@keymanmts
Promoting intellectual dialogue and scholarship to provide a deeper, interdisciplinary, and critical understanding of contemporary Turkey in connection with global social processes, problems or conflicts.
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 βThe 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 βThe 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...
Tomorrow!
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 YΔ°BO on Wednesday, February 25 at 12:30pm in Harris Hall 108 and via Zoom! planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/638891
Read about the first screening and discussion in our documentary series βWitness, Archive, Evidence: Documentary Cinema and the Politics of Memory in Turkey" in
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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 GΓΆrkem AkgΓΆz, International Institute of Social History, on Wednesday, March 11th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/3OuieLW
Apply by this Friday, February 20!
Tomorrow!
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 βDrones, Cartoons and Festivals: Techno-Nationalist Culture in Turkey" with Yohanan BenhaΓ―m, 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 YΔ°BO followed by a discussion with directors ΕΓΌkran Demir and ΓzgΓΌr Γnal 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...
Tomorrow!
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 BaŠon Thursday, January 29th at 12pm in Kresge 1515 and via Zoom! For more info and to register: bit.ly/4qG7CYD
Reminder to apply for the Keyman Posdoctoral Fellowship by next Monday, January 26! keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...
Join OTSA for βInhabiting Extended Transiency in Fikirtepe, Istanbul" with Francesco Pasta, Architecture Sans FrontiΓ¨res-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/