[Bilimsel Haber] Conference: “The History of American-Turkish Relations: 1833 - 1989” June 4-10, 2006 Istanbul and Urfa

Sule Tarakcioglu suletar at kulturad.org
Mon May 29 10:54:35 EEST 2006



There will be an exciting and important conference entitled: “The
History of American-Turkish Relations: 1833 - 1989”, organized by
Bogazici University and Harran University in Urfa. This will be an
opportunity for scholars from Turkey, the U.S. and other countries to
examine the long and close history of the two countries. The conference,
will produce volumes in Turkish and English that will serve as
significant reference works of this historical relationship.

Bogazici and Harran Universities will host the conference between June
4-10, 2006.

*5 June 2006*

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*Boğaziçi University Rectorate Conference Hall*

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09:30 - Opening Remarks

Coffee / Tea Break

*11:00 – 12:45* *Panel 1: “The Historical Backdrop: The Ottoman Period
and Establishment of the Relationship”*

_Chair:_ Selçuk Esenbel

_Discussant:_ Heath Lowry

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_11:00 – 12:20_

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*1) Sinan KUNERALP - *Isis Istanbul

/“Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States:
1869-1917”/**

*2) Murat ÖZYÜKSEL* - Istanbul University

/“A Deviation From The Monroe Policy: Chester Consession”/

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*3) Cemal YETKİNER* - The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

/“After Merchants, Before Ambassadors: Protestant Missionaries and Early
American Experience in the Ottoman Empire (1820-1860)”/

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*4) **Veysi AKIN* - Pamukkale University

/“Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinin Kurulması ve ABD’de İlk Türk Lobicilik
Faaliyeti”/

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/(Establishment of the Turkish-American Relationship and First Lobby
Attempt of Turks in The US)/

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12:20 – 12:45 Discussion – Questions/Answers

13:00 – 14:30* *Lunch

*14:30 – 17:15 Panel 2: “Diplomatic and Military Relations: Early Cold
War, Entry to NATO, Korean War & Diplomatic and Military Relations: Cold
War, NATO, Cyprus and Regional Developments”*

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_Chair:_ Kemal Kirişci

_Discussant:_ Bruce Kuniholm

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_14:30 – 15:30 _

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*1) Duygu Bazoğlu SEZER -* Bilkent University

/“//Turkish-American Defense Relations and Its Impact on the
Modernization of the Turkish Military”/

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*2) Sabri SAYARI* - Sabancı University

/“Regional Security Issues and US-Turkish Relations in the 1980s”/

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*3) Cameron BROWN* - Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA)
Center

/“The One Coalition They Craved to Join: Turkey in the Korean War”/

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15:30 – 15:45* *Discussion – Questions/Answers

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15:45 – 16:00* *Coffee Break**

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_16:00 – 17:00 _

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*4) Ablet KAMALOV - *Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

/“American and Turkish Diplomacy and the East Turkistan Republic in
Xinjiang (1944-1949)”/

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*5)** Athanasios THEOCHARIS - *University of Athens

/“The American Policy Concerning Turkey vis-à-vis Cyprus Issue At the
Early 1950s and the Impact on American - Turkish Relations”/

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*6)* *Aylin GÜNEY -* Bilkent University

/“The USA’s role in mediating the Cyprus Conflict: A Story of Success or
Failure?”/

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17:00 – 17:15 Discussion – Questions/Answers

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*6 June 2006*

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*Boğaziçi University Rectorate Conference Hall*

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*10:00 – 12:30 Panel 3: “Changing Dynamics: WWI, the Inter-war Years,
and WWII”*

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_Chair:_ Hakan Yılmaz

_Discussant:_ Nur Bilge Criss**

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_10:00 – 11:00 _

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*1) Feroz AHMAD* - University of Massachusetts

/“The Unionists and the United States During the War, 1914-1918”/

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*2) Howard A. REED - *University of Connecticut**

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/“Star Journalist Louise Bryant’s Long-lost Eyewitness Reports on
Mustafa Kemal and Associates in 1923”/

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*3) Hakan ÖZOĞLU - *University of Chicago

/An assessment of how the Americans viewed the new Turkish regime:
American Consular Reports (1922-1926) /

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11:00 – 11:15 Discussion – Questions/Answers

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break

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_11:30 – 12:10_

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*4) Sarah SHIELDS* - University of North Carolina

/“//The US and the Sancak Question: Navigating a New Relationshipin a
Rapidly-Changing Context”/

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*5) Ted WIDMER - *C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American
Experience* *

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/“The Long Journey of Cyrus Hamlin”/

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12:10 – 12:30 Discussion – Questions/Answers

