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.

Happening TODAY!

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room). Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW! Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026 For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...

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.

Please join the History Department for two events happening this October! Talk by Jamal J. Elias: "Dreams of Khurasan: The Lives of Persian in the Ottoman World” On Friday, October 10, 16:00-17:30 Harris Hall, Room 108

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room). Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW! Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026 For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...

The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../

OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us this Wednesday via Zoom!

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling. To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us next Wednesday!

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

Join KMTS and Coşku Çelik, Kadir Has University, for "Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction: Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey" on May 21 at 12:30PM via Zoom! Registration can be found here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join KMTS and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Stanford University, on April 30, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST at 720 University Place, in the 2nd Floor Buffett Reading Room, for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Registration can be found here planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627899

How have universities successfully defended academic freedom? Join us for an online panel featuring global university leaders & faculty members who have confronted state attacks. 📅 April 25 at 12 PM 🧑‍💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Unfortunately, this event today has been CANCELED. Please stay tuned for updates regarding the new date and time.

Join KMTS and KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow, Önder Eren Akgül, on May 7, 2025, for "The Order of Dispossession: Crisis and the Making of Global Capital in the Late Ottoman Empire," in Harris Hall, Room 108 from 12:30- 2:00PM CST. To register, please visit planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628115

Join us Friday at 12PM!

Join us tomorrow at 12:30! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join KMTS and Chris Gratien for "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 12:30- 2:00PM CST, in Harris Hall, Room 108, co-sponsored by MENA and SCH. Lunch will be served! For registration and more details: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627600

Join us TODAY!!

Join KMTS and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies on April 9, 2025, from 4:30PM- 6:00PM CST for "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" A Conversation with Author Yaron Ayalon and Orit Baskin at University Hall, Room 201.