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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Our research grants for one-month and three-month stays are now available! The deadline is October 31, 2023. Find them under "Announcements".

 
CALENDAR
NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
IN SWEDEN
Det svenska palatset i Istanbul – dåtid och nutid
2023-10-03
with SRII och FSIV
OTHER
Borderlands: the gendered space of epic and translation
2023-10-03
with SRII and Retracing Connections
SEMINARS
East Pixelated
2023-05-24
with SRII, SRI & Özgen Berkol Doğan SciFi Library
IN SWEDEN
Sverige och Turkiet - i nutid och dåtid
2023-05-04
with SRII, Södertörn and IMS
SEMINARS
Research Seminar
2023-04-17
with Ezgi Irgil and Rustam Urinboyev
LECTURES
Black Sea Shores and Hinterlands
2023-03-27
with IFEA, the Musée de Louvre and SRII
IN SWEDEN
Bokpresentation: Miklagård
2023-01-18
with Agneta Arnesson Westerdahl
WORKSHOPS
Dreams of Turan: Traces and Trajectories of a Contested Ideology
2022-12-01
with SRII, MKM, IFEA
LECTURES
Sojourning with Sufis
2022-11-29
with Dr. Olof Helio, The Swedish Research Institute
LECTURES
The Awakened Muslim: Turkish Modernization as an Alternative Model in Republican China
2022-11-22
with Dr. Zeyneb Hale Eroglu Sager, Bogazici University
OTHER
Roads to Rus – Sources, Materials, Concepts
2022-11-09
with Vukovich, Petersen, White, Upham
LECTURES
“Whet one’s appetite, increase sexual potency.”
2022-11-08
with Dr. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
OTHER
“Punk gençliği istemiyorum”: the early years of punk in Turkey
2022-10-25
with Carlotta De Sanctis
OTHER
Turkish Jews and Their Diasporas: Entanglements and Separations - An online book launch
2022-10-11
with Catharina Raudvere & İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu
LECTURES
“We have Avenged the Prophet!” An attempt at explaining extreme reactions to acts of desecration.
2022-10-11
with Prof. Jonas Svensson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
LECTURES
Religious Plant Behavior – or What Did Christian Trees Do in Byzantium?
2022-09-29
with Dr. Thomas Arentzen, Lund University, Sweden
LECTURES
The Sacred Landscape of Ancient Asia Minor
2022-09-15
with Dr. İpek Dağlı, İstanbul University
IN SWEDEN
Bridging the Hellespont: Migrations ancient and modern
2022-09-12
with Prof. Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge
LECTURES
In Search of Troy: Between Myth and History
2022-09-07
with Prof. Barry Strauss & Philippe Bohström
LECTURES
Unveling Taksim: Prost’s espaces libres revisited
2022-06-10
with Ipek Akpınar, Izmir Institute of Technology
IN SWEDEN
The “Non-Institute” in the Ex-Capital. The Swedish Institute in Constantinople (1922–1924)
2022-05-12
with Frederick Whitling, Svenska institutet i Athen
SEMINARS
Research Seminar
2022-05-11
with András Handl and Cedomila Markinkovic
LECTURES
Constantinople through the eyes of travelers: 14-15th centuries
2022-05-10
with Siren Çelik, Marmara University
CULTURAL
Yazidis – A Travel Essay
2022-05-09
with Magnus Bärtås, Fredrik Ekman & Firat Ceweri
IN SWEDEN
Nordbor med orienten i sikte – svenska bilder av Mellanöstern under tvåhundra år.