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

*14:00 – 16:30 Panel 4: “**The Cultural-Intellectual Connections:
Founding of Turkish Universities, Student-Academic Exchange and
Interaction, Film, Art, other Cultural Relations & Immigration, Mutual
Perceptions, Stereotypes”*

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_Chair:_ Arzu Öztürkmen

_Discussant:_ Faruk Birtek

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_14:00 – 14:40 _

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*1) Behlül ÜSDİKEN* - Sabancı University

/“Carriers of Technical Know-how or Propagators of Private Enterprise:
American Influence on Business Education and the Management Discipline
in Turkey, 1950-1970”/

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*2) Aslı GÜR -* University of Michigan


  /“Educating the New England Gentlemen of the Orient”//
  Transculturation of New England Models of Higher Education in the
  19^th Century Ottoman Empire and Its Impact on the Ottoman Educational
  Reforms/

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14:40 – 15:00 Discussion – Questions/Answers

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

_15:15 – 16:15 _

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*3) Burcu SARI* - Bilkent University

/“Cold Face of Janus: Turkey’s American Movies”/

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*4) Gönül PULTAR* - Cultural Studies Association of Turkey

/“Turkish-America on Stage: Harputta Bir Amerikalı (An American in
Harput, 1955) and Pera Palas (1998)”/

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*5) Esra DANACIOĞLU *- Yıldız Teknik University


  /“American Missions, Armenians, Jews and Nestorians In The Ottoman
  Empire//”/

*16:15 – 16:30 Discussion – Questions/Answers*

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*8 June 2006*

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*Harran** University** Faculty of Arts and Sciences Amphi A*

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09:30 Opening remarks

Coffee / Tea Break

*11:00 – 12:15 Panel 5: “Diplomatic and Military Relations: Early Cold
War, Entry to NATO, Korean War & Diplomatic and Military Relations: Cold
War, NATO, Cyprus and Regional Developments”*

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_Chair:_ Bruce Kuniholm

_Discussant:_ Mustafa Pirili

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_11:00 – 12:00 _

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*1) Joshua WALKER* - Yale University

/“Diplomatic and Military Relations: Re-examining the Cold War Roots of
the American-Turkish Relationship”/

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*2) Burçak KESKİN KOZAT *- University of Michigan

/“Re-Interpreting Turkey’s Marshall Plan (1948-1952): Existing
Narratives, Their Weaknesses and An Alternative”/

*3) Eric M. USLANER - *University of Maryland* _and_ Kerem Ozan KALKAN -
*University of Maryland**

/“American Public Support for Aid to Turkey After World War II”/

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12:00 – 12:15 Discussion – Questions/Answers

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

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*14:00 – 15:35 Panel 6: “The Cultural-Intellectual Connections: Founding
of Turkish Universities, Student-Academic Exchange and Interaction,
Film, Art, other Cultural Relations & Immigration, Mutual Perceptions,
Stereotypes”*

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_Chair:_ Arzu Öztürkmen

_Discussant:_ Büşra Ersanlı

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14:00 – 15:20* *

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*1) Esra PAKİN* - Istanbul Bilgi University

/“The Emergence of American Language And Literature Departments In
Turkey During The ‘Cultural’ Cold War”/**

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*2) Muammer GÜL - *Harran University

*/“From the window of local history Turkish-American Relationships:
Harput and Rahika Novels”/*

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*/(/*/Yerel Tarihin Penceresinden Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: Harput ve
Rahika Adlı// Roman)**/

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*3) Murat ERDEM* - Ege University

/“Perceptions of American Aid As Reflected In Political Cartoons
Published In Turkey (1945-1960)”/

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*4) Pınar GÖZEN* - Bilkent University

/“The Cold War, Jazz and Turkey”/**

* *15:20 – 15:35 Discussion – Questions/Answers

15:35 – 16:00 Coffee break

*16:00 – 17:00 General Panel Discussion*

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Conference Organizers:

Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University, History), Meltem Toksöz (Boğaziçi
University, History), Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, History),
Tony Greenwood (Boğaziçi University, History and ARIT), Hakan Yılmaz
(Boğaziçi University, Political Science and International Relations),
Büşra Ersanlı (Marmara University, International Relations), Mustafa
Pirili (Harran University, Economic Theory and Politics), Nur Bilge
Criss (Bilkent University, International Relations), Bruce Kuniholm
(Duke University, Public Policy Studies and History), Ian Lesser
(Woodrow Wilson Center), Heath Lowry (Princeton University Near Eastern
Studies), Jim Kapsis (Princeton University Near Eastern Studies), Nur
Gürani Arslan (Boğaziçi University, Turkish Language and Literature)





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