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Posts tagged as “Turkey”

Turkey and Europe: Contested Identities in History

Speaker: Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Associate Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University Moderator: Tsveta Petrova, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Turkey’s and Europe’s perceptions of each other play a key role in shaping their relations at present. Recent public discourses in Europe often characterize Turkish and European identities as dichotomous and in opposition. However, this assessment is based on a fixed and static understanding…

Leslie Adelson (Cornell): “The Future as Contested Ground: A Comparative Approach to Narrative Future-Making in Minority Literature in Contemporary Germany”

What does it mean to speak, as Hannah Arendt once did, of the broken “heart of time”? This lecture analyzes innovative forms of radical futurity in little known 21st-century fiction by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who holds emblematic status on Germany’s path from Turkish migration to transcultural Europe, and Michael Götting, who has authored the first sustained novel about Black German…