29 Sep 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Integrating archaeological heritage in urban planning, policy and design Corien Bakker (The Hague Municipality) & Yiğit Ozar (Istanbul Planning Agency)
2 Oct 13:15 - 18:00 Workshop Using Science-based Archaeology to Investigate Daily Life at Barcın Höyük
27 Oct 13:00 - 18:00 Symposium Archaeology of Archaeology project at Troy
13 Dec 10:00 - 17:00 Meeting NIT day in Leiden
22 Sep 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Discovering and Documenting Urban Archaeological Remains Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) & Jeroen Bouwmeester (RCE, Netherlands National Heritage Agency)
3 Jun 19:00 - 20:00 Lecture The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery and Heritage of Monument Row Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal and Brian Johnson
16 Dec 15:00 - 18:00 Workshop Re-valorization of Valens Aqueduct and Its Water Supply Network in Today's Istanbul: Proposals for Action
25 Nov 16:00 - 17:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Historic Water Systems in Gaziantep: Kastel and Livas Meltem Uçar (Mersin University)
18 Nov 16:00 - 17:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East Maaike van Berkel (Radboud University)
11 Nov 16:00 - 17:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Water Heritage of Istanbul Gülsün Tanyeli (Istanbul Technical University)
28 Oct 16:00 - 17:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Visualizing the Valens Aqueduct in Early Modern Istanbul Fatma Sarıkaya Işık (Boğaziçi Uni) and Pelin Yoncacı Arslan (METU)
14 Oct 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Urban Water Supply in Historic Istanbul: The Aqueducts of Istanbul Celal Kolay (Istanbul Technical University), Jim Crow (The University of Edinburgh)
7 Oct 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Port Cities in the Netherlands and Turkey Namık Erkal (TED University), Hilde Sennema (TU Delft)
6 Oct 10:45 - 7 Oct 17:00 Workshop Sustain Urban Heritage! Workshop
30 Sep 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Water Issues in Netherlands and Turkey Doğanay Tolunay (Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa), Gerdy Verschuure-Stuip (TU Delft)
22 Sep 09:30 - 17:00 Workshop Engaging with Istanbul's Water Heritage: Exploring Sustainable Ways to Create Public Awareness Workshop
16 Jun 17:00 - 30 Oct 18:00 Exhibition Old Buildings, New Uses
16 Jun 09:30 - 18:30 Symposium Adaptive Reuse: Perspectives and Strategies for Sustainable Architectural Transformations
9 Jun 18:30 - 20:00 Book launch Book Talk "Representing Modern Istanbul" by Enno Maessen Enno Maessen
28 Apr 15:00 - 16:00 Course Information Session: Istanbul Up Close Summer Course
24 Mar 19:00 - 20:00 Lecture Artistic Identity and its Representation of Contemporary Artists from Turkey in Dutch Art Ecosystem Nesli Gül Durukan
10 Dec 15:00 - 18:00 Workshop Unkapanı Flour Mill in Istanbul: Projects for its Preservation and Sustainability
3 Dec 15:00 - 16:00 Lecture Transformative Architecture David Gianotten
1 Dec 15:30 - 2 Dec 16:30 Symposium From Representation to Inspiration: The Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century Symposium
26 Nov 15:00 - 16:00 Lecture Endüstri Mirasının Görünür ve Anlaşılır Kılınmasında STK'ların Rolü: ÇEKÜL Vakfı Çalışmaları Gülşen Hazal Çatalbaş
12 Nov 15:00 - 16:00 Lecture International Appraisal of Industrial Heritage Yonca Erkan
5 Nov 15:00 - 16:00 Lecture On the Traces of the Old: Architectural Conservation and Adaptive Reuse of British Oil Mill in Mersin Umut Bilgiç, Merve Çolak, Seray Türkay Coşkun, Esatcan Coşkun, Onur Yüncü
22 Oct 15:00 - 15:00 Lecture Transformation of a Shoe Factory into a Story Factory: Memory of Kundura Süreyya Topaloğlu
15 Oct 15:00 - 16:00 Lecture The Transformation of Sümerbank Kayseri Textile Factory into the AGU Sümer Campus Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney
24 Sep 15:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities | Week #4 Hester Dibbits and Jonathan Even Zohar (Reinwardt Academie), Karin Stadhouders (Leiden University)
17 Sep 15:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities | Week #3 Gül Köksal and Eda Yiğit
10 Sep 15:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities | Week #2 Gülsün Tanyeli and Yıldız Salman from ITU, Işık Demirtaş and Nesrin Uçar from Gazhane Çevre Gönüllüleri, Merve Gedik from Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
3 Sep 15:00 - 18:00 Lecture NIT Urban Heritage Lab: Industrial Heritage for Sustainable Cities | Week 1 A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Anna Mignosa, Bilge Köse
