We are pleased to inform you of the organization of a colloquium focusing on the socio-political implications of quantification in Turkey, which will be held on September 28 and 29, 2023 at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul, Turkey. 

This colloquium invites young researchers at all levels (master, doctorate, post-doctorate) to share original research about the uses of numbers and their socio-political implications in the Turkish context, past and present. Numeric arguments are omnipresent in political discourse. As the time for Turkey’s presidential election approaches in the aftermath of the seismic crisis, this observation may become even more relevant. Figures and estimates on key ballot issues are generated, disseminated, and interpreted by a complex body of interconnected actors: pollsters, scholars,
think-tank members, political party advocates, and so forth. Inflation, for instance, is a daily topic in mainstream newspapers. The ‘true’ numbers of inflation are calculated by economists and then shared by journalists in the public arena where they become the subject of heated controversies
in board-rooms, coffee shops, and at dinner-tables. Competitive statistical narratives also circulate as executives and ordinary people seek to make sense of current trends and likely future scenarios. As some narratives win out over others, certain public institutions have been brought
into disrepute; whereas, conversely, private expertise companies have acquired new levels of credibility and trust.
By organizing this colloquium, we wish to build a springboard for importing and discussing the numerous studies dealing with the social history of statistics (see Anderson 1988, Desrosières 2010 [1993], 2008a; Didier 2000; Wuthnow 2015; Labbé 2019), the socio-political
life of numbers in the public arena (see Schweyer 1991; Porter 2017 [1995]; Desrosières 2008b, 2014; Bruno, Didier & Prévieux 2014; Gasquet et al. 2021), and the renewal of quantitative methodologies and techniques in the academic field (see Bugeja-Bloch & Couto 2021) along with
their impact on reframing theories (see Field 2019; Bréchon & Zwilling 2020) and shaping state policies (see Aldrin 2010). Research on quantification and the social life of numbers has been fruitful in many parts of the world but has not yet been well established in Turkey. This event
represents an effort to advance a scholarly conversation about the Turkish case, including the social history of ottoman and republican censuses (see Dündar 2001, 2005), statistics in relation to technopolitics and institutional reform (see Silverstein 2020), and the sociology of the public
opinion and market research industry (see Abadan-Unat 1991).
This colloquium aspires to focus on a twofold research axis. On the one hand, we intend to dissect the chain of production of statistical artifacts that we are likely to encounter in our3 respective research areas. This focus entails a genealogical endeavor. To prevent the risk of
anachronism or teleology, we encourage pragmatist approaches that examine each step of the quantification process as a practical and contingent accomplishment. Chronological patterns should therefore be embedded with grounded accounts of quantification as a social activity
undertaken by specific actors (interviewers, pollsters, statisticians…), integrated into various institutional networks (companies, think-tank, NGOs, administrations…), on particular objects (public opinion, social attitudes, political trends…), by relying on evolving techniques (sampling,
questionnaire design, data collection...), and requiring a handful of aptitudes (counting, calculating, estimating, predicting…).
On the other hand, we wish to study the social life of statistical artifacts, narratives, and arguments inasmuch as they provide inputs for engaging in public controversies. What kind of public issues catalyze or magnetize statistical disputes within fields as various as, for instance, state
policy, administration of religious affairs, or social movements? And how discourse and collective action are framed and reframed regarding competitive figures on controversial issues such as inflation, immigration, work-related accidents, natural hazards, or feminicides?

Applicants should submit the following materials: a 500-word abstract for a 15 to 20-minute-long communication in English, and a short resumé including past and current research activities. These materials should be sent before April 30 to the following email address: Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

Open Archaeology invites manuscripts for the Special Issue Digital Religioscapes: Current Methodologies and Novelties in the Analysis of Sacr(aliz)ed Spaces. The study of ancient religions—their materiality and practices—was subject to enormous changes, especially since different approaches from other disciplines, such as sociology, cultural studies, or anthropology, were made fruitful for the archaeology of ancient religions and subsequently enabled a qualitative approach to the research questions. This led to an understanding of religious spaces on the one hand as an outcome of social interaction, and on the other hand as a shared space with its own locally produced identity. However, the digital humanities have yet to find a meaningful way to integrate the resulting qualitative data into existing digital infrastructures and correlate it with quantitative data. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the variety of methods when gathering, modelling/visualising, presenting, and analysing digital data and to discuss the diverse ways in which these heterogeneous methods and tools can be usefully combined. Approaches that use mixed data (qualitative and quantitative), such as Story Maps or Deep Map(ping) are discussed, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of various individual tools and applications, such as network models, cartograms, modelling of movement patterns, agent-based modelling, temporalities or sensoryscapes (soundscapes, smellscapes, viewsheds), to name a few. Since we are concentrating on the methodological approaches and applications for investigating religious spaces, the special issue is opened to case studies from a variety of chronological periods and geographical regions, reaching from the circum-Mediterranean to central Asia, and at least from the Iron Age until the Early Modern Period.

The authors are kindly invited to submit their contribution via the online submission system Editorial Manager available at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/opar/Default.aspx

La préparation du prochain numéro d’Anatolia Antiqua (XXXI) a commencé. La parution est programmée à Novembre 2023.

Revue scientifique annuelle de l’IFEA dédiée à l’archéologie, Anatolia Antiqua couvre un large éventail de disciplines, allant des travaux de terrain aux thématiques du patrimoine culturel en passant par l’archéométrie et l’étude de matériel. Elle se compose de deux parties : une première partie consacrée aux articles de synthèse et une seconde partie intitulée « Chroniques des travaux archéologiques en Turquie », laquelle est destinée aux rapports des fouilles et études archéologiques en Turquie et ses régions avoisinantes de la préhistoire à la période médiévale au sens large.

Les articles soumis ne doivent pas avoir été publiés antérieurement dans un autre périodique. Les articles seront soumis au comité scientifique international assisté du comité de rédaction. Les décisions en matière d’acceptation ou de refus sont souveraines.

Les articles dont les sujets relèvent du domaine susmentionné doivent être préparés conformément à nos normes de publications (https://journals.openedition.org/anatoliaantiqua/274) et peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais.

Les auteur.e.s sont prié.e.s d’envoyer leurs articles et leurs chroniques de fouille au plus tard le 1 mars 2023. Les articles soumis au-delà de la date fixée seront considérés pour le numéro de l’année suivante. L’acceptation ou le refus des articles par les comités scientifique et de rédaction sera annoncé à compter du 15 mai 2023. Il est possible et encouragé de prendre contact avec la rédaction avant l’envoi des manuscrits.

Nous vous remercions et réjouissons d’ores et déjà de votre intérêt, de votre fidélité et de vos contributions à ce prochain numéro.

Au nom du comité de rédaction,

Deniz Genceolu, secrétaire de rédaction

Adresse de communication :

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Theme: 1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts

Session format: Regular session

Title: Carved Features and Carved Landscapes. Investigating the Technical and Topographical Links between Quarries and Rock-Cut Sites

Main organiser: Claudia Sciuto (Italy) ¹

Co-organisers:

Marie-Elise Porqueddu (Spain) ²
Anaïs Lamesa (Turkey) ³
Daniel Morleghem (France) ⁴

Affiliations:

1. University of Pisa
2. École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques, Casa de Velázquez, Spain
3. Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes, Istambul, Turkey
4. UMR 7324 Citeres-LAT, Tours, France

In the last ten years, an international exchange has been initiated amongst scholars on the methodological and theoretical challenges in the study of quarries and rock-cut sites. A lively community has been discussing the different approaches used for documenting and interpreting features that are generated in the liminal space between human lives and geologies.
The human activity of excavating geological outcrops results in features that are classified according to two main macro categories:
- rock-cut sites which are linked to the life and death of human beings– including dwellings, shelters, burials, and places of worship.
- quarries are mostly defined as production spaces in which technical solutions are aimed at optimizing the extraction of stone from the bedrock.
Despite the difference in the purpose of hewing, conceptual links exist between features carved in the rock. Similarities can be found in the techniques used for hewing as well as the management of waste and by extension, the same networks of knowledge and know-how transmission. Moreover, dwellings or evidence of places of worship have been found in quarries and blocks extracted from rock-cut sites are often used for construction elsewhere.
Quarries and rock-cut sites can often be found associated with the same outcrops, thus outlining a complex taskscape in which the interaction of human communities and bedrock can result in different carved features.
This session will be dedicated to investigating the connections between quarries and rock-cut sites on different scales. We invite contributors, particularly early careers researchers/scholars, working on different case studies, without chronological or geographical boundaries, to discuss:
- methods for mapping carved landscapes, highlighting the human and geological agencies in shaping a taskscape.
- the more detailed study of tool marks and techniques used for extracting stone blocks and carving specific elements, outlining systems of knowledge transfer in communities through time.

