Divided Spaces, Contested Pasts

Lucienne Thys-Şenocak is a professor of cultural heritage management, museum studies, and architectural history in the Department of Archaeology and the History of Art at Koç University in Istanbul, where she has been teaching for 25 years. She has worked on several heritage projects in the Gallipoli region since 1997 and was the co-director of the team which began the documentation of archaeological and conservation research at the Ottoman fortress at Seddülbahir, located on the Gallipoli peninsula at Cape Helles. In addition to the cultural heritage of the Gallipoli peninsula, Thys-Şenocak has published on the architectural patronage of Ottoman royal women, and the heritage of viticulture in Anatolia. She currently advises the Çanakkale Wars and Gallipoli Historic Region Directorate for the restoration and museum project at Seddülbahir, which is expected to be completed and open to the public in 2019. She is a member of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in Turkey.

• 1. Introduction 2. Cultural landscapes of the Gallipoli peninsula: from mapping to metaphor 3. Archaeology and artifacts of the Gallipoli peninsula 4. Commemoration begins for the Commonwealth and its Allies 5. Commemoration begins for the Ottoman martyrs 6. The future of the Gallipoli peninsula: towards 2023

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