News & Insights from the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute
Our evening lecture series continues. We are pleased to welcome Dr.-Ing. Claudia Bührig (Berlin), who is going to speak about “Community Heritage – Alhara Alfoqa as a Caste Study”. The German Archaeological Institute’s 40-year commitment to the ancient site of Gadara and the >Upper Village< of Al-Hara Foqa in present-day Umm Qays has been characterised by a […]
Unfortunately, the evening lecture ‘Kimyahane. Die Geschichte des ersten Konservierungslabors der Türkei und seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Berliner Chemielabor’ by Dr. Vildan Yarlıgaş (Istanbul) on Thursday, 13.02.2025 has to be cancelled. Thank you for your understanding. DAI-IST, B. Akan Our evening lecture series continues in 2025! The first lecture in the new year will be […]
Mortuary practices are cultural phenomena common to humanity, and therefore burials and the “archaeology of death” have long been recognized as essential sources for all archaeologies. This is also true of Byzantine archaeology, and in recent decades graves and tombs, cemeteries and burial churches have increasingly been the focus of historical, art historical, and scientific […]
It’s that time of the year again! The year is coming to an end and, as always, we are pleased to invite you to our highlight of the year, the Winckelmann Lecture. After welcoming remarks by the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Regine Grienberger, and the annual report of the Istanbul […]
The German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University invite you to the 47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) workshop, which will be held on the 6th and 7th December 2024 in Istanbul. The IMS workshops are biannual informal meetings, at which survey-related research of recent fieldwork and methodological studies can be presented, explored and tested. […]
Our evening lecture series continues next week! On THURSDAY, 28.11.2024, Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berger (Munich), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alessandra Ricci (Istanbul), Prof. Dr. Natalia Poulou (Thessaloniki) will speak on the topic ‘NOVA ROMA, 324 CE. NEW CAPITAL FOR A NEW ERA’. Graphic: B. Akan With the foundation of Nova Roma aka Constantinople as the new […]
Our evening lecture series continues. This time on an unusual day of the week for our evening lectures. Next MONDAY, Prof. Dr. Jeroen Poblome (Leuven) will talk about ‘Innovation in Roman Pisidia. From Cuisine to Economic Growth’. This paper starts from a presentation on innovations in cooking technology and culinary practices in the Pisidian city […]
As part of the conference “Amphoras and the Archaeology of Ancient Economies (8th to the 1st Centuries BC): Mobilizing Knowledge in a New Generation”, we are pleased to announce the evening lecture by Prof. Dr. Gonca Cankardeş Şenol (İzmir) on “Recent Amphora Studies in Türkiye / Anatolia”. Graphic: B. Akan In Türkiye, amphora studies started […]
Recent decades have seen a great expansion of attention to the production, distribution, and consumption of transport amphoras throughout the Mediterranean. This expansion is due in part to the encouragement of the PATABS conferences, the welcoming setting of the IARPotHP conferences, where an increasing number of papers are concerned with amphoras, and the amphora-focused conferences […]
On 31.10.2024 Prof. Dr. Hermann Genz will start the Lecture Programme 2024/ 2025 of the Istanbul Department with a lecture on ‘Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: the View from Boğazköy’. The discussion of Iron Age burial customs in Central Anatolia has largely been dominated by the spectacular discoveries from the monumental tumuli from […]
