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
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...
New episode 📢📢
Michelle Lynn Kahn (@michellelkahn.bsky.social) on “Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration and Turkish-German History” (Cambridge University Press)
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turkeybooktalk.com/2026/03/03/m...
NEW dyscalculia podcast with UCL university on the lived experiences of people with #dyscalculia. The first episode features Rose talking about her experiences as a dyscalculic adult.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-io...
#Dyscalculiamatters #Dyscalculiaday
A huge thank you to Baroness Thornton for asking an oral question in the House of Lords today.
You can watch here -
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
(It is the first item on the agenda starting at 14:36:05)
What do you think the government needs to do?
#Dyscalculia #Dyscalculiaawarenes
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.
Victoria Beckham has today shared that she has both #dyslexia and #dyscalculia. It is great to hear celebrities finally opening up about dyscalculia and raising #dyscalculiaawareness! Thank you!
uk.style.yahoo.com/kids-school-...
Join me, @peterjcherry.bsky.social and @isilaygursu.bsky.social next Wednesday evening for a special webinar focused on the range of grants, scholarships and other opportunities available via @thebiaankara.bsky.social - biaa.ac.uk/events/webin...
From last week 📌📌
Amy Marie Spangler on the late Leyla Erbil's novel "What Remains", published soon by
@deepvellum.bsky.social
The book is a complex and dark vision of Istanbul's history, sweeping from the Byzantine era to 20th century Turkey
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turkeybooktalk.com/2025/09/02/a...
📆 BIAA LONDON LECTURE: An Arabesk Tryptych
Hybrid event
🗣 Prof Martin Stokes (King's College London)
📆Friday, 5th December 2025
⏰18:30 - 20 (London GMT)
📍Society of Antiquaries of London, London / Zoom
ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/an-ar...
Deadline : ToDAY
🚨📢 GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
The BIAA is pleased to offer a number of different funding opportunities, grants and awards to support academics at all stages of their career.
Find out more: biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor...
⏰ Deadline: November 2, 2025
That’s all for the first season of Heritage Türkiye…But there will be a second season - so stay tuned!
Apply for my @britishacademy.bsky.social funded International Writing Workshop Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture & Society: Upskilling ECRs in Türkiye! Funding available for ECRs outside of Ankara. Deadline for applications: 13 September
🚨 REMINDER
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Dr Peter Cherry, BIAA Assistant Director and PI of the Ottoman Mobilities project, reminds you to check out the project — and the upcoming application deadline!
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🔗 biaa.ac.uk/grants/postd...
Delighted to do this with @thebiaankara.bsky.social.
The Turkish experience is a harbinger for elsewhere - including the UK…..
@nottspolitics.bsky.social
Delighted to be working with my colleague @peterjcherry.bsky.social on this new @thebiaankara.bsky.social led, @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project supporting Early Career Researchers in Türkiye working in interdisciplinary gender studies: biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...
Last Wednesday, I had the privilege of sitting in on the recording of a new episode of the @thebiaankara.bsky.social’s ‘Heritage Türkiye’ podcast, hosted by my friends and colleagues @isilaygursu.bsky.social and @peterjcherry.bsky.social. All episodes available here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
HYBRID TALK: Forests, Archives, Memory: Decolonizing Environmental Humanities through Turkish Literature
🗣Dr Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
📆Tuesday, 25th March 2025
⏰14:30 - 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 - 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE
ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/fores...
Just finished the excellent ‘Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age’ by @raphcormack.bsky.social - a highly readable account of fakirism, spiritualism and occultism in the 20th century, approached through the lives of two key figures: Tahra Bey and Dr Dahesh.
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
From the archive 🎧⌛️
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul’s sociopolitical currents in her wonderful graphic novel “Evil Eyes Sea” (@unciv.bsky.social)
turkeybooktalk.com/2024/07/16/o...
🚨📢 OPPORTUNITIES TO #FUND YOUR TRAVELS AND RESEARCH 🚨📢
The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) is thrilled to announce eight grant and scholarship opportunities for students and junior and senior researchers!
Find out more at biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor...
#researchfunding #türkiyeresearch
Today is #dyscalculiaday !
Life isn’t always easy as someone with dyscalculia and there is far too little awareness of it
Today @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social launched resources for employers to support staff with dyscalculia. Proud to have been involved:
dyscalculianetwork.com/dyscalculia-in…
Brilliant article outlining policy priorities on #dyscalculia by Baroness Bull. It is hard to over emphasise how important this is. If you read one thing today on #dyscalculiaday, let it be this
Great to see the BIAA, our chair James Crow, Ender Peker & Akgün İlhan featured in this article for the BBC on water sustainability in Istanbul bbc.in/3XfbfIu
For more on this topic, listen to the latest episode of Heritage Türkiye with Dr Peker on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts: surl.li/lwjgze
What do you think about this mornings news of potential changes to #GCSEMaths?
www.ft.com/content/85f7...
What would you like to see in place for learners with #dyscalculia #mathsdifficulties ?
@petetalksstuff.bsky.social @peterjcherry.bsky.social
Heritage Türkiye is back! In this episode, Dr Ender Peker talks about his research into sustainable water management across Türkiye.
YouTube: youtu.be/2lyPBZ_Jz0I?si…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7l6vs8���
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/her…
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