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Presented by the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World.
Kerem Öktem is Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, and an associate of Southeast European Studies at Oxford. Professor Öktem teaches the Politics of the Middle East at the Oriental Institute. He read Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, where he also completed his D.Phil. thesis at the School of Geography in 2006. In the thesis, he explored the destruction of imperial space in the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent construction of an exclusively Turkish national territory.
His research interests range from the history of nationalism, ethnopolitics and minority rights in Turkey to debates on history, memory and trauma, and to Turkey’s conflicted relations with Armenia and Greece. More recently, he has started a research project on the emergence of Islam as a central discursive category in European public debates.
His latest book is the edited volume: Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy under the Justice and Development Party, Öktem, Kadioglu, Karli, eds.
*** Please note: this session of the Seminar will be held on a Tuesday in Knafel 354. ***
Contact: Reina Saiki
Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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