Join Keyman MTS for “White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class" with Mustafa Yavaş @mustafa-yavas.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Register: bit.ly/47GG1Px

TOMORROW! Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Register for this Friday, March 20! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Apply for the 2026 CEST Summer School, "The Politics of Archives in Turkey and Related Geographies," in Naples, Italy from September 20-28 by April 9! More info: cest-turkey.org/cest-summer-...

Watch the recording of "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" with Görkem Akgöz, International Institute of Social History! youtu.be/jM3GHXRUQVU

The styles of NYC and LA hip-hop will meet centuries-old storytelling traditions from Damascus at Neo-Hakawati Nights on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 PM in the Louis Theater. Rapper and poet Omar Offendum will join multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil. RSVP required: www.eventbrite.com/e/neo-hakawa...

This Wednesday, March 11! Register: bit.ly/3OuieLW

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 “The 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 “The 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!

Read about the first screening and discussion in our documentary series “Witness, Archive, Evidence: Documentary Cinema and the Politics of Memory in Turkey" in @thedailynu.bsky.social and... dailynorthwestern.com/2026/01/30/c...

Join Keyman MTS for "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" with Görkem Akgöz, 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 “Drones, Cartoons and Festivals: Techno-Nationalist Culture in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, 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 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 us now on Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tomorrow!

Reminder to join us this Thursday, January 29!

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

Reminder to apply for the Keyman Posdoctoral Fellowship by next Monday, January 26! keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...

Join OTSA for “Inhabiting Extended Transiency in Fikirtepe, Istanbul" with Francesco Pasta, Architecture Sans Frontières-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/

Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/.../early-ca....

Reminder: Apply for the Keyman MTS Postdoctoral Fellowship by January 26! keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...

Applications are now open for the Keyman MTS Postdoctoral Fellowship! For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...

TOMORROW, Wednesday, Nov. 12 in person AND on Zoom: "Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement," with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University. Register for Zoom: bit.ly/47CuqBG For in-person: bit.ly/4ovZIQl

Next week!

Tomorrow!

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.

We're looking forward to our event with @theodorad.bsky.social next Wednesday, November 5!

Happening now!

Tomorrow!

Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.

Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/j/97676602573

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Damir Imamović, University of Sarajevo Music Academy, for "Bosnian Love Songs Between Two Empires: Musical Tradition and Change from Ottoman to Habsburg Eras," on OCT. 8, from 12:30- 2:00PM at Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom!

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.