Heritage Türkiye
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S2E12 At the Edges of Empire: Landscapes, Power, and the Roman World with Hugh Elton
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Professor Hugh Elton, former Director of the British Institute at Ankara and a leading specialist in the archaeology and history of Roman Anatolia.…
S2E11 Rethinking Secularism and Identity in Contemporary Türkiye with Dr Ceren Lord
In this episode, we speak with Ceren Lord about religion, identity and political change in contemporary Türkiye. Drawing on her research on secularism, Islamist movements, Alevis and transnational…
S2E10 Mobility, Markets and the Making of Late Ottoman Istanbul, with Dr Ayşe Ozil
In this episode, Dr Ayşe Ozil, Associate Professor of History at Sabancı University and a member of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Advisory Board, discusses the social and economic worlds of…
S2E9 The Politics of Collecting and Heritage in the Ottoman Mediterranean with Dr. Batuhan Özdemir
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Dr Batuhan Özdemir, the 2025–26 BIAA–Bilkent Postdoctoral Fellow, about his research on the history of collecting and the politics of cultural…
S2E8 Language, Desire and the Mobility of Ottoman Literary Culture, with Dr Selim Sırrı Kuru
In this first episode of a new Heritage Türkiye three-part miniseries, part of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project—a British Academy–funded initiative bringing together the network of…
S2E7 Music, Identity and Popular Culture in Türkiye with Professor Martin Stokes
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Professor Martin Stokes, King Edward Professor of Music at King's College London, a leading ethnomusicologist of Turkish and West Asian music and a…
S2E6 Rescue Archaeology and Submerged Landscapes: A Conversation with Stuart Blaylock
In this episode of the Heritage Türkiye Podcast, archaeologist and architectural historian Dr. Stuart Blaylock reflects on more than forty years of work in Türkiye. From his early excavations at…
S2E5 From Salvage to Safeguarding: Heritage Practices in Türkiye with Dr. Gül Pulhan
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Dr. Gül Pulhan, an archaeologist and heritage professional whose work spans salvage excavations, museum practice, and cultural heritage protection…
S2E4 Masculinities, Mobility, and the Making of Place with Janine Su
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we stroll through Istanbul's Sultanahmet neighbourhood with Dr. Janine Su, a social anthropologist whose work explores socio-spatial mobility and contemporary…
S2E3 From Seeds to Civilisations: Andrew Fairbairn on Early Farming and Archaeobotany in Türkiye
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Professor Andrew Fairbairn from the University of Queensland, a leading archaeologist and archaeobotanist whose work has transformed our…
S2E2 "Cultural Extimacy": Reframing Turkish–Greek Relations with Dr. Leonidas Karakatsanis
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we welcome Dr. Leonidas Karakatsanis, Assistant Professor at the University of Macedonia and former Assistant Director of the BIAA. Drawing on his extensive…
S2E1 Bringing The Past to The Public: A Conversation with Bettany Hughes
Season Two of Heritage Türkiye launches with a compelling new episode featuring award-winning historian, broadcaster and BIAA patron Bettany Hughes. Renowned for her deep connection to Türkiye's…
S1E14 Season 1 Wrap-Up!
The BIAA Heritage Türkiye Podcast has been a huge success: 13 episodes, 2 hosts, 12 guest speakers, and over 400 minutes of fascinating discussion. Thanks to everyone who tuned in! In this final…
S1E13 Journalism, Academia and the 'Securitisation of News' with Dr. Natalie Martin
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Natalie Martin — a former BBC journalist and now Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham — about the current state of journalism and politics in Türkiye…
S1E12 Preserving the Past: Gertrude Bell and Digital Archives with Professor Mark Jackson
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, Mark Jackson (Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at Newcastle University and Honorary Secretary at the British Institute at Ankara) joins us to explore the…
S1E11 Hidden Histories of Twentieth-Century Istanbul with Dr. Daniel Joseph MacArthur Seal
In this episode, former BIAA Assistant Director Dr Daniel Joseph MacArthur Seal (now postdoctoral research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli) talks us through his research on every…
S1E10 What We Can Learn from Bones with Dr. Benjamin Irvine
In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Irvine (former BIAA Postdoctoral fellow and now Assistant Professor at Bilkent University) discusses his research on bones and what bones can tell us about how people…
S1E9 Past and Present-day Aphrodisias with Bert Smith
In this episode, we are joined by Bert Smith, Emeritus Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Archaeology at Bilkent University, and…
S1E8 Ancient Water Structures with Jim Crow
In this episode Professor Jim Crow, chair of the British Institute at Ankara and Emeritus Professor of Roman and Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh talks about his research on…
S1E7 Sustainable Water Management with Dr. Ender Peker
In this episode, Dr. Ender Peker (Middle East Technical University and former BIAA Postdoctoral Fellow) talks about his research into sustainable water management across Türkiye. In an episode…
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