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2025 Annual Conference: “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul"

The 2024 KMTS Annual Conference, “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul," has been postponed. We hope to provide updates as soon as we can and appreciate your patience and understanding in the meantime.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program

Promoting dialogue and scholarship to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary Turkey.

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Annual Conference on Turkey

 Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs brings together scholars from around the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Turkey from a global perspective. This year’s conference with the theme “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul,” is currently postponed. 

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Understanding contemporary Turkey in connection with global social processes, problems and conflicts.

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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.

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The Turkish studies and language community at Northwestern is interdisciplinary, extending from the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs to the Block Museum of Art.

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