Past Events
Koç University VEKAM Oral History Workshop

Realizes and detects lack of information Defines the required information Develops successful research strategies. Evaluates sources and documents. Integrates new and old information/ Will be able to use analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing and evaluating skills. Knows h

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November 2016, Friday
Location: Ankara Orchard House
Ankara in the Process of Globalization

The first of the VEKAM monthly talks of fall term will be held on 14th of October at the Turkish American Association TAA between 14:00- 15:30 pm. The lecture by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Savaş Zafer Şahin will draw attention to Ankara and its transformation during the globalization p

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14
October 2016, Friday
Location: Turkish American Association (TAA)
Civilian Architectural Memory of Ankara 1930-1980 Exhibition is now in İzmir!!

Within the framework of the 'Project for Research, Documentation and Development of Conservation Measures for Civilian Architectural Culture Heritage in Ankara in the period 1930-1980" implemented at Başkent University, under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. Nuray Bayraktar, a fa

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21
September 2016, Wednesday
Location: İzmir Mimarlar Odası Mimarlık Merkezi
Eyewitness from Anatolia: Mudurnu in the Early Republican Era through the Lens of Bengüboz // Istanbul

The Historic Guild Town of Mudurnu’, one of the sites on Türkiye’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, was an important Early Ottoman centre of trade and the Akhi Order (Anatolian guilds), strategically located on the Silk Road, and a patriotic town of the new Turkish Republi

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12
July 2016, Tuesday
Location: Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Changing Ankara

"The Changing Ankara" by Prof.Dr. Sadık Erik will be held on June 2nd, 2016 between t 14:00 - 15:30 at Turkish - American Association

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02
June 2016, Thursday
Location: Türk - Amerikan Derneği
Cultural Enocunters in Anatolia in Medieval Period: The Italians in Anatolia during 12th-15th Centuries

Starting from Spring 2014, VEKAM organizes an international symposium once a year on Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period . After the Georgian Empire and the Ilkhanids this year’s theme is on “Italians in Anatolia during 12th and 15th Centuries” (Istanbul excl

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13
May 2016, Friday
Location: Ankara Bağ Evi
Eyewitness from Anatolia: Mudurnu in the Early Republican Era through the Lens of Bengüboz

‘The Historic Guild Town of Mudurnu’, one of the sites on Türkiye’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, was an important Early Ottoman centre of trade and the Akhi Order (Anatolian guilds), strategically located on the Silk Road, and a patriotic town of the new Turkish Republ

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19
April 2016, Tuesday
Location: Çankaya Belediyesi Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi
Illustrated Manuscripts at Ankara Ethnography Museum // Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda

Illustrated Manuscripts at Ankara Ethnography Museum conference by Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda will be held at Turkish- American Association on April 14th, Thursday between 14:00 - 15:30 at  ,Reşat Aktan Conference Hall , first floor.

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14
April 2016, Thursday
Location: Türk Amerikan Derneği (TAD)
Josephine’s Fragments

Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum is hosting Josephine Fragments exhibition which is prepared by Koç University’s Vehbi Koç Ankara Research Center (VEKAM). Curated by Kimbery Hart, the exhibition is laying stress on exploration of the geometric details in Anatolian kilims whi

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30
March 2016, Wednesday
Location: Erimtan Arkeoloji ve Sanat Müzesi
Social and Economic History of Ottoman Anatolia Symposium I:Disease and Disaster in Ottoman Anatolia

Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge agreed to start a joint three year project on the Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period.

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18
March 2016, Friday
Location: Skiliter Centre for Ottaman Studies
Evliya Çelebi’s Ankara- Assoc.Prof. Nuran Tezcan

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10
March 2016, Thursday
Location: Yapı Kredi Bank Building
Old Hero of New Novels: Ankara // Asst. Prof. Hakan Kaynar

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18
February 2016, Thursday
Location: Yapı Kredi Bankası Konferans Salonu