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Promoting intellectual dialogue and scholarship to provide a deeper, interdisciplinary, and critical understanding of contemporary Turkey in connection with global social processes, problems or conflicts.
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Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Join us this Wednesday via Zoom!

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling. To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us next Wednesday!

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on May 21 at 12:30PM via Zoom! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join KMTS and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford University, on April 30, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST at 720 University Place, in the 2nd Floor Buffett Reading Room, for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Registration can be found here planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627899

How have universities successfully defended academic freedom? Join us for an online panel featuring global university leaders & faculty members who have confronted state attacks. 📅 April 25 at 12 PM 🧑‍💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Unfortunately, this event today has been CANCELED. Please stay tuned for updates regarding the new date and time.

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

Join us Friday at 12PM!

Join us tomorrow at 12:30! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join KMTS and Chris Gratien for "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST, in Harris Hall, Room 108, co-sponsored by MENA and SCH. Lunch will be served! For registration and more details: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join us TODAY!!

Join KMTS and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies on April 9, 2025, from 4:30PM- 6:00PM CST for "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Baskin at University Hall, Room 201.

Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139

On April 23, 2025, I’ll be giving a talk on my recent book as part of the Histories and Trajectories of Capital in Turkey Talk Series organized by @keymanmts.bsky.social! I’m thrilled by the invitation and excited to share and discuss my work with the KMTS community!

Join KMTS and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford University, on April 30, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST at 720 University Place, in the 2nd Floor Buffett Reading Room, for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Registration can be found here planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627899

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on April 23, beginning at 12:30 PM CST, via Zoom! To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627898

Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139

KMTS upcoming Spring events are now live! For more information and to register, please visit our website: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu

Now rescheduled for May 14, 2025. See you at @keymanmts.bsky.social! planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Join KMTS and Chris Gratien for "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST, in Harris Hall, Room 108, co-sponsored by MENA and SCH. Lunch will be served! For registration and more details: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join us this Friday beginning at 12PM via Zoom!

Join us TOMORROW at 12PM via Zoom!

CALL FOR APLICATIONS / CEST Summer School – University of Turin, 24–31 August 2025 Turkey’s Culture Wars –– Culture, Politics, and Society Under Autocratization For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/news-and-ann...

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, for an event with MESA Global Academy Fellow Dr. Begüm Burak titled "Online Censorship as a Tool of Failed Governmentality in Turkey" via Zoom beginning at 12PM! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Applications are open until Feb. 24!!

Coming in Spring 2025! Pop Music, History, and the Nation (MENA 390-4-2, HISTORY 393-0-24) with Instructor and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenan Sharpe, TTh 3:30- 4:50PM.

Join MENA Languages, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, and CLI on Wednesday, February 19 from 5-7PM in Kresge Hall, Room 1-515 for Turkish Shadow Theater and a Puppet Making Workshop! Turkish food will be served. To register, please visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/turkish-sh...

Join MENA Languages, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, and CLI on Wednesday, February 19 from 5-7PM in Kresge Hall, Room 1-515 for Turkish Shadow Theater and a Puppet Making Workshop! Turkish food will be served. To register, please visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/turkish-sh...

Coming in Spring 2025! Pop Music, History, and the Nation (MENA 390-4-2, HISTORY 393-0-24) with Instructor and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenan Sharpe, TTh 3:30- 4:50PM.

Our events with Kaya Genç on Wednesday February 12, 2025, have been POSTPONED due to the possibility of inclement weather. Stay tuned for updates on our website and social media accounts for a rescheduled time and date.

Join us for TWO events with Kaya Genç, happening on Feb. 12, 2025! “The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” from 12:30-2PM at Harris Hall, 108, followed by a reception from 4:30PM-6:30PM at the Buffett Institute Reading Room.

Applications are open until Feb. 24!!

FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE! Free tickets to Fazil Say, Piano on Feb. 4 at 8PM at the Athenaeum Center! To secure tickets, please visit www.eventbrite.com/e/fazil-say-... Tickets can be picked up at the front door of the venue.

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, for an event with MESA Global Academy Fellow Dr. Begüm Burak titled "Online Censorship as a Tool of Failed Governmentality in Turkey" via Zoom beginning at 12PM! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join the Global Learning Office on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, from 4-5pm CST via Zoom for an info session about study abroad in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, or Turkey! For more information, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/622618

The CfA for the KMTS Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop for Spring 2025 are NOW OPEN until Feb. 14, 2025! For more information, please visit keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/events/works...

The CfP for the 2025 KMTS Annual Conference is now open! "Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul" will be held from May 30-June 1, 2025, in Istanbul, thanks to Sabancı University. For more information and the application please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/events/annua...

Applications for the KMTS 2025- 2027 Postdoctoral Fellowship close THIS FRIDAY!

Join us for TWO events with Kaya Genç, happening on Feb. 12, 2025! “The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” from 12:30-2PM at Harris Hall, 108, followed by a reception from 4:30PM-6:30PM at the Buffett Institute Reading Room.

Happening TODAY at 12:30PM in University Hall, 201!

NOW OPEN! Applications for the Sakıp Sabancı Center Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies. For more information, please visit sakipsabancicenter.columbia.edu/content/saki...

Our upcoming events and deadlines for Winter 2025!