Calendar

28/05/2019

Writing the Ottoman Mystery Novel

Spring Lecture @ SRII

14/05/2019

Hatzi-Yavrouda of Kos, an Exceptional Storyteller

Spring Lecture @ SRII

09/04/2019

Queen Esther’s States of Dress and Undress across Languages and Empires: Material and Ideological Comparisons

Spring Lecture @ SRII

26/03/2019

From Theotokos to Theodora: the Gendered Reception of Byzantium

Spring Lecture @ SRII

12/03/2019

A Swedish Girl in Turkey of the 1920s

Spring Lecture @ SRII

26/02/2019

Feminism as Transformative Politics

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

12/02/2019

Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience

Spring Lecture @ SRII

29/01/2019

Violence against women – a panel discussion on historical, social and religious perspectives

Spring Lecture @ SRII

15/01/2019

Anna Komnene, Women’s Voices and History as Storytelling

Spring Lecture @ SRII

11/12/2018

Intersecting Worlds: Mehmed Said Efendis Sefâretnâme (Book of Embassy) and eighteenth-century Sweden

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

05/12/2018

Refugees and Mass Migration to Istanbul in the Wake of World War I

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

04/12/2018

Judeans of the Babylonian Exile

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

28/11/2018

1918: The Concept of the “New Life”and “Emancipated” Women in Turkey

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

27/11/2018

Water Management at Labraunda

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

20/11/2018

The knitting instructor and the map-maker: Swedish prisoners in eighteenth-century Dzungaria

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

13/11/2018

The Colonnaded Streets of Roman Palestine

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

07/11/2018

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and the Ottoman Empire

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

06/11/2018

RWI Lecture III: From Factory to Museum: They are telling our Story

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

31/10/2018

The Second Great War

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

30/10/2018

RESPOND Lecture IV: Reflections from the Field: Family and Gender for Syrian Migrants in Istanbul

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

24/10/2018

Ottoman Cinema from 1917-1919

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

23/10/2018

RESPOND Lecture III: Migration, Heritage and Populism in Europe

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

16/10/2018

RWI Lecture II: The Future of Human Rights in Europe

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

10/10/2018

The Ottoman Economy in 1918

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

09/10/2018

Popular Unrest in the Aftermath of Revolution: Contention and Resistance during Egypt's Democratic Experiment, 2012-2013

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

02/10/2018

Digital Feminism in Turkey: Memories, Deliberation and Negotiation

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

25/09/2018

Negative Gendered Effects of Turkey’s Asylum Regime

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

18/09/2018

Good Governance and Fight against Corruption in Turkey: Did the EU make a difference?

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

04/09/2018

Monumental inscriptions and their stories

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

08/05/2018

SRII: RESPOND lecture I: Coercive Engineered Syrian Mass Migration in EU-Turkey Relations

Spring Lecture @ SRII

24/04/2018

Towards the Extreme: Black Metal Music in Turkey

Spring Lecture @ SRII

10/04/2018

The Rise of Street Politics in Turkey: The Gezi Protests and the Opposition's Failure to Launch

Spring Lecture @ SRII

09/04/2018

Labraunda Day

Seminar @ SRII

05/04/2018

Anatolian Landscapes

Conference @ IFEA

20/03/2018

Cisterns, Water Supply and Risk in the Greek World

Spring Lecture @ SRII

13/03/2018

I Feel Turkish but Sweden is my Home: Migrants from Turkey and Their Children

Spring Lecture @ SRII

06/03/2018

The making of emblematic murders. Media stories of violence against women in Turkey and Sweden

Spring Lecture @ SRII

27/02/2018

Seclusion vs. accessibility – the harems of Constantinople in stories by Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette

Spring Lecture @ SRII

08/12/2017

Public Space Mobilization and its Consequences

Seminar @ Bogazici University

05/12/2017

Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia

Seminar @ SRII

16/11/2017

SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH, MOSQUE: CONNECTIONS AND CONVERSIONS

Conference @ SRII

02/11/2017

Ideas, Persons, and Transfers: Russian-Turkish Interaction Between 1917 - 2017

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

31/10/2017

Romani Studies at SRII

Seminar @ SRII

24/10/2017

Turkiye´de Kapital Cevirilerinin Macerasi

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

18/10/2017

Battleship Potemkin in History and in the Movie

Autumn Lecture @ Cezayir Salonu

17/10/2017

Today Talks: Right to Education: A Secular Curriculum?

