Recent Events

ExTS seminar

Görkem Akgöz (Hacettepe University). 'The Early Trade Union Movement in Turkey: Politics, Ideology and Discourse'

ExTS Conference (27-29 May 2010)

Perspectives from Turkey in the New Millennium

Organisers Mark Herzog and Dr Shane Brennan, with the financial support of STRATIM (Ankara)

ExTS lecture

Metin Unver (Istanbul University). 'Building Roads for Mutual Interests in 19th Century Ottoman Mitylene: Some Remarks on Prolonged Co-Existence'

ExTS Lecture

Prof. Deniz Kandioti (SOAS). 'Turkish Secularism. Myth or Reality?'

ExTS Lecture

Dr David Shankland (Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Bristol). 'The Alevi-Bektashi problem revisited'.

Seminar on Turkish studies

Duygu Tekgül, PhD in Sociology, Exeter - The Introduction and Reception of Modern Turkish Literature in the United Kingdom

P¹nar Guran, PhD in Sociology, Exeter - Music and cultural Memory in Diaspora: the Kreuzberg Experience

Seminar - 'Perspectives on War, Peace and Politics in Tajikistan'

Muhiddin Kabiri (Tajik parliamentarian), Rashid Abdullo (political scientist and former UN official), Parviz Mullojonov (Executive Director of the Public Committee for Democratic Processes) – chaired John Heathershaw (Exeter University), University of Exeter, Department of Politics, Amory Building, Room 106 , 12-1.30pm, Monday 12 October, 2009

Workshop on contemporary Turkey

Fieldwork in Turkish Politics: March 2009 elections in Ankara and Diyarbakir Presentations by Mark Herzog (Politics) and Salima Tasdemir (IAIS, Kurdish Studies).

ExTS lecture - 'Gamblers versus Chess players: the Black Sea region after the Georgian gambit'

Tunc Aybak (Middlesex University) - Gamblers versus Chess players: the Black Sea region after the Georgian gambit

Forthcoming EXCEPS seminar - Immigration and Education: Turkish Communities in the UK and Germany

Christine Difato (Exeter University) - Immigration and Education: Turkish Communities in the UK and Germany

ExTS Lecture

Historian Dr Caroline Finkel (author of ‘Osman's Dream: The history of the Ottoman Empire') - The Near Death of Ottoman Studies and its Felicitous Revival

ExTS Inaugural Lecture

Prof. Stephen Mitchell (HuSS) and Lutgarde Vandeput (Britsh Institute at Ankara) - Settlement and Environment in Southern Turkey