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

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