Joint lecture series - Hubs, networks and trajectories. The making of global cooperation in the humanities in Istanbul and beyond

DATE / TARİH

février 12, 2026    
18:00 - 20:00

LIEU / VENUE / MEKÂN

Institut français Istanbul
İstiklal Cd. No:4, , Beyoğlu/İstanbul, 34435

Address (see map below): Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center, Gürsel Mah. İmrahor Cad. No: 23, B Blok, Kağıthane / İstanbul

Hybrid format:

 

With Gábor Fodor: « A Scientific Hub of Central Powers in the WWI’s Ottoman Capital: The Hungarian Science Institute in Constantinople »

Taking Istanbul as a starting point, this series focuses on the places, actors and encounters in which knowledge in the humanities (from archaeology, history and art history, to anthropology, sociology and geopolitics) is produced. The goal is to question how scholarship is made, questioned, re-made and reorganized through constant encounters in a number of places by actors forming networks resulting in intellectual connections. Like other centers in the wider MENA region, Istanbul as a research hub was a place of meeting, forming connections and a work space, hence the aim is to initially explore Istanbul as a locus articulating fieldwork and career opportunities, and its impact on knowledge production.

With the partnership of the Liszt Institute the Hungarian Cultural Center (hosts), the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Dainst), the Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA), the Nederlands Instituut in Turkije (NIT), the Orient-Institut Istanbulthe Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII).