Alex Balistreri
balistrerialex.bsky.social
Alex Balistreri
@balistrerialex.bsky.social
Junior Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg.
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This article took me to unexpected places! Ostensibly about a Swiss sociologist in Turkey in the 1930s, it touches on global right-wing ideologies, the nature of Kemalism, and the politics of experts in the early republic. Open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social 32:2.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
New calls for applications to several fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions — Alevi studies in Leipzig (apply by 30 Nov) — and environmental/agricultural history of Turkey in Basel (apply by 8 Dec).

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November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Professor @vhtroyansky.bsky.social is bringing his award-winning book, Empire of Refugees, to Hamburg! Excited to organize his lecture and to invite all interested to attend: Th. 26 June 2025 at 16:15, Lecture Hall K, @uni-hamburg.de.
June 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This article took me to unexpected places! Ostensibly about a Swiss sociologist in Turkey in the 1930s, it touches on global right-wing ideologies, the nature of Kemalism, and the politics of experts in the early republic. Open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social 32:2.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
June 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM