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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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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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