On this day you can find out about the activities and programs of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey. You can listen to presentations by staff and fellows, hear from former fellows about their experiences in Istanbul and meet or reconnect with NIT staff and alumni. There is a special emphasis on projects carried out by or in collaboration with students and researchers of Radboud University.

The Netherlands Institute in Turkey fosters the academic study of Turkey through the ages. Governed by Leiden University and based in Istanbul, it serves all universities in the Netherlands. NIT initiates and conducts research and education programs in archaeology, heritage studies and Turkish studies. MA and PhD students can apply for fellowships to conduct research in Istanbul.

December 6, 1:00-4:30 pm
Radboud Universiteit, Paviljoen, Erasmuslaan 9, room 01.15

Program
1:00 – Welcome by Fokke Gerritsen (NIT) and Maaike van Berkel (RU)
1:05 – Fokke Gerritsen (NIT): What is happening at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey these days?
1:45 – Mariëtte Verhoeven (RU): Water Memories – a collaborative public outreach project in Istanbul and the web application ‘Istanbul-SU’
2:15 – break
2:45 – Presentations by recent NIT-fellows:
Sanne de Jong (RU): Socio-political unrest in the eastern Roman Empire (ca. 536-550) in the context of volcanic-induced climate change
Rik Janssen (UL): Archery in Ottoman Istanbul
Rafael Medeiros Coelho (RUG): Unearthing the rubble. Mapping Arab Christian migration between Antioch and São Paulo
3:45 – Ketty Iannantuono (RU) and Evelien Roels (RU): The Monumentum Ancyranum and its afterlives
4:30 – End

Image: NIT Urban Heritage Lab site visit to the Temple of Augustus and Rome in Ankara, October 2023