Keywords:

Quarries, rock-cut sites, technology, taskscapes

https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2023/

How to submit the proposal

An oral / poster contribution has to be submitted via an online form available after logging in at submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2023.

Offre d'emploi de post-doctorat dans le cadre du projet ANR SPACEPOL "Space and Politics: Capital Cities as Instruments of Political Struggle and Power" piloté par Gülçin Erdi (IFEA-Istanbul)

Poste en CDD de 3 ans à partir de janvier 2023

Date limite de candidature: 30 novembre 2022

Entretien avec les candidat-e-s: 15 et 16 décembre 2022

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          Since the popular uprisings of 2011 in several Middle Eastern and North African countries, political, social and economic developments have led to the rise of migratory flows that converge, pass through or settle in Turkey. This latter emerged as a prime destination for populations fleeing war, especially from Syria1. Beyond that, Turkey offers new opportunities to several populations in the region to offset the economic constraints and the shutdown of political spaces in their home countries. For these populations, it provides a viable alternative in light of the EU’s increasingly blocked borders. Economic migrations as well as political exiles to bypass authoritarian regimes are intermingled and recomposed with the forced migrations due to armed conflicts. As a result, throughout the country, and especially in Istanbul, a multinational Arab space has emerged and is being consolidated.

          While the academic literature on Syrian migration in Turkey is quite substantial, migrations from other countries in the region remains understudied. Building on the collective work that has been conducted in IFEA over the past few years, this conference seeks to explore the political dimension of the "contemporary Arab presence" (Mermier, 2020) in Turkey. The simultaneous coexistence of several communities, some of which marked by political activities, was made possible thanks to the Turkish government's position in support of the popular uprisings in the Arab world. Turkey can be examined as a privileged place for political expression. New initiatives, exploring alternative connections to politics, appear to have emerged as a result of exile. Istanbul also appears to be a privileged destination for some Arab political groups or parties. This is remarkably the case for the Muslim Brotherhood, which was driven out of Egypt by Abdelfattah al-Sissi’s Coup d’Etat, and is currently being supported by the AKP government. Following the example of this "Brotherhood exopolity" (Vannetzel, 2018), several other Arab groups or political parties have chosen Istanbul as a place of refuge and reorganization. Both media and political organizations are therefore guests of the Turkish government, but also hostages of its potential foreign policy reorientations.

          A good illustration is provided for by the evolution of Ankara’s position towards the Jamal Khashoggi, which was opportunely classified ahead of Erdogan’s official visit to KSA in April 2022. More than ever, the very existence of these spaces of (relative) freedom in Turkey depends upon the evolution of Turkey's diplomatic relations with the countries of the region.
          Economically, the 'Arab Spring' has been a golden opportunity for multiple actors. Most prominently, the strengthening of Turkish-Arab economic networks enables an increased transnational activism since 2011 (Vannetzel, Yankaya, 2017). Indeed, in the previous decade, Turkish exportations mainly grew through trade relations with the Middle East, widely studied in the literature (Kirişçi, 2009 ; Atlı, 2011; Özdemirkıran, 2015). The involvement in the media sector is especially noteworthy (Mermier 2021; Alrmizan 2020) and has made Istanbul one of the capital of a new (pan)Arab media scene, with the financial support of Qatar.
          This call for papers echoes studies on exile mobilizations and political activities (Dufoix, 2005; Grojean and Massicard, 2005; Allioua 2009; Dazey and Zederman, 2017); taking into consideration the impact of the 2011 popular uprisings in their relationship to politics (Napolitano, 2012; Beaugrand and Geisser, 2014; Fourn 2018; Lamblin 2018) and its articulation to the political field and to Turkish policy in the region. It intends to bring together researchers in order to assess the hypothesis of the emergence of an Arab political space in Turkey, its transformations and its interdependency relations with Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy.

