CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
The Keyman Program will cover the travel costs of up to two graduate students and/or faculty. Please send your application or any questions regarding your application to the Keyman Program directly, at turkishstudies@northwestern.edu
We welcome applications from all fields related to the study of society and politics in Turkey and its transnational spheres of influence, especially contributions from social sciences and humanities. This includes memory studies, anthropology, political science, sociology, socio-cultural history, art history, visual and media studies, urban studies, gender studies, and cultural studies. We encourage comparative perspectives across world regions and transnational approaches examining Turkish projects and actors globally.
We invite critical studies of state-led projects aimed at establishing cultural domination, as well as counter-hegemonic responses by oppositional actors. Relevant areas include, but are not limited to:
- Built Environment: Urban planning, architecture, and cultural heritage
- Museums and Counter-publics
- Audiovisual Culture: Television, cinema, digital media
- Music: Popular and classical traditions, and their institutional contexts
- Theatre and Performing Arts
- Gender and Familialism: Reproductive politics, normative models of family, anti-gender ideologies
Application Requirements:
- An abstract (max. 500 words)
- A narrative CV (max. 300 words)
- A full CV including a list of publications
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program Deadline:
October 10, 2025
For more information regarding the CEST Symposium please visit:
https://cest-turkey.org/cest-symposium-2025-2026-naples/