The Istanbul Course - Course Lecturers

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="6" width="500"> <tr> <td align="right" width="150" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Emre Araci<br> </font><font class="redsmall">PhD (Edinburgh)</font></div> </td> <td align="right" width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Composer and musicologist. Expert in Ottoman music. Founder-Director of the London Academy of Ottoman Court Music. Responsible for several critically acclaimed CDs of Ottoman music.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Professor Nurhan Atasoy<br> </font><font class="redsmall">PhD, MA, BA (Istanbul)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Former Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University. Acknowledged expert in Turkish and Islamic Art. Winner of many awards, among them the Council of Europe's Pro Merito Award, Strasbourg 1984; the Germanicum Award from the German Archaeological Institute, 1994; and in 1999, Honorary Membership of the Ataturk Kultur Merkezi. Author of over seventeen books and seventy articles.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Irem Erez<br> </font><font class="redsmall">MA in Arch., BA in Arch. (Yale).</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Teaching Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Bosphorus University, Istanbul. Was member of the committee for Developing and Preserving the Historical District of Beyoglu (Pera) in Istanbul. Irem Erez Mimarlik Ltd works on the restoration of Konaks on the Bosphorus.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Roy (Trey) Farmer III<br> </font><font class="redsmall">BA (Princeton); MPhil, MAR (Yale); MPhil, MEd (Harvard)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Entrepreneur and Financier. Currently partner in an international merchant banking fund based in Switzerland, Vice Chairman of a Turkish telecom company and of a publicly listed US telecom company traded on Nasdaq. Resident in Istanbul.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Jan Farmery</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Actress and trainer. Her acclaimed one-woman show The Sister about Dorothy Wordsworth played at the Edinburgh Festival and then on tour in the UK and US. She as been involved in many creative projects for both The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As Jan Farmery Associates, she has directed many training programmes, most notably for Microsoft.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Jonathan Glancey<br> </font><font class="redsmall">MA (Oxon); Hon. Fellow RIBA; FRSA; FRGS</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Architecture and Design Editor of the Guardian, a post originally created for him at the Independent in 1989. Frequent broadcaster on television and radio. His many books include The Story of Architecture, Twentieth Century Architecture and London: Bread and Circuses.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">A Sinan Guler<br> </font><font class="redsmall">PhD (Mimar Sinan)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Assistant Professor of History of Art at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. Specialist in Ottoman architecture.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Colin Kerr Hepburn<br> </font><font class="redsmall">MA (Cantab); MA (Sussex); PGCE Dip. TEFL (Manc)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>In the overseas career service of British Council for nineteen years holding senior positions in Yemen and Saudi Arabia before becoming Country Director Oman. An accomplished linguist and expert in the culture of the Middle East.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Cemil Ipekci</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Leading fashion designer with his own haute couture house. A major celebrity in Turkish society.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Gulgun Odabas<br> </font><font class="redsmall">BA (Istanbul); Dip. Management (Bosphorus)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Attended pedagogic courses at universities of Birmingham, Exeter and Lancaster. Runs the ITBA Language School in Istanbul which is the Turkish language course provider for consular staff and British Council employees.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Huseyin Ozer</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Restaurateur renowned for his chain of Turkish restaurants named Sofra which are to be found in Istanbul, Helsinki and London. An authority on Turkish cuisine.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Kristina Sanne </font><font class="redsmall">BA (UEA)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Worked with Mehmet Keskiner at Kent Antiques Ltd for four years and latterly for Ben Janssens Oriental Art. Lectures on collecting Ottoman Art and antiques.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">The Revd Canon Ian Sherwood<br> </font><font class="redsmall">MA (Trinity Dublin)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Apokrisiarios of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Oecumenical Patriach of Constantinople and Chaplain of HM Consulate General, Istanbul for the last fifteen years.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Anthony Skevington<br> </font><font class="redsmall">MA (SOAS); MA (Essex); PGCE (Lond)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Byzantine Historian. Worked in Greece for the British Council and then at Universities in Saudi Arabia, China and Japan.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Professor Norman Stone<br> </font><font class="redsmall">MA (Cantab)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. Formerly Professor of Modern History, and Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Ebru Suner<br> and Burcu Ongur Pinto</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Began Cookbook (a cookery school and restaurant) in 1998 after a contract at the then newly-opened Hyatt Regency Hotel in Istanbul. They studied at ICHA (The International College of Hospitality and Administration) in Le Bouveret and Brig in Switzerland. Food and especially Ottoman cuisine is a passion for them both.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Rustu Sungur</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Chairman of Artium, a leading Turkish auction house. Auctioneer and collector of Turkish porcelain.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="right"> <font class="redbold">Tom Tickell </font><font class="redsmall">MA (Oxon)</font></div> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Journalist and writer. Worked for ITN and has made many radio broadcasts. Was Family Finance Editor of the Guardian, Deputy City Editor of the Mail on Sunday and City Diarist for the Sunday Telegraph. His news quizzes and quotes of the year have been published in many national broadsheet newspapers.<br> </font><br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"><font class="redbold">Christine Woodhead<br> </font><font class="redsmall">PhD (Edin); MA (Oxon)</font></td> <td width="10"></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"> <font>Hon Research Fellow and part-time lecturer at the University of Durham where she teaches the Turkish language and Middle Eastern History at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. A historian of the Ottoman Empire.</font></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <font><a href="info.html" target="_top"><b>Click here for details on course fees, accomodation and registration</b></a></font>