifestations. This talk includes a musical demonstration. Maftirim and the Sephardic Musical Tradition in Turkey Karen Şarhon (Ottoman Sephardic Research Institute) November 3, Thursday, 18:00 Despite an ancient liturgical heritage, the maftirim repertoire, as particularly developed in Ottoman Turkey, stands as a unique example of fusion and collaboration between Mevlevi and Jewish musicians. Karen Şarhon, director of an institute dedicated to Sephardic Jewish heritage in the Ottoman world offers a background to the development of this unique musical form. Aya Giorgi, Hidrellez and the Tradition of Shared Sacred Places in the Mediterranean Maria Coroucli (Ecole Française D’Athenes) November 17, Thursday, 18:00 The sharing of one religious site by both Muslims and Non-Muslims in Turkey and the former Ottoman region is an emerging example of ritual practice increasingly more scrutinized by sociologists, anthropologists and others. Maria Couroucli of the Ecole Française d'Athènes further expands the subject by looking at parallels and overlaps between the cults of St. George and Hidrellez and the way in which syncretism takes place in the Mediterranean. Shared Spaces, Contested Memories in Northern Cyprus Rabia Harmanşah (University of Pittsburgh) December 3, Saturday, 16:00 In a post-war Cyprus, the memory of sacred sites and particularly shared (Muslim-Christian) sanctuaries plays a particular role in collective consciousness of a time before ethno-religious separation came to be the norm. Rabia Harmanşah will share her field work and analysis of these phenomena which she has developed while doing doctoral research on both sides of divided Cyprus. NIT Konferans Serisi Sonbahar 2011: Ritual Space and Sound. Interlinked Sacralities in Turkey and its Historical Environs Farklı mekan ve zamanlardan geçen bu yeni konferans serisi giderek daha fazla ilgi gören bir konuya hem Türkiyenin etno-dini çeşitliliğini (daha geniş bir bağlamda Türk dünyası ve eski Osmanlı kültürel bölgesi) ve özellikle popüler bir seviyede ritüel brikolaj geleneği başta olmak üzere yeni bir açı ile bakmayı amaçlamaktadır. Serideki sunumlar klasikten çağdaş dönemlere çeşitlilik gösterirken bazıları daha bilgilendirici iken diğerleri bu zengin bölgenin kutsal alanlarına analitik bir yaklaşım sunacaklardır. From Turkic Shamanism and Sufism to the Modern Practice of Music and Movement Therapy Oruç Güvenç  (Tumata Enstitüsü) 20 Ekim Perşembe, 18:00 Oruç Güvenç Türk müzik ve hareket terapisinin Şaman Orta Asya'daki erken evreleri ile başlayan, sonraki Türk Sufizmi ve modern görünümleri ile devam eden gelişimine bir giriş sunacaktır. Bu konuşma bir müzik demonstrasyonu içermektedir. Maftirim and the Sephardic Musical Tradition in Turkey Karen Şarhon (Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center) November 3, Thursday, 18:00 Despite an ancient liturgical heritage, the maftirim repertoire, as particularly developed in Ottoman Turkey, stands as a unique example of fusion and collaboration between Mevlevi and Jewish musicians. Karen Şarhon, director of an institute dedicated to Sephardic Jewish heritage in the Ottoman world offers a background to the development of this unique musical form. Aya Giorgi, Hidrellez and the Tradition of Shared Sacred Places in the Mediterranean Maria Coroucli (Ecole Française D’Athenes) 17 KasımPerşembe, 18:00 Türkiye ve eski Osmanlı topraklarındaki bir dini mekanın Müslüman ve Hıristiyanlar tarafından paylaşılması sosyolog, antropolog ve diğer araştırmacılar tarafından giderek daha fazla üzerinde yoğunlaşılan bir ritüel uygulamadır. Ecole Française d'Athènes'den Maria Couroucli konuyu St. George ve Hıdırellez kültleri arasındaki paralellikler ve örtüşmeler ile Akdeniz'de senkretizmin nasıl yer aldığına bakarak genişletecektir. Shared Spaces, Contested Memories in Northern Cyprus Rabia Harmanşah (University of Pittsburgh) 3 Aralık Cumartesi, 16:00 Savaş sonrası Kıbrıs'ta kutsal alanların ve özellikle (Müslüman-Hıristiyan) paylaşılan tapınakların anısı etno-dini ayrılığın henüz norm haline gelmemiş olduğu zamanın ortak bilincinde önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Rabia Harmanşah, Kıbrıs'ın her iki tarafnda doktora araştırması yaparken geliştirdiği saha çalışması ve analizini paylaşacaktır.

Previous activities 2011 Symposium: Sidewalk Heritage. The biography of streets: historical, architectural, social and heritage perspectives, November 24-25 (more information) Workshop: Roads, Routes and Heritage. Crossing space and time, October 27, 2011 (more information) NIT Masterclass with Dr. Wouter Henkelman (VU Amsterdam): The Persian Empire:  New Perspectives from Persepolis, September 22-24, 2011 (more information) Symposium: Cultural Interaction: Local Communities between North Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Sixth Millennium BC, June 6, 2011 (more information) Lecture: Ancient Ephesus and Modern Mixed Pilgrimage: An Exploration of Turkish Rituals in Context, Logan Sparks, May 17, 2011 (more information) Workshop: Escher and Geometrical Patterns, April 22, 2011 (more information) Workshop: Studying the Arts in Society. New Developments in Research and Training, April 14, 2011 (more information) Lecture: How the double Dutch Hyacinth conquered the Ottoman Empire, Hans Theunissen, March 28, 2011  (more information) Lecture: "Pera Exists No More!" The Great Fire of Istanbul's Diplomatic Quarter, August 2, 1831, Steven Richmond, February 18, 2011 (more information) Lecture: Centuries of Gold. Relations between the Netherlands and Constantinople in the Early Middle Ages, by Annemarieke Willemsen, January 24, 2011 (more information) 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 00 (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 Causes Bleda 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 >>> 2007 >>> 2006 >>>