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Promoting dialogue and scholarship to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary Turkey.
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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
Understanding contemporary Turkey in connection with global social processes, problems and conflicts.
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New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey & Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business
as Usual, Wed May 11 @ 12pm CT, speaker Ali Rıza Güngen (York University),
moderator Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), discussant Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern)
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
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
View a recorded lecture from our speaker series.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion, with Dimitar Bechev (Carnegie Europe, Oxford), Ṣener Aktürk (Koç University), and moderated by Ian Kelly, Ambassador in Residence (Northwestern).
An important component of the Keyman Program is our events. Below you will find a curated selection of our upcoming and recent events.
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.
There are no upcoming events at this time.
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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