May
31
2025
KMTS 2025 Annual Conference: “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul"
All day, No Location
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AT THIS TIME. The conference seeks to engage with African American writer and civil rights ac...
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
Jun
1
2025
KMTS 2025 Annual Conference: “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul"
All day, No Location
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AT THIS TIME. The conference seeks to engage with African American writer and civil rights ac...
Past Events
May
30
2025
KMTS 2025 Annual Conference: “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul"
All day, No Location
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AT THIS TIME. The conference seeks to engage with African American writer and civil rights ac...
May
21
2025
“Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik of Kadir Has University on May 21 beginning at 12:30PM via Zoom for “Extractivism Across Produ...
May
14
2025
“The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join KMTS, MENA, The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Kaya Genç for “The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish ...
May
7
2025
"The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Glob...
Apr
30
2025
“How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join KMTS and Ali Yaycioglu on April 30 from 12:30- 2:00PM in the Buffett Reading Room (720 University Place, 2nd Floor,...
Apr
25
2025
The Government Against the University: Reports from Colombia, Hungary, Poland & Turkey
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
What happens when governments view universities as adversaries? How have universities successfully defended academic fre...
Apr
16
2025
"An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History ...
Apr
10
2025
“What is Happening in Turkey?”
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025 fr...
Apr
9
2025
"Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy – A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Bashkin"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
"Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy – A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Bashkin" Yaron Ayal...
Mar
5
2025
ONLINE CENSORSHIP AS A TOOL OF «FAILED GOVERNMENTALITY» IN TURKEY
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
Join MESA Global Academy and KMTS for a talk with Dr. Begum Burak titled "ONLINE CENSORSHIP AS A TOOL OF «FAILED GOVERNM...
Feb
12
2025
“The Lion and the Nightingale” Reception with Kaya Genç
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025. PLEASE CHEC...
Feb
12
2025
“The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” with Kaya Genç
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025. PLEASE CHEC...
Jan
13
2025
MENA | New Directions | Island & Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
MENA welcomes the Winter Quarter 2025 New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies speaker, Uğur Zekeriya Peç...
Oct
30
2024
Book Launch Event: Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders by Emrah Yildiz (Anthropology & MENA Studies)
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Please join us for the book launch event for Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders. Emrah Y...
Oct
2
2024
Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture: "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina"
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Off-Campus
Join KMTS and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Rutgers University, Newark, for the Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture on October 2, 2024 ...
Jun
1
2024
Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed DAY 2
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference...
May
31
2024
Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed DAY 1
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference...
May
20
2024
Thousands Protesting Their Governments in Armenia and Georgia: What's Going On? (Virtual Event)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Please join the Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies research program and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies progr...
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
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’...
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...