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2023 News and Announcements

December

Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop, Keyman Modern Turkish Studies, Spring 2024

December 12, 2023

Applications are now open for the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop until February 16, 2024.

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November

2024-2026 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program Postdoctoral Fellowship

November 8, 2023

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

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October

Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the post Oct 7th Reality: A historical look toward the Future

October 26, 2023

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.

 

 

In the Wake of War: How the Geopolitical Ground Has Shifted in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

October 12, 2023

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.

 

 

Good News from Keyman Faculty Board Member Emrah Yıldız

October 12, 2023

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.

September

Politics of Stigmatization and Human Insecurities in Hybrid Regimes: Actors, Mechanisms, and Responses

September 26, 2023
The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies at Northwestern University and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications to the workshop "Politics of Stigmatization and Human Insecurities in Hybrid Regimes: Actors, Mechanisms, and Responses" until January 15, 2024.
Applications are now closed. 

The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program 2022- 2023 Annual Newsletter is out now!

September 25, 2023

Book Talk with Dr. Elise Massicard: Street-Level Governing

September 12, 2023

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

View a recording of the event here.

August

Book Talk with Dr. Mostafa Minawi: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire

August 31, 2023

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

May

Infrastructure, Power, and Justice in the Anthropocene

May 18, 2023
"Infrastructure, Power, and Justice in the Anthropocene" will be offered in Fall 2023  and taught by Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, Ekin Kurtiç.ekin-course-fall-23

April

Book talk with Dr. Dimitar Bechev “Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West”

April 19, 2023
May 5, 2023 from 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM CDT via Zoom.
View a recording of the event here.

Roundtable Discussion on Turkey's Elections: Electoral Autocracies and Voting

April 7, 2023

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

View a recording of the event here.

March

"Opposition Parties in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes: The Turkish Case"

March 17, 2023

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

"Monuments and Memory" Spring 2023 Course taught by Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Anoush Tamar Suni

March 2, 2023

 

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Book Talk with Aron Aji “Bringing Turkish Literature into English: Translating Murathan Mungan’s Valor”

March 2, 2023

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

 

Book Talk with Dr. Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, “The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire”

March 2, 2023

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

View a recording of the event here.

“Teach in” on the Earthquakes in Turkey in Syria

March 2, 2023

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

View a recording of the event here.

February

Unruly Ecologies in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

February 17, 2023
  • 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.
Read more here.

2023 Conference: The Afterlives of Lausanne: Society, Politics, and Belonging after Empire

February 3, 2023

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.

Read more here.

2023 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Article Workshop

February 3, 2023

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. 

Read more here.