

After a brief period teaching at Leeds, he returned to Cambridge where he taught until 1999. Ian Hodder was trained at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and at Cambridge University where he obtained his PhD in 1975. You can register here to attend the talk that will take place free of charge on Thursday, June 2, at 18.30 at Istanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus. Making Policy for Cultural Heritage: The Example of Çatalhöyük Based on these cultural heritage management attempts where there were tensions between local, regional, national and global interests, why cultural policies that assert heritage as universal value should be softened radically with local cultural concerns will be discussed.

In the Cultural Policy Yearbook 2022 keynote speech titled “Making Policy for Cultural Heritage: The Example of Çatalhöyük”, Professor Hodder will recount numerous attempts at cultural heritage management at Çatalhöyük Excavations, which he directed from 1993 to 2018. Organised by İstanbul Bilgi University Cultural Management Master Program (CAMMA) and Cultural Policy and Management Research Center (KPY), CAMMA Thursday Talks will host Professor Ian Hodder, who was the former director of Çatalhöyük Research Project and a pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology on the 2nd of June.
