A list of BIAA supported projects in the wider fields of history, politics and the social sciences.
Start: 2018 - End: 2020
This project, undertaken by Dr Gizem Tongo (BIAA Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-20) focuses on the Ottoman art world in the final years of the empire and explores how war and the occupation changed the conditions of art production, its agents, and the art itself.
Start: 2015 - End: 2019
This project explores the relationship between Turkey and Britain from the First World War to Turkey’s entry into NATO in 1952.
Start: 2017 - End: 2018
This project asks how British literary and travel texts engage with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the socio-political transformations of early Republican-era Turkey.
Start: 2016 - End: 2018
This research project aims at exploring the history and culture of Turkish football, with specific attention to the game’s role as a dynamic site of cultural heritage.
Start: 2016 - End: 2017
This project focused on the ways in which the formation of the urban built environment responded to local climatic conditions in the Black Sea littoral region.
Start: 2015 - End: 2017
This project explores how the wartime itineraries of hundreds of thousands of British military personnel produced new forms of colonial rule spanning the eastern Mediterranean and an imagined geography of the Levant as a fragmented but distinct space between Europe and the Orient.
Start: 2012 - End: 2017
Balkan Futures examined inter-regional development and cooperation in south-eastern Europe during a period of crisis rather than consolidation within the EU.
Start: 2015 - End: 2016
Based on an ethnographic approach this project examined the relations between social media, gender, morality, intimacy, and kinship in South-Eastern Turkey
Start: 2013 - End: 2015
This project aimed at fostering cross-discpilinary exchange for the study of the movement of people, things and ideas in Turkey and the wider region from the Paleolithic era until today.
Start: 2012 - End: 2013
This project aimed at unearthing the role of civil society in the rapprochement process between Greece and Turkey (1974-2010).
Start: 2011 - End: 2012
The research project focused on a less-explored component of Islamic fashion, that is, on the design and production of commodified forms of religious appearance.
Start: 2009 - End: 2012
A project exploring the relations between Ottoman and early Republican Turkey and the southeast Asian Muslim states.
Start: 2009 - End: 2009
In 2009 Andrew Peacock studied Turkey’s frontier region (the northeast area, between Lake Van and the Black Sea) during Medieval times. The Turkish groups that began to settle in the region in the 11th century AD and their impact on the Christian population was particularly focused on.