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Title: The Archaeologies of Landscape: Thinking about Ankara at the Intersections of Space and Time by Müge Durusu-Tanriover (Temple University, Art History)
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 16.00-17.00 [Turkish Time- GMT+3] Room: FFB22
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Abstract: This talk centers around the myriad of meanings landscape holds in archaeology: a palimpsest, an arena of human activity, a quarry for various resources, and a milieu of power relationships, among others. After highlighting the possibilities of what architectural disciplines can learn from social sciences for analyzing, studying and ultimately designing landscapes, I will briefly turn to multiple episodes of Ankara’s archaeology to contextualize the Hıdırlıktepe İsmet İnönü Park within the larger trajectories of Türkiye’s capital.
About the speaker: Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver studies the archaeologies, landscapes, and arts of the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific focus on the hybrid material practices created on the borderlands of Bronze and Iron Age empires. Her research and publications to date concentrated on the Hittite Empire, with a specific emphasis on the imperial strategies of the center that can be traced in material culture, landscapes, built environment, and artistic production, as well as the responses of the border regions to Hittite imperialism. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Temple University’s Department of Art History and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Bilkent LAUD.