Begum Adalet Book Talk: Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
Leena Dallasheh received her PhD in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at NYU.Her work focuses on the social and political history of Nazareth from 1940 to 1966, tracing how Palestinians who remained in Israel in 1948 negotiated their incorporation in the state, affirming their rights as citizens and their identity as Palestinian. Her talk titled “Between Nation and State: Nazareth’s Palestinian Citizens Legal Strategies in Israel” is based on her latest research.
A round table discussion on the current situation in Turkey with Dr. Sinan Birdal (USC), Howard Eissenstat (St. Lawrence U.), Elif Sarı (Cornell U.), Azat Gündoğan (Cornell U.) – Moderated by Mostafa Minawi (Cornell U.)
Beirut on Stage: The Arab Experience of the Ottoman Great War
In in this talk Professor Göçek discusses her latest book Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Denial of Collective Violence Against Armenians (2014).
Turkish Nationalism and German Colonialism: A Join Venture During WWI Furhmann’s research on this period shows that despite their semi-colonial aspirations in West Africa, Germans took on important roles as…
Lerna Ekmekcioğlu (MIT), “The Sex of Genocide: Armenian Women and Their Children During and After WWI,” Oct 8th, at Cornell University. This OTSI event is co-sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality…
Comparative Muslim Societies (CMS), in cooperation with OTSI presents Professor Leslie Peirce (NYU) who will discuss her latest project on writing the biography of Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana).
Oriental by Design: Ottoman Jews and the Stuff of Empire A talk by Historian Julia Phillips-Cohen (Vanderbilt University) on her followup project to her recently published Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews…
This Nowruz, experts from Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, University of Michigan-Flint, University of Toronto,Tel Aviv/ Yale University , Cornell University, will gather in Cornell Law School building to discuss the role of…
Screening of “The Silk Road of Pop,” followed by a discussion by the director Sameer Farooq and Prof. Allen Carlson (Government Department, Cornell University). Introduction and discussion moderation by Prof….
