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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMore info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 09:30-17:00; Bilkent University Library Art Room<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; C block amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; FFB-05<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 16:30; C-Block Amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; FFB-05<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 09:30-17:00; FFB-05<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17:30; C Blok Amfi<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17.30 C-Block Amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17.30 C-Block Amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17.30 FFB-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17.30 FFB-05<\/p>\n\n\n\n Venue: Fine Art Faculty FFB-05 Amfi<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and venue: 17.30 C Block Amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Venue: 17.30 Bilkent A-130<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Venue: Bilkent University Library, Art Room<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Venue: 17.30 H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Venue: 17.30 Bilkent University C Blok Amphitheatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info about the conference can be found here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Venue: Bilkent University, Archaeology Department Room A130<\/p>\n\n\n\n More infor about the conference can be found here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Venue: Bilkent University, C- Block Amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Prof. Jorge L\u00f3pez Quiroga<\/strong> (Autonomous University of Madrid) and Dr. Natalia Figueiras Pimentel<\/strong> (Complutense University of Madrid): \u201cAncient and Early Medieval Rupestrian Architecture in the Iberian Peninsula. A Western Construction of Eastern Typology\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and location: 17:30, Room H-232 (Faculty of Humanities and Letters)<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the area corresponding to the Iberian Peninsula, architecture excavated in the rock has been present since Roman times, essentially in works of civil architecture, mining and its network of canals (well known, for example, in the northwest of the peninsula) that show a knowledge and technology in the process of excavating and working the rock. Later, throughout the Late Antiquity, rock architecture was also used for residential and cultural functions, particularly in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, with the arrival of monks and hermits from North Africa. During the Early Middle Ages, with the Islamic presence, this type of architecture was maintained and reused by small communities, for utilitarian and residential purposes, maintaining its use practically to the present day in the south and the Mediterranean area, where the presence of caves excavated in the rock is relatively abundant. With the development and consolidation of the Islamic presence, communities of hermit monks emigrated to the north, taking with them the technology and use of rupestrian architecture for funerary, cultural and residential uses. It is at this time when numerous churches, hermitages and monasteries were excavated in the rock with a notable oriental influence. From the 12th century onwards other types of constructions, expanding and changing the physiognomy of these cultural complexes, replace this rupestrian architecture. We can affirm that there exists in the Iberian Peninsula an important tradition of stonework and technology excavated in the rock, but with clear differences between the rupestrian architecture of the Roman period with respect to the late antique and early medieval ones. We therefore observe significant evidence in the Iberian Peninsula of an architecture that presents an apparently Western construction but at the same time with a precise Eastern typology, in which, maintaining local\/Western tradition and influence, Eastern languages and architectural solutions are simultaneously introduced, first Byzantines and later Islamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Dr. Jorge L\u00f3pez Quiroga is Full Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid since 2022, having previously been Allocataire de Recherche (University of Paris IV), A.T.E.R. in Medieval History (University of La Rochelle), Research Assistant (University of Alcal\u00e1 de Henares), Doctor in Medieval History (University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV), Geography and History (University of Santiago de Compostela, USC) and European Doctor (USC). He is former Member of the Casa de Vel\u00e1zquez and former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, among other various post-doctoral research grants. He has been a visiting professor at various European and American universities. He was Director of the Spanish Archaeological Mission in Conimbriga (Portugal) and Explorer Research Grant of the National Geographic Society. He is also Member of the National Society of Antiquaries of France, based at the Louvre Museum (Paris) and Associate Member of the Michel de Bo\u00fcard Center (Centre for Ancient and Medieval Historical and Archaeological Research, CRAHAM-University of Caen-CNRS). He has directed, as principal investigator, twenty national and international scientific projects. He is the author of about twenty monographs, as author, editor and\/or coordinator, as well as one hundred and fifty articles, book chapters and publications in Proceedings of National and International Scientific Congresses. He was also curator of the exhibition \u201cIn Tempore Sueborum. El tiempo de los Suevos en la Gallaecia (411-585)\u201d, held between December 2017 and May 2018. For more than thirty years his research has focused on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Natalia Figueiras Pimentel is Graduate in Art History, specialty History of Medieval Art (Santiago de Compostela University, 1995-1999). Teaching Certificate (University of Valencia, 1999-2000). Specialist in “Conservation and Restoration of Historical-Artistic Heritage” (Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV, 2001-2003). She completed a doctoral program in Fine Arts, \u201cConservation and Restoration of Artistic Historical Heritage” (2001-2003). She has also a transdisciplinary training in relation to the documentation, study, and enhancement of cultural heritage: “Characterization of architectural materials and Stone Conservation-Restoration” (University of Zaragoza, 2004). Superior Technique in “Plastic Arts and Design in Artistic Photography” (EASD \u2018Antonio Fa\u00edlde\u2019, 2008-2011), postgraduate training in Archaeometry and Applied Techniques (Polytechnic University of Valencia, 2001-2007; University of Murcia, 2020-2021 and University of Burgos, 2021-2023). She is currently doing her doctoral thesis in History of Medieval Art at