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13.05.2025 | Protest & Authoritarianism: Turkey’s Disintegration of Democracy & Europe’s Silence
A TSN & SJT Panel Discussion Tuesday, 13 May 2025 | 17.00-18.30 CET (Panel Discussion) | Utrecht University | Brenninkmeijerzaal | Achter Sint Pieter 200 Utrecht| On-site only | Registration required TSN & SJT Panel discussion – ‘Protest & Authoritarianism: Turkey’s Disintegration of Democracy & Europe’s Silence How should we interpret the current repression in…
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12.05.2025 | After the March 19 Crackdown: Is Turkey an Autocracy?
Monday, 12 May 2025 | 17.00-19.00 CET (Lecture) | Leiden University | Wijnhaven | Achter Turfmarkt 99 The Hague | On-site only | Registration required Turkish politics was shaken by the arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, along with dozens of municipal officials and senior figures from the main opposition party, in the wake of…
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15.04.25 | Women’s Quest for Justice Beyond the Law: Marriage, Divorce and Commitment to God in Istanbul
TSN Lecture by Dr. Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu Tuesday 15 April 2025 | 17.00-18.30 CET (On-Site Lecture) | University of Amsterdam | Bushuis – Oost-Indisch Huis | Room E.102 | Registration not required This talk discusses the gendered quest for justice among ordinary Muslim women in Istanbul, drawing on their narratives of marital life and the divorce…
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10.04.25 | “Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris” – Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Turkey
TSN Lecture by Dr. Ivo Furman Thursday 10 April 2025 | 17.15-18.15 CET (On-Site Lecture) | Leiden University | Lipsius 030 | Cleveringaplaats 1 Leiden | Registration not required Abstract Lecture Home computers and video game consoles began arriving in Turkey shortly after the economic liberalization program announced on the 24th of January 1980. With…
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26.03.25 | Empire to Nation: The Modern Middle East in the Long Twentieth Century
Special Lecture by Reşat Kasaba, sponsored by International Institute of Social Studies & TSN Wednesday 26 March 2025 | 17.00-18.30 CET (Lecture) | International Institute of Social Studies | ISS Aula B, Kortenaerkade 12, 2518 AX Den Haag | On-site only | Registration not required Empire to Nation: The Modern Middle East in the Long…
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12.03.25 | Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
TSN Seminar by Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, sponsored by ERC Research Council Wednesday 12 March 2025 | 17.15-18.30 CET (Lecture) | Utrecht University | Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht | Brenninkmeijer Hall | On-site only | Registration not required Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State Between the 1850s and World War…
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10.12.2024 | From Natives to Foreigners: Enduring Erasures of Armenians in Turkey
This lecture introduces the concept of “denativization” to explore how Armenians in Turkey underwent this transformation. Denativization goes beyond human rights violations, addressing the systemic erasure of Armenian presence, identity, and history that continues long after the genocide, even as the vast Anatolian landscape has been emptied of Armenians. Through an examination of historical events,…
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15.11.24 | Biographies of Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Biographies of Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire In August 1915, the paths of Ali Cenani, an Ottoman deputy, Ahmet Faik, the former deputy governor of Baghdad, and Mehmet Yasin, a military dispatch officer, crossed in a particular town, Aintab, modern-day Gaziantep — situated on the boundaries of Cilicia (today known as the southern part…
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22.10.24 | What it Means to Imagine Turkey
Join us for a stimulating lecture by Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoğlu (University College London). Turkey has been forging a political imaginary and engineering a Turkish-ness, narrating a particular story of genetic and historical heritage. More recently, it has been investing in another, broader and more invasive imaginaries by evoking its imperial past that we refer to…
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28.06.24 | Crisis, Gender and Urban Space
This event encompasses a keynote lecture (open to all) by Dr Selda Tuncer, Associate Professor in Sociology at at Van 100. Yıl University, Turkey, followed by a masterclass aimed at graduate students working on topics related to crisis, gender, and urban space. Dr Tuncer has long-standing research experience on topics related to feminist geography, gender, public space, and everyday life.…
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