American Research Institute in Turkey - ARIT

04/21/2026

"Alcohol at Empire’s End: The Politics of Prohibition in Post-WW I Ottoman Empire," a hybrid lecture by Dr. Emine Evered, Department of History, Michigan State University
May 4, 2026, 7:00 pm Türkiye, noon EDT.
Please register for online access.
https://aritweb.org/events/

04/15/2026

"Hungarian-Related Historical Sites in Türkiye," a hybrid lecture by Áron Sipos, Director of Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center and Gergő Máté Kovács, Deputy Director of Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center

April 17, 2026, 7:30 pm Ankara, 12:30 pm EDT.

Please register
https://aritweb.org/events/

04/02/2026

APPLICATION OPEN: ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2026
DEADLINE April 15, 2026
https://aritweb.org/fellowships/arit-summer-fellowships-turkish/

03/28/2026

ARIT Programs to Celebrate the American Semiquincentennial!
https://aritweb.org/freedom250/

03/28/2026

"Echoes of 1776 in Ankara: The American Declaration of Independence and the Birth of Modern Türkiye," a lecture by Dr. Işıl Acehan, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University
April 9, 2026, 7 pm in Türkiye
https://aritweb.org/events/

03/18/2026

Please register for online access
https://aritweb.org/events/

03/09/2026

The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) supports fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide.
Application deadline April 26, 2026

“This past semester has shown me what it truly means to teach without fear, an experience that has been liberating.” IIE-SRF fellow from Pakistan, undertaking

03/06/2026

American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages
19th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday, May 8th, 11:00AM-1:00PM (EST)
Submission Deadline: March 31st

The AATT Graduate Student conference aims to support and promote research that significantly utilizes sources in Turkish or other Turkic languages by graduate students from fields including but not limited to literature, history, linguistics, language education and related fields at North American a...

03/03/2026

Türk-Amerikan İlmî Araştırmaları Derneği - 2026 Yılı Doktora Araştırma Bursları
Müracaatlar tek bir pdf dosyası olarak en geç 4 Mayıs 2026 Pazartesi günü saat 17.00’e kadar.

02/26/2026

The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) announces 2026 ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey. Awards are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Tenures range one to three months.
Applications due April 1, 2026
https://aritweb.org/fellowships/arit-research-fellowships/

02/26/2026

"New Perspectives in Hittite Archaeology" a hybrid lecture by by
Dr. Yiğit Erbil. Department of Archaeology, Hacettepe University
ARIT Ankara and online, 10 March 2026, 7:00 pm, noon EDT.
Please register for online access.
https://aritweb.org/events/

02/26/2026

Please consider supporting a student of advanced Turkish language to study in Istanbul this summer!
https://mailchi.mp/sas.upenn.edu/arit-language-program-appeal
https://aritweb.org/support/donate/

February 22, 2026 To ARIT language program alumni,         Since 1982, ARIT has provided more than 700 fellowships for Turkish language study to US students and faculty, with the help of funding through the Departments of Education and State.  Those programs are discontinued now.  As ARIT na...