Heritage Türkiye
Episodes
Mobility, Markets and the Making of Late Ottoman Istanbul, with Dr Ayşe Ozil
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Ayşe Ozil, Associate Professor of History at Sabancı University and a member of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Advisory...
The Politics of Collecting and Heritage in the Ottoman Mediterranean with Dr. Batuhan Özdemir
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Dr Batuhan Özdemir, the 2025–26 BIAA–Bilkent Postdoctoral Fellow, about his research on the h...
Language, Desire and the Mobility of Ottoman Literary Culture, with Dr Selim Sırrı Kuru
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of a new Heritage Türkiye three-part miniseries, part of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project—a British Academy–...
Music, Identity and Popular Culture in Türkiye with Professor Martin Stokes
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Professor Martin Stokes, King Edward Professor of Music at King's College London, a leading ethnom...
Rescue Archaeology and Submerged Landscapes: A Conversation with Stuart Blaylock
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Heritage Türkiye Podcast, archaeologist and architectural historian Dr. Stuart Blaylock reflects on more than forty years of w...
From Salvage to Safeguarding: Heritage Practices in Türkiye with Dr. Gül Pulhan
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Dr. Gül Pulhan, an archaeologist and heritage professional whose work spans salvage excavations, ...
Masculinities, Mobility, and the Making of Place with Janine Su
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we stroll through Istanbul's Sultanahmet neighbourhood with Dr. Janine Su, a social anthropologist whose work ex...
From Seeds to Civilisations: Andrew Fairbairn on Early Farming and Archaeobotany in Türkiye
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we speak with Professor Andrew Fairbairn from the University of Queensland, a leading archaeologist and archaeob...
"Cultural Extimacy": Reframing Turkish–Greek Relations with Dr. Leonidas Karakatsanis
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, we welcome Dr. Leonidas Karakatsanis, Assistant Professor at the University of Macedonia and former Assistant Di...
Bringing The Past to The Public: A Conversation with Bettany Hughes
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Season Two of Heritage Türkiye launches with a compelling new episode featuring award-winning historian, broadcaster and BIAA patron Bettany Hughes. ...
Season 1 Wrap-Up!
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The BIAA Heritage Türkiye Podcast has been a huge success: 13 episodes, 2 hosts, 12 guest speakers, and over 400 minutes of fascinating discussion. T...
Journalism, Academia and the 'Securitisation of News' with Dr. Natalie Martin
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Natalie Martin — a former BBC journalist and now Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham — about th...
Preserving the Past: Gertrude Bell and Digital Archives with Professor Mark Jackson
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heritage Türkiye, Mark Jackson (Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at Newcastle University and Honorary Secretary at the British I...
Hidden Histories of Twentieth-Century Istanbul with Dr. Daniel Joseph MacArthur Seal
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, former BIAA Assistant Director Dr Daniel Joseph MacArthur Seal (now postdoctoral research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale,...
What We Can Learn from Bones with Dr. Benjamin Irvine
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Irvine (former BIAA Postdoctoral fellow and now Assistant Professor at Bilkent University) discusses his research on bon...
Past and Present-day Aphrodisias with Bert Smith
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Bert Smith, Emeritus Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford, Visiting Profes...
Ancient Water Structures with Jim Crow
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Professor Jim Crow, chair of the British Institute at Ankara and Emeritus Professor of Roman and Byzantine Archaeology at the Universi...
Sustainable Water Management with Dr. Ender Peker
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Ender Peker (Middle East Technical University and former BIAA Postdoctoral Fellow) talks about his research into sustainable wate...
Conservation of Historic Sites with Aylin Orbaşlı
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 rese...
Small Things, Big Stories with Emma L. Baysal
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Emma L. Baysal, associate professor at Bilkent University and former BIAA Post...
Turkish Football with John McManus
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with social anthropologist Dr. John McManus, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fello...
A New Excavation in Central Anatolia with Michele Rüzgar Massa
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Michele Rüzgar Massa, assistant professor at Bilkent University Archaeology de...
Pisidia Heritage Trail with Lutgarde Vandeput
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, BIAA Director Dr Lutgarde Vandeput and Dr Işılay Gürsu are hosted by Dr Peter Cherry to discuss the archaeological heritage of Pis...
Introduction to Heritage Türkiye
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...