the Complutense University of Madrid, International PhD Mention, with a thesis entitled: “Hermitism in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages from the St Pedro de Rocas rupestrian complex (Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain) as a paradigm: a transdisciplinary scientific study applied to the History of Art”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The representation of the face with its features and its expressions has always reflected the choice of the artists, or those who commission the piece, and\/or its subject, according tointention and function of the artwork, and the beliefs and the context of the time and the culture when it was fashioned. The detailed program of the Bilkent Archaeology Day 2024 can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Dr. Julia Koch<\/strong> (Institute of Classical Studies, University of Giessen): \u201cPhrygians at the Black Sea? Exploring Ritual Landscapes in Northern Anatolia\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, Room H-232 (Faculty of Humanities and Letters)<\/p>\n\n\n\n GE points will be given<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kingdom of Phrygia is traditionally located in the western Anatolian Plateau centering on the capital at Gordion on the Upper Sangarios River. Recent scholarship, however, has reconstructed the territorial expansion of the Phrygian Kingdom on a large scale both to the east and to the northeast of Gordion for political control over the region of the Halys River bend during the later 8th<\/sup>\/7th<\/sup> century B.C. The Devrez Valley north of \u00c7ank\u0131r\u0131 at the foot of the Ilgaz Mountains is seen to have marked the northern limits of the Phrygian state. In this lecture we cross the Ilgaz Mountains towards the southern Black Sea to survey the religious landscape inventories of Iron Age northern Anatolia influenced by Phrygian culture: rock-cut facades and idols, stepped altars carved from the living rock, cult statues and niches, and so-called house shrines sculptured in miniature. At the sanctuary of Phrygian Zeus at Tios two sherds incised with Paleo-Phrygian graffiti were found next to East Greek and Attic pottery near an Archaic temple, while in Tios\u2019 hinterland Phrygian grave goods were deposited in a tumulus. Votive offerings of Attic drinking vessels dedicated to Kybebos<\/em> and terracotta figurines of the goddess ritually deposited in a sacrificial pit at the Greek seaport of Amisos shed further light on the significance of sanctuaries as stage for the maintenance of local cult tradition and intercultural exchange. By presenting new and less recent finds of sacr(aliz)ed places this talk offers fresh insights into Iron Age northern Anatolia abundant with astonishing ritual landscapes and it is hoped to encourage further discussion on colonial encounters of diverse migrant communities \u2013 both Greek and Phrygian \u2013 settling along the southern Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julia M. Koch studied Classical and Proto- and Prehistoric Archaeology at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Athens before she became lecturer at the Universities of Bamberg and Giessen. She acted as director of the Pompeiopolis field school in T\u00fcrkiye (2014-2016) and conducted field schools at the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Raetian and the Upper German Limes as well as surveyed archaeological sites in the Caucasus Mountains, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Peru, and T\u00fcrkiye through geophysical prospection. In 2018 she was awarded the dissertation prize of the Faculty for the Study of Culture at LMU Munich for her Ph.D. Dissertation on Funerary Monuments from the City of Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia \u2013 Tradition and Local Identity in Sepulchral Art of Roman Northern Anatolia<\/em>. In 2022\/23 she was a visiting research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and King\u2019s College in London and, most recently, a guest lecturer at Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University in Istanbul. Currently, she is a member of the Tios Excavation on the Black Sea coast and the 7th<\/sup> Research Network on Socio-Ecological Approaches to the History and Archaeology of Anatolia<\/em> organized by the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Ko\u00e7 University\u2019s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, and Princeton University\u2019s Climate Change and History Research Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Dr. Emma Baysal<\/strong> (Ankara University): \u201cSmall things, big stories: re-writing prehistory from new perspectives\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, Room H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prehistory is generally characterised in terms of grand narratives of human development \u2013 technology, symbolism, domestication and sedentary life among others. However, the human experience is often lost in the vast scales of time and space that are being discussed in this macro picture of important changes. This lecture considers how archaeologists can approach the people of prehistory by using their material culture to paint a new picture of life in the past. Both personal and group identities can be understood through the artefacts that were closely associated with the human body, especially ornaments. Here, prehistoric identity is characterised using big data and artefact biographies to structure new understandings of what age, sex, community and social roles might have meant to people in the earliest settled communities of the Neolithic in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emma L Baysal is an archaeologist who researches the prehistoric archaeology of T\u00fcrkiye with a particular focus on past identities and the material culture of ornamentation. She received her PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2010 and has since become Associate Professor of Prehistory at Ankara University. She is a National Geographic Explorer, currently working on a project called \u2018Small things, big stories\u2019 which aims to document prehistoric identities at the dawn of settled life. She has active field research at many sites across T\u00fcrkiye ranging from the Epipalaeolithic to the Bronze Age. She is also active in education, using her research to inform the creation of learning resources for the promotion of archaeology and in international development at university level for which she was awarded a Newton Advanced Fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Dr. Lee Clare<\/strong> (Deutsches Arch\u00e4ologisches Institut, Istanbul): \u201cWho built G\u00f6bekli Tepe? Of Inspired individuals and charismatic leaders (including a summary of recent fieldwork)\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, Room FBB 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you missed the lecture?