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DR. ANDREA M. BERLIN

Peten Travels’ Guest Lecturer

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

May 12th - May 31st, 2012

Discover Turkey by Land and Sea

May 31st - June 11th, 2012


Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Dr. Andrea M. Berlin is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology at Boston University. She has been excavating in the eastern Mediterranean for over thirty years, working on projects from Troy, in Turkey to Coptos, in southern Egypt. Her specialty is the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great through the Roman era, about which she has written four books and over thirty articles. Dr. Berlin is especially interested in understanding the realities of daily life, and in exploring the intersection of politics and cultural change in antiquity. She is one of the AIA’s most popular and accomplished teachers and lecturers, having travelled to over 60 societies across the United States and Canada, most recently as the AIA’s 2008 Joukowsky Lecturer. In 2009 she was awarded the AIA’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Peten Travel’s is very fortunate and excited to have Professor Berlin travel with us this year.

Please click here to view the In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great tour itinerary.

Please click here to view the Discover Turkey by Land and Sea tour itinerary.



PROFESSOR BRIAN ANDERSON &
EILEEN ANDERSON

Peten Travels’ Guest Lecturer

An Adventure of Orchids & Wild Flowers
Wild Flowers of Lake Van
Blowing in the Winds of Mt Ida & Mt Olympus

Smitten with the travel bug, Brian & Eileen's second career as travel writers gave them the perfect opportunity to wander the highways and byways throughout Mediterranean Europe. Brian's fascination with the natural flora, sharpened by his education at Manchester University, found the perfect outlet in leading wild flower tours. Together they have led tours in Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Italy and in Turkey. Turkey has such a wealth of flowers that each tour is a new experience and a new botanical challenge. Along the way they have managed to write more than 50 walking and travel guides including three walking guides to Turkey, amongst the first ever internationally published walking guides for the country.

Meeting clients on these tours has been a hugely rewarding part of our lives; we have met some wonderful people and have made so many friends.

Please click here to view the An Adventure of Orchids & Wild Flowers tour itinerary.
Please click here to view the Wild Flowers of Lake Van tour itinerary.




PROFESSOR DONALD FREY

Peten Travels’ Guest Lecturer


For 35 years I have loved 'diving into history' and together with INA (Institute of Nautical Archaeology) have been involved with the excavation of almost every artifact on display. I am well known for the enthusiasm I show when I take visitors around the Museum because each year I share this with only a limited number of small private groups.

My background is actually in Physics. After receiving my Ph.D. in 1964 I taught in Istanbul for five years at Boagazici University (then Robert College). I had my summers free and in 1969 volunteered to work with Dr. George Bass, who was excavating a Roman shipwreck at Yassi Ada, near Bodrum. Dr. Bass is considered to be the father of underwater archeology because he was the first archaeologist to excavate underwater to the same standards that other archaeologists excavated on land.

George and I worked well together and in 1971 he helped me get a prestigious ACLS grant for research in applications of Physics to Archaeology at Oxford University. We continued to excavate during the summers and in 1974, when he formed the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), I decided to ‘take a few years off’ and work with him full time in this exciting new field. I never got back to Physics and from 1982-88 followed him as President of INA.

Every summer since 1969 I have been involved in an INA excavation and almost all of these have taken place in Turkey. Two of the most important shipwrecks that I helped excavate are superbly displayed in the Bodrum Museum.



DR. SABINE LADSTÄTTER

Peten Travels’ Guest Lecturer


Sabine Ladstätter is Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. She received her Ph.D in 1997 from the University of Vienna. As a member and vice-director of the Institute for Studies of Ancient Cultures at the Austrian Academy of Science she has taken part in different excavations in Austria, Egypt and Turkey, especially Ephesus. She has organized the research project of the Terrace houses and worked on stratigraphy and pottery from several excavation places in Ephesus. In 2007 she got her postdoctoral lecture qualification, since October 2009 she is director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and since May 2010 excavation director in Ephesus.

Private tours can be arranged with Dr Sabine Ladstätter and her team for a donation through Peten Travels. Please note all funds go directly to the Ephesus excavation site.



PROFESSOR BARBARA BURRELL

Peten Travels’ Guest Lecturer

Classical Turkey

May 12th - May 26st, 2012


Dr. Burrell is Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. Her field is Roman imperial architecture, art, and history, with a subspecialty in ancient coinage. She has dug at sites across the Mediterranean, including Spain, Italy, Greece, and Israel (as Field Director for the Promontory Palace Excavations at Caesarea Maritima), but her longest association has been with Turkey, where she excavated at Aphrodisias and at Sardis.

Dr. Burrell's latest book, Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors, studies how provincial cities, most of them in Turkey, built temples, sculpted colossal statues, wrote inscriptions, and issued coins to honor and even worship their rulers. As well as publishing her site at Caesarea, she is currently exploring how ancient people viewed their own architecture, especially the giant gymnasia, baths, theaters, and fountains across the Roman Mediterranean that were decorated with colored marble columns quarried in Asia Minor.

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TÛBA EKMEKÇİ

Peten Travels’ Guest Lecturer


Tûba Ekmekçi is the director of Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) Bodrum Research Center in Turkey. She has received her BA in 1992 at Ege University in Classical Archaeology and is earning her MA at Mugla University in Archaeology since 2009. She has been with INA since 1991 when she started as an intern and one year later, she started to work as conservator until 2008 when she accepted the position of director. She has taken a part of different projects in INA but mostly worked on Uluburun Shipwreck objects and for a short while Yenikapi Excavation in Istanbul under the leadership of Dr. Cemal Pulak. Since 1993 she has been giving the tours for the visitors and friends of INA at the St John Castle where the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology located and INA Head Quarter in Bodrum. 		-/guest-lecturers/ - -/guest-lecturers/