Seminar @ SRII

12/10/2017

Old Turkic and Uighur Inscriptions in Mongolia, Investigated during an Expedition in August 2017

Jarring Lecture @ SRII

10/10/2017

Images of the Bolshevik Revolution in the "Well Protected Domains". Looking to the Revolution of 1917 from Ottoman Lands

Occasional Lecture @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

07/09/2017

Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Influence in the Western Satrapies 546–330 BC

Conference @ SRII

30/05/2017

"Stalking Kemal Basmaci" - a study of visitors at the Museum of Innocence

Spring Lecture @ SRII

09/05/2017

Victory universal and eternal: Victoria and cosmic conceptions of victory in late-antique art and architecture

Spring Lecture @ SRII

29/04/2017

Book Launch – Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring

Seminar @ SRII

28/04/2017

Rethinking Global Histories for the Present: The Overland and Maritime Silk Roads in Central Eurasia and the Indian Ocean

Conference @ Bogazici Uni & SRII

20/04/2017

Exile, Political and Economic Migration in the Ottoman Empire

Conference @ CEZAYIR Toplanti Salonu

13/04/2017

Who is the Mastermind? Conspiracism and Accountability in Contemporary Turkish Politics

Spring Lecture @ SRII

11/04/2017

Book Launch - ”Azerbaijani and Beyond”. Perspectives on the Construction of National Identity

Seminar @ SRII

04/04/2017

Princess and Turks: Images of Seljuk Rulers in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene

Spring Lecture @ SRII

28/03/2017

Screening of Swedish Documentaries ” Rim and Her Sisters” & ”Not Like My Sisters” directed by Leyla Assaf-Tengroth

Seminar @ SRII

23/03/2017

The Cyprus Conflict: Turkey's Strategic Dilemma

Seminar @ SRII

21/02/2017

Turkey-Brazil: do odd partners really make good couples?

Spring Lecture @ SRII

13/02/2017

Reform Movements and Ideas in the Mediterranean and Eurasia in the Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Seminar @ SRII

10/02/2017

Book Launch - Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium

Seminar @ SRII

07/02/2017

Labraunda Day

Conference @ SRII

22/12/2016

Today Talks: Borders within Borders / Gentrification of Urban Spaces

Seminar @ SRII

13/12/2016

Fredrik Robert Martin Swedish Orientalist, Art Historian, Collector and Dragoman in Istanbul.

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

02/12/2016

Revisiting Connected and Global Histories in Eurasia and the Indian Ocean

Seminar @ SRII

29/11/2016

Transformations of public space

Seminar @ SRII

23/11/2016

Ethnographic research on historical knowledge in Kyrgyzstan

Jarring Lecture @ Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

08/11/2016

A City Altered by the Population Exchange

Conference @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

07/11/2016

A Study on Existential Meaning- Making Coping with Cancer

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

03/11/2016

Today Talks: Borders, Nations, Citizens

Seminar @ SRII

01/11/2016

Ottoman Monuments in Kavala

Conference @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

25/10/2016

Images of the Past - Kavala & Its Region

Conference @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

25/10/2016

An Overview of the History of Kavala (end of the 14th c - 1912)

Conference @ Cezayir Toplanti Salonu

25/10/2016

Swedish travellers between Europe, Asia and Africa: The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in the early modern world

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

24/10/2016

Old Oaks in Turkey – an unknown treasure

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

18/10/2016

Arab or Muslim conquest? The Rise of Islam and the Byzantine Beholder

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

13/10/2016

Syrien i Sverige

Conference @ Etnografiska muséet

13/10/2016

Today Talks: Nomads & Wanderers

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

13/10/2016

Islamic Feminism in Iran: Feminism in a New Islamic Context

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

04/10/2016

Cusanus´ proposal for peace between all religions in 1453

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

29/09/2016

Today Talks: Crossing Borders

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

08/09/2016

The Museum of Innocence and the Construction of Memories

Seminar @ SRII

06/09/2016

The Roots of Evil, Subdivisions of the Middle East 1916-2016

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

26/05/2016

The Circum-Mediterranean scene in the first centuries of the second millennium CE – mirrored in the works of Ramon Llull

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

20/05/2016

Beyond Rome

Conference @ Stockholm

04/05/2016

Turkish migrants and the pursuit of belonging in European-Turkish spaces

Spring Lecture @ SRII

28/04/2016

”Transforming the Orient” - the Soviet discourses of ”culturalization” and ”emancipation of women” (1920s-1930s)

Seminar @ SRII

27/04/2016

Human rights and the European refugee situation: what is at stake?

