Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program

Join KMTS for "The Religious Vocabulary of Turkic-Speaking Christians and the Problem of the Origin of the Gagauz" with Sergey Ivanov, Northwestern University, on Wednesday, April 8 at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/4b6yzOF

Join KMTS for a screening of the documentaries Star on the Border and Missed Lives: the Doms followed by a discussion with directors Berivan Saruhan and Mehmet Kuyumcu on Tuesday, March 31 at 12:00pm in Kresge 1515 and via Zoom.
More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4r6lbQp

Register for next Wednesday, March 11! bit.ly/3OuieLW

Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, for “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century" on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/.../njl-VY-j...

Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Nir Shafiir @nirshafir.bsky.social, University of California, San Diego, for “The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire" on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register: northwestern.zoom.us/.../gfgCJM_L...

Apply for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship by THIS SUNDAY, March 1!

Register for this Friday, February 27! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Join us next Wednesday, February 25!

Apply for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship by March 1!

Register for next Friday, February 27! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Apply by tomorrow, February 20!

...register for the screening of YİBO on Wednesday, February 25 at 12:30pm in Harris Hall 108 and via Zoom! planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/638891

Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program holds ‘Dargeçit’ screening The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs’ Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program hosted a screening of the documentary “Dargeçit,” followed by a discussion with director Berke Baş on Thursday afternoon...

Read about the first screening and discussion in our documentary series “Witness, Archive, Evidence: Documentary Cinema and the Politics of Memory in Turkey" in
@thedailynu.bsky.social and...
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Join Keyman MTS for "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" with Görkem Akgöz, International Institute of Social History, on Wednesday, March 11th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/3OuieLW

Apply by this Friday, February 20!

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The application deadline for the OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship, in the amount of $1,500, has been extended to March 1. Students with diverse academic interests related to Turkey are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please see: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Join OTSA for “Drones, Cartoons and Festivals: Techno-Nationalist Culture in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, IREMAM, CNRS/Aix-Marseille University on Friday, February 27, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reminder to apply for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop by February 20!

Join Keyman MTS for a screening of the documentary YİBO followed by a discussion with directors Şükran Demir and Özgür Ünal on Wednesday, February 25th at 12:30pm in Harris Hall 108 and via Zoom! More info and to register: bit.ly/4kfIJR2

Join us now on Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Reminder to join us this Thursday, January 29!

Register for Zoom bit.ly/3Ln4H80
Register for In-Person: bit.ly/4r7q5gI

Join Keyman MTS for a screening of the documentary Dargeçit (Hold Still) followed by a discussion with director Berke Baş on Thursday, January 29th at 12pm in Kresge 1515 and via Zoom! For more info and to register: bit.ly/4qG7CYD

Become a Keyman Scholar: Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program - Northwestern University

Reminder to apply for the Keyman Posdoctoral Fellowship by next Monday, January 26! keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...

Join OTSA for “Inhabiting Extended Transiency in Fikirtepe, Istanbul" with Francesco Pasta, Architecture Sans Frontières-UK/Istanbul Policy Center, on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The 2026 OTSA Undergraduate Scholarship application is open until February 6. For more information, please visit: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/