War, Art, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923

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.

Turkey and Britain 1914-1952: From Enemies to Allies

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.

Writing Turkey in British Literary and Travel Narratives (1914-1945)

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.

The History and Culture of Turkish Football

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.

Climate Responsive Urban Design in the context of the Black Sea Climate

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.

Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914-1923

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.

Balkan Futures

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.

Social Media in Turkey

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

Divisions, Connections and Movement – Rethinking Regionality

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.

Genealogies of rapprochement at the Aegean borders

Start: 2012 - End: 2013

This project aimed at unearthing the role of civil society in the rapprochement process between Greece and Turkey (1974-2010).

Islamic Fashion, Economy and Morality in Modern Turkey

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.

Study of Trade between the Ottoman Empire and Southeast Asia

Start: 2009 - End: 2012

A project exploring the relations between Ottoman and early Republican Turkey and the southeast Asian Muslim states.

Study of the 11th century Anatolian North-East Frontier

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 11^th century AD and their impact on the Christian population was particularly focused on.