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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

NEXT WEEK! Join Keyman MTS for our conference “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul” on May 22-23, 2026 in Harris Hall, Room 108. View the program and register: bit.ly/3PF8yiG

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

ZOOM OPTION ADDED! Join KMTS for “From Entitlement to Deservingness: Queer Migration through Turkey to the EU and North America" with Mert Koçak, Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, on Monday, June 1st at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/48Yr7F4

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Join KMTS for "Energy Security in Turbulent Times & Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics" with Şuhnaz Yılmaz Özbağcı, Koç University, on Wednesday, May 13th at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515. More info and to register: bit.ly/4thxdsj

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Join KMTS for "How to Win a Battle in the Culture War: Techno-nationalism and Hegemony in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, Keyman Visiting Scholar, on Monday, May 4 at 4pm in Harris Hall, 108. Reception to follow. More info and to register: bit.ly/3QsnzEN

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Join Keyman MTS for “From 'Byzantine Intrigues’ to Civil Byzantium: The Making of Byzantium in Modern Turkey” with Koray Durak, Boğaziçi University, on Monday, April 20th at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515. Register: bit.ly/4aSG7Wk

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Join KMTS for “From Entitlement to Deservingness: Queer Migration through Turkey to the EU and North America" with Mert Koçak, Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, on Monday, May 4th at 4pm in Harris Hall, Room 108. More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4bzsdr5

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join Keyman MTS for “White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class" with Mustafa Yavaş @mustafa-yavas.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/47GG1Px

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Join KMTS for "The Religious Vocabulary of Turkic-Speaking Christians and the Problem of the Origin of the Gagauz" with Sergey Ivanov, Northwestern University, on Wednesday, April 8 at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/4b6yzOF

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Join KMTS for a screening of the documentaries Star on the Border and Missed Lives: the Doms followed by a discussion with directors Berivan Saruhan and Mehmet Kuyumcu on Tuesday, March 31 at 12:00pm in Kresge 1515 and via Zoom. More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4r6lbQp

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

...register for the screening of YİBO on Wednesday, February 25 at 12:30pm in Harris Hall 108 and via Zoom! planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/638891

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Join Keyman MTS for "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" with Görkem Akgöz, International Institute of Social History, on Wednesday, March 11th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/3OuieLW

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Join Keyman MTS for a screening of the documentary YİBO followed by a discussion with directors Şükran Demir and Özgür Ünal on Wednesday, February 25th at 12:30pm in Harris Hall 108 and via Zoom! More info and to register: bit.ly/4kfIJR2

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Join Keyman MTS for a screening of the documentary Dargeçit (Hold Still) followed by a discussion with director Berke Baş on Thursday, January 29th at 12pm in Kresge 1515 and via Zoom! For more info and to register: bit.ly/4qG7CYD

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/.../early-ca....

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

TOMORROW, Wednesday, Nov. 12 in person AND on Zoom: "Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement," with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University. Register for Zoom: bit.ly/47CuqBG For in-person: bit.ly/4ovZIQl

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Damir Imamović, University of Sarajevo Music Academy, for "Bosnian Love Songs Between Two Empires: Musical Tradition and Change from Ottoman to Habsburg Eras," on OCT. 8, from 12:30- 2:00PM at Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom!

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Join KMTS and MENA for a talk with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University, on Nov. 12, from 12:30-2:00PM in Kresge, RM 1515 and via Zoom, titled Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

And The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) 9th Annual Workshop (October 10-12, 2025), Harris Hall, 108 For a full program: greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/202...

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Please join the History Department for two events happening this October! Talk by Jamal J. Elias: "Dreams of Khurasan: The Lives of Persian in the Ottoman World” On Friday, October 10, 16:00-17:30 Harris Hall, Room 108

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room). Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on May 21 at 12:30PM via Zoom! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Join KMTS and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies on April 9, 2025, from 4:30PM- 6:00PM CST for "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Baskin at University Hall, Room 201.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Join KMTS and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford University, on April 30, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST at 720 University Place, in the 2nd Floor Buffett Reading Room, for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Registration can be found here planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627899

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on April 23, beginning at 12:30 PM CST, via Zoom! To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627898

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

KMTS upcoming Spring events are now live! For more information and to register, please visit our website: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Join KMTS and Chris Gratien for "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST, in Harris Hall, Room 108, co-sponsored by MENA and SCH. Lunch will be served! For registration and more details: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

CALL FOR APLICATIONS / CEST Summer School – University of Turin, 24–31 August 2025 Turkey’s Culture Wars –– Culture, Politics, and Society Under Autocratization For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/news-and-ann...

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Join MENA Languages, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, and CLI on Wednesday, February 19 from 5-7PM in Kresge Hall, Room 1-515 for Turkish Shadow Theater and a Puppet Making Workshop! Turkish food will be served. To register, please visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/turkish-sh...

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Coming in Spring 2025! Pop Music, History, and the Nation (MENA 390-4-2, HISTORY 393-0-24) with Instructor and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenan Sharpe, TTh 3:30- 4:50PM.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, for an event with MESA Global Academy Fellow Dr. Begüm Burak titled "Online Censorship as a Tool of Failed Governmentality in Turkey" via Zoom beginning at 12PM! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Join us for TWO events with Kaya Genç, happening on Feb. 12, 2025! “The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” from 12:30-2PM at Harris Hall, 108, followed by a reception from 4:30PM-6:30PM at the Buffett Institute Reading Room.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Please join Northwestern MENA on Monday, January 13 at 12:30 pm in University Hall 201, for a book talk by the Winter Quarter 2025 New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies speaker, Uğur Zekeriya Peçe of LeHigh University, co-sponsored by KMTS.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Our upcoming events and deadlines for Winter 2025!

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The CfA for the KMTS Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop for Spring 2025 are NOW OPEN until Feb. 14, 2025! For more information, please visit keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/events/works...

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