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Presented by the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World.
Dr. Serdar Sengul holds a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Hacettepe University, Turkey. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Mardin Artuklu University. He worked extensively on anthropology of modernism, anthropology of religion, histories of power and knowledge, and the philosophy of history, with particular focus on the destruction and/or transformation of madrasas – Islamic educational institutions – located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Sengul has conducted historical and ethnographic research on Ottoman and Turkish Republican educational modernization projects as technologies of citizen-making. His current research explores the same phenomena as they have been registered in the social memories of diverse bodies of Republican citizenry. During his time as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Dr. Sengul seeks to conclude his ongoing work on how the Kurds in Turkey remember and narrate the nationalization-secularization of education in articulating claims over Kurdish identity and history as part of the larger Kurdish political conflict.
Contact: Reina Saiki
Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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