ARHA 554
ARHA 551
ARHA 546
Fundamental principles of a wide range of instrumental techniques in spectroscopy, chromatography, electrochemistry, thermal analysis and surface analysis. Lab component. Scanning Electron (SEM) microscopy.
ARHA 537
Interactions between Europe and the Ottoman World through the centuries. Ottoman political presence in Europe and its impact on European culture starting with the 15th century. The "image of the Turk" in Europe shifting in the following centuries with different political alliances and different economic interests. The changes in Ottoman interest in the west starting in the 17th century, introduction of westernisms in technology, social life and the arts in view of political and economic relations.
ARHA 531
Ottoman modernism and the historical and cultural transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries will be discussed in view of the artistic developments. How Western modality penetrated into the cultural sphere and how borrowings led to the birth of new techniques, forms and styles in the art and architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries leading to the early Republican Period will be the main theme in the course including a critical discourse of the concepts of 'modernism' and 'westernization' and 'national identity'
ARHA 552
ARHA 549
This course offers advanced level training in archaeozoological method and theory. The objective of this course is to help students develop skills in theory- and model-building by merging the archaeozoological method and approach with what they know of other sub-disciplines of archaeology. In seminar sessions students engage themselves in discussions about the recent uses and approaches of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary methodology (including isotopic and aDNA analyses and archaeomalacology) to investigate selected research topics in archaeology (e.g. maritime dispersal of early humans, Neolithization, ?secondary products revolution?, cultural contact vs. colonization, end of the Bronze Age, Dark Ages, production and distribution in historical societies etc.). In laboratory sessions students learn how to create reproducible primary archaeozoological data with the aid of modern skeletal collections, to manipulate such data by means of statistical analysis and interpret them.
ARHA 540
Under the supervision of an ACHM professor students are provided with practical experience in an excavation and/or a museum internship . This course also includes extensive academic travel with ACHM faculty to archaeological sites in Istanbul and throughout Türkiye.
ARHA 533
This seminar examines different empires in the Islamic world of one specific era from a comparative perspective, focusing on the cultural and artistic exchanges and interactions between them. Special case studies may include the age of empires (Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals), fortifications and frontiers in the medieval Islamic world, Gender and art in the Islamic World and the like.
ARHA 527
The history and the archaeology of the Byzantine imperial capital from its foundation to the Ottoman conquest. The functions of the built environment in relation to both historical time and urban space: the imperial palaces, the public churches, civic ritual and entertainment, economic and social services, the provision of welfare and defense, and the role of monasteries in the life of the community.
ARHA 553
ARHA 550
ARHA 545
A range of sophisticated equipment is increasingly used to examine materials excavated from archaeological sites. Using a thematic approach, this course will examine a series of the instruments used in these studies, focusing on fundamental principles in their operation, interpretation of the data, and archaeological case studies. Themes will include analysis of ancient diet, migration, manufacturing techniques, provenance, and genetics. Instruments used provide information about bulk characteristics, elemental composition, or isotopic ratios of ancient skeletal remains, artifacts, and other residues of human activity. A laboratory component will provide students with an opportunity to develop archaeological conclusions from instrumental data. The course will deepen students? appreciation for the array of information that can be derived from remains of past societies, and for the challenges in interpreting these data.
ARHA 535
The modernising movements in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries and their impact on Ottoman culture and arts. The change in the Ottoman attitude towards the West starting in the 17th century resulting in the introduction of westernisms in technology, social life and the arts in view of political and economic relations with Europe. The newly introduced concepts in the cultural sphere of art works; discourse on the concepts of `modernism', `westernization', `occidentalism' and `orientalism' and the transformation in Ottoman culture and arts in the 18th and 19th centuries.
