2017 Annual Conference: Understanding Turkey
“Understanding Turkey: Vision, Revision, and the Future”
The conference will bring together a diverse group of scholars, working across the humanities and the social sciences, who are undertaking research within a broad definition of Turkish Studies. Papers will focus on space (eg. geography, statist and anti-statist discourses, the environment, politics, visual depiction), narrative (eg., history, historiography, fiction, revision, resistance, alterity), and affect/emotion (eg., memoir, biography, aesthetic and religious expression and reception).
The conference will commence with a screening of "Clair Obscur" (Dir. Yesim Ustaoglu, 2016) on April 27, and end a screening of "The Last Schnitzel" (Dir. Kaan Arici & Ismet Kurtulus, 2017) on April 29. Organized as part of a Stanford course, the film screenings are free and open to the public.
Conference participation is restricted to faculty, students, researchers affiliated with a university. The conference sessions are closed to the public and the press. The venue information will be provided only to the confirmed RSVPs.
Conference Papers (coming soon-- distributed only to confirmed RSVPs)
Image Credit: "Don Quixote" illustrated by Murat Palta as part of the "Incarnated by Words" series
[Cosponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford Global Studies, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy and the Europe Center]