Turkey

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision as Foreign Policy Signal

July 14, 2020

On July 10, 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order which would allow the disintegration of Hagia Sophia’s museum status and turn it back into a mosque. Read an analyses in the Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School by CMES AM student and JMEPP...

Timelessness in Florence: Lockdowns, Flooding, and Disruption

July 6, 2020

While conducting dissertation research in Italy during the 2019-20 academic year, Maryam Patton, PhD candidate in History and Middle East Studies, has had the unusual fortune to experience both severe flooding in Venice and quarantine in Florence. Here is her account.... Read more about Timelessness in Florence: Lockdowns, Flooding, and Disruption

I, Istanbul

February 8, 2020

This January, Selina Xu (Harvard College '21) participated in CMES's fifth annual winter term excursion to Turkey. Read about and see photographs of her experience on her website, Selina Xu, Telling Life Like a Story. Read more about I, Istanbul

2020 Mar 24

CANCELLED Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Siren Çelik
CMES Byzantine Post-doctoral fellow

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED** ... Read more about **CANCELLED** Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult

2020 Mar 03

Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Consulate General of Turkey in Boston presents

Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp

RSVP required: bostonbk.rsvp@mfa.gov.tr... Read more about Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp

2020 Mar 04

Reciprocal Pan-Islamism: Bosnian Muslim Reformists and the Young Turk Revolution, 1908-1914

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Dr. Harun Buljina
Independent Scholar... Read more about Reciprocal Pan-Islamism: Bosnian Muslim Reformists and the Young Turk Revolution, 1908-1914

2020 Mar 06

A Friendship Forged in Wartime: Ukrainian-Turkish Encounters on the Galician Front in WWI

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Hüseyin Oylupinar
Postdoctoral Fellow in Turkish-Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about A Friendship Forged in Wartime: Ukrainian-Turkish Encounters on the Galician Front in WWI

2020 Mar 09

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Chris Gratien
Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia... Read more about An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

Arif Orçun Söylemez

Visiting Scholar
Associate Professor of Economics, Economics Department, Marmara University

... Read more about Arif Orçun Söylemez

arif.soylemez@hec.edu

2020 Apr 08

CANCELLED Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community"

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of William & Mary... Read more about **CANCELLED** Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community"

2020 Feb 13

Screening: "Heads and Tails" (2019)

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES Director's Series presents a screening of

Heads and Tails (2019) Heads and Tails film
A documentary on traveling hair

A film by Aylin Kuryel and Firat Yücel... Read more about Screening: "Heads and Tails" (2019)

2020 Mar 25

CANCELLED Book talk: "Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire"

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Lâle Can Lale Can
Assistant Professor, Department of History, The City College of New York

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED** ... Read more about **CANCELLED** Book talk: "Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire"

"Erdoğan the Good" or "Erdoğan the Bad?" A Conversation with Soner Çağaptay on US-Turkey Relations Following US Withdrawal from Syria

October 25, 2019

Reilly Barry, a first-year AM student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy (JMEPP) at Harvard Kennedy School, sat down with Soner Çağaptay after his WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar talk to discuss what underlying factors are most influential for policymakers on US-Turkey relations right now, especially in light of Turkish troops’ entry into northeast Syria and targeting of former American partners the YPG.... Read more about "Erdoğan the Good" or "Erdoğan the Bad?" A Conversation with Soner Çağaptay on US-Turkey Relations Following US Withdrawal from Syria

2019 Nov 19

Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Director's Series presents

Suzy Hansen
Writer; 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Video: 'Trauma, Magic, Love': a tribute to Osman Kavala on his birthday

October 2, 2019

On September 16, CMES welcomed Syrian-Armenian-American stage and film actress Sona Tatoyan and artist and puppet master Ayhan Hülagü to speak about finding her Armenian grandfather's Karagöz puppets in the abandoned family home in Aleppo, Syria. Ayhan then presented some of Sona's family's puppets in a short puppet show to close the event. For more on Sona and Ayhan and the event: https://bit.ly/2potIVR.

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Turkey

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision as Foreign Policy Signal

Timelessness in Florence: Lockdowns, Flooding, and Disruption

I, Istanbul

CANCELLED Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult

Location:

Çağatay Akyol and Bülent Evcil: A Magical Journey through Music with Flute and Harp

Location:

Reciprocal Pan-Islamism: Bosnian Muslim Reformists and the Young Turk Revolution, 1908-1914

Location:

A Friendship Forged in Wartime: Ukrainian-Turkish Encounters on the Galician Front in WWI

Location:

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

Location:

Arif Orçun Söylemez

CANCELLED Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community"

Location:

Screening: "Heads and Tails" (2019)

Location:

CANCELLED Book talk: "Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire"

Location:

"Erdoğan the Good" or "Erdoğan the Bad?" A Conversation with Soner Çağaptay on US-Turkey Relations Following US Withdrawal from Syria

Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond

Location:

Video: 'Trauma, Magic, Love': a tribute to Osman Kavala on his birthday

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