23 May 21:03 - 21:03 Ferikoy Protestant Cemetery Initiative's Bulletin is out!
29 Apr 18:00 - 19:30 Workshop Walking Young: Discovering the City with Fresh Eyes Gizem Kıygı, Umut Azak, and Naz Vardar
12 Mar 19:00 - 20:30 Ways of walking, ways of knowing: Heritage interactions at the Reinwardt Academy Hester Dibbits (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Reinwardt Academy) and Christian Ernsten (Maastricht University)
27 Jan 18:00 - 20:00 A Novel Approach to Protecting Archaeological Assets in Turkey Gül Pulhan & Işılay Gürsu
12 Dec 17:00 - 19:00 Online Workshop on Memory Walks "Exploring multicultural heritage and urban change"
3 Dec 18:00 - 20:00 Online Workshop "LGBTI-themed Memory Walks"
25 Nov 16:00 - 18:00 Online Panel "Urban Celebrations: Intangible Cultural Heritage in the City"
15 Oct 19:00 - 20:30 Lecture Online Lecture "Cultural and Religious Interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean" Michèle L. Meijer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
29 May 19:00 - 20:30 Lecture Online Lecture "Soldiers, Scholars, and the Public"
5 May 19:00 - 20:30 Lecture Online Lecture “From the Khan to the Sultan” by Jaimee Comstock-Skipp Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Leiden University)
28 Apr 19:00 - 20:30 Lecture Online Book Talk “Atatürk on Screen” by Enis Dinç Enis Dinç (Turkish-German University)
23 Mar 18:30 - 20:00 Lecture EVENT CANCELLED Early and Middle Bronze Age Cities of Upper Mesopotamia: Discovering Continuities in Structure and Meaning Andy Creekmore (University of Northern Colorado)
21 Feb 18:00 - 20:30 Symposium Queer Spaces: Memories and Memorials in Istanbul and Amsterdam Freek Janssens, Sema Semih, İlayda Ece Ova, Dilara Çalışkan, Ayşe Gül Altınay
17 Feb 13:03 - 13:03 NIT Internship Applicationfor Ferikoy Cemetery Summer 2020 is now open.
12 Feb 18:30 - 20:00 Lecture From Foe to Friend: Many Faces of the Turk in Early Modern Games (1500-1750) Ömer Fatih Parlak
23 Jan 09:03 - 09:03 RMO-NIT Fellowship 2021
13 Jan 18:00 - 20:00 Workshop Reframing the Turkish Novel: New Perspectives on Literary Narratives Arif Tapan, Erol Köroğlu, Ahmed Nuri
27 Nov 18:00 - 20:00 Lecture Antiquities in the Modern Age: Power, Appropriation and Display Mariette Verhoeven and Ketty Iannantuono
20 Nov 17:00 - 20:00 Workshop “Cosmopolitan” Beyoğlu and Its Diversity in Historical Context
8 Nov 15:00 - 18:00 Workshop Water, Waqf, and Philanthropy in Ottoman Cities (18th-20th century)
1 Nov 18:30 - 20:00 Lecture The Declining Appearance of Turks and Turkey in Historic Board Games Ömer Fatih Parlak
20 Sep 18:30 - 20:30 Lecture No Seat At The Table: Narrating and visualizing urban displacement in Turkey and the Netherlands Minem Sezgin and Rajab Eryiğit
6 Sep 19:00 - 8 Sep 12:30 Symposium Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War
3 Jul 15:30 - 19:00 Workshop Music of the Streets: Diversity and Claiming the Public Space
7 Jun 00:00 - 00:00 RMO-NIT Fellowship 2019; deadline June 7
24 May 18:00 - 19:30 Lecture The Challenging of National Images by Contemporary Artists in Turkey Erdem Çolak (University of Amsterdam)
20 May 19:00 - 20:00 Lecture Beyond East & West. Nemrud Dağ and Hellenistic-Roman Commagene in its local and global Eurasian context Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
20 May 14:00 - 17:30 Symposium Hellenistic-Roman Commagene: New Research and Perspectives
10 May 14:00 - 19:00 Workshop Staging the Past in Contemporary Turkey
4 May 13:00 - 18:00 Workshop NIT / Leiden University Turkish Studies Network Meeting in Istanbul
26 Apr 15:00 - 18:00 Workshop Urban Encounters: Everyday Experience of Diversity in the City
28 Nov 14:00 - 22:30 Symposium Standplaats Istanbul
15 Nov 09:45 - 17:30 Symposium Repurposing the Built Environment: Intersections of Design, Sustainability and Livability
Lecture Debates about Morality and Moral Decline in the Ottoman Empire during World War I Çiğdem Oğuz (Leiden University)
Lecture The Sky over Babylon: Astronomy in Ancient Iraq Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Lecture Body Modification in Hittite Anatolia Alice Mouton (CNRS Paris)
