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2022 Keyman Annual Conference on Turkey

Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from around the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Turkey from a global perspective. This year the conference’s theme will be “Heritage.” Within the purview of this conference, we follow a capacious and interdisciplinary approach to questions of heritage, including tangible, intangible, and natural heritage within the territory of contemporary Turkey and surrounding regions.

Conference Dates: June 3-4, 2022

This is a hybrid event in Harris Hall Room 108 and via Zoom

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Keyman Program Annual Newsletter AY 2021-2022

The 2021-22 Academic Year Newsletter has arrived.

Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul, with Alize Arıcan

Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University) presents, "Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul," a talk as part of the interdisciplinary series, “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey” Wednesday, May 25 @ 12p CT via Zoom

Book talk: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC)

Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) presents a talk on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC) Wednesday, May 18 @ 12p CT via Zoom

Featured Video

View a recorded lecture from our speaker series.

Book Discussion with Jenny White, Ergün Gündüz, and Özge Samancı

Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), Ergün Gündüz (illustrator of Turkish Kaleidoscope), and Özge Samancı (author of graphic novel Dare to Disappoint) with Turkish-English translation by Anoush Tamar Suni (Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow).

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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

Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Anoush Tamar Suni, interviewed by Dr. Marlene Schäfers

Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Anoush Tamar Suni, interviewed by Dr. Marlene Schäfers on Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme’s Living with Religious Difference podcast episode “Ruins, treasures, and memories of state violence in eastern Anatolia,” discussing Dr. Suni’s research on effects of historic Armenian presence on contemporary life in Kurdish communities in eastern Anatolia.

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Upcoming Events

Our Fall program will be announced shortly.

Recent Events

Jun

2022

2022 Conference: Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss: Politics of Archeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post Ottoman Lands

Jun

2022

2022 Conference: Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss: Politics of Archeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post Ottoman Lands

May

2022

Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul with Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University)

May

2022

Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC)

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