<\/strong> A recording of the lecture can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this lecture, we return to the much debated question surrounding the existence of an invisible (?) social elite at G\u00f6bekli Tepe. If such an elite did exist, who were they, what was the source of their influence, and why were the special buildings so crucial to their success? In this context, the new discoveries from recent fieldwork (2021-2023) will be presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Lee Clare is responsible for the coordination of the G\u00f6bekli Tepe Project. He completed his master\u2019s degree at the University of Cologne in 2005, majoring in prehistoric archaeology. Following the completion of his PhD in 2013, which focused Early Holocene climate-culture interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean, he joined the Orient Department of the DAI as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2015 he took on the position of research coordinator of the DFG long-term project at G\u00f6bekli Tepe, and in 2019 moved to the DAI\u2019s Istanbul Department where he is now acting consultant for prehistoric archaeology. His areas of academic interest include Neolithisation and Neolithic dispersal processes, Early-Middle Holocene absolute chronologies, culture-climate interaction, prehistoric conflict and cognitive evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Prof. Jeroen Poblome<\/strong> (KU Leuven, Belgium): It\u2019s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, Room H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n In methods, practices and concepts, the discipline of Archaeology remains in full motion. Ever newer computational modelling techniques are being unleased. Ever more detailed methods of spatial analysis are being employed. While most of these developments are excellent, Archaeology starts running some risk. As space and time have always been the most important dimensions of analysis for the discipline, the field of space is doing fine, but that of time not. From revisiting a range of vexed issues in archaeological chronology, the lecture wishes to raise awareness to start considering the role of chronology in archaeology with renewed interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Jeroen Poblome teaches Roman archaeology, archaeological chronology and the study of past economies at KU Leuven, Belgium. He has been involved in fieldwork projects in Belgium, Greece and Turkey. His research interest include ancient pottery, crafts and trade, the people in urban studies and the role of complexity and socio-ecological approaches in archaeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conference: Contextualizing the Neolithic: Regional Approaches to Sedentism and Domestication in the Konya Plain<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here more info about Program and Abstracts<\/a> and how to register<\/a> to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10th IFEA Archaeological Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Black Sea crossings. Maritime networks from Hellenistic to Byzantines times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Event organized by the French Institute of Anatolian Students (IFEA), Bilkent University, SRII, Louvre Museum, the Institut GABAM (Ko\u00e7 University), the Institute KUDAR (Ko\u00e7 University) and the support of ANAMED (Ko\u00e7 University), the foundation IPLI and the Laboratory for Studies on Rhetorics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Venue: ANAMED Auditorium, \u0130stiklal Caddesi No: 181 Merkez Han 34433 Beyo\u011flu\/\u0130stanbul<\/p>\n\n\n\n For info about the program of the symposium visit the website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Hugh Elton<\/strong> (Professor, Trent University, Canada): Alahan: How a Roman City in Isauria Related to its Villages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, C-Block Amphi (Faculty of Economics) or Zoom Registration: bilkentarkeo@gmail.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Felix Pirson <\/strong>(Deutsches Arch\u00e4ologisches Institut, Istanbul): Meter-Kybele in the Pergamon Micro-region: Formation, Functions, and Transformations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hybrid: C-Block Amphi (Faculty of Economics) or Zoom Registration: bilkentarkeo@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Conference: Integrated Approaches to the Political Geography of Southern Anatolia, 1650-550 BCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hybrid: Room A 130 (Faculty of Humanities, Department of Archaeology) or Zoom. Registration: https:\/\/pgsa.hittites.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Conference booklet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Peter Talloen<\/strong> (Assistant professor at \u0130sparta University, Director of the Sagalassos Excavations): Approaching identity through space and material culture: The case study of the Rock Sanctuary at Sagalassos (SW Turkey).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, C-Block Amphi<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evening Lecture by Barbora Weissova<\/strong> (Assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeological Studies Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany): Archaeological Archives in the Digital Era. Attika 2.0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and Location: 17:30, Room H-232<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bilkent Archaeology Day: \u00ab Grounding Selves: Archaeological Approaches to Past\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hybrid Colloquium, C-Block Amphi or registration required: bilkentarkeo@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers: M. Kad\u0131o\u011flu, \u0130. Ger\u00e7ek, L. Zavagno and I. 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Bilkent Archaeology Days, 2026. From Seeds to Collapse: Discovering Crises through Ancient Environments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Roman Galatia and the Temple of Augustus at Ankara: A Postcolonial Reading of the Monumentum Ancyranum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cappadocia as Archaeological Laboratory: Rock-Cut Practices and Rural Landscapes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It is what it is on the inside that counts: Extracting qualitative and quantitative data from heritage materials using X-ray computed tomography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Julian Bennett Memorial Lecture – Reframing a City on the Roman Eastern Frontier: Recent Work at Zeugma<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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18th December<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Reading Kadyanda: Epigraphic Interpretation in Dialogue with Archaeology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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What does Archaeology tell us about the Crusades? Bilkent University excavations at Kinet H\u00f6y\u00fck, D\u00f6rtyol, Hatay<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Monumentality: From Real Constructions to their Cultural Understanding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Circumnavigating the Black Sea, Prospecting its Hinterland: Projects, Ideas and Interactions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A Partnership of Unequals: Historicising Labour Relations between Local and Foreign Archaeologists in T\u00fcrkiye through Ottoman Comparanda<\/strong>. Part II \u2013 Theodore Macridy: The Ottoman Archaeologist Who Worked for the King of Prussia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n15th October<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A Partnership of Unequals: Historicising Labour Relations between Local and Foreign Archaeologists in T\u00fcrkiye through Ottoman Comparanda. Part I \u2013 Invisible Labour and the Double “Shift”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n26th March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Crossing the Taurus in the 19th Century BCE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n19th March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Life in transition: Shifts in settlement, urbanization, infrastructure and material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Asia Minor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arkeo.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-819x1024.png\" "\\"1\\"")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n13th March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Understanding the Prehistoric Art in the Search for Modular Orders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n5th March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Department of Archaeology Evening Lecture: Bioarchaeology in Ancient Anatolia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n22nd – 23rd February<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u00d6nasya Arkeolojisi Toplant\u0131lar\u0131 2: \u0130nsan Hareketlili\u011fi, Kolonizasyon ve G\u00f6\u00e7<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Near Eastern Archaeology Meetings 2 Human Mobility, Colonisation and Migration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n2024<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
19th December<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A new look at an ancient city: an outline of the chronological and urban development of the Hittite capital Hattusa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n20th November<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The ERC Project ‘Roman Empire of the 2000 Cities’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n21st-22nd November<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The 3rd Pisidia Symposium: The Interaction of Pisidia with the ‘Outside World’ <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n6th November<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Chronicles of a Connected Frontier: the southern Anatolian Plateau between Phrygia and the Mediterranean in the first millennium BCE <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n23rd October<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Contested Cultural Heritage: ethics morality and the law in the context of museums & the Islamic art market<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n17th – 18th October<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Public Archaeology: Dialogues, Communities and Social Challenges<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n16th – 18th May<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Connecting Stucco in the Mediterranean. (c. 300 BCE – c. 1200 CE) Methodological approaches and the State of Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n8th May<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nabstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
short biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n26th April<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arkeo.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Archeo_Bilkent_Day-1-724x1024.jpeg\" "\\"Archeo_Bilkent_Day-1\\"")
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Some such portraits were destined for the darkness of the tomb, as were the plastered and painted skulls of the Neolithic, the golden masks of Mycenaean nobles, and the portrayals of the deceased on Fayum mummy portraits. Others were for the bright light of public and private spaces, such as the smiling kouroi and kore portraits of Archaic period in Greece, or infused with ideal beauty for Greek temples, or the sober grandeur and dignity of the Roman emperors.
Yet all were intended to immortalise the essence of the person they portrayed, the focus of the 6th annual Bilkent Archaeology Day<\/strong>. In this celebration of portraiture, we shall explore this prominent aspect of the distant and near, past, the impulse to capture the soul and character of a person through portraiture, whether idealised or realistic, whether inspired by ritual or political factors. To do so we will examine and the motives and intentions of the artists, and the role of social, religious, and political factors in the society behind the creation of the artwork, and so better define the role of portraiture in its original context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n27th March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAbstract<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Short Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n21st March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAbstract<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Short Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n13th March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAbstract<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Short Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n7th February<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAbstract<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Short Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n2023<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
8 – 10 December: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n30th November – 1st December:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n23rd – 24th November:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Pigments, Colors and Ideas<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
International Symposium and Exhibitions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n13th November:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n1st November:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n4 – 6 May:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n26th April:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n19th April:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n31st March:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n21st March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n2022<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
14th December<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n23rd November<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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