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On November 10, 2023

The American Research Institute in Turkey is hosting two lectures this November that are available to the public,

“New Studies on the Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck”

Online Seminar: with Emre Kuruçayırlı, Boğaziçi University
Date: November 10, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm Istanbul, 11:00 am New York
Please register at https://aritweb.org/events/
A collaboration with Koc University Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR), Institute of Nautical Archaeology, and American Research Institute in Turkey – ARIT

“Ottoman Art in America: A Century Long Artistic Relationship Between Türkiye and the United States”

A lecture by ARIT Istanbul Director Dr. Zeynep Simavi,
Date: November 13,2023

Time: 6:00 pm Istanbul, 10:00 am New York
Please register at https://aritweb.org/events/

“The Mummies of Aswan: The Missing Link” Hybrid Lecture

On November 1, 2023

Free Hybrid Lecture

Date: Thursday, November 2

Time: 6:00–7:00 pm ET

Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Patrizia Piacentini, University of Milan “La Statale”

In recent years more than four hundred ancient tombs, dating from the 6th century BCE to the 3rd century CE, have been discovered on the West Bank at Aswan, Egypt, near the Aga Khan mausoleum. A multidisciplinary team, including the Egyptian-Italian Mission, has found more than a hundred individuals along with their funerary equipment. Piacentini will share the first results of this archaeological research, highlighting the multicultural environment of the necropolis and possible diverse geographical origins of the people buried there.

Free and open to the public. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.

Advance registration required for both in-person and online attendance

Harvard Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture – “Domesticated: How cultivated species impacted ancient Silk Road societies”

On October 30, 2023

Abstract: This lecture focuses on a central question – how did domesticates alter societies? Responding to this query depends on tracking cultivated species, understanding human-animal-plant partnerships, and clarifying the process by which species were integrated into societies. Here I examine the trajectories of human societies in north-central Asia long after initial domestication to demonstrate the lasting impacts of domestic species. Over time economies shifted from foraging and fishing to the adoption of ruminant livestock and dairying, from horse as food to traction and then riding. As domesticates and new technologies were adopted there were fundamental changes to landscapes, mobilities, and the organization of societies. Through the management of domesticated species, communities built complex societies and expanded long-distance networks, which linked cities and supported Empires.

Presented by Alicia Ventresca-Miller, University of Michigan

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

1:15 pm-2:30 pm ET

In person: Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room, S050 CGIS-South

Virtual: Zoom registration

For information about the 2023-24 IAAS Lecture Series visit their site.

Friends of ARIT Lecture – “Another Way of Seeing Things”: The Ottoman View over Greek Lands in European Context

On October 30, 2023

An in-person and online lecture with Dr, Paniotis Kontolaimos, National Technical University of Athens and ARIT American School of Classical Studies at Athens exchange fellow.

Monday, October 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm İstanbul, 11 am New York

In person lecture at ANAMED Auditorium, İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu

For livestreaming on zoom,register in advance for this meeting at the link here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

HCDG Call for Speakers – “It’s Complicated”

The HCDG is a network run out of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre that brings together a large, diverse community of people actively engaging with a vast array of topics surrounding heritage and colonialism. For the upcoming academic year (2023-2024), the HCDG invites proposals for presentations centred around the theme: “It’s Complicated”.

BUT WHAT DOES “COMPLICATED” MEAN?

The term “complicated” has often been used to dismiss or excuse action when heritage matters related to colonialism are discussed. The theme “It’s Complicated” seeks to reclaim the word as a tool for unravelling nuanced colonial issues throughout time and exploring the barriers as well as the potential avenues for engaging with them in the present.

By this call, we encourage submissions from all disciplines and professions that address colonial issues that may be characterised as “complicated” with the view to exploring their complexity.

Potential themes include but are not limited to:

Museum Studies and Praxis
Heritage Narratives and Representations
Institutional Policies and Practice
Cultural Heritage and the Law
Heritage Ethics

PRESENTATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The HCDG will hold one-hour online sessions from October 2023 – March 2024.

Speakers will have 20-25 minutes to give their presentations, which will then be followed by a moderated 30 minute Q&A session. Participants have the option of having their presentations recorded and published on the HCDG YouTube channel.

To submit a proposal, please send the following to hcdg.universityofcambridge@gmail.com:

An abstract of maximum 250 words
A bio of maximum 100 words

Application deadline: 20 AUGUST 2023 (GMT 23:59)

Applicants will be notified about the outcome of their submissions by 31 August 2023.

“An Aesthetic and Social Morphology? Georg Simmel and His Legacy” with Andrea Borsari

The Department of German Studies will be presenting the lecture “An Aesthetic and Social Morphology? Georg Simmel and His Legacy” by Andrea Borsari, Professor of Aesthetics at Università Bologna. Following the lecture there will be a reception.

Date: September 21, 2023

Time: 5:30pm

Location: 190 Hope Street, Room 102

Institute for Advanced Study – eNewsletter

Click here to see the events that IAS will be hosting this August! They include a science journalism workshop, news on a former member becoming the Blavatnik National Awards Laureate, and more!

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution – “Heidegger and the Question of Being”

Andreas Wasmuht is hosting a philosophy discussion of Martin Heidegger on October 9, 2023.

Martin Heidegger was the most important and controversial philosopher of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, Being and Time, explores what it means to be human, and challenges many of western philosophy’s cherished concepts. The question of being is not simply another ‘concept’ but a philosophy of life in which we are immersed.

Being and Time is one of, if not the most difficult philosophical works to digest and it his task to explore the key notions in a way which provides a clear insight into what it means to be human, according to Heidegger’s magnum opus. The talk will be in English with explanations of key terminology in German.

Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm BST

Location: Queen Square (16 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN) or online

Cost: £3.00 – £6.00

Book tickets here.

America Research Institute in Turkey Book Talk