Alex Balistreri
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Junior Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg.
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This article took me to unexpected places! Ostensibly about a Swiss sociologist in Turkey in the 1930s, it touches on global right-wing ideologies, the nature of Kemalism, and the politics of experts in the early republic. Open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social 32:2.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
‘Foreign experts brought to the Ministry of Economy, at a meeting’. The photo appears to depict the visit of American Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein to Ankara in November 1930 (personal collection of the author).
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Professor @vhtroyansky.bsky.social is bringing his award-winning book, Empire of Refugees, to Hamburg! Excited to organize his lecture and to invite all interested to attend: Th. 26 June 2025 at 16:15, Lecture Hall K, @uni-hamburg.de.
Informational poster for the lecture of Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky at the University of Hamburg, 26 June 2025.
balistrerialex.bsky.social
This article took me to unexpected places! Ostensibly about a Swiss sociologist in Turkey in the 1930s, it touches on global right-wing ideologies, the nature of Kemalism, and the politics of experts in the early republic. Open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social 32:2.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
‘Foreign experts brought to the Ministry of Economy, at a meeting’. The photo appears to depict the visit of American Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein to Ankara in November 1930 (personal collection of the author).