May 21, 7:00 pm, Building 370, Room 370 (450 Serra Mall, map) Film Screening: “Inside” [Yeralti] (Turkey, Dir. Zeki Demirkubuz, 2012) Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel “Notes from Underground”, director Zeki Demirkubuz’s latest film “Yeralti” [Inside] explores a man’s life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness. More about the film is available here. The screening [...]

June 3, 2013, 3:30 pm, Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra Mall, map) Marie-Pierre Ulloa (Stanford University), “The Maghrebi Diaspora’s Embrace of America: Negotiating North-African & Francophone identities in the U.S.” Marie Pierre Ulloa is Associate Director for Academic Programming and Student Outreach for the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and is also a lecturer in the [...]

April 9, noon, Lane History Corner, Room 307 (450 Serra Mall) Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshop Series Nathalie Rothman (University of Toronto), “Translating Empire: Ottomans, Venetians, and Dragomans in Early Modern Istanbul” Natalie Rothman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, specializing in the history of the Mediterranean in the early modern period. [...]

April 16, 2013, 3:30 pm, Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra Street) Banu Bargu (The New School), ”Fasting Unto Death: Necropolitical Resistance in Turkey’s Prisons” One way of writing the history of democracy in Turkey is through the lens of how it treats its dissidents, especially those considered to be “internal threats” to security. While the [...]

April 10, 2013, 3:30 pm, Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra Street) Orhan Tekelioğlu (Bahçeşehir University), ““Migrant Tastes and Formation of Popular Culture: The Case of Turkey” Abstract: In societies with continuous in-and-out migration in relatively short periods the formation of dominant culture comes into shape as “popular”. Continental theories for defining people’s culture mostly assume [...]

April 2, 2013, noon, Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra Street) Ozlem Altan-Olcay (Koc University), “Getting into form: Tensions of Class and Development” Abstract: In the recent decades, the global development paradigm has paid increasing attention to issues of gender equality as part of economic development initiatives. To this end, programs that push for women’s [...]

February 14, 5:30 pm, Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall (424 Santa Teresa) Joshua Landis (University of Oklahoma), “Syria: What’s Next?” In thinking about possible outcomes of the Syrian revolution and civil war, it is helpful to place Syria in the broader context of the Levant states, all of which are deeply divided and weak. This [...]

Thursday, March 14, 3:30 pm, Encina Hall West, Room 208 Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College), “Jewish Scholars Between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean” The subject of this talk is a network of scholars from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that bridged Istanbul, Crete, and the Veneto as well as Jewish, Christian, and Muslim intellectual life.  These [...]

Sunday, February 3, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, Bing Studio, Bing Concert Hall (327 Lasuen Street, map) A Workshop with Capella Romana Please join us for a discussion session on the musical traditions of the Christian East and West with the Northwest-based vocal ensemble Capella Romana, Prof. Bissera Pentcheva (Department of Art and Art History), and [...]

Monday, January 14, 4:15 pm — 5:45 pm, Encina Hall West, Room 208 Merthan Dundar (Ankara University), “From Panislamism to Greater Asianism: Japanese Empire, Islam, and the Turkic World” Abstract: After the Russian invasion of Kazan Khanate in 1552, Turko-Tatars of the Volga-Ural region became a part of the Russian Empire. Most of the Russian Muslim [...]