2023 News and Announcements
December
November
2024-2026 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
Applications are now open for the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program 2024-2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship until January 29, 2024.
October
Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the post Oct 7th Reality: A historical look toward the Future
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
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
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
Applications are now closed.
The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program 2022- 2023 Annual Newsletter is out now!
Book Talk with Dr. Elise Massicard: Street-Level Governing
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
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
April
Book talk with Dr. Dimitar Bechev “Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West”
View a recording of the event here.
Roundtable Discussion on Turkey's Elections: Electoral Autocracies and Voting
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 31, 2023 12:30 PM CDT via Zoom.
Funding for Research and Conference Participation for Northwestern Graduate Students
"Monuments and Memory" Spring 2023 Course taught by Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Anoush Tamar Suni
Book Talk with Aron Aji “Bringing Turkish Literature into English: Translating Murathan Mungan’s Valor”
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”
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 13, 2023 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM CDT via Zoom.
View a recording of the event here.
Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Ekin Kurtiç's Newest Publication
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".
February
Unruly Ecologies in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
- 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.
Palimpsests of Violence: Between Armenian and Kurdish Histories in Turkey
MENA Mondays: MENA Conversation: Landscapes of Toxicity
Help the Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
2023 Conference: The Afterlives of Lausanne: Society, Politics, and Belonging after Empire
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
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.
Özge Samancı New Yorker Cartoons
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?"