ENART was structured into four work packages: 1) Research and Dissemination, 2) Communication and Public Engagement, 3) Teaching, and 4) Transferable Skills. The work has yielded the following results per work package:
1) Research and Dissemination:
• Completion of 8 months of the research
• Peer-reviewed article: “Congeries beyond Categories: Approaching the Complex Actuality of Art Practices in the Early Turkish Republic.” Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 70/3, Special Issue: Worlds of Islam (2016): 1019–49.
• Continuous work on the book manuscript with the working title "Tool for Emancipation: Engagement Art in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic."
• Faculty lecture “The Foundation of the Art-Craft Department in Ankara, 1909-1934,” University of Michigan, 14 Feb. 2017.
• 4 invited lectures: “Shifts of Perspective in Malik Aksel’s Work Circa 1930,” Koç University, Istanbul, 25 April 2018; “Pragmatism, the Ottoman New School (Yeni Mektep), and What Art Has Got to Do with It,” British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, 4 April 2018; “The First National Style and the Contours of Art in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 3 April 2018; “The Foundation of the Art-Craft Department in Ankara, 1909–1932,” SALT Galata, Istanbul, 26 May 2017.
• 2 conference presentations: “From Calligraphy to Handicraft: Art Education Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire.” CAA 106th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 21–24 Feb. 2018. “On the Transition of a Concept of Art from the Late Ottoman to the Early Republican Period.” GIS Congress, Paris, 5–8 July 2017.
• Organization of the international conference "Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art," University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, 14 April 2018.
• Poster presentation, post-doc meeting, Roskilde University, 30 Aug. 2018.
• Participation in eight meetings of the research group Global Political Sociology at Roskilde University, May to Nov. 2018.
• Participation in the workshop "New Fakes," Schauspiel Leipzig, 26–28 Feb. 2019.
• Organization of the workshop "Art in Revolutionary Times and Who Has a Say in Social Change," Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 24 April 2019.
• Organization of the research seminar "Tool for Emancipation: Drawing in the Ottoman Empire after the Revolution of 1908," Roskilde University, 26 April 2019.
2) Communication and Public Engagement:
• Public lecture and discussion, SALT Galata, Istanbul, 26 May 2017.
• Public round-table event, British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, 4 April 2018.
• Opening of ENART conference to the general public, U-M Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 14 April 2018.
• Consultant for the exhibition that grew out of ENART: Idealist School, Productive Studio: Gazi Arts-Crafts Department From 1932 to 1973 at SALT Galata in Istanbul, Nov. 2018 – Feb. 2019, and in Ankara, March – April 2019.
• Contribution to the public information material of the exhibition.
• Announcements of ENART events on H-net, other email lists, homepages and social media of the involved institutions.
• Flyers and posters for the ENART events.
3) Teaching:
The researcher taught four courses in Islamic art history, global art history, and global media studies:
• Fall 2016: “Visual Cultures of Islam.” Undergraduate survey course, cross-listed: Department of History of Art and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
• Winter 2017: “Sacred Places.” Undergraduate survey course, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan.
• Fall 2017: “Visual Cultures of Islam.” Undergraduate survey course, cross-listed: Department of History of Art Department, Near Eastern Studies, and Islamic Studies Program, University of Michigan.
• Fall 2018: “Global Media.” Advanced study course, Global Studies, Roskilde University.
4) Transferable Skills:
- Continuous Project Management.
- Training Courses:
• “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Unconscious Bias in Everyday Life,” 10 Nov. 2016.
• “Facilitating Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities,” 13 Jan. 2017.
• Mock Job Interview with Chair of the Department, Supervisor, and an Assistant Professor, 17 Jan. 2017.
• “Developing Your Teaching Philosophy,” 24 Jan. 2017.
• “Introduction to Communications in Academia,” 10 weeks, Fall 2017.
• Arabic Course, Fall 2016.
• Transdisciplinary collaboration, 18 May 2018.
• Research funding opportunities, 18 May 2018.
• New teaching methods, 12 Oct. 2018.
Secondment:
Three-month secondment at SALT, January to March 2018. Introduction to SALT’s different departments (public programmes, research, archive, public communication, curating, management); collaboration on the exhibition project.
