Turkey in the Modern World

Date: 

Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"Ritual (Cem), Worship-Place (Cemevi), and Identity Formation: The Alevi Question of Turkey"

Speaker:

Riza Yildirim, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of History, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, Boston University.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chair:

Lenore G. MartinAssociate. Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel College.