Join OTSA for “Empire of Officials: Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy" with Abdulhamit Kırmızı, Marmara University and University College Dublin, on Friday, May 29, 2026 at 12pm CST (8pm Istanbul) via Zoom. Register here: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Next Wednesday, May 13! Register: bit.ly/4thxdsj

TODAY, May 4! Register: bit.ly/3QsnzEN

Next Monday, May 4! Register: bit.ly/3QsnzEN

Join KMTS for "Energy Security in Turbulent Times & Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics" with Şuhnaz Yılmaz Özbağcı, Koç University, on Wednesday, May 13th at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515. More info and to register: bit.ly/4thxdsj

Happening now! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join KMTS for "How to Win a Battle in the Culture War: Techno-nationalism and Hegemony in Turkey" with Yohanan Benhaïm, Keyman Visiting Scholar, on Monday, May 4 at 4pm in Harris Hall, 108. Reception to follow. More info and to register: bit.ly/3QsnzEN

This Wednesday, April 29! Register: bit.ly/47GG1Px

Monday, May 4! More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4bzsdr5

Next Wednesday, April 29! Register: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/640089

Monday, April 20! More info and register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/639899

Next Monday, April 20! More info and register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/639899

Today! Register: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This Friday, April 10! Register: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

TODAY, APRIL 8 in person and on Zoom! Join KMTS and specialist in Byzantine history Sergey Ivanov, Northwestern University, for a talk on the origin of the Gagauz people, Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christians now living primarily in Moldova. Register: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/639902

THIS WEDNESDAY in person and on Zoom! Join KMTS and specialist in Byzantine history Sergey Ivanov, Northwestern University, for a talk on the origin of the Gagauz people, Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christians now living primarily in Moldova. Register: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/639902

Register for next Friday, April 10! northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Next Wednesday, April 8! More info and to register: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/639902

TODAY! Register for Zoom: bit.ly/4suMo0y More info: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/639905

The deadline for the AATT Graduate Student Conference and the ATAA Scholarship has been extended to April 8, 2026. More info: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

TOMORROW! Register for Zoom: bit.ly/4suMo0y Register for In Person: bit.ly/4shmPzC

Next week! Register: bit.ly/4r6lbQp

Join Keyman MTS for “From 'Byzantine Intrigues’ to Civil Byzantium: The Making of Byzantium in Modern Turkey” with Koray Durak, Boğaziçi University, on Monday, April 20th at 12:30pm in Kresge Hall, Room 1515. Register: bit.ly/4aSG7Wk

Join KMTS for “From Entitlement to Deservingness: Queer Migration through Turkey to the EU and North America" with Mert Koçak, Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow, on Monday, May 4th at 4pm in Harris Hall, Room 108. More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4bzsdr5

Register for next Tuesday, March 31! bit.ly/4r6lbQp

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/