The Keyman Program promotes intellectual dialogue and scholarship to provide a critical understanding of contemporary Turkey.
Northwestern University
Joined January 2023
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NEXT WEEK! Join Keyman MTS for our conference “Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Istanbul” on May 22-23, 2026 in Harris Hall, Room 108. View the program and register: bit.ly/3PF8yiG
ZOOM OPTION ADDED!
Join KMTS for “From Entitlement to Deservingness: Queer Migration through Turkey to the EU and North America" with Mert Koçak, Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, on Monday, June 1st at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/48Yr7F4
Join KMTS for "Energy Security in Turbulent Times & Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics" with Şuhnaz Yılmaz Özbağcı, Koç University, on Wednesday, May 13th at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515.
More info and to register: bit.ly/4thxdsj
Join KMTS for "How to Win a Battle in the Culture War: Techno-nationalism and Hegemony in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, Keyman Visiting Scholar, on Monday, May 4 at 4pm in Harris Hall, 108. Reception to follow.
More info and to register: bit.ly/3QsnzEN
Join Keyman MTS for “From 'Byzantine Intrigues’ to Civil Byzantium: The Making of Byzantium in Modern Turkey” with Koray Durak, Boğaziçi University, on Monday, April 20th at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515. Register: bit.ly/4aSG7Wk
Join KMTS for “From Entitlement to Deservingness: Queer Migration through Turkey to the EU and North America" with Mert Koçak, Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, on Monday, May 4th at 4pm in Harris Hall, Room 108. More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4bzsdr5
Join Keyman MTS for “White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class" with Mustafa Yavaş @yavasmu, Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/47GG1Px
Watch the recording of "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" with @gorkem_akgoz , International Institute of Social History! youtu.be/jM3GHXRUQVU
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 the screening of YİBO on Wednesday, February 25 at 12:30pm in Harris Hall 108 and via Zoom! planitpurple.northwestern.ed…
Join KMTS for "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" with Görkem Akgöz @gorkem_akgoz , International Institute of Social History, on Wednesday, March 11th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/3OuieLW
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 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
Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.…...
TOMORROW, Wednesday, Nov. 12 in person AND on Zoom: "Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement," with Ayse Caglar, Vienna University. Register for Zoom: bit.ly/47CuqBG
For in-person: bit.ly/4ovZIQl
Join KMTS and MENA for a talk with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University, on Nov. 12, from 12:30-2:00PM in Kresge, RM 1515 and via Zoom, titled Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement.
