Events2023

Winckelmann Lecture: Çatalhöyük in Spacetime: The Impact of Detailed Dating on Understanding Social Organization

We invite you to our annual Winckelmann Lecture, which will take place on 14.12.2023 at 18.00 (Istanbul time) / 16.00 (CET). After the welcoming by the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Johannes Regenbrecht, and the annual report of the DAI Istanbul Department by the Director Prof. Dr. Felix Pirson, the keynote […]

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Lecture Announcement: SİRKELİ HÖYÜK. STRUKTUR UND DYNAMIK EINER ANTIKEN STADTLANDSCHAFT IM EBENEN KILIKIEN

The Sirkeli Höyük, located about 40km east of Adana on the Ceyhan River, is one of the largest Bronze and Iron Age ruin mounds in Cilician Plain, today’s Çukurova. The Turkish-Swiss research project, which has been in existence since 2012, was able to gain important insights into the structure and extent of the ancient settlement […]

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Lecture Announcement: Residential Architecture of the Levant Between Research and Practice & Book Launch „A Culture of Building: Courtyard Houses in the Old City of Aleppo“

Traditional Residential Architecture is a widely underrepresented Cultural Heritage under immense threat due to deterioration caused by individual neglection, natural disasters, and armed conflicts. The speakers will reflect in this evening event on the past and future of this valuable architectural heritage: the varied types of Levantine residential architecture and its changes in shape and […]

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Taş Hanım

Every find that archaeologists make by digging in the ground is actually a tiny piece of a big story. It is also possible to dig through an archive just like an archaeologist and find a lot of stories. These stories might be about a photographer who worked in the archive, a visitor who happened to […]

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Book of the Month – May 2023

The book we would like to introduce this month is fresh from the press “Kirkbride at Çatalhöyük: The Çatalhöyük slides of Diana Kirkbride-Helbaek from 1963 (ed. by Moritz Kinzel)”. It contains many photographs of Çatalhöyük reliefs and wall paintings, some of which we have only known from drawings. It is well known that some of […]