Applications are now open for the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program 2024-2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship until January 29, 2024.

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Please join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, and author of Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era 1908-1914, Claiming the Homeland Louis A. Fishman, Brooklyn College, for a talk titled "Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the post Oct 7th Reality: A historical look toward the Future" on Wednesday, November 8 from 12:30 PM - 2:00PM in Harris Hall, Room 108.

Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, and the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) in a panel discussion on Monday, October 16, 2023 via Zoom.

Read Keyman Faculty Board Member Emrah Yıldız's newest publication "Zainab’s traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia" in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 

His ongoing research project "Outsmarting ‘smart’ sanctions: currency, mobility and security across Iran and Turkey" has received a Post PhD Research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.  

Emrah has also been awarded the Global Horizons Junior Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year by The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.

Wednesday, October 18 from 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM via Zoom. 

View a recording of the event here.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 from 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM CDT in Harris Hall, Room 108.

April 26, 2023 from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT via Zoom.

View a recording of the event here.

March 31, 2023 12:30 PM CDT via Zoom.

May 01, 2023, 12:30 – 2:00 PM CST. Harris Hall, Room 108.

April 12, 2023, 12:30 PM via Zoom.

View a recording of the event here.

March 13, 2023 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM CDT via Zoom.

View a recording of the event here.

This article was workshopped in our Article Workshop in 2021.
Read Infrastructural Decay: Maintenance Ecologies and Labor in the Çoruh Basin published in Cultural Anthropology. 
Ekin also co-edited a special issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space titled "Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures". 

• April 19, 2023, 12:30- 2:00 PM CST via Zoom with Dr. Erdem Evren.
• May 10, 2023, 12:30- 2:00 PM CST in Harris Hall, Room 108 with Sam Dolbee.

This year's conference will be held May 26-27, 2023. 

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 the Lausanne Conference, and Treaty of July 24, 1923.

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The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute of Global Affairs continues its series of virtual workshops to support early career scholars preparing an article for publication by a peer-reviewed journal. We invite applications from junior scholars working in all branches of the Social Sciences and Humanities on themes related to Turkey and its diasporas. 

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Keyman Faculty Board member and Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Özge Samancı, has just published her second cartoon in the New Yorker! Check out both of her published cartoons below:

"Why do I always overcommit?"

"Eating in front of the computer is bad for you."