Past Events

2017

• Event: "Turkey and the United States: Assessment and Prospects" (May 12, 2017)
• Event: "Regime Change: Turkey's (À La Turca) Presidential System" (February 15, 2017)

2016

• Event: "The Syria Conundrum: A New Approach Under the Trump and Erdoğan Presidencies?" (December 15, 2016)
• Event: "Turkey's Transition to Presidentialism: From Populism to Authoritarianism" (November 30, 2016)
• Event: "Transcending Boundaries: The Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800" (June 20 - July 15, 2016)
• Event: "Turkey's Authoritarian Turn" (March 23, 2016)
• Event: "Twitter and Politics in Turkey: Opinion Shapers and Public Opinion" (March 9, 2016)
• Event: "Turkey's Role in the Shaping of a New Middle East" (February 26, 2016)

2015

• Event: "Setting the Stage for Ataturk: From Empire to Ashes? The Ottomans and WWI" (November 9, 2015)
• Event: "National Elections in Turkey: Here We Go Again?" (October 29, 2015)
• Event: "Turkey and the War Against ISIS: A Reliable Ally?" (October 15, 2015)
• Event: "Reform & Reality: Punishment and Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire" (October 1, 2015)
• Event: "New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love and Piety Among Turkish Youth" (September 25, 2015)
• Event: "The Other Exodus: The Sephardic Jews and the Ottoman Empire After 1492" (September 17, 2015)
• Event: "Turkey's Kurdish Question: What Do the 1190s Tell Us About Contemporary Politics?" (September 14, 2015)
• Event: "Gallipoli, Command Under Fire" (April 28, 2015)
• Event: "Çanakkale Battles Photo Exhibition" (April 20-24, 2015)
• Event: "Islam in the Turkish Republic: The Discourse and Praxis of Islamic Modernism" (March 30, 2015)
• Event: "The War of the Ottoman Succession" (March 26, 2015)
• Event: "Time to Reconsider? Turkish Foreign Policy and Public Opinion Towards the EU" (March 23, 2015)
• Event: "Structuring Ethnic Boundaries: Secular Kurdish Ethnopolitical Elites and Islam" (March 17, 2015)
• Event: "Syrian Lands During the Great War: Readjustment of the Ottoman State Under Cemal Pasha's Governorate" (March 16, 2015)

2014

• Calling all Graduate Students in Turkish/Turkic Studies: "Graduate Student Pre-Conference" (November 22, 2014)
• Event: "The Ottoman Authorities and the Franciscans: a View of Jerusalem in the Seventeenth Century" (November 21, 2014)
• Book Talk: In the City of Gold and Silver with Kenize Mourad (November 17, 2014)
• Book Launch: Midnight at the Pera Palace with Charles King (October 28, 2014)
• Event: "Kobani: A Challenge to the Peace Process?" (October 22, 2014)
• Event: "Comparative & Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Field of Turkish Studies" (October 10-11, 2014)
• Event: "Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency" (October 9, 2014)
• Event: "The Vernacular, the Modern and the Useful: Science Versus the 'Ulemā' in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire" (September 25, 2014)
• Event: "Turkey: ISIS and the Middle East" (September 24, 2014)
• Event: "Turkish Studies from an Interdisciplinary Perspective" (May 7, 2014)
• Event: "Turkey During World War II" (April 10, 2014)
• Event: "Cyprus and Energy Discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Catalyst for Conflict Resolution?" (March 31, 2014)
• Chief Turkish Cypriot Negotiator, Dr. Kudret Ozersay, delivered a talk regarding the latest round of peace talks on the island, and the likelihood of an agreement.
• Event: "Latest Developments in Cyprus Talks and Prospects for an Agreement" (March 18, 2014)
• Event: "Back to the Future? Contesting 'Ottoman' and 'European' Legacies in Turkey" (February 28, 2014)
• Event: "The Balkan Wars: A Turkish National Disaster (1913)" (February 27, 2014)
• Event: "Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency" (February 5, 2014)

2013

• Event: "The Syrian Civil War: Implications for Turkey and the Kurds" (November 25, 2013)
• Event: "The Day Turkey Stood Still: Merve Kavakçi and the Headscarf Issue in Turkey" (November 19, 2013)
• Event: "Turkey Unveiled: An Intensive Two-Day Seminar on Turkey" (October 5-6, 2013)
• ITS Lecture: "The Kurdish Initiative v2.0: Can Turkey Resolve it this Time?" (April 23, 2013)
• ITS Lecture: "Counter-Terrorism and Democracy: Civil-Military Relations in Turkey and the United States" (February 20, 2013)
• Lecture: "Jewish Life in 21st Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance" (February 12, 2013)
• ITS-BMW Lecture Series: "Between Turkey and Europe: Democracy's New Clothes" (January 18, 2013)
• ITS Lecture: "Turkey's Political Opposition: The Republican People's Party and the 2011 Elections" (January 16, 2013)

2012

• ITS-Okan University Joint Workshop: "Turkey's Changing Foreign Policy Paradigm Following the Arab Spring" (December 14, 2012)
• ITS Lecture: "No Business Without Water! Operating Khans and Factories in 19th Century İstanbul" (November 14, 2012)
• ITS Lecture: "Little Mehmed in the Ottoman Great War: Wartime Nervous Breakdown and the Politics of Medical Interpretation" (November 13, 2012)
• ITS-BMW Lecture: "Secularism, Islamism and Women's Rights in Turkey" (November 12, 2012)
• ITS-MEI Lecture Series: "Religious and Secular Elite Cooperation: Democratization in Turkey and the Middle East" (November 9, 2012)
• ITS-MEI Lecture Series: "Neo-Islamist Gender Perspective in Turkey - Secularism and New Women's Rights Policy of the Bureau of Religious Affairs" (November 5, 2012)
• ITS-MEI Lecture Series: "Turkey in the Balkans: Implications on EU Security Frameworks" (October 10, 2012)
• ITS-MEI Lecture Series: "Turkish-US Relations in the Evolving Middle East" (October 9, 2012)
• ITS-MEI Lecture Series: "Turkey and the Regional Dynamics of the Syrian Crisis" (September 27, 2012)
• ITS-MEI Lecture Series: "Turkey and Thailand: Unlikely Twins" (September 6, 2012)

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