Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/j/97676602573

To register for the Zoom meeting please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Damir Imamović, University of Sarajevo Music Academy, for "Bosnian Love Songs Between Two Empires: Musical Tradition and Change from Ottoman to Habsburg Eras," on OCT. 8, from 12:30- 2:00PM at Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom!

Lunch will be served!
To register for the in-person event please visit: eventbrite.com/e/ayse-cagla...
To register for the Zoom event please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join KMTS and MENA for a talk with Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University, on Nov. 12, from 12:30-2:00PM in Kresge, RM 1515 and via Zoom, titled Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement.

Happening TODAY!

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room).

Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...

Lunch will be served!

Registration can be found here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632902

Join KMTS and speaker Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University, for the Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans" on November 5, 12:30- 2:00PM, at Norris University Center, 2-270.

And The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) 9th Annual Workshop (October 10-12, 2025), Harris Hall, 108

For a full program:
greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/202...

Please join the History Department for two events happening this October!

Talk by Jamal J. Elias: "Dreams of Khurasan: The Lives of Persian in the Ottoman World” On Friday, October 10, 16:00-17:30
Harris Hall, Room 108

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for "Industrial Islamism," on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 12:30PM-2:00PM at Norris Hall, Room 1-169B (Wildcat Room).

Registration: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632607

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
CEST Symposium 2025/2026 | L’Orientale University, Naples | 14–16 January 2026
For more information, please visit cest-turkey.org/cest-symposi...

The deadlines for OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 OTSA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Müteferriqa Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies have been extended until JULY 18! Please visit our website for more information: www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards.../

OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Join us this Friday at 12PM CST via Zoom!

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us this Wednesday via Zoom!

Join KMTS and Kaya Genç for the rescheduled event "The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey's Artistic Communities" happening on May 14, at 12:30PM CST in 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room! Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627900

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling.
To register, please visit northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us next Wednesday!