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

26/04/2016

Irfan - the concept of the individual in Islamic mysticism

Spring Lecture @ SRII

14/04/2016

The Byzantine Mosaic Wall in a Modern Shape

Seminar @ SRII

05/04/2016

Picturing the square, the streets and denizens of Istanbul: Practices of urban space and shifts in visuality

Spring Lecture @ SRII

17/03/2016

Today Talks: Memory of Things

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

15/03/2016

How Can Religion Contribute to Peace in Cyprus?

Spring Lecture @ SRII

11/03/2016

Urban Wooden Architecture - Turkey and the Nordic Countries

Conference @ SRII

08/03/2016

The Great Palace of Constantinople: an enduring symbol in constant transition

Spring Lecture @ SRII

11/02/2016

Today Talks: Fact & Fiction

Seminar @ SRII

02/02/2016

The Andrones at Labraunda. Buildings for elite dining and receptions.

Spring Lecture @ SRII

02/02/2016

Labraunda Day

Conference @ SRII

26/01/2016

Constantinople the eternal in a changing world. Swedish eye-witnesses through the ages

Spring Lecture @ SRII

21/01/2016

Today Talks: Freedom in the Academia: What is Doable?

Seminar @ SRII

14/01/2016

SRII Seminar - The Resettlement of Hasankeyf: Today, tomorrow, next week, next year

Seminar @ SRII

12/01/2016

SRII Seminar - Exploring the Percieved Self-Efficacy among Syrian Refugees in Istanbul - A Qualitative Research Study

Seminar @ SRII

15/12/2015

The Mosque in the Formation of Turkish Nationalism: Reflections on a Contested Public Space

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

03/12/2015

SRII Seminar - Internet Suzerainty

Seminar @ SRII

01/12/2015

Palmyra, Pastoral Nomads and City-State Kings in the Old Babylonian Period (c. 1800 BCE)

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

05/11/2015

Symbolic Aspects of Architecture

Conference @ SRII

03/11/2015

SRII Seminar - damnationes et transformationes memoriae – ?Religious memory sanctions in Roman Asia Minor

Seminar @ SRII

27/10/2015

Cultural Heritage in Times of Armed Conflicts

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

15/10/2015

Today Talks - Ideas on the Roads

Seminar @ SRII

13/10/2015

Turkey and Azerbaijan: One Religion - Two States?

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

06/10/2015

Backwards into the Future: Erdogan´s New Turkey

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

17/09/2015

Today Talks - "Change: How to Make It Happen?"

Seminar @ SRII

14/09/2015

Assessing Urban Expansion of Istanbul 2000-2013

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

03/09/2015

Today Talks - Rise of Far Right Parties in Europe & Mobility of People

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

12/06/2015

3rd Summer School Human Rights – A Recurrent History Istanbul 12 - 26 June 2015

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

11/06/2015

SRII Seminar - Bounded Rationality and Land Reform in the Middle East

Seminar @ SRII

04/06/2015

SRII Seminar - Den Levande Kakelplattan

Seminar @ SRII

21/05/2015

Today Talks - Personal Space & Invasion of Privacy

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

19/05/2015

USI-Course: Religious traditions and cultural memory at the crossroads of Europe and Asia

Master's Course @ SRII

19/05/2015

The Revival of Pagan Cult Sites in Late Antiquity

Spring Lecture @ SRII

18/05/2015

SRII Seminar - Medical tourism at the crossroads of diaspora and transcultural care? Healthcare in Turkey for Swedish patients

Seminar @ SRII

05/05/2015

A Tale of Two Cities: Historical and Architectural Relationships Between Istanbul and Stockholm

