As part of the Istanbul research seminar excursion, funded by the Harvard Mellon Initiative and guided by the photographer Serkan Taycan, Harvard students as well as Professors Eve Blau, Erik Ghenoiu, Sibel Bozdogan, Murat Guvenc, Ozlem Genel, and Max Hirsh visited the ‘Second Bosporus’ project. The June 2015 tour was given in relation to Taycan’s “Between Two Seas” project, which was featured in the Istanbul Biennial in 2013.