{"id":517,"date":"2025-10-23T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/?p=517"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:03:55","slug":"necrogeographies-of-istanbul-necro-ist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/necrogeographies-of-istanbul-necro-ist\/","title":{"rendered":"Necrogeographies of Istanbul (NECRO-IST)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-516\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1493\/2025\/10\/PHOTO-2025-10-03-13-36-02-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1493\/2025\/10\/PHOTO-2025-10-03-13-36-02-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1493\/2025\/10\/PHOTO-2025-10-03-13-36-02-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1493\/2025\/10\/PHOTO-2025-10-03-13-36-02-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1493\/2025\/10\/PHOTO-2025-10-03-13-36-02.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After three years of fieldwork exploring Istanbul\u2019s historic cemeteries, the traveling working group has evolved into a full-scale research project.<br data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1091\" \/><strong data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1135\">Necrogeographies of Istanbul (NECRO-IST)<\/strong> seeks to uncover the stories buried within the city\u2019s lost and surviving cemeteries. The project aims to map these burial sites, identify the individuals interred there, and build a publicly accessible archive of their histories.<br data-start=\"1365\" data-end=\"1368\" \/>By tracing the geography of death, NECRO-IST invites us to re-examine Istanbul\u2019s layered past, its collective memory, and the ways in which urban transformation reshapes remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u00dc\u00e7 y\u0131l s\u00fcren gezici bir ke\u015fif s\u00fcrecinin ard\u0131ndan, \u0130stanbul\u2019un tarihi mezarl\u0131klar\u0131n\u0131 ara\u015ft\u0131ran \u00e7al\u0131\u015fma grubu art\u0131k kapsaml\u0131 bir ara\u015ft\u0131rma projesine d\u00f6n\u00fc\u015ft\u00fc.<br data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"387\" \/><strong data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"431\">Necrogeographies of Istanbul (NECRO-IST)<\/strong>, kentin ge\u00e7mi\u015fine g\u00f6m\u00fcl\u00fc hik\u00e2yeleri g\u00fcn y\u00fcz\u00fcne \u00e7\u0131karmay\u0131 hedefliyor. Proje, \u0130stanbul\u2019un kaybolmu\u015f ve g\u00fcn\u00fcm\u00fcze ula\u015fan mezarl\u0131klar\u0131n\u0131 haritaland\u0131rmay\u0131, buralarda g\u00f6m\u00fcl\u00fc ki\u015filerin kimliklerini ve ya\u015fam \u00f6yk\u00fclerini ara\u015ft\u0131rmay\u0131, bu verileri ise herkesin eri\u015fimine a\u00e7\u0131k bir bilgi havuzuna d\u00f6n\u00fc\u015ft\u00fcrmeyi ama\u00e7l\u0131yor.<br data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"740\" \/>Bu \u00e7al\u0131\u015fma, kentin \u00e7ok katmanl\u0131 tarihini, toplumsal haf\u0131zas\u0131n\u0131 ve mek\u00e2nsal d\u00f6n\u00fc\u015f\u00fcm\u00fcn\u00fc mezarl\u0131klar \u00fczerinden yeniden okumaya davet ediyor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years of fieldwork exploring Istanbul\u2019s historic cemeteries, the traveling working group has evolved into a full-scale research project.Necrogeographies of Istanbul (NECRO-IST) seeks to uncover the stories buried within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/necrogeographies-of-istanbul-necro-ist\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3668,"featured_media":516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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