2024 News and Announcements
- May 15, 2024: Join KMTS and Postdoctoral Fellow Ekin Kurtiç from 12:30- 2:00PM CST for “Dams as More-than-technical Infrastructures: Of Sediment and Techno-ecopolitics in the Çoruh Basin,” part of our Unruly Ecologies series via Zoom!
- May 1, 2024: Join KMTS and Postdoctoral Fellow Kenan Sharpe from 3:30- 5:00PM CST for a talk titled "Protest and Rock ‘n’ Roll in Turkey" and then from 5:00- 8:00PM CST for a reception to celebrate International Labor Day!
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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program faculty board member Emrah Yıldız has just published kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق: Fugitive Forms of Bureaucracy and Economy across Southwest Asia—a special issue he edited for the Journal of Cultural Economy 17(2). He contributed to the volume an introductory editorial and a research article, titled “Guaranteed contraband”: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian Bazaar. A 2021 virtual symposium, co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Middle East and North African Studies Program and Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern, was the first occasion that six of the seven contributors to the special issue came together to explore fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy.
- Summer Funding for Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students who do work related to Turkey!
- April 9, 2024: Trash-Talking Democracy: How Leaders Erode Their Democracies and How to Stop Them with Susan Stokes, University of Chicago, Chicago Center on Democracy
- April 3, 2024: Swamps, Sediments, and Sandwich Terns with Catarina Scaramelli, part of our Unruly Ecologies in the Ottoman and Empire and Turkey speaker series.
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Congratulations to MENA Languages professor and Keyman Faculty Board Member Dr. Oya Topçuoğlu for being on of the authors of the article “Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities” in the book Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education.
- February 28, 2024: Turkish Psychedelic Rock and the World 1960s with Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenan Sharpe.
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January 31, 2024: Protest Music and Culture of Critique in Contemporary Turkey Event and Reception.