Lecture What is Prehistory? Gordon Childe, prehistory and politics Maxime N. Brami
Lecture Homer, Troy and the Turks. Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915 Günay Uslu (University of Amsterdam)
29 May 14:00 - 18:00 Dream your own future. Imagining city design in Amsterdam and Istanbul
Lecture Rebuilding Identity, Memory and Material Culture in Post-War Syria Nour A. Munawar (University of Amsterdam)
21 Apr 13:00 - 18:00 Workshop Leiden University Turkish Studies in Istanbul Network Meeting
Lecture The Contemporary Khan: A Network of Employment Hubs in Unkapanı, Istanbul Jorien Cousijn (TU Delft)
Lecture The Proof is in the Picture: Artistic Connections between Ottoman and Shaybanid (Uzbek) Centers in the late-16th Century Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Leiden University)
Lecture ‘Non-Istanbulites’ of Istanbul: The right to the city novels in Turkish literature from the 1960s to the present N. Buket Cengiz (Kadir Has University)
Lecture City as a divider or unifier? Murat Germen (Sabancı University)
Lecture Sea and City: The Mediterranean and Other Modernities Iain Chambers (University of Naples, “Orientale”)
Lecture The Advent and Early Development of Paper Marbling in the Islamic World Jake Benson (Leiden University)
Lecture The Dutch Women of Early Modern Istanbul Marloes Cornelissen (Sabancı University)
Lecture Atatürk on Screen: Documentary Film and the Making of a Leader Enis Dinç (University of Amsterdam)
Lecture Transformation and turmoil in the Ottoman county of Foça: Turks and Greeks at the end of the Ottoman Empire Emre Erol (Sabancı University)
Lecture Mamulat-ı Dahiliye İstihlaki Kadınlar Cemiyet-i Hayriyesi: An Ottoman Muslim Women’s Organization in Times of Economic and Political Turmoil (1913 - 1918) Nicole van Os
Lecture “Those wondrous pleasure spots”: Fountains in eighteenth-century Istanbul Shirine Hamadeh
Literary Walk through Istanbul Hanneke van der Heijden
29 Apr 14:00 - 18:00 Workshop NIT / Leiden University Turkish Studies in Istanbul Network Meeting
Workshop Art as alternative archive: a roundtable on the role of contemporary art and theatre in the urban context
21 Apr 18:30 - 22 Apr 16:00 Istanbul: A literary stroll. Lecture and Literary Walk Hanneke van der Heijden
Book Launch: Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Lecture Klazomenai at the dawn of the Early Iron Age: preliminary results and interpretations of a new research project Rik Vaessen
8 Dec 13:00 - 17:00 Symposium Barcın Höyük. Archaeological Investigations of a Neolithic Settlement (2007-2015)
Lecture Commanding views. Anchors of territory in the landscape of Pergamon Christina Williamson
Lecture Global mobility and migration control: recent developments in the EU and their consequences Richard Staring
Lecture Tikveş, a little-known Ottoman province in the southern Balkans (1395-1912) Machiel Kiel
Lecture Pillars of continuity? Post-1940s Beyoğlu in the light of three local clubs Enno Maessen
11 Jun 20:00 - 21:30 Theatrical Lecture Performance: De Man in Europe
26 May 18:00 - 27 May 18:00 Symposium Nation-building and Nationalism in Turkey and Europe
Lecture Migration and Ethnicity: the Case of Emirdağ Jak den Exter
14 Mar 00:00 - 18 Mar 00:00 Course Istanbul Spring School: Reviving previous times and expanding horizons. Islam and modernity in global historical perspective
4 Jan 09:00 - 31 Jan 18:00 Course Migration in the margins of Europe: From Istanbul to Athens
3 Nov 18:30 - 20:30 Lecture The meaning of Turkey for Turkish Dutch youngsters. On feelings of belonging in the face of current international events Prof. Dr. Richard Staring
2 Jun 14:00 - 17:00 Workshop Yuppieland: Emerging Lifestyles in Gentrifying Cities — Comparing Amsterdam and Istanbul Jan Rath (University of Amsterdam) and Volkan Aytar (Bahçeşehir University)
23 Apr 15:00 - 16:30 Lecture Jouw herinneringen, hun herinneringen, mijn herinneringen: “oral history” in Tophane, Istanbul Karin Schuitema