Texts of Public Lectures

Lecture Series jointly organized by the LSE Chair on Contemporary Turkey
and SOAS Turkish Programme

 1) Capital City Resurgent: İstanbul since the 1980s

Çağlar Keyder, Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University and SUNY-Binghamton

This lecture by Professor Keyder was delivered at LSE on Monday, 8 December 2008

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2) Atatürk as a Young Turk

Erik-Jan Zürcher, Professor, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands

This lecture by Professor Zürcher was delivered at SOAS on Friday, 27 February 2009

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3) Fear and Loathing in the Turkish National Imagination

Jenny White, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University

This lecture by Professor White was delivered at LSE on Wednesday, 11 November 2009

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