Heritage Türkiye

In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Aylin Orbaşlı, the current deputy chair of the BIAA. Dr. Orbaşlı is a researcher and a lecturer at the Oxford Brookes University with extensive experience on heritage management. As an architect and an independent consultant specialising on the historic built environment, Dr. Orbaşlı works internationally advising on the protecti...

In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Emma L. Baysal, associate professor at Bilkent University and former BIAA Postdoctoral Fellow, about her National Geographic Society-supported project Small Things, Big Stories.  Dr. Baysal focuses on how 'small things' like, ornaments, beads, bracelets, laborers and pedants, found close to the human body in burial grounds, offer...

In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with social anthropologist Dr. John McManus, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the Maecenata Foundation in Berlin and former BIAA Postdoctoral Fellow, about his book Welcome to Hell? In Search of the Real Turkish Football (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) and researching Turkish football. In a wide-reaching conversation, Dr. McMan...

In this episode Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Michele Rüzgar Massa, assistant professor at Bilkent University Archaeology department, about the Türkmen-Karahöyük excavations: a new archaeological project in central Anatolia.  Dr. Massa explains the significance of the project, how it builds on the BIAA's research legacy and contextualises the excavation within the ancient his...

In this episode, BIAA Director Dr Lutgarde Vandeput and Dr Işılay Gürsu are hosted by Dr Peter Cherry to discuss the archaeological heritage of Pisidia, an ancient region located in Southwest Türkiye. The BIAA has conducted several projects to understand the ancient past of the region, such as the Pisidia Survey Project. A long distance hiking trail, the Pisidia Heritage Trail, was created to prom...

https://biaa.ac.uk/publication/heritage-turkiye-podcast/ In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk about the work of the British Institute at Ankara and introduce the BIAA's new podcast, Heritage Türkiye. Join them to hear about the BIAA's work across a range of fields: archaeology, cultural heritage management, history, sociology, literature, culture, and a lot more!