Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program

The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../

OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us this Wednesday via Zoom!

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling.
To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us next Wednesday!

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on May 21 at 12:30PM via Zoom! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join KMTS and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford University, on April 30, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST at 720 University Place, in the 2nd Floor Buffett Reading Room, for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Registration can be found here planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627899

The Government Against the University: Reports from Colombia, Hungary, Poland and Turkey

How have universities successfully defended academic freedom? Join us for an online panel featuring global university leaders & faculty members who have confronted state attacks.

📅 April 25 at 12 PM
🧑‍💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Unfortunately, this event today has been CANCELED. Please stay tuned for updates regarding the new date and time.

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

Join us Friday at 12PM!

Join us tomorrow at 12:30! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join KMTS and Chris Gratien for "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST, in Harris Hall, Room 108, co-sponsored by MENA and SCH.
Lunch will be served!

For registration and more details: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join us TODAY!!

Join KMTS and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies on April 9, 2025, from 4:30PM- 6:00PM CST for "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Baskin at University Hall, Room 201.

Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139

6/ Coşku Çelik @coskuclk.bsky.social will speak about her recent book, "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey". The event will be held in English and online!

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On April 23, 2025, I’ll be giving a talk on my recent book as part of the Histories and Trajectories of Capital in Turkey Talk Series organized by @keymanmts.bsky.social!
I’m thrilled by the invitation and excited to share and discuss my work with the KMTS community!

Join KMTS and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford University, on April 30, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST at 720 University Place, in the 2nd Floor Buffett Reading Room, for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Registration can be found here planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627899

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on April 23, beginning at 12:30 PM CST, via Zoom!
To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627898

Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025, from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628139

KMTS upcoming Spring events are now live! For more information and to register, please visit our website: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu