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.
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 ...
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...
All day, No Location
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AT THIS TIME. The conference seeks to engage with African American writer and civil rights ac...
All day, No Location
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AT THIS TIME. The conference seeks to engage with African American writer and civil rights ac...
All day, No Location
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AT THIS TIME. The conference seeks to engage with African American writer and civil rights ac...
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...
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,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
What happens when governments view universities as adversaries? How have universities successfully defended academic fre...
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 ...
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...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
"Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy – A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Bashkin" Yaron Ayal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Internationally renowned music producer, DJ and queer activist Ipek Ipekcioglu will present a performative reading from ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Online
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...