Turkey in the Modern World

“The Weakened State of Turkey” Speakers: Simon A. Waldman, Co-author, The New Turkey and Its Discontents , Oxford University Press, 2017. Emre Çalışkan, Co-author, The New Turkey and Its Discontents , Oxford University Press, 2017. Co-sponsored by the...

"Imagining the New Turkey: Consequences and Contradictions of the Constitutional Referendum" Speaker: Henri Barkey, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...

“Why the Turkish Model Failed” Speaker: Mustafa Akyol, Senior Visiting Fellow, the Freedom Project, Wellesley College; Guest Opinion Writer, New York Times and Al-Monitor.com. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University...

"Democratic Transition and the Rising Tide of Majoritarianism: Comparing the Cases of Greece and Turkey" Speaker: Ioannis Grigoriadis, Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies, Department of Political Science and Public Administration...

“Governing the Family through Religion: Family and Religious Counseling Bureaus and the Politics of the Family in the New Turkey” Speaker: Hikmat Kocamaner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; Visiting Scholar, Center for...

“Turkey and the European Union: From Full Membership to Strategic Partnership” Speaker: Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe, Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University...

"Robbing the Armenians and the Making of the Gaziantep Urban Bourgeoisie Elites in the Republic of Turkey (1923-1931)" Speaker: Umit Kurt, Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...

"Trajectories of Collective Violence in Turkish History: From the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish Massacres" Speaker: Fatma Muge Gocek, Professor, Department of Sociology and the Program in Women’s Studies, University of Michigan. Contact: Jessica...

“Why Cannot Turkey Get it Right? The Saga of Democratization in Turkey” Speaker: Ersin Kalaycioglu, Professor of Political Science, Sabanci University, Istanbul. Contact: Jessica Barnard jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu Chairs: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty...

"The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Weathering the Storm in Turkey and Beyond” Speaker: Ahmad Mamdoh Tarakji, President, Syrian American Medical Society. Contact: Jessica Barnard jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu Chairs: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate...