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...
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
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...
Apr
19
2023
"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
26
2023
Roundtable Discussion on Turkey's Elections
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 ...
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 for this book talk moderated by Fahri Öz, in Harris Hall, Room 108.
May
10
2023
Unruly Ecologies in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: A speaker series with Sam Dolbee
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for this series featuring speaker Sam Dolbee on May 10, 2023 from 12:30 P...
Past Events
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...
Apr
20
2022
Conversation with Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey, with commenter Kabir Tambar (Stanford University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) joins us for an online conversation on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill Y...
Apr
4
2022
State Control in Turkey: Resistant Encounters in War and Peace | Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University), Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
State Control in Turkey: Resistant Encounters in War and Peace | Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American Universi...
Mar
18
2022
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion with Dimitar Bechev (Carnegie Europe, Oxford), Sinem Adar (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), and Ṣener Aktürk (Koç University), moderated by Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Online
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Turkey’s Role in NATO: A Roundtable discussion with Dimitar Bechev (Carnegie Europe, Ox...
Mar
4
2022
Book Discussion with Jenny White, Ergün Gündüz, and Özge Samancı
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Online
Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), ...
Feb
15
2022
Keynote Lecture with Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Keyman Guest Speaker Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania) joins us to present, "Posing Slaves for the Camera: ...
Feb
2
2022
Conversation with Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) on her book, States of Dispossession, with discussant Anoush Tamar Suni (Northwestern University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) joins us to have a conversation on her book, States of Dispossession, with event...
Nov
18
2021
"7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decolonizing Academia" with Murat Ergin (Koç University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Presents "7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decoloniz...
Jun
18
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller III & Roundtable
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, Online
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the ...
Jun
11
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller II
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, Online
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the ...
Jun
4
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller I
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, Online
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the ...
May
17
2021
MENA Languages Monday—Turkish Edition | Street Animals & their Place in Turkish Culture: A Conversation about the Film STRAY
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Please join us for this conversation on the place of street animals in Turkish history and culture, with special emphasi...
May
12
2021
Visiting Speaker Dr. Aslı Bâli: Decentralization as Self-Determination?: Reframing the question of minority rights in Turkey
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Online
This talk explores how the Kurdish political movement has re-imagined the terms of self-determination to facilitate the ...
May
7
2021
Visiting Speaker Ezgi Çakmak: The Roots of the Silence: Encounters with Blackness in the Early Turkish Republic
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
As part of the interdisciplinary series, ‘Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Re...
Apr
19
2021
Interview: Marc David Baer on his book Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks interviewed by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
with Marc David Baer, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science intervi...
Apr
2
2021
Political Violence and Self-Defense in Turkey: History and Ethnography (Melissa Bilal and Haydar Darıcı)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
Registration is required for this event: http://bit.ly/political-violence-turkey This event brings together two scholars...
Mar
31
2021
Visiting Speaker Dr. Ezgi Güner: Scramble for African Hearts: Muslim Whiteness, Islamic Civility, and Interracial Intimacy in AKP’s Turkey
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
As part of the interdisciplinary series, ‘Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Re...