OTSA 2024 Annual Conference
The Keyman Program will host Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association’s first Conference at Northwestern University from October 25- 27, 2024.
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Our Program and Work
Understanding contemporary Turkey in connection with global social processes, problems and conflicts.
The Latest Keyman News
Explore news stories, media mentions, and announcements covering events, awards, and accomplishments at Keyman.
- The 2023- 2024 issue of the Keyman Annual Newsletter is out now!
- New episode of the Keyman Podcast is out now! How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey with Caterina Scaramelli, hosted by Ekin Kurtiç.
- Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program faculty board member Emrah Yıldız has just published kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق: Fugitive Forms of Bureaucracy and Economy across Southwest Asia—a special issue he edited for the Journal of Cultural Economy 17(2). He contributed to the volume an introductory editorial and a research article, titled “Guaranteed contraband”: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian Bazaar. A 2021 virtual symposium, co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Middle East and North African Studies Program and Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern, was the first occasion that six of the seven contributors to the special issue came together to explore fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy.
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Congratulations to MENA Languages professor and Keyman Faculty Board Member Dr. Oya Topçuoğlu for being one of the authors of the article “Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities” included in the book Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education.
- Read Keyman Faculty Board Member Emrah Yıldız's newest publication "Zainab’s traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia" in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His ongoing research project "Outsmarting ‘smart’ sanctions: currency, mobility and security across Iran and Turkey" has received a Post PhD Research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Emrah has also been awarded the Global Horizons Junior Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year by The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.
Featured Recording
View a recording from our most recent event.
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey with Caterina Scaramelli
Listen to the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program's most recent recording, How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey with Caterina Scaramelli and Keyman Modern Turkish Studies 2022- 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Ekin Kurtiç.
Keyman Events
An important component of the Keyman Program is our events. Below you will find a curated selection of our upcoming and recent events.
Featured Event
Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture
Join KMTS and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Rutgers University, Newark, for the Șarık Tara Memorial LecturePast Events
The Turkish Studies & Language Community
The Turkish studies and language community at Northwestern is interdisciplinary, extending from the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs to the Block Museum of Art.
Ways to Engage
Learn about the many ways to engage with the the larger Turkish studies & language community at Northwestern.