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All presentations are on Thursdays (unless otherwise noted) in Room 1636 of the International Institute, 1080 S. University Avenue, at 7:30 p.m.
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September 23, 2004
Douglas Northrop, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
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Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Islam Lite: Turkish Secularism, Democracy and the Good
Life
Jenny White, Anthropology, Boston University
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October 14 , 2004
Murat Nemet Nejat
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November 11 , 2004
Victor Ostapchuk, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
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December 2 , 2004
Aron Aji
Dr. Aji will speak about Bilge Karasu, Turkish literature, and transcultural translation.
Aron Aji is Professor of Literature and Associate Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University in Indianapolis. Before
winning the American Literary Translators Association award for his
translation of The Garden of Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu, he also
translated and published Karasu's Death in Troy (2002). He has translated
fiction by the Turkish authors Elif Shafak and Murathan Mungan.
ABOUT THE BOOK: "In an ancient Mediterranean city, a traditional archaic game of
human chess is staged once every ten years. The players (tourists
versus locals) bear weapons and the chess game may prove as
potentially lethal as the magnetic attraction our narrator feels
for the local man who is the Captain of the home team. Each
brief interaction between the men comprises a chapter of "The
Garden of Departed Cats"; interleafed between those chapters are a
dozen fables. These twelve strange fables--parables moving from
guilt and denial to truth, and on to desire--work independently of
the main narrative but, in unpredictable ways, echo and double the
chief theme of "The Garden of Departed Cats" which is the nature
of love."
Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature, the Turkish Studies Colloquium, and the University of Michigan.
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January 20, 2005
Rita Chin
"Turks, Germans, and the New Racism" |
February 12, 2005
Zeynep Celik, School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
As part of "Homelands in Question: Re-locating 'Europe' in the Spaces of Cultural Negotiation," organized by UM Architecture graduate students. |
March 10, 2005
Suleyman's Imperial Archive, Snjezana Buzov
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April 7, 2005
Interviews with the Turkish Minstrel, Ashik Reyhani, in Ann Arbor and Erzurum
Sarah Atis, a joint presentation with Yildiray Erdener |