Spring Lecture @ SRII

04/05/2015

In the Aftermath of Gezi-From Social Movement to Social Change

Workshop @ SRII

30/04/2015

Today Talks: Genocide, Recognition, Reconciliation

Seminar @ SRII

28/04/2015

IDP Business Meeting

Workshop @ SRII

28/04/2015

Forced Migration & Resilience: Past & Present in the Mediterranean

Conference @ SRII

14/04/2015

Istanbul ´s Urban Heritage: Protection and Threats

Spring Lecture @ SRII

13/04/2015

USI-Course: Istanbul – kulturmöten, monument och identitet mellan öst och väst

Master's Course @ Uppsala & SRII

08/04/2015

SRII Seminar - Collaborative disaster management in Turkey

Seminar @ SRII

02/04/2015

Today Talks - Communication Technologies, Movement of Masses & Supranational-Transborder Nationalisms

Seminar @ SRII

31/03/2015

“Qnushyo” - Faith as Support or Burden Among Christian Syrian Refugees in Istanbul

Spring Lecture @ SRII

17/03/2015

Moral Communities, Cultural Intimacy and Symbolic Boundaries in the Beyoglu District of Istanbul

Spring Lecture @ SRII

11/03/2015

Screening of Swedish Documentaries; "Our God Is a Woman" and "Women´s Island"

Seminar @ SRII

03/03/2015

Swedish-Turkish Relations Today

Spring Lecture @ SRII

12/02/2015

Today Talks -Modern Day Traditions

Seminar @ SRII

05/02/2015

Today Talks - Technology and Education

Seminar @ SRII

03/02/2015

Welcome Reception

Seminar @ SRII

29/01/2015

Today Talks - Faith and Tolerance

Seminar @ SRII

20/01/2015

Egypt 25th of January 2011: What happened in 4 years - and what´s next?

Spring Lecture @ SRII

12/01/2015

Labraunda Day

Conference @ SRII

08/01/2015

Today Talks - Gendered VS Queered Design

Seminar @ SRII

17/12/2014

Fatherland and Diaspora: The AKP, the Turkish Diaspora and minorities from Turkey

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

15/12/2014

From a Cradle of Civilisation to a Globalizing Transit Region:

Workshop @ SRII

12/12/2014

Rhetoric and Politics

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

11/12/2014

Today Talks - LGBT; Why? When? Where?

Seminar @ SRII

01/12/2014

Islamic Representation in Turkish Black Metal

Seminar @ SRII

27/11/2014

Today Talks - Voices of Young Female Artists in Turkey

Seminar @ SRII

13/11/2014

Today Talks - Istanbul, city of migrants

Seminar @ SRII

03/11/2014

Dagböcker och brev från Osmanska riket, 1709-1714

Seminar @ SRII

21/10/2014

Identity and Migration - Reflection on Fieldwork with a Marginalized Group in Istanbul

Seminar @ SRII

16/10/2014

The Resurgence of Religion? A study of Religion and Modernity in Sweden with the Daily Press as Case

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

14/10/2014

The 2014 Jarring Lecture

Jarring Lecture @ SRII

11/10/2014

SILK ROAD SYMPOSIUM

Conference @ SRII

08/10/2014

3. From the Ottoman Empire to the Contemporary Middle East: The Centrality of Forced Migration

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

02/10/2014

Türk veya Türkiyeli? Turkey’s Redefinition of Citizenship: Tracing Changes over Time

Seminar @ SRII

23/09/2014

In Science (Alone) We Trust?

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

09/09/2014

Locating the (Transnational) Politics of "Men": Activism, Policy, Theorising

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

02/09/2014

Early Medieval Graphic Signs of Authority: Types, Functions, and Contexts

Conference @ SRII

26/06/2014

National Identity versus Transnationalism: Turkey and Eurasia

Workshop @ SRII

19/06/2014

Today Talks - The Gendered Feature of Violence

Seminar @ SRII

19/06/2014

New Religiosities and Science

Workshop @ Workshop @ Orient-Institut Istanbul

14/06/2014

Summer school 2014

Master's Course @ SRII

10/06/2014

National Languages in a Globalizing World Turkish and Uzbek

Spring Lecture @ SRII

23/05/2014

Klassisk arabiska: Modersmål eller orakelmål?

