CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CEST Symposium 2025/2026
L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
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HISTORY 300-0-26: HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Instructor: KMTS 2024-2026 Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren AkgülClass Meetings: TuTh 12:30pm-1:50pm, Harris Hall L06
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- FALL 2025 EVENT CALENDAR:
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
- 2024-2026 KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow Önder Eren Akgül will be teaching a course this Fall titled HISTORY 300-0-26: HISTORY OF CAPITALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
- Ulaş Erdoğdu, KMTS Graduate Student, and his article "Democratization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War: Evidence from the PKK Insurgency in Turkey," Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2024, has won the 2024 Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies, given by the Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida!
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Feb. 19, 2025: Ayhan Hulagu Makes the Puppets Come Alive at Karagoz Theater Company Event!
- Congratulations to two of our Faculty Board Members, Ozge Samanci and Wendy Pearlman, for making it onto the article "10 books from 2024 to add to your reading list"!
- KMTS now has a Bluesky account! Find us at https://bsky.app/profile/keymanmts.bsky.social
- 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.
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“Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey”
Join KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow Önder Eren Akgül and Coşku Çelik of Kadir Has University for a speaker event part of the talk series "Histories and Trajectories of Capital in Turkey."The Turkish Studies & Language Community
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