Byzantolog: Meeting Point – Şebnem Dönbekçi, Zeynep Olgun ve Bahattin Bayram (Click to listen)

The Story of Byzantine Studies at Istanbul University – Verda Bingöl (Click to listen)

Early Republican Period Byzantine Researchers and Museums – Selvihan Kurt (Click to listen)

Talk Series – 1

Exhibiting Byzantium

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Talk Series – 2

“The Big Picture?: A Look at Recent Period Byzantine Archaeological Studies”

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Talk Series – 3

“Historiographical Studies of Byzantine Architecture in Turkey”

Within the scope of our four-month theme study on “Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey”, we created a Libguide containing rare books, archive materials, printed collections, essential resources for Byzantine studies in Turkey, podcasts, digital exhibitions, and many other resources.

You can access our subject guide here to take a closer look at the studies carried out within the scope of the theme “Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey”.

Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey Theme Introduction (May 4, 2023)

The new theme of the Koç University Libraries’ Treasure Series will be launched in early May! The new theme entitled “Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey” will extend over four months and focus on archaeological excavations of Byzantium in Turkey, restoration, history, architectural studies, and Byzantine education given at universities in Turkey.

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Exhibiting Byzantium – Talk 1 (May 11, 2023)

Within the scope of the 9th Treasure Gallery Series: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey, on Wednesday, 17 May, the talk entitled “Exhibiting Byzantium” will take place with Suna and Inan Kıraç Foundation Istanbul Research Institute Byzantine Studies Department Project Manager Emir Alışık.

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – Libguide (May 18, 2023)

As part of our four-month theme work on “Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey”, we have created a Libguide that includes rare books, archival materials, printed collections, essential resources for Byzantine studies in Turkey, podcasts, a digital exhibition, and many more. Don’t forget to visit our guide to discover the studies on Byzantium in Turkey and Turkey’s Byzantine heritage during the Republican Turkey!

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Exhibiting Byzantine – Talk Record (May 24, 2023)

Within the scope of the 9th Treasure Gallery Series: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey, on Wednesday, 17 May, the talk entitled “Exhibiting Byzantium” took place with Emir Alışık, Suna and Inan Kıraç Foundation Istanbul Research Institute Byzantine Studies Department Project Manager. The talk was moderated by Defne Gier, Suna Kıraç Library Archive Specialist.

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Podcast: Byzantolog: Meeting Point (May 31, 2023) – (The post language is Turkish)

We hosted Şebnem Dönbekçi, Zeynep Olgun, and Bahattin Bayram, one of the founders of the “Bizantolog: Meeting Point” platform, in our podcast within the scope of Treasure Series 9: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey. This broadcast discussed Bizantolog’s founding process, goals, work, and future projects.

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“The Big Picture?: A Look at Recent Byzantine Archeology Studies” – Talk 2 (June 9, 2023)

Within the scope of the 9th Treasure Gallery Series: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey, on Thursday, 15 June, the talk entitled “The Big Picture?: A Look at Recent Byzantine Archeology Studies” will take place with Suna Çağaptay from Bahçeşehir University.

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – Examples (June 14, 2023) – (The post language is Turkish)

“In the 1920s and 1930s, the walls and churches of the city (Istanbul) began to be examined in more detail, and important excavations were initiated by both Turks and foreigners. “The study of the city walls by Alfons Maria Schneider, director of the German Archaeological Institute, and his team is the most detailed research on this subject and includes Kirschen’s reconstructions, which most researchers still use.”

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Bibliopera Libraries Tour (June 15, 2023)

We are Visiting BiblioPera Libraries as part of the Koç University Suna Kıraç Library Treasure Series: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey!

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey Theme Project Book Exhibition (June 16, 2023)

Treasure Series 9: Byzantine Studies in the Republican Turkey Theme Project Book Exhibition – Sir Steven Runciman Collection

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – Examples (June 21, 2023)

“Mehmed Fuad Köprülü penned a lengthy article in 1931 on the impact of Byzantine institutions on Ottoman institutions, which can be considered a reaction against the ideas of “orientalist” Byzantinists, such as Diehl and Gibbons, who related the emergence of the Ottoman Empire and its state-building to borrowings from Byzantine-Roman institutions. Köprülü, who had worked and published on Byzantine institutions as early as 1931, seems to have played an important role in selecting Istanbul as the venue for the tenth congress when he was the minister of foreign affairs in 1953.”

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Bibliopera Libraries Tour (June 21, 2023) – (The post language is Turkish)

We have completed our BiblioPera Libraries tour, which we carried out within the scope of the theme of Koç University Suna Kıraç Library Treasure Series: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey.

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – Examples (June 28, 2023)

“The early 1950s witnessed Raymond Janin creating an inventory of Constantinople on a scale that would never be attempted again after Du Cange. While one of Janin’s two important books is about the city’s general layout and the location of its secular buildings, the other focuses on its churches and monasteries.

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – Examples (July 5, 2023)

“In terms of higher education, the Faculty of Letters was established as the core of Ankara University in 1935. Courses on history, geography, and anthropology, and departments on classical and modern languages such as Greek, Latin, Hungarian, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, and Russian were inaugurated.

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Podcast: The Story of Byzantine Studies at Istanbul University (July 12, 2023) – (The post language is Turkish)

We hosted Verda Bingöl in our podcast broadcast within the scope of Treasure Series 9: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey. Sir Steven Runciman, who conducted Byzantine art history studies in the 1940s, the Byzantine art department established at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Letters, taught Byzantine art and history at Istanbul University in the 1940s and made valuable contributions to Byzantine art history studies in Turkey. We talked about his days in Istanbul.

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – News (July 19, 2023)

“10. The International Byzantine Studies Congress was opened under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Turkey, Celal Bayar, with the full support of the Turkish government.

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – News (July 26, 2023) – (The post language is Turkish)

“In 1943, the Byzantine art certificate program, the first academic program on Byzantine art in Turkey, was opened in the Department of Archeology under the direction of Ernst Diez.”

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“Historiographical Studies of Byzantine Architecture in Turkey” – Talk 3 (August 1, 2023)

Within the scope of the 9th Treasure Gallery Series: Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey, on Friday, August 4, the talk entitled “Historiographic Studies of Byzantine Architecture in Turkey” will take place with Şule Kılıç Yıldız (Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums).

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Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey – News (August 2, 2023)

“Among the archaeologists and historians whom the state sent to Europe for education, there was no scholar to study Byzantine architecture. However, there were important archaeologists, historians, and art historians -including important Byzantinists- among the scholars invited to study Byzantine art and archaeology and teach at the universities of Turkey (Akyürek, 2010:208). One of them was Thomas Whittemore, an American scholar, archaeologist, and the founder of the Byzantine Institute of America; he worked in the study of the preservation of the Hagia Sophia mosaics in 1931.”

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Podcast: Early Republican Period Byzantine Researchers and Museums (September 8, 2023) – (The post language is Turkish)

9. Treasure Series: Within the scope of the theme of Byzantine Studies in Republican Turkey, we broadcast a podcast with Selvihan Kurt on the researchers of the early Republican period who contributed to Byzantine studies. In this publication, we talked about the first archaeologist, Aziz Ogan, the founder of the Izmir Archeology Museum and the director of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, and the impact of foreign researchers on the understanding of museology of the period.

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