Research

• Ethnomusicology Archive
  School of the Arts and Architecture
  • The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. The Archive’s collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents musical expressions throughout the world and includes unique field recordings as well as rare commercial recordings.
    

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• Anatolian Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Anatolian Lab aims to produce a record of long-term cultural changes in a region at a major crossroads between highlands and lowlands along the Syro-Anatolian frontier. Work is currently being done at Domuztepe.
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    Elizabeth Carter

• Averroës Lecture Series
  International Institute
  • The Averroës Lecture Series focuses on Jewish communities living in Muslim lands prior to the 20th century. The program offers quarterly lectures by experts from around the world, publishes an occasional paper series, and culminates in a major conference featuring young scholars engaged in research on the topic.
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    Ali Behdad

• Humanitarian Borderlands: Medicine and Terror at Turkey’s Syrian Border
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • This book project focuses on humanitarian prosthetics and emergency field medicine along and across Turkish-Kurdish-Syrian border. The work explores how new forms of medical care and ethics emerge in a zone of political violence through a contest over the meanings of health, humanitarianism, and terrorism.
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    Salih Can Açiksöz

• Kama Muta Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Kama Muta Lab focuses on the emotion often called "being moved" or "touched". The program integrates participant observation ethnography, broad ethnological and historical comparison, systematic sampling of behavior, and experimentation, in addition to conducting theoretical work.
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    Alan P. Fiske

Education/Training

• Averroës Lecture Series
  International Institute
  • The Averroës Lecture Series focuses on Jewish communities living in Muslim lands prior to the 20th century. The program offers quarterly lectures by experts from around the world, publishes an occasional paper series, and culminates in a major conference featuring young scholars engaged in research on the topic.
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    Ali Behdad

EAP Students

• 2015-16: 6 students
  • Bogazici Univ.: 1 student
  • International Summer School, Bogazici Univ.: 2 students
  • Mediterranean Food & Culture: Istanbul, Florence & Barcelona: 3 students
• 2014-15: 3 students
  • Bogazici Univ.: 1 student
  • International Summer School, Bogazici Univ.: 2 students
• 2013-14: 3 students
  • Bogazici Univ.: 1 student
  • International Summer School, Bogazici Univ.: 2 students
• 2012-13: 5 students
  • International Summer School, Bogazici Univ.: 3 students
  • Koc Univ.: 2 students
• 2011-12: 7 students
  • Bilkent Univ.: 2 students
  • International Summer School, Bogazici Univ.: 3 students
  • Koc Univ.: 2 students
• 2010-11: 3 students
  • Bilkent Univ.: 2 students
  • Middle East Technical Univ.: 1 student
• 2009-10: 4 students
  • Bilkent Univ.: 3 students
  • Middle East Technical Univ.: 1 student