Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program
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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program
@keymanmts.bsky.social
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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TOMORROW, Wednesday, Nov. 12 in person AND on Zoom: "Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement," with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University. Register for Zoom: bit.ly/47CuqBG
For in-person: bit.ly/4ovZIQl
TOMORROW, Wednesday, Nov. 12 in person AND on Zoom: "Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement," with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University. Register for Zoom: bit.ly/47CuqBG
For in-person: bit.ly/4ovZIQl
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Next week!
Join KMTS and MENA for a talk with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University, on Nov. 12, from 12:30-2:00PM in Kresge, RM 1515 and via Zoom, titled Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Tomorrow!
Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Join KMTS and MENA for a talk with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University, on Nov. 12, from 12:30-2:00PM in Kresge, RM 1515 and via Zoom, titled Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement.
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We're looking forward to our event with @theodorad.bsky.social next Wednesday, November 5!
Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Happening now!
Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Tomorrow!
Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/j/97676602573
October 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Damir Imamović, University of Sarajevo Music Academy, for "Bosnian Love Songs Between Two Empires: Musical Tradition and Change from Ottoman to Habsburg Eras," on OCT. 8, from 12:30- 2:00PM at Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom!
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Join KMTS and MENA for a talk with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University, on Nov. 12, from 12:30-2:00PM in Kresge, RM 1515 and via Zoom, titled Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement.
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Happening TODAY!
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room).

Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room).

Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607
September 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...
CEST Symposium 2025/2026, Naples – CEST
cest-turkey.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Please join the History Department for two events happening this October!

Talk by Jamal J. Elias: "Dreams of Khurasan: The Lives of Persian in the Ottoman World” On Friday, October 10, 16:00-17:30
Harris Hall, Room 108
September 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room).

Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607
September 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...
CEST Symposium 2025/2026, Naples – CEST
cest-turkey.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../
July 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/
May 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!
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...
June 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM