Turkey

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Selen Erdoğan, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies In this talk, Selen Erdoğan will discuss Bilge Karasu’s literary contributions to queer thought. Karasu is one of the most prominent writers...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Dr. Handan Karakas Demir Visiting Fellow, Center for MIddle Eastern Studies, Harvard University This talk delves into the auditory dimensions of place attachment in the pre-modern Ottoman context. It explores...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Hasan Hüseyin Güneş Associate Professor of Ottoman History, Department of History, University of Bartın This talk will focus on rāfiḍī refutations in the Ottoman Empire. Conflict and polemics between Sunni...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Nora Lessersohn Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies In this talk I will examine Christopher Oscanyan's representations of Turkish life and people to an American audience in the 1850s-60s...

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures A book talk by C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Soli Özel Senior lecturer, Istanbul Kadir Has University Soli Özel holds a BA in Economics from Benningon College (1981) and an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced...

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents Ayfer Karakaya-Stump Associate Professor, Department of History, College of William & Mary Winner of the 2020 SERMEISS Book Award for outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies, The...

CMES presents the annual CMES Hrant Dink Memorial lecturer PD Dr. Talin Suciyan Associate Professor (Privat Dozentin) of Turkish Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich This lecture will discuss the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat through...

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents Zozan Pehlivan Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Mellon Fellow at Newberry Library, Chicago Professor Pehlivan is an environmental historian of...