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

20/05/2014

Nationhood and Citizenship in Turkish Friday Sermons

Spring Lecture @ SRII

10/05/2014

The Effects of Increased Mobility in Transnational Migration

Workshop @ SRII

10/05/2014

Edebiyat Atölyesi

Workshop @ SRII

09/05/2014

Multilingual Education and Multilinguals in Education Perspectives

Workshop @ SRII

09/05/2014

Polygonal columns in ancient Greek architecture

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

15/04/2014

International Relations in Historical Perspective

Spring Lecture @ SRII

10/04/2014

Today Talks - Türkiye´de Kadin Üzerine:

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

08/04/2014

Literary History

Spring Lecture @ SRII

27/03/2014

Workshop on Byzantine art at the SRII 27 March 2014

Workshop @ SRII

07/03/2014

Gendered Violence as Legal Constructions:

Seminar @ Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

06/03/2014

Today Talks - Today´s Public Space

Seminar @ SRII

22/02/2014

Alevi Identity Revisited

Spring Lecture @ Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

10/02/2014

Research Seminar

Seminar @ Istanbul Institute

16/01/2014

Imperial rulership and universal hierarchies in Early Byzantine art

Occasional Lecture @ British Institute of Archaelogy at Ankara

15/01/2014

The Central Asian Migrant Experience in Turkey and Russia

Workshop @ Department of Sociology, Bogaziçi University

19/12/2013

Türk Edebiyati Üzerine Bir Sohbet

Seminar @ srii

18/12/2013

Emotions, Motion and Narration in Late Byzantine Painting

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

10/12/2013

Mobility,Acculturation and Identity Formation

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

06/12/2013

Critical Area/Regional Studies

Workshop @ Malmö University

04/12/2013

Labraunda Day

Workshop @ Swedish research institite in Istanbul

03/12/2013

Images of Power and Violence

Workshop @ SRII

27/11/2013

Changing Notions of Citizenship – past, present future

Workshop @ Lund

19/11/2013

Plurilingualism and Language Rights: Mother Tongue Education in Turkey: Political Prospects and Legal Dilemmas

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

07/11/2013

Att spåra skiljaktigheter i byggnaders och platsers symboliska och historiska avsikter

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

05/11/2013

Traveling Narratives: History on the Hoof - the Evliya Celebi Way as a Case-Study in Expanding our Historical Horizons

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

04/11/2013

Post-Soviet Central Asia in a New Eurasia Discourse

Occasional Lecture @ Gediz University,Izmir

25/10/2013

Litterär Salong - Drabbad av Rumi

Seminar @ SRII

22/10/2013

Migration and Changing Identities: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Citizenship: German-Turkish Return Migrants and the Ethics of Belonging

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

17/10/2013

Vad händer egentligen i Turkiet?

Seminar @ SFII - Stockholm

11/10/2013

”Förtätade filmögonblick och vårt behov av fiktion. Nya filmvanor bland unga svenskar.”

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

08/10/2013

Byzantine Studies: Byzantine Aesthetics and Christian Ideology

Autumn Lecture @ SRII

08/10/2013

Piraträder eller folkvandringar? Farao Merenptah ´s och farao Ramesses III:s inskrifter om ´sjöfolken ´ sedda ur sin inhemska kontext och i jämförelse med brev från kungliga utrikesministeriet i Ugarit

Discussion Seminar @ SRII

01/10/2013

The SRII Eastern Turkey Seminar 2013

Seminar @ South-eastern Turkey

30/09/2013

The Impact of Cultural Analysis on Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Programmes in Complex Emergency Settings

Occasional Lecture @ SRII

26/09/2013

Between Image and Text: The Early Medieval "Iconology"of Graphic Representational Signs

Conference @ University of Oslo

25/09/2013

Gilgamesh: culture, religion, and trauma: What we can learn from the Iraqi refugees

Conference @ Marmara University

25/06/2013

Tanpinar ´s Irony in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü in Relation to the Westernization Discourse

Occasional Lecture @ SII

17/06/2013

Nordic Research Cooperation in the MENA Region, Turkey and Central Asia

Workshop @ SRII

14/06/2013

Maktsymboler

Workshop @ SRII

For past events, see Events

Projects

RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond

Architectural Symbolism in Late Roman and  Early Byzantine Art

Gendered Violence in Turkish media

Byzantine Cappadocia

Ottoman Provincial Architecture

The Labraunda Project

State, Nation, and Religion in the Muslim World

Cornelius Loos

Victoria Romana in Late-Antique Visual Culture

When Sweden was ruled from Moldova

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