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…

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…

PhD Defence by Güldeniz Kıbrıs Leiden University | 1 September 2022 | Academy Building – Rapenburg 73 Leiden | 15.00-15.45 CET | On-site & online This dissertation 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…

Annual Roundtable Lecture on Contemporary Research Trends in Turkish Studies 2022 by Kerem Öktem Leiden University | Lipsius Building 148 | Friday 2 September 11.15 – 13.00 | please register via Petra de Bruijn – p.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl Since the 2019 local elections in Turkey, a substantial number of municipalities have passed to parties of the opposition.…

In this shared book launch TSN Members Özge Calafato and Enno Maessen will present their new monographies, Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era by Calafato and Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu. The event will focus on the contents of their respective books,…

A public lecture by Nora Lessersohn (University College London, Smithsonian American Art Museum & National Museum of American History) | Thursday 19 May | 17.00 CET | via Teams This talk will examine the life and work of an Ottoman Armenian American man named Christopher Oscanyan (1818-1895). In particular, it will explore his diplomatic efforts…

A public lecture by Dr Emre Erol (Sabancı University) | 13 April 2022 | 17.00-18.30 CET | Utrecht University, Drift 21 Utrecht – Sweelinckzaal What we think of our past has an impact on our present. This has been one of the main challenges for those who are interested in the scientific study of the…

You are cordially invited to a book panel on 10 March 2022 (Thursday, 17.00-19.00 CET) on Zoom to discuss Alp Yenen’s and Ramazan Öztan’s edited volume, Age of Rogues Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires. The volume came out in June 2021 with Edinburgh University Press and analyzes several cases of political violence at the margins of…

WW1 in the Middle East On the occasion of the temporary exhibition For Civilisation. The First World War in the Middle East, IFFM together with the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries (TSN), Power in History: Centre for Political History (University of Antwerp) and the Hannah-Arendt-Institute (Mechelen) is organising the international conference The First…

 A conference organized by the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries (TSN) & the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) University of Amsterdam – November 11-12, 2021 Exile and flight, forced or voluntary, recurrently and perennially affects societies and peoples across Europe and the Middle East. Through the window of exile, however, we can…