May
1
2024
Protest and Rock‘n’ Roll in Turkey
3:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston
Join Keyman MTS in on May 1, 2024 in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 3:30- 5:00PM CST for a talk titled "Protest and Rock ‘n’...
Event Schedule
The Keyman Program's rich, diverse programming introduces the Northwestern community to key issues about modern Turkey and its role in the world through a variety of speakers on topics related to the social sciences, the humanities, communication, the arts and other fields. Please check this schedule frequently as we add new programming throughout the year.
Upcoming Events
May
15
2024
Dams as More-than-technical Infrastructures: Of Sediment and Techno-ecopolitics in the Çoruh Basin
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join KMTS and Postdoctoral Fellow, Ekin Kurtiç on May 15, 2024 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST for "Dams as More-than-technical I...
May
31
2024
Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed
All day, Evanston
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference...
Jun
1
2024
Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed
All day, Evanston
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference...
Past Events
Apr
9
2024
Trash-Talking Democracy: How Leaders Erode Their Democracies and How to Stop Them
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston
In recent decades, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have come into office and started attacking key democratic i...
Apr
3
2024
Swamps, Sediments, and Sandwich Terns: on the Moral Ecology of Turkish Wetlands and Seeds
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Caterina Scaramelli is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. She holds a 2016...
Mar
9
2024
LIVE SET PERFORMANCE / DANCE PARTY - DJ İpek İpekçioğlu
9:30 PM - 11:30 PM, Evanston
Dance to the tunes of internationally renowned music producer, DJ, and queer activist İpek İpekçioğlu in a live-set perf...
Mar
6
2024
COLLECTIVE FEELINGS ACROSS LANGUAGES IN TRANSITION
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Internationally renowned music producer, DJ and queer activist Ipek Ipekcioglu will present a performative reading from ...
Feb
28
2024
Turkish Psychedelic Rock and the World 1960s
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Kenan Sharpe for a talk titled "Turkish Ps...
Jan
31
2024
Protest Music and Culture of Critique in Contemporary Turkey Reception
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, DJ and queer activist Ipek Ipekcioglu, and Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Ke...
Jan
31
2024
Protest Music and Culture of Critique in Contemporary Turkey
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
What does protest music look and sound like in contemporary Turkey? How do understand this contemporary conjuncture with...
Jan
29
2024
MENA Monday | Eklektik Berlinistan: Queer Pathways through Berlin's Middle Easts
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
MENA is excited to welcome DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu, in conversation with Emrah Yildiz, Northwestern University. Lunch will b...
Nov
8
2023
Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the post Oct 7th Reality: A historical look toward the Future
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Please join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, and author of Jews an...
Nov
7
2023
How Turkish TV Is Taking Over The World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Thanks to international sales and global viewership, Turkey is second only to the US in worldwide TV distribution – find...
Oct
18
2023
Book Talk with Dr. Elise Massicard: Street-Level Governing
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, author of Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey,...
Oct
16
2023
“In the Wake of War: How the Geopolitical Ground Has Shifted in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia”
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Online
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program...
Oct
11
2023
Book Talk with Dr. Mostafa Minawi: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and author of Los...
May
27
2023
Keyman 2023 Conference: The Afterlives of Lausanne: Society, Politics, and Belonging after Empire
8:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
May 26-27, 2023 Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from around the world to ...
May
26
2023
Keyman 2023 Conference: The Afterlives of Lausanne: Society, Politics, and Belonging after Empire
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
May 26-27, 2023 Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from around the world to ...
May
10
2023
Unruly Ecologies in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire and Environment in the Modern Middle East" a Book Talk with Sam Dolbee
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Sam Dolbee for a book talk on "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire and ...
May
5
2023
Book talk with Dr. Dimitar Bechev “Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Dr. Dimitar Bechev, Oxford University, for a book talk on Turkey Unde...
May
1
2023
Book talk with Aron Aji “Bringing Turkish Literature into English: Translating Murathan Mungan’s Valor”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and MENA for this book talk moderated by Fahri Öz, in Harris Hall, Room 1...
Apr
26
2023
Roundtable Discussion on Turkey's Elections: Electoral Autocracies and Voting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for a Roundtable Discussion on Turkey's Elections on April 26, 2023 from ...
Apr
19
2023
Unruly Ecologies in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: "Bulldozer Capitalism: Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey" a Book Talk with Dr. Erdem Evren
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Dr. Erdem Evren for a book talk on "Bulldozer Capitalism: Accumulatio...
Apr
12
2023
Book Talk with Dr. Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, “The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for a book talk with author of "The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empir...
Mar
31
2023
"Opposition Parties in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes: The Turkish Case"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and MESA Global Academy scholars Dr. Nihat Çelik (San Diego State Univers...
Mar
13
2023
“Teach in” on the Earthquakes in Turkey in Syria
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM, Online
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and speakers Dr. Eray Çaylı, Hazal Hürman, Dr. Hişyar Özsoy, MP. and Dr. ...
Jun
4
2022
2022 Conference: Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss: Politics of Archeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post Ottoman Lands
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from aroundthe world to discuss some of th...
Jun
3
2022
2022 Conference: Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss: Politics of Archeology and Heritage in Turkey and Post Ottoman Lands
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from aroundthe world to discuss some of th...
May
25
2022
Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul with Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University) presents, "Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul", a talk as part...
May
18
2022
Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın (UNC)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) presents a talk on her book Turkey: A Past Against History with discussant Cemil Aydın ...
May
11
2022
New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey and Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business as Usual | Ali Rıza Güngen (York University), Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey and Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business as Usual | Ali Rıza Güngen (York Uni...