SWEDISH RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN ISTANBUL
The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) was founded in 1962 with the aim of promoting Swedish and Nordic research about Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean as well as other regions that are connected linguistically, culturally, or historically.
 

Located within the compound of the Swedish Consulate General in Istanbul, the SRII offers a local academic platform for Nordic scholars coming to Istanbul, including a library, guesthouse, workplaces and an auditorium.

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WHAT'S NEW?
The institute office, library and guest house will be closed from December 12, 2020, to April 6, 2021, due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Our work with publications, podcasts and online events continues as before. Stay safe and stay tuned!
CALENDAR
NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LECTURES
Great Goddesses of the East / Adolf Furtwängler
2021-01-26
with Frederika Tevebring / Ulf R Hansson
IN SWEDEN
Bokpresentation: Folkmord, flyktingar och fortlevnad
2021-01-12
with Forskarkollegiet
IN SWEDEN
Istanbul’s Art & Culture Scene between Crackdown and Lockdown
2020-12-16
with Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner
WORKSHOPS
Mapping Gender
2020-12-09
with Orient Institut, SU Gender, SRII, ANAMED, IPC
LECTURES
Language, Communication and Greek Epigraphy. A Material Relationship
2020-12-08
with Jenny Wallensten
IN SWEDEN
Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond
2020-12-07
with Forskarkollegiet
IN SWEDEN
Vid världens ände – Sultanens sändebud och hans berättelse om 1700-talets Sverige
2020-11-24
with Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner
LECTURES
Archaeology as Epic: Language, Transmission and Politics in Patriarch Konstantios I's Konstantinias
2020-11-24
with Haris Theodorelis Rigas
CULTURAL
Dialoglar V: Language, memory, history
2020-11-12
with SRII, Consulate General
LECTURES
How does the European integration context impact bilingualism among second-generation Turks?
2020-11-02
with Memet Aktürk Drake
CULTURAL
Dialoglar IV: Tayfun Karatekin
2020-10-28
with SRII, Consulate General
LECTURES
Struggling against Language Shift: Kurdish Language Activism in Turkey
2020-10-20
with Anu Leinonen
CULTURAL
Dialoglar III: Feminist Graphic Novelists
2020-10-14
with SRII, Consulate General
CULTURAL
Dialoglar II: Pioneering Women in Film
2020-09-23
with SRII, Consulate General
CULTURAL
Dialoglar I: Migration Roads
2020-05-28
with SRII, Consulate General
PUBLICATIONS
Two new podcasts!
Ottoman Clock Towers: a conversation about time, modernity, and Istanbul / Words Can Be Like Tiny Doses of Arsenic: an Introduction to the Autumn Lecture Series
FROM OUR PARTNERS
Visitor Guide for the Feriköy Protestant Cemetery
The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative aims to preserve, document, and study Istanbul’s main Protestant cemetery as an important local historic landmark.
PUBLICATIONS
New book in the Transactions series
Transactions no. 23, Constantinople as Center and Crossroad (ed. Olof Heilo and Ingela Nilsson)
PUBLICATIONS
New book from the SRII
Cornelius Loos in the Ottoman World 1710–1711 (ed. Karin Ådahl)
PUBLICATIONS
Ny bok i vänföreningarnas serie!
Vägar till Bysans (ed. Olof Heilo)
PUBLICATIONS
The new Labraunda volume is out!
Labraunda no. 5, The Andrones (ed. Jesper Blid and Pontus Hellström)
INFORMATION FOR VISITORS
Updated information about arriving in Istanbul
BILLBOARD
Summer / Autumn 2020
ISSUE
No 8
Summer / Autumn 2020
Summer / Autumn 2020
Read Kalabalik!