Antioch: Memoirs of a City and its People, Zoom, May 5–6, 2023
In light of the recent devastating earthquake that struck ten cities in Turkey on 6 February 2023, the workshop "Antioch: Memoirs of a City and its People" aims to commemorate the city of Antioch across thousands of years of its history and aspire to pay tribute to the city and its people by remembering its past, grieving its present, and welcoming its future.
The workshop stems from a collaborative effort by Bilkent University (Departments of History and Archaeology, and CCI Program), Hacettepe University (Sanat Tarihi Bölümü), IFEA-Istanbul, and Koç University. It brings together young scholars and students alike to discover the city, and its premodern history and encourage them to embrace future studies concerning the city of Antioch.
The workshop is planned to be an online event on 5 and 6 May and has one session per day to be held between 17 and 19 o'clock. Each session is designed in a panel format and will host three or four scholars discussing the city's historical, architectural, or intellectual aspects and its people. After their brief presentation (15 minutes maximum), a respondent will engage in a 15-minute dialogue. Eventually, all speakers will be involved in the Q&A session (15-20 mins).