Turkish Lecture
The Halle Institute hosts the annual Turkish Lecture, in partnership with the American Turkish Friendship Council.
The Turkish Lecture Series brings public intellectuals in the fields of Ottoman and Turkish studies, including business and trade, history, politics, and culture, to interact with Emory students and faculty and members of the Atlanta-area community.
Past Speakers
Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
April 15, 2024 | Christine Philliou, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution | An Old Story: Turkey's Relationship to the Ottoman Past |
April 12, 2023 | Baki Tezcan, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and current President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association | Halide Edib, Ottoman Armenians, and the Wilsonian Principles: The Alternative Post-World War I History that Never Happened |
February 4, 2020 | Elif Batuman, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of two critically acclaimed books – The Possessed and The Idiot | An Afternoon with Elif Batuman |
February 6, 2019 | Kemal Kirisci, TÜSİAD senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project, at the Brookings Institution | Turbulent Times: Turkey's Tenuous Relationship with the West |
February 19, 2018 | Steven A. Cook, PhD, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | Is Turkey a Democracy? |
December 1, 2016 | Soner Çağaptay, Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute | Turkish Foreign Relations: the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East |
November 18, 2015 | Sinan Ciddi, Executive Director, The Institute of Turkish Studies Georgetown University | Turkey: A Reliable Ally to Combat ISIS? |
March 27, 2014 | Bulent Aliriza, Founding Director, The Turkey Project Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) | Turkey's Challenges in 2014 - VIDEO |
September 21, 2012 | M. Hakan Yavuz, Professor of Political Science, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Political Islam and Secularism in Turkey |
November 9, 2011 | Namik Tan, Ambassador of Turkey to the United States | Turkey-U.S. Relations |
February 3, 2010 | Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues | Global Women's Issues |
November 24, 2008 | Nabi Sensoy, Ambassador of Turkey to the United States | Turkey's Foreign Policy, Linked Between the Regional and the Global |
September 18, 2007 | Ali Carkoglu, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey) | Turkish Elections 2007: A Beginning or an End of an Electoral Process? |
November 9, 2006 | Murat Sungar, First Deputy Secretary General, Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Former Ambassador of Turkey to the United Nations Office in Geneva | Turkey and the U.S.: An Important Relationship for the Black Sea Region |
October 17, 2006 | Soner Cagaptay, Senior Fellow and Director, Turkish Research Program Washington Institute | Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who Is a Turk? |