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 Mediterranean Studies Forum, Stanford Global Studies, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy and the Europe Center]