2022-05-05
with Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner
IN SWEDEN
Kosovo och FN, nationella intressen och etniska konflikter
2022-04-26
with Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner
LECTURES
Mehmed II's architectural patronage and a manuscript of the Patria of Constantinople
2022-04-25
with Aslıhan Akışık, İstanbul Medeniyet University
IN SWEDEN
Drömmen om Armenien – Armenier och svenskar under 1000 år
2022-04-21
with Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner
SEMINARS
Research Seminar
2022-04-20
with With Helena Bodin & Mehek Muftee
CULTURAL
A Conversation with Elin Anna Labba and Burcu Karakas
2022-04-05
with Belongings in Istanbul
LECTURES
The City and Sufism
2022-03-22
with Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya
IN SWEDEN
Minnesdag för Hans Furuhagen
2022-03-19
with VfM, FSIV, RV and AV
LECTURES
Rethinking Byzantium in Early Modern Istanbul
2022-03-09
with Çigdem Kafesçioglu
CONFERENCES
Empire of Babel Ottoman Literary Modernities and their Afterlives, 1850–1950
2022-03-04
with SRII, IFEA, Koç, Bogazici
LECTURES
Water Supply and the Great Palace in Constantinople
2022-02-22
with Kerim Altug, Atatürk Library
IN SWEDEN
Humanitarian handicrafts as (dis)empowerment of women left behind
2022-02-16
with Maria Småberg
LECTURES
The Splendor Far Away Assembling Popular Images of Constantinople
2022-01-25
with Emir Alışık
IN SWEDEN
The Double-Edged Sword of Democracy
2021-12-16
with Forskarkollegiet
LECTURES
Stories of ruins, ruins of stories
2021-12-15
with Christos Chryssopoulos, Ingela Nilsson
SEMINARS
Queering Lived Experiences / Informality and Uzbek Migrant Networks
2021-12-08
with Rukaya al-Zayani, Rustamjon Urinboyev
SEMINARS
Longing for Tsargrad / “Women’s secret”
2021-11-26
with Igor Torbakov, Pernilla Myrne
LECTURES
Digital archives: resilience by preservation and transmission of stories
2021-11-23
with Marianne Boqvist, Khaled Mansour, Charlotta Sparre
IN SWEDEN
Horizon 2020 – RESPOND Tre års EU-finansierad forskning med Sverige på kartan
2021-11-22
with Forskarkollegiet
LECTURES
A man of war, a man of letters: John Axouch at the Komnenian Court
2021-11-11
with SRII, SIA
SEMINARS
Old Indian Wisdom in Byzantium / International Theology Program
2021-11-10
with Lili Hölzlhammer, Maximilian Lasa
LECTURES
Medieval ”Classicism-s”: Art and Power between Byzantium and Serbia
2021-11-02
with Ivana Jevtić
SEMINARS
Hagiography and Narratology / Essential Islam
2021-10-27
with Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen, Jonas Svensson
LECTURES
Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence
2021-10-19
with Jenny White
IN SWEDEN
Geo Widengren – en svensk religionshistoriker
2021-10-07
with Forskarkollegiet
LECTURES
The Reception of Kassia
2021-09-30
with Per-Arne Bodin, Burak Özdemir
WORKSHOPS
Motifs, Influences, and Narrative Strategies in the Epics of the Medieval East and West
2021-09-17
with Ingela Nilsson, Marketa Kulhánková
IN SWEDEN
Instil The Love Of The Beloved
2021-09-09
with Forskarkollegiet
WORKSHOPS
Archaeology, Art and Heritage in Constantinople during the First World War and Allied Occupation
2021-08-31
with SRII and Macar Kültür Merkezi Istanbul
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Dragomanen 24 2022 är ute!
Edited by Douglas Mattsson and Simon Sorgenfrei
OTHER
The program for our Autumn lectures series 2022 is now available!
PUBLICATIONS
Dragomanen 23 / 2021 är ute!
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The program for our spring lectures series 2022 is now available!
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New book from our Collegium of Scholars!
Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice Transdisciplinary Perspectives (2021) edited by Marie Carlsson et al.
PUBLICATIONS
New book from our Collegium of Scholars !
Pulpit, Mosque and Nation – Turkish Friday sermons as Text and Ritual (2022) by Elisabeth Özdalga
SCHOLARSHIPS
Research grant for a three-month-stay in Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean
SCHOLARSHIPS
Research grant for a one-month-stay in Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean 2024
OTHER
2024 PhD Summer School in Istanbul
BILLBOARD
New book by historian Frederick Whitling about The Palais de Suède in Istanbul the first Swedish embassy building built on state-owned land abroad, the oldest such Swedish property in the world.
Transaction Vol.25 (2023) Palais de Suède
Transaction Vol.25 (2023) Palais de Suède
Summer / Autumn 2023
ISSUE
No 14
Kalabalik 14
Kalabalik 14
Between the Basket and the Jar
Read Kalabalik!