In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with social anthropologist Dr. John McManus, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the Maecenata Foundation in Berlin and former BIAA Postdoctoral Fellow, about his book Welcome to Hell? In Search of the Real Turkish Football (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) and researching Turkish football.

In a wide-reaching conversation, Dr. McManus talks about how football fandom draws on ties of family, class, ethnicity and community belonging in Türkiye, the role football plays in constructions of masculinity and gender performance, efforts to make football more inclusive to women and marginalised groups, and concludes by offering tips on writing books aimed at popular audiences and how academics can reach out more to public audiences.

In this episode Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Michele Rüzgar Massa, assistant professor at Bilkent University Archaeology department, about the Türkmen-Karahöyük excavations: a new archaeological project in central Anatolia. 

Dr. Massa explains the significance of the project, how it builds on the BIAA’s research legacy and contextualises the excavation within the ancient history of the Konya region and the different civilisations that called this area home. Dr. Massa ends by reflecting on how archaeology can provide insight into key contemporary issues.

In this episode, BIAA Director Dr Lutgarde Vandeput and Dr Işılay Gürsu are hosted by Dr Peter Cherry to discuss the archaeological heritage of Pisidia, an ancient region located in Southwest Türkiye. The BIAA has conducted several projects to understand the ancient past of the region, such as the Pisidia Survey Project. A long distance hiking trail, the Pisidia Heritage Trail, was created to promote this beautiful region to wider audiences and to create social and economic benefits for its residents.

You can order a copy of the Pisidia Heritage Trail guidebook, in English or Turkish, via the BIAA’s website: https://biaa.ac.uk/publication/pisidia-heritage-trail-guidebook/

Learn more about the Pisidia Heritage Trail: https://biaa.ac.uk/research/pisidia-heritage-trail/

https://biaa.ac.uk/publication/heritage-turkiye-podcast/ In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk about the work of the British Institute at Ankara and introduce the BIAA's new podcast, Heritage Türkiye. Join them to hear about the BIAA's work across a range of fields: archaeology, cultural heritage management, history, sociology, literature, culture, and a lot more!