Some themes will be, especially, discussed during this event : 

- Various forms of political activism in exile
Political activism cannot be reduced to involvement in a political party. Arab journalists, writers, intellectuals, artists and academics promote the creation of new spaces, forums and media for politicization in exile. To what extent can their various activities be considered political? How are these actors doing politics outside of political organizations? What are their goals and to which audiences do they appeal? How do these forms of expression include or target public opinion in countries of origin?

- Memories, politics and disillusions during exile
Disillusions are also part of exile and may lead to forms of withdrawal and depoliticization. An entire generation within these communities, strongly marked by the political sequence initiated in 2011, seeks to redefine itself in exile. We are particularly interested in the (de)construction of political networks, the impacts of political socialization and the common relationship of these migrations to politics. What memories of these commitments and mobilizations remain within the migratory experience? What influence can the migration experiences have on individuals’ relation to politics?

- Influence and repression from governments of countries of origin
This theme aims to explore the nature and impact of coercive tools of repression by the governments of the countries of origin on Arab populations in exile, and on their relations with the host society. Governments in countries of origin can rely to various means to track and clamp down on activists abroad. These include retaliation measures by administrative means, surveillance, violence, pressures on the host country, and, as per the case of Khashoggi political assassination. Instability and fear are an integral part of political exile, conditioning the relationship to politics and citizenship, but also the very modalities of engagement.

- Relationship to the political agenda of the host country
Despite their diversity and degree of integration within the hosting society, Arab communities in Turkey all face the instrumentalization of their presence by various local political actors, ranging from government to opposition figures. It is however possible to observe their growing integration into Turkish society, through various channels: work, school and university mostly. How do Arab communities adapt to an increasingly xenophobic and nationalist Turkish political debate? How might this affect their integration process? How do they participate in the public debate in Turkey? What are their relations with the different Turkish political parties?

- Migration and Turkish foreign policy
These Arab communities’ presence on Turkish soil has become a major political issue in Turkey's diplomatic relations with countries of the Middle East and North Africa. How does the AKP government use it in its foreign policy? In a changing regional political landscape, how do theses various Arab political actors represent allies, proxies but also tools for Turkish foreign policy?

Organization Team:
Nouran Gad (Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille University)
Enrique Klaus (Galatasaray University, Transitions – Université Côte d’azur)
Yohanan Benhaïm (IFEA)

Scientific Committee:
Yohanan Benhaïm (IFEA)
Didem Danış (Galatasaray University)
Nouran Gad (Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille University)
Enrique Klaus (Galatasaray University, Transitions – Université Côte d’azur)
Franck Mermier (Iris, EHESS)
Maïssam Nimer (Istanbul University)
Laura Ruiz de Elvira (CEPED, ERC LIVE-AR)

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This Call for Paper is aimed at constituting a panel organized by Anaïs Lamesa (IFEA) and Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Erfurt University) focused on Digital Religioscapes: Current Methodologies and Novelties in the analysis of sacr(aliz)ed spaces to be presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), which will be held in Budapest, Hungary from 31 August to 3 September 2022.

Applications must be made online before February, 10, 2022

École doctorale
Patrimoine et environnement dans l’espace urbain

Istanbul, 13-17 juin 2022

Les candidatures sont acceptées jusqu'au 28 février 2022 12h (Paris)

Le Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique Moyen-Orient et Mondes Musulmans (GIS MOMM, CNRS UAR 2999) et l’Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (IFEA) organisent une école doctorale sur le thème « patrimoine et environnement dans l'espace urbain ». Cette école doctorale s’adresse aux étudiant-e-s inscrit-e-s en doctorat, année préparatoire au doctorat (APD) ou dernière année de master-recherche dans la perspective de préparer un doctorat ; dans toutes les sciences humaines et sociales (sociologie, science politique, géographie, ethnologie, anthropologie, histoire, histoire de l'art, architecture, urbanisme, droit) ; et dont les travaux sont consacrés aux aires géographiques turque, centrasiatique, kurde, ottomane et post-ottomane (méditerranéenne, balkanique ou caucasienne).

Toutes nos félicitations à Claire Le Bras qui a soutenu sa thèse intitulée Entre Constantinople et Ankara : les diplomaties britannique, française et italienne et le défi de la dualité gouvernementale en Turquie (1918-1922). Aspects politiques, juridiques et pratiques le 25 novembre 2021