🚨📢 GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES The BIAA is pleased to offer a range of grants and awards to support academics at all stages of their careers. Explore some of our latest opportunities at: biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor...

This weekend is the annual gathering of Integrated Kun Tao instructors and students from across Europe. Open to all - including complete beginners: www.integratedkuntao.com/events/

Spent a very enjoyable morning walking around the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum - a beautiful woodland setting by Lake Jugla, Riga, and some amazing examples of rural Latvian architecture from the late 17th to mid-20th century.

New DNA research sheds light on the origins of the liberated Africans buried on St Helena: www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org

DNA from African graves provides surprising window into slave trade

Adults and children were taken from deep within continent’s interior, genetic material from remote island of St. Helena suggests

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Middle Egyptian Text Reading: Voices from the other side 📅 18, 25 July ⏰ 11am-3pm 🇬🇧 1-5pm 🇪🇬 Online via Zoom Join our weekend course to read Appeals to the Living, in hieroglyphs, in which the deceased addresses the living for offerings with Joseph Clayton. 🎫 www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Five-week introductory course starting this Saturday in Cambridge! Let me know if you have questions, or sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We’re at BANEA 2026! 🤩 CBRL & The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) @thebiaankara.bsky.social are at the conference. Come say hello 👋 📍 Find us at the BIRI stand, UCL Roberts Building foyer Learn how we can support your research!

If you’re coming to BANEA 2026 today or tomorrow, stop by the British International Research Institutes (BIRI) stand in the foyer of the UCL Roberts Building for more information on how @thebiaankara.bsky.social and @cbrl.bsky.social can support your research!

Wonderful keynote lecture by Prof Roger Matthews to kick off BANEA 2026 - including some very funny stories from the life of the late Charles Burney and a summary of his work and legacy in Anatolia and Iran. Also a very timely reminder of the importance and relevance of ancient Near Eastern studies.

This June/July, I’ll be teaching a five-week introductory course on Black Tiger Kung Fu in Cambridge. Suitable for complete beginners and those experienced in other styles. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

All four BIRI Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Postdoctoral Research Fellows gave excellent presentations at the Symposium in Istanbul this week - well done to Aytek, Gizem, Mehmet and Ahmet! biaa.ac.uk/events/ottom...

Dr @peterjcherry.bsky.social - BIAA Assistant Director and PI of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Project - discusses the figure of ‘the Dandy’ in late nineteenth-century Ottoman literature and shows some examples of the original caricatures in the @thebiaankara.bsky.social collection

Fascinating presentation by Dr Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar on the careers and contributions of Ottoman archaeologists including Theodore Macridy, Haydar Bey and Bedri Bey - part of the second panel at the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Symposium in Istanbul: biaa.ac.uk/events/ottom...

Dr Lutgarde Vandeput - Director of @thebiaankara.bsky.social - welcomes delegates to the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Symposium at Sabancı Üniversitesi, and introduces the work of the nine British International Research Institutes supported by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

On my way to Istanbul for the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions Symposium, organised by the British International Research Institutes in partnership with Sabancı University: biaa.ac.uk/events/ottom...

📫 OTTOMAN MOBILITIES AND INTERACTIONS SYMPOSIUM ▶️ Programme and registration link (free attendance) available! The symposium brings together one keynote lecture and twenty-four papers that explore the Ottoman Empire as a dynamic web of circulation biaa.ac.uk/events/ottom...

On 16th April, join me and @peterjcherry.bsky.social for a webinar on the travel grants and research support available for UK university students via the @thebiaankara.bsky.social - biaa.ac.uk/events/webin...

🚨 Are you an undergraduate, postgraduate or PhD student in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences studying Türkiye and/or the Black Sea region at a UK university? Are you interested in making a research trip to the region, and/or participating in a fieldwork project?

A short write-up on the Integrated Kun Tao Spring Camp, which took place two weeks ago in Bonn. Join us for our next gathering, which will take place in Peterborough from 21st - 23rd August!

'BANEA 2026: Production and Consumption of Knowledge in the Archaeology of West Asia' - organised by @banearch.bsky.social and supported by @thebiaankara.bsky.social - will take place @uclarchaeology.bsky.social from 22nd-24th April. Register here: www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-20260

Just arrived! Particularly looking forward to reading articles on Roman Aldborough, the travels of Edward Falkener in Ottoman Anatolia, and shamanism in Wales @antiquaries.bsky.social

Hear about new discoveries at later prehistoric Oued Beht, Morocco, tomorrow at our lecture with Professor Cyprian Broodbank FSA and Dr Giulio Lucarini. Join in-person or online, for free! www.sal.org.uk/event/discov...

The ‘emergence of civilisation’ and the Maghreb: new discoveries at later prehistoric Oued Beht, Morocco - Society of Antiquaries of London

This lecture will present new discoveries made by an international collaboration of UK-based, Italian, Moroccan and other archaeologists at Oued Beht, Morocco, and dating to the later 4th to 3rd/2nd m...

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'Robust Methodologies in Skyscape Archaeology: Case Studies from Malta and Peru' - I really enjoyed this lecture @antiquaries.bsky.social back in November. I've never been to Chankillo, but am looking forward to my second visit to Mnajdra in early April! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QezY...

Robust Methodologies in Skyscape Archaeology: Case Studies from Malta and Peru

YouTube video by SocAntiquaries

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I met Agafia while travelling in Khakassia in 2002. She saw our camp down by the river and came to ask for help with chopping wood for winter. The next day, some of our group went along to her home to help out. I think I still have the camcorder footage somewhere.

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still...

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Really interesting talk @antiquaries.bsky.social tonight - @medievalfemina.bsky.social on the protections for women, children and families enshrined in the 1225 Magna Carta.

A packed conference room for the first session of the first workshop held as part of the @thebiaankara.bsky.social -led, @britishacademy.bsky.social -funded ‘Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture and Society’ project, which aims to capacity-build Turkish Early Career Researchers.

Fascinating talk by @drtermagant.bsky.social at @thebiaankara.bsky.social this evening on ‘Canals and colonialism: Trans-Palestinian waterways from the Ottoman era to social media’ - featuring some interesting examples of how misunderstanding historical evidence can fuel conspiracy theories

Spent a really interesting and enjoyable hour at the Institute in Ankara this morning for an informal session during which all @thebiaankara.bsky.social research staff and fellows gave 5 minute presentations on their research and interests. Great to see such a vibrant and active research community!

A cosmpolitan military architect on St Helena and fan of Napoleon. Discover the intriguing story of Anthony Emmett of the Royal Engineers with Dr Peter Hicks of the Fondation Napoleon, Paris, at our free online history talk on Wednesday, 12 November, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH1211

Looking forward to being in Ankara for this talk by @drtermagant.bsky.social

British Institute at Ankara@thebiaankara.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE: Canals and colonialism: Trans-Palestinian waterways from the Ottoman era to social media Hybrid event 🗣 Sarah Irving (University of Staffordshire) 📆Wednesday, 22nd October 2025 ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/canal...