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<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Dear
Members:<BR><BR>University of Chicago, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
announces "The Second Symposium on Modern Turkey" to take place within the
context of 21st Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (May 12th &
13th, 2006). List of papers on Modern Turkey are below.<BR><BR>Hakan
Ozoglu<BR>University of Chicago<BR><BR>SECOND SYMPOSIUM ON MODERN
TURKEY<BR><BR>Domestic, Regional and Global Challenges and Turkish
Responses<BR><BR>Moderator: James Tallon<BR>(Ida Noyes)<BR><BR>Hakan
Özoglu<BR>(University of Chicago)<BR>Silencing the Opposition: Kemalist Response
to Political Opposition 1920-1925<BR><BR>Dilek Barlas (Koc University)<BR>Serhat
Guvenc(Bilgi University)<BR>A Middle Power in the Making: Turkish Diplomacy and
Naval Policy in the Balkans and Mediterranean between the two World
Wars<BR><BR>Joshua Walker<BR>(Yale University)<BR>Turkey in the Global
Order<BR><BR>Critical Approaches to Modern Turkish History<BR>Moderator: Kaya
Sahin<BR>(Ida Noyes)<BR><BR>Erol Ulker<BR>(University of
Chicago)<BR>Assimilation of the Muslim communities in the first decade of the
Turkish Republic (1923-1934)<BR><BR>Ramazan Aras<BR>(University of Western
Ontario)<BR>Reconstruction of Assyrian Family in the Post-1915 Era in
Mardin<BR><BR>Coskun Cakir<BR>(Georgetown University)<BR>The Role of Economic
Historiography in the Modern Turkish Historiography<BR><BR>Poets, Musicians and
Voices in Modern Turkey<BR>Moderator: Martin Stokes<BR>(Ida Noyes
Library)<BR><BR>Metin Yüksel<BR>(University of Chicago)<BR>Exploring the
'Dengbêj' Tradition in Turkey<BR><BR>Melissa Bilal<BR>(University of
Chicago)<BR>Armenian music in Turkey after 1990's: Politics of Representation
and Re-making the boundaries of audibility<BR><BR>Sehvar Besiroglu<BR>Changing
Musical Identity of Women in the Ottoman Empire<BR><BR>Papers in other
panels<BR><BR>Aslihan Tokgöz<BR>(Brown University)<BR>The Role of Day-Time
Television Programming in the Lives of Rural Women: A Feminist Ethnography of
Turkish Soap Opera Viewers in Contemporary Turkey<BR><BR>Sibel Oktay<BR>(Sabanci
University)<BR>Civil Society and Foreign Donors, a Case Study: Turkey and the
Open Society Institute<BR><BR>Özlem Aslan<BR>(Bogaziçi University)<BR>Mothers of
Peace: The Experience of a Women's Organization within the Context of Kurdish
Identity and Turkish Nationalism in Turkey<BR><BR>Megan Clark<BR>(University of
Chicago)<BR>Making Kurdish Visible: Children and Other
Displays<BR><BR>Also<BR>Recognition of Professor ROBERT DANKOFF<BR>Ida Noyes
Library<BR><BR>To be followed by a reception in honor of Prof.
Dankoff.<BR><BR>For more information about the MEHAT Conference please
visit<BR></FONT><A
href="http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference.html"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference.html</FONT></A><BR><BR><BR><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">Hakan Özoglu, PhD<BR>University of Chicago<BR></FONT><A
href="mailto:aozoglu@uchicago.edu"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">aozoglu@uchicago.edu</FONT></A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>