[Bilimsel Haber] ANN: Second Symposium on Modern Turkey, University of Chicago (May 12th & 13th, 2006)

[Onur İnal]

Dear Members:

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.

Hakan Ozoglu
University of Chicago

SECOND SYMPOSIUM ON MODERN TURKEY

Domestic, Regional and Global Challenges and Turkish Responses

Moderator: James Tallon
(Ida Noyes)

Hakan Özoglu
(University of Chicago)
Silencing the Opposition: Kemalist Response to Political Opposition 1920-1925

Dilek Barlas (Koc University)
Serhat Guvenc(Bilgi University)
A Middle Power in the Making: Turkish Diplomacy and Naval Policy in the Balkans and Mediterranean between the two World Wars

Joshua Walker
(Yale University)
Turkey in the Global Order

Critical Approaches to Modern Turkish History
Moderator: Kaya Sahin
(Ida Noyes)

Erol Ulker
(University of Chicago)
Assimilation of the Muslim communities in the first decade of the Turkish Republic (1923-1934)

Ramazan Aras
(University of Western Ontario)
Reconstruction of Assyrian Family in the Post-1915 Era in Mardin

Coskun Cakir
(Georgetown University)
The Role of Economic Historiography in the Modern Turkish Historiography

Poets, Musicians and Voices in Modern Turkey
Moderator: Martin Stokes
(Ida Noyes Library)

Metin Yüksel
(University of Chicago)
Exploring the 'Dengbêj' Tradition in Turkey

Melissa Bilal
(University of Chicago)
Armenian music in Turkey after 1990's: Politics of Representation and Re-making the boundaries of audibility

Sehvar Besiroglu
Changing Musical Identity of Women in the Ottoman Empire

Papers in other panels

Aslihan Tokgöz
(Brown University)
The Role of Day-Time Television Programming in the Lives of Rural Women: A Feminist Ethnography of Turkish Soap Opera Viewers in Contemporary Turkey

Sibel Oktay
(Sabanci University)
Civil Society and Foreign Donors, a Case Study: Turkey and the Open Society Institute

Özlem Aslan
(Bogaziçi University)
Mothers of Peace: The Experience of a Women's Organization within the Context of Kurdish Identity and Turkish Nationalism in Turkey

Megan Clark
(University of Chicago)
Making Kurdish Visible: Children and Other Displays

Also
Recognition of Professor ROBERT DANKOFF
Ida Noyes Library

To be followed by a reception in honor of Prof. Dankoff.

For more information about the MEHAT Conference please visit
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference.html


Hakan Özoglu, PhD
University of Chicago
aozoglu at uchicago.edu
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