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- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: September 23, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Religious and Secular Elite Values and Liberal Democracies: Lessons from Turkey"
- Speakers
- Somer, Murat
Associate Professor of International Affairs, Koc University. Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: October 19, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
- This is open to the public.
"Introduction to ‘Western Impact and Turkey’: A Historical, Theoretical and Conceptual Framework"
Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Oran, Baskin
Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: October 21, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The First Wave of Modernization (Kemalism)"
Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Oran, Baskin
Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: November 18, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
“Is Turkey Changing the Direction of its Foreign Policy?”
- Speakers
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: November 24, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Topography of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony"
- Speakers
- Ozkirimili, Umit
Associate Professor, Bilgi University, Istanbul.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: December 2, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
“Turkey’s Opening: Negotiations with Iraqi Kurdistan and US Redeployment from Iraq”
- Speakers
- Phillips, David
Director, Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, American University. Adjunct Professor, Department of Politics, New York University. Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States.; Director, Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, American University. Adjunct Professor, Department of Politics, New York University. Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: December 9, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"From Social Democracy to Islamic-Ottoman
Multiculturalism: Origins of the Historic Reforms in State Policies Towards
Ethnicity in Turkey"
- Speakers
- Akturk, Sener
Lecturer in Government, and Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: February 3, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Kurdish Initiative and the Present day Career of Kemalism"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
- Moderator/Chair
- Kafadar, Cemal
- Faculty Associate. Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University.
- Martin, Lenore G.
- Associate. Louise Doherty Wyant Professor and Professor of
Political Science, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel
College.
- Speakers
- Belge, Murat
Professor of Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University. Columnist for the Turkish daily, Taraf.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: April 14, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Islam and Nationalism in Turkey"
- Speakers
- White, Jenny
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Boston University.
- Event Cancelled: Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: April 21, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
- *Please note, this event has been cancelled.
- Speakers
- Ozgur, Iren
Adjunct Faculty, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: April 28, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Nazim Hikmet's Newspaper Prose: The Daily Preoccupations and Intellectual Horizons of a Turkish Communist in the 1930s"
- Speakers
- Berktay, Halil
Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: May 5, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The AKP Foreign Policy: Between Neo-Ottomanism and Republicanism"
- Speakers
- Taspinar, Omer
Professor of Security Strategy, U.S. National War College, Department of Security Studies, Brookings, Non-resident Fellow.
- Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
- Date: May 10, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
“New Social Structures: Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Turkey”
- Speakers
- Keyder, Caglar
Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton.
