Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey April 19, 2017

Fatma Müge Göçek

Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies

University of Michigan

"Minorities in Turkey: from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic"

At the Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston

Boston University

6:00 P.M., April 19, 2017

"The Turkish Complex" is the topic of the 2015 Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey at Boston University

Reserve your seat for the 20th annual CKLS lecture.

This years lecture is delivered by Professor Jenny White from the Department of Anthropology at Boston University.  Those who follow Turkey will be well-acquainted with her writings (and her blog Kamil Pasha), not least her most recent book: Muslim Natonalism and the New Turks.

Can Iraq be Saved? Streaming audio and report now available.

The lecture by Dr. Joseph R. Núñez, sponsored by the Boston University Institute for Iraqi Studies (@IISBU) is now available in streaming audio.  The rapporteur's report by Alec Lynde may also be downloaded in PDF.

The IISBU website also contains reports and streaming audio and video from the workshop series on refugees.  Or check the Facebook page or Google+ page.

Can Iraq Be Saved?

Retired Colonel Joseph Núñez spent five years in Iraq. What makes him relatively unique is that much of his time was spent in Iraq's provinces, so he has been, so to speak, in the weeds. His talk is sponsored by the Institute for Iraqi Studies (@IISBU) at the Pardee School, 121 Bay State Road, First Floor, on November 19th at 4 p.M. I have known the speaker for a long time, beginning with three years as colleagues on the West Point faculty. This shoud be a fascinating talk.

Soli Ozel's Campagna-Kerven Lecture at Boston University: "A New Honeymoon: Turkish-American Relations in the Age of Arab Awakening, NATO Weakening, and the Asian Pivot"

Professor Soli Ozel is well known to many readers.  He is a faculty member at Kadir Haz University in Istanbul.  His April 24, 2013, lecture was lively and insightful, occasionally irreverent lecture and certainly of the moment.  The talk is now available at the CKLS website.  (Unfortunately, the streaming video was delayed by a series of technical glitches; a few tweaks remain to be done.)

Jillian Schwedler on the Political Geography of the Arab Spring

Lecture with Jillian Schwedler

“The Political Geography of the Arab Spring”

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
5:00 to 6:30 pm
International Relations Conference Room
152 Bay State Road, Room 102, Boston, MA

Join us as Dr. Jillian Schwedler discusses the political changes since the Arab Spring and the geographical implications for the area today. Dr. Jillian Schwedler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Beginning September 2013, she will join the faculty of the City University of New York, Hunter College, as Professor of Political Science. Dr. Schwedler is author of the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge 2006) and most recently editor (with Dr. Laleh Khalili) of Policing and Prisons in the Middle East (Columbia/Hurst 2010). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Middle East Policy, Middle East Report, Journal of Democracy, and Social Movement Studies (among others). Dr. Schwedler was a member of the editorial committee (1995-2002) and chair of the board of directors (2002-2009) of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), publishers of Middle East Report. She has conducted research in Jordan, Yemen, and Egypt and has traveled extensively throughout the region. She is currently finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Protesting Jordan: Space, Law, Dissent,” which examines political protests and policing in the Hashemite Kingdom from 1946 to the present.

Free and open to the public.

Seats are limited. Please let us know if you plan to attend.

"Citizenship and Community in Iraqi Politics and Society", Sami Zubaida, April 2 at Boston U.

The Institute for Iraqi Studies at Boston University is please to present:

"Citizenship and Community in Iraqi Politics and Society"

Speaker: Sami Zubaida

Monday, April 2, 2012

4:30 PM

Boston University, Room B19, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215