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16.05.24 | Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftists Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
What is Turkey’s mode of production? Does Turkey’s social structure diverge from that of the West? Will workers or intellectuals be the vanguard of the socialist struggle in Turkey? These questions sparked significant debates among the Turkish left during the Cold War. These debates led to investigations into the historical sociology of the Ottoman Empire…
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07.05.24 | In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey
In this event Görkem Akgöz (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) will discuss her latest book In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey. The book offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester” a name chosen by the Ottomans…
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23.04.24 |Landscapes of the Eastern Question: Architecture and Power Balances in Istanbul
The “cosmopolitan” districts of Galata and Pera in Istanbul, with embassies built since the beginning of the 16th century, can be seen as one of the first environments in world history where diplomacy constructed a peculiar urban space and landscape. In this lecture, Paolo Girardelli argues that, beginning in the mid 18th century, each phase…
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27.10.23 | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey
The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Republic of Turkey. The recently published book A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments, a project of Leiden University’s Turkish Studies, explores Turkey’s complex history since 1923 through one hundred expertly curated fragments of historical sources. Our panel will discuss this innovative…
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07.09.23 | The intertopian mode in the depiction of Turkey-originated migrants in European cinema
PhD Defence by Didem Durak 7 September 2023 | 10.00-10.45 CET | Films are one of the best test subjects for examining the depictions of hopes and despairs of migrants and the interactions between communities. This study is an inquiry into the presence and the utility of utopianism in film, in which I explore the…
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Smoke Rose Above the Skyline: Archive Destruction and Creation as Political Strategy in Late Cold War Turkey
2 May 2023 | 17.30 – 19.00 | PC Hoofthuis, Room 1.05 – Spuistraat 134 Amsterdam | University of Amsterdam A TSN Lecture by Kate Creasey (Brown University) Discussant: Dr. Alp Yenen (Leiden University)Moderator: Dr. Ayşenur Korkmaz (University of Amsterdam) Following the 12 September 1980 coup in Turkey, the left was decimated, military rulers subjected…
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Politics of Corruption and the Earthquake in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan
27 March | 17:00-18:30 | Spui 25 Amsterdam | Onsite & Online A panel discussion with Enno Maessen (Turkey Studies Network), Zeynep Koban (University of Amsterdam), Zeynep Kaşlı (Erasmus University), Burcu Köken (TU Delft), Sherwan Qasem (Médecins sans Frontières) and Uğur Üngör (NIOD/University of Amsterdam). Moderation: Beste İşleyen (University of Amsterdam). The two disastrous earthquakes…
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Streaming Piety: Religion in Turkish Television Drama
Thursday 15 December 2022 | 17:15 – 18:15 | Leiden University | Lipsius Cleveringaplaats 1 Leiden & Online Television drama is the strongest narrative tool for popular culture to represent and comment on the socio-political context in which it is produced. The idea that television drama is a powerful tool in present days cultural production…
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3…2…1…Action! Nationalism and Political Myths in Cold War Turkey
Online TSN Lecture | 10 November 2022 | 17.00-18.30 CET | Güldeniz Kıbrıs & Melis Behlil In this talk Dr Güldeniz Kıbrıs analyzes the changing discourses of Turkish nationalism between the 1950s-1980 through the reproduction of political myths in nationalist action/adventure films with historical settings. How myths narrate the nation’s spatial, ancestral, temporal roots, present situation, future, and…
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National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism: The American Passport in Turkey
University of Amsterdam | 22 September 2022 | Spui25 | 20.00-21.30 CET | On-site & online In their new book, The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism, Özlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta explore the diverse meanings and values that people outside of the United States attribute to U.